Student Research Projects - 2005-2006

Lindsay Bickel
A Study on Neurotactin and Dominant Enhancers of the trio Mutant Phenotype
Advisor: Liebl

Danielle Brzezinski
Initiative: Making it Count! A feeding study for Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii
Advisor: Rettig, Evans

Amber Burgett
Behavioral responses of Plethodon cinereus towards potential competitors
Advisor: Smith

Megan Coneybeer
Analysis of Genetic Variation in Cheiroglossa palmata Using ISSR-PCR: Implications for Conservation
Advisor: Hauk

Rhiannon Crouse
Using Allozyme Electrophoresis as a Method of Differentiating Tadpole Species
Advisor: Rettig

Sarah Edwards
A Survey of the Migrating Breeding Population of Spotted Salamanders at the Taylor Ochs Pond
Advisor: Homan

Nicole Gray
Affects of Predator Lepomis macrochirus and Competitor Bufo americanus Pressure on Communities of Zooplankton
Advisor: Rettig

Andrew Keller
Histone H3 Functions in the Repair of UV Induced DNA Damage though the Nucleotide Excision Repair and Post Replication Repair Pathways in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Advisor: Thompson

Mark Laughlin
Does Field Odor Tracking Performance in the Crayfish Cambarus robustus Vary with Time of Day?
Advisor: Mead

Rohan Manohar
Investigating Neurotactin and Localizing the Dominant Enhancers of the trio Mutant Phenotype
Advisor: Liebl

Julianne McCall
Structural and Functional Features of Antennule Regeneration in the Crayfish Orconectes sanbornii
Advisor: Mead

Roger Naus
Reptilian Sloths: Nutritional Ecology, Behavior, and General Husbandry of the Prehensile-Tailed Skink Corucia zebrata
Advisor: Andreadis

Madhu Patil
Identification and Amplification of Two Low-Copy Nuclear Gene Regions for Assessing Bi-parental Inheritance in Moonwort ferns Botrychium s.s.
Advisor: Hauk

Karen Siklosi
Point Mutations in the Human CFTR Promoter Reveal Potential Transcriptional Regulatory Elements That May Contribute to Clinical Phenotypes Observed in Cystic Fibrosis
Advisor: Thompson

Avrita Singh
Cosmid Library of Rhizobium leguminosarum USDA 9017
Advisor: Bashore

Dawn Walker
Identification & Isolation of genes encoding Potential Pencillin-Binding Proteins in Burkholderia cenocepacia
Advisor: Specht

Kristen Winter
Diets of Mexican Amphibians and Lizards
Advisor: Smith

Bethany Wood
Comparative Analysis of Plastid Transcription in Chloroplasts Through the use of Macroarrays and its Relation to the use of Microarrays in Breast Cancer Research
Advisor: Kuhlman

Christian Wright
Demographic Correlates between Upland and Wetland Characteristics for a Breeding Population of Ambystoma maculatum (Spotted Salamander)
Advisor: Homan