Tacie Hall and Dr. Julianne Grose, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology When PAS kinase is knocked out in mice placed on high-fat diets, these mice show such symptoms as decreased weight gain, hypermetabolic phenotype, decreased liver triglyceride accumulation, and retained insulin sensitivity when compared with their wild type littermates.1 These symptoms are highly associated […]
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Determining the Role of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus LANA Protein in the Development of Persistent Infection
Jamie Gardiner and Dr. Brad Berges, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) is a human cancer virus that causes Kaposis’ sarcoma, the most common cancer found in AIDS patients. Our lab is working to develop humanized mice as a novel animal model to study KSHV infection and related diseases, since there […]
CASTing for a Putative DNA Binding Sequence for nBmp2
Brian Earley and Dr. Laura Bridgewater, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Bmp2 is a secretory mammalian protein that plays important roles in bone development and adult pathology. Recently, a nuclear variant (nBmp2) was discovered with an unknown function for this typically secretory protein in the nucleus (Felin et al., 2010). The purpose of this […]
Judeo-Spanish in Thessaloniki: A Survey of the Speakers of the Dialect Today
Randall Craig Meister and Dr. David Eddington, Department of Linguistics and English Language “Pero Salonik no kanta mas1,” said an elderly speaker of Judeo-‐Spanish in Thessaloniki, as she reflected with me during a discussion concerning her life as a Sephardic Jew after World War II. This expression embodies the historical and cultural awareness of the […]
Don’t Judge a Voice By Its Color: The Influence of Visual and Linguistic Cues on Racial Profiling
Alex Jennings and Dr. Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Department of Linguistics and English Language Linguistic profiling1 has emerged as an area of research only within the last decade. Several researchers have shown that people who speak non-standard, ethnically-tied dialects are treated less favorably than their Standard American English (SAE)-speaking counterparts. However, no known studies have shown the […]
Dostoevsky and Design
Matisse Hales and Dr. Mark Purves, Department of Russian The purpose of our project was to create a special edition of BYU’s Germanic & Slavic Department journal, Perspectives, containing creative work by undergraduate students inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky and art are two subjects not frequently connected, and in our quest to relate the two, […]
Faith-related Prejudice in Admission to Clinical Psychology Graduate School Programs
Elizabeth Hoose and Dr. Jeffrey Reber, Department of Psychology Little research has been done on prejudice against people of faith. Several studies indicate that fundamental or evangelical Christians face the effects of prejudice especially in educational settings (Ressler & Hodge, 2006). In particular, two surveys of Christian social workers inquiring about their professional experience in […]
Plasticity in Glutamate Neurotransmission to Midbrain GABA Neurons by Ethanol
Jennifer Mabey and Dr. Scott Steffensen, Department of Psychology The aim of my ORCA grant was to better under the addictive pathway of ethanol (EtOH) in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain. The VTA contains several neuron types that release different neurotransmitters, but the type I experimented with was γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA), which […]
Recognizing Faces: Women’s Portraits on the Salt Lake City and County Building
Diana Lauritzen and Dr. James Swensen, Department of Art History and Curatorial Studies Sixteen women’s portraits grace the capitals of four piers at the two main entrances to the Salt Lake City and County Building, a building which though controversial at the time, serves today as the icon of the city’s logo. Much like the […]
Scaffold Design of a Novel Nano-Particle for Single-Target Imaging
Chad Varner and Dr. Brad Bundy, Department of Chemical Engineering The purpose of this project has been to help develop a novel nano-imaging particle. Current methodologies have limitations that preclude them from being used for nanometric (1-500nm) imaging processes in living organisms. These include, but are not limited to, low signal to noise ratios, limited […]