Student Research Projects - 2007

Jessica Arrington
Variation in macroinvertebrate diversity and richness in four small Ohio ponds in relation to pond vegetation.
Advisor: Jessica E. Rettig

Simonne Benoit
Examination of vegetative succession in a recently constructed central Ohio wetland
Advisor: Spieles

Alice Brindle
Differing social environments between primate populations may generate false positive evidence of cultural variation.
Advisor: Tom D. Schultz

Ashley DuMont
Regulation of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 in human bladder cancer cell lines.
Advisor: Lina Yoo

Ashley Dunkle
Part I. Analysis of Ets binding sites. Use of site-directed mutagenesis to evaluate the functional significance of putative cis-regulatory elements in an evolutionary conserved region of the SM50 locus in sea urchins.
Advisor: Laura Allison Romano

Katie Merva
Part II. Analysis of Dri binding sites. Use of site-directed mutagenesis to evaluate the functional significance of putative cis-regulatory elements in an evolutionary conserved region of the SM50 locus in sea urchins.
Advisor: Laura Allison Romano

Erin Gorsich
Ommochrome signaling in male Enallagma damselflies: Can long wavelength coloration be correlated with territorial behavior?
Advisor: Tom D. Schultz

Sarah Jaffri
Characterization of TolB in Burholderia cenocepacia
Advisor: Christine Weingart

Ariel Lee
The effects of histone H3 lysine 79 methylation on nucleotide excision repair kinetics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Advisor: Jeff Thompson

Brian Slaby
Upland habitat use by a breeding population of Ambystoma maculatum (Spotted Salamanders)
Advisor: Rebecca N. Homan

Katelyn Ciul
Are regenerating crayfish antennules affected by environmental flow?
Advisor: Kristina Stafford Mead

Michael Hunter
The effects of larval density on the feeding efficiency of bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) larvae.
Advisor: Jessica E. Rettig

Courtney Jablonski
A study of the expression of penicillin-binding proteins in Burkholderia cenocepacia.
Advisor: Specht

Laryn Kovalik
Uncovering the molecular pathways downstream of PTEN in mouse embryonic fibroblasts.
Advisor: Lina Yoo

Bridget Peterson
Characterization of a putative GacS/GacA two-component system in regulating Burkholderia cenocepacia virulence factors.
Advisor: Christine Weingart

Tasha Strande
Defining the effects of UV mediated DNA damage on histone H4 N terminal acetylation and H3 lysine-79 methylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Advisor: Jeff Thompson

Minh Tran
GSK-3B, JAK-2, and PKC-e increased in Pten-knockdown ej-1 bladder cells.
Advisor: Lina Yoo

Matt Waterbury
Creating a regional database of small ponds.
Advisor: Rebecca N. Homan & Jessica E. Rettig

Becky Weber
Distribution of GacA in the Burkholderia cepacia complex.
Advisor: Christine Weingart

Sarah Karr
Modeling the effects of long-term weather patterns on a population of Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum).
Advisor: Rebecca N. Homan