Brian Parker and Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Bikman-PDBIO Introduction The growing worldwide incidence of obesity and its associated pathologies, like type 2 diabetes, has received much deserved attention. However, despite this attention and substantial research efforts, little meaningful progress has been made in slowing or reversing the growing cost and trends of obesity worldwide. As of […]
The Effect of the Overexpression of IRF% in B-Cells on Inflammatory and Co-Stimulatory Activity
Reika Takita and Faculty Mentor: Brian Poole, Microbiology and Molecular Biology
Preservation of Oncorhynchus clarkii by Comparison of Biomarkers
Chase Paulson and Dr. R. Paul Evans- Microbiology and Molecular Biology Project Purpose The purpose of this project is to analyze biomarkers present in cutthroat and cutbow (a mixture of cutthroat and rainbow trout) trout of the Payson Hatchery compared to typical cutthroat and rainbow markers to better understand if cutthroat trout are being preserved […]
Antibiotic Resistance in Staphylococcus Aureus from Commercially Available Meat
Samuel Schriever and Faculty Mentor: Bradford Berges M&MB Introduction Bacteria can be found everywhere. While some bacteria can help humans to make medicine and clean up environmental disasters, other bacteria can cause horrible disease. After the discovery of antibiotics in the early twentieth century humans have been using them to treat human and animal disease. […]
LCTSR: The New Path to Academic Success
Faith Hathenbruck and Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jamie Jensen, Department of Biology Introduction: The Lawson’s Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning1(LCTSR) is a content-independent measure of scientific reasoning abilities including conservation, proportional reasoning, identifying and controlling variables, probabilistic reasoning, correlational reasoning, and hypothetico-deductive reasoning. A relationship has been seen between scores on this test and a student’s […]
Engineering a Cancer Specific 3rd Generation CAR Immunotherapy
Josie Tueller and Faculty Mentor: K. Scott Weber, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology This project aimed to develop a cancer-specific immunotherapy that will target and destroy cancer cells without killing healthy cells. Current cancer treatments struggle to successfully target cancer cells and commonly target all rapidly dividing cells (both healthy and cancerous). Chimeric antigen […]
Examining how the CD5 co-receptor alters T helper cell activation in response to bacterial infection
Garrett Hamblin and Faculty Mentor: Scott Weber, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Properly functioning helper T cells are crucial in a response to an infection. The adaptive immune response is orchestrated by T helper cells and their function is dependent upon interactions between the T cell receptor (TCR), peptide MHC (pMHC) and co-receptors. Upon […]
Association of Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease Development
Alexander Gosch and Faculty Mentor: Mary David, Molecular and Microbiology Introduction Essential tremor (ET) is a neurological disorder characterized by symmetrical tremor of the upper limbs. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a similar disorder, also characterized by tremor, with a few differences: ET tremor is mostly seen during action, while PD tremor is more prevalent while […]
Is MafB Essential to β-Cell Growth and Proliferation?
Aaron Leifer and Faculty Mentor Jeffery Tessem, Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science Project Purpose: Our goal is to determine if MafB is necessary for β Cell proliferation and glucose stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS). Project Importance: Approximately 29.1 million people are affected by type 1 or type 2 diabetes in the United States, according to 2014 […]
Green Literature at a Distance: Topic Modeling the works of Selma Lagerlöf
Emily Livingston and Faculty Mentor: Christopher Oscarson, Scandinavian Studies The aim of this project was to examine themes common to the works of Selma Lagerlof using a revolutionary method allowed by modern technology: computer modeling. The corpus of Lagerlof’s work was run through a computer program which then output, or modeled, topics based on nouns […]
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