Michael Peterson and Dr. John Kauwe, Department of Biology Introduction A person’s predisposition to Alzheimer’s Disease is known to be influenced by both genetic factors as well as environmental factors. One know environmental factor is that known to affect risk for disease is early parental death. The purpose of this research is to better understand […]
Genetic Relationships of Cottus bairdii in Butterfield Springs, Nevada, to Other Population of Cottus bairdii
Sun Yeong Oh and Dr. Dennis Shiozawa, Department of Biology The goal for this project was to evaluate the genetic relationships of the freshwater sculpin, Cottus bairdii, in Butterfield Springs, Nevada, with other populations of C. bairdii. We planned to examine several mitochondrial genes, ND1, ND2, and the control region, to identify the most likely […]
Antibody Production and Diversification in Humanized Mice
Stanton Nielsen and Dr. Brad Berges, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Many scientists are skeptical of using humanized mice to study the human adaptive immune response. The reasoning behind this skepticism stems from discrepancies in various studies seen previously. A study conducted by Traggiai et al. showed that humanized mice elicited a human adaptive immune response when […]
Analysis of Phytotoxins Extracted from the Seed Pathogen Pyrenophora semeniperda
Joshua Nicholson and Dr. Brad Geary, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences Review This project seeks to establish and understand a link between virulence and phytotoxin production between varying strains of Pyrenophora semeniperda, a necrotrophic fungal pathogen that attacks cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum). Cheatgrass is an intermountain west invasive weed that is outsourcing native plants and […]
Polyomavirus Phylogenetics in Relation to Host Switches
David Morris and Dr. Keith Crandall, Department of Biology Evolutionary Biology is not a branch of biology that spends much time in the public eye. It just doesn’t have flashy results like cloning or evocative naturalist documentaries to captivate the imagination. However, this doesn’t mean that evolutionary biology is any less essential to our understanding […]
What Fatty Acids in Dairy Cow Feces may Predict Resistance or Susceptibility to Production-Related Metabolic Diseases
Brian Melville and Professor Beverly Roeder, Department of Biology Dairy cows supply an important food source for humans, and any disease that hurts production threatens this source. Once a cow has a PRMD (production related metabolic disease) there are many signs and symptoms that are readily observed and tested for, but it would be useful to […]
Does Secretory Phospholipase A II Induce Apoptosis in Cells that have been Infected by a Virus?
Stephanie Melchor and Dr. John Bell, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology Well, to be perfectly honest, this project has been fraught with disaster since the beginning. We obtained 400 microliters of the immunosuppressive strain of Minute Virus of Mice (MVMi) at 1 x 109 pfu/mL from Dr. David J. Pintel at the University of […]
How ‘bout them Apples?: A Study on Antioxidants
Kylie Measom and Dr. Kim O’Neill, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology They say “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Apples are laden with antioxidants which have been shown to prevent against cancer and other illnesses.1 Antioxidants are molecules that prevent cancer by collecting excess free radicals in the body. Free radicals are […]
The Effect of Male Dominance on Female Mate Choice in Poecilia gillii
Michael McEntire and Dr. Jerald Johnson, Department of Biology Research Summary Female mate choice (intersexual selection) and male dominance interactions (intrasexual selection) can each play important roles in sexual selection. These two mechanisms tend to be discussed in isolation. The goal of this study is to explore the interaction between these two forms of sexual […]
Effects of Acetyl-L-carnitine Supplementation on AMPK-Activity and Mitochondrial Biogenesis in LKB1 Knockout Mice
Lisa McCoy and Dr. David Thomson, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology During the medical school interview of the school I will be attending next Fall, my interviewer asked me to speak of a time in which I had failed or suffered an obstacle in my academic career. He laughed and said that I probably […]
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