Research 
Honors
Program Students
2009 Honors Graduates
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| Melanie A. Adamsky | Arts | David Deitcher | Neurobiology & Behavior | Transposon insertions in pumilio-target genes reduce seizure susceptibility in a Drosophila melanogaster model of epilepsy | ||||
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| Aneesha Badrinarayan | Arts | Barbara Strupp | Nutrition/Psychology | Assessing the Mnemonic Effects of Dietary and Genetic Manipulation of Folate Status Using the Radial Arm Water Maze | ||||
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| Monjir Bakshi | Arts | Drew Noden | Biomedical Science | Mechanisms Underlying Embryonic Angiogenesis in the Avian Hindbrain | ||||
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| Tina Barbasch | Arts | Kelly Zamudio | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Strategic sperm allocation in response to male-male competition in an explosively breeding amphibian | ||||
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| Shawn M. Billerman | A&LS | Irby Lovette | Neurobiology & Behavior | Population Genetics of the Recent Transcontinental Colonization of South America by Breeding Barn Swallows | ||||
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| Stefani H. Birnhak | Arts | Valerie Reyna | Cognitive Science | The Importance of Risk Perception in Surgery | ||||
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| Erik S. Blomain | Arts | Jeff Doyle | Plant Biology | Phenotypic Variation and Progenitor Assortment of Sensecence Phenotypes between Allopolploids and their diploid progenitors in Glycine subgenus Glycine | ||||
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| Lily Cao | A&LS | Tim Huffaker | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Determining Viability and Identifying Functional Domains of STU1 Through Carboxyl-terminus Truncations | ||||
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| Dean M. Castillo | Arts | Teresa Pawlowska | Plant Pathology & Plant Microbe Biology | Molecular evolution on bacterial endosymbionts of fungi | ||||
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| Ferdinand Chan | Arts | Christiane Linster | Neurobiology & Behavior | Effects of Blocking Noradrenaline and Acetylcholine Receptors during Enrichment to Odors on Olfactory Discrimination in Sprague-Dawley Rats | ||||
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| Tiffany L. Chan | Arts | Jun Kelly Liu | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Determining Possible Interactions Among Proteins Required for Post-Embryonic Mesodermal Development in C. elegans | ||||
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| Juliana Chang | Arts | Susan Suarez | Biomedical Sciences | Developing a Method to Determine Whether BSP Proteins Can be Used as Indicators of Bull Fertility | ||||
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| Gita I. Chelluri | A&LS | Peter Wrege | Bioacoustics Research Program | Ontogeny of the mother-calf relationship in African forest elephants, Loxodonta africana cyclotis | ||||
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| Andy G. Chen | Arts | Olena Vatamaniuk | Crop & Soil Science | Systematic Studies of ATP-binding Cassette Transporters' Roles in Heavy Metal Detoxification in Caenorhabditis elegans | ||||
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| Jae Woo Choi | Arts | Yung-Fu Chang | Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences | Construction of K-10 leuD deletion mutant of Mycobacterium avium subsp. Paratuberculosis by phage-mediated recombination. | ||||
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| Emily E. Combs | A&LS | Mark Sorrells | Plant Breeding & Development | Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus Induced Gene Silencing in Wheat Seeds | ||||
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| Andrew A. Davis | Arts | Chris Schaffer | Biomedical Engineering | Femtosecond Laser-based Optoporation for Targeted DNA Transfection | ||||
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| Susan H. Duan | Arts | Ronald Booker | Neurobiology & Behavior | The role of PP2A in early specification of the Drosophila adult eye | ||||
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| Stephanie S. Dusaban | Arts | Rick Cerione | Molecular Medicine | Tissue Transglutaminase Secreted by MDAMB231 Breast Cancer Cells Promotes Cell Survival | ||||
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| Chin Ho Fung | Arts | Thomas Cleland | Psychology | Blockade of Alpha1-Noradrenergic Receptors in the Olfactory Bulb Interrupted Signals about the Reward Magnitude during Odor Conditioning, but the Association of Reward with a Specific Odor Remained Intact | ||||
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| Kristin S. Gill | A&LS | David Winkler | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Defense against humans, habituation to human presence and neophobia in nesting tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) | ||||
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| Yang Gu | A&LS | Alan Nixon | Clinical Sciences | Expression and localization of Connexin 43 in cartilage of horses with Osteochondrosis dissecans | ||||
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| Wei Gui | A&LS | Ralph Obendorf | Crop & Soil Sciences | Purification and molecular structure of digalactosyl myo-inositol (DGMI), trigalactosyl myo-inositol (TGMI), and fagopyritol B3 and identification of N-(â glucopyranosyl)-nicotinic acid from buckwheat seeds by NMR | ||||
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| Brian R. Isett | A&LS | Carl Hopkins | Neurobiology & Behavior | Polarity Discrimination and Quantitative Analysis of Agonistic Rasp Signaling in the Weakly Electric Fish, Brienomyrus brachyistius (Mormyridae) | ||||
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| Keiko Ishida | A&LS | Steven Ealick | Chemistry & Chemical Biology | Crystal Structure of Thiamin Phosphate Synthase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis at 2.35Å Resolution | ||||
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| Min Ji Kang | Arts | Martha Stipanuk | Nutritional Sciences | The role of elevated 4E-BP1 expression in regulating translation initiation during nutrient deficiency | ||||
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| Grace Eun Hea Kim | Arts | Michael Goldberg | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Candidate Substrates for Greatwall Kinase | ||||
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| Hae Young Kim | Arts | Teresa Gunn | Biomedical Sciences | Transgenic Analysis of the Functions of Mahogunin Ring Finger-1 Isoforms in Shaping Craniofacial, and neurodgenerative phenotypes | ||||
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| Walter E. Knight | Arts | Maureen Hanson | Molecular Biology & Genetics | N2EF: A DYW Domain Containing PPR Protein Responsible for Editing at the nad2-58 site in the Mitochondria of Arabidopsis thaliana | ||||
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| Rahul Krishnan | Arts | Christiane Linster | Neurobiology & Behavior | Electrophysiological Characterization of Olfactory Bulb Mitral Cells During Dopaminergic Modulation | ||||
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| Kevin K. Kumar | A&LS | Daniel Barbash | Molecular Biology & Genetics | The Function of DINE-1 in msl2 | ||||
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| Kritika E. Kumar | Arts | Richard Cerione | Molecular Medicine/Chemistry | Small Molecule Inhibition of Mitochondrial Glutaminase and its Involvement in Cellular Transformation | ||||
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| Kathleen LaBarbera | Arts | Irby Lovette | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology/Ornithology | Breeding synchrony cannot explain extra-pair paternity rate variation in northern temperate and southern temperate House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon) | ||||
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| Olusola O. Laja | Arts | Richard Harrison | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Differential Introgression Across a Hybrid Zone between Two Species of Field Crickets | ||||
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| Yee Ling Lam | A&LS | Holger Sondermann | Molecular Medicine | Development of a Purification Procedure for the Diguanylate Cyclase PA4843 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa for Structural and Functional Studies | ||||
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| Alison E. Leaf | Arts | Mark Roberson | Biomedical Sciences | Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation of 2,3-Bisphosphoglycerate mutase by Distal-less3 in placental trophoblasts | ||||
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| Julie Lin | Arts | Gerlad Feigenson | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Investigation of Quaternary Phase Diagrams and Nano- and Macrodomains in Lipid Mixtures | ||||
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| Katherine E. Lovett | A&LS | Bik Tye | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Isolation and Sequence Analysis of ARSs and Flanking Elements from Saccharomyces kluyveri | ||||
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| Jenna M. MacDonald | Arts | Barbara Strupp | Nutritional Science | The Effects of Altered Folate Metabolism on Cognitive Functioning under Conditions of Surprising Reward Omission | ||||
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| Jessica E. Marion | Arts | Irby Lovette | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | DNA Barcoding Approaches to Mosquito Host Blood Meal Identification | ||||
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| Kathleen E. Melville | A&LS | Bruce Halpern | Neurobiology & Behavior | Retronasal and Oral-Cavity-Only Responses to TRPM8 Odorants | ||||
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| Erin A. Nuzzo | Arts | Daniel Barbash | Molecular Biology & Genetics | An exploration of intraspecific variability in the amount of the 359-bp repeat satellite block in Drosophila melanogaster | ||||
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| Suchismita Paul | Arts | Rick Cerione | Chemistry | A role for NF- (B signaling in oncogenic Dbl mediated cellular transformation | ||||
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| Carlie Pietsch | Arts | Greg Dietl | Earth & Atmospheric Science | The Plio-Pleistocene Extinctions in Florida and the Ecology of Durophagous Predator-Prey Interactions | ||||
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| Anirudh Ramesh | A&LS | Alex Nikitin | Biomedical Sciences | The role of microRNAs in mammary cancer stem cells | ||||
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| Benjamin E. Rubin | Arts | Irby Lovette | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Polygyny likely enhances competitive ability in the acacia-ant Crematogaster mimosae | ||||
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| Alistair B. Russell | Arts | Alan Collmer | Plant Pathology | Searching for in planta Function of the Type III Effector HopAA1-1 of Pseudomonas syringae DC3000 pv. tomato | ||||
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| Cina Sasannejad | A&LS | David McCobb | Neurobiology & Behavior | Gender, age, and stress plasticity in BK channel expression in the mouse adrenal medulla | ||||
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| Stephen Schepel | Arts | Klaus W. Beyenbach | Biomedical Sciences | The effect of peritubular K+ on transepithelial electrolyte and fluid secretion in Malpighian tubules of Aedes aegypti | ||||
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| Vanessa L. Scialabba | Arts | Laura Harrington | Entomology | Immature survival and competition of a transgenic and wild-type strain of the dengue vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti | ||||
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| Alison R. Seliger | Arts | Robert Raguso | Neurobiology & Behavior | Manduca sexta preference for specific visual characteristics of Nicotiana flowers | ||||
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| Elise A. Sideris | Arts | Lisa Fortier | Clinical Sciences | The effect of osteogenic protein-1 on the activation status of the small GTPases Cdc42 and RhoA in articular chondrocytes | ||||
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| Shohbit Singla | Arts | Joseph Fetcho | Neurobiology & Behavior | A Novel Approach to Studying Neural Networks and Synapses | ||||
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| Thalyana M. Smith-Vikos | A&LS | William Fry | Plant Pathology | A New Narnavirus that Infects the Late Blight Pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, with a Supergroup 2 RNA-dependent RNA Polymerase | ||||
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| Ben D. Solomon | Arts | Margaret Bynoe | Immunology & Microbiology | Nrp-1 is important for the attenuation of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis | ||||
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| Tiffany Sou | A&LS | Klaus Beyenbach | Biomedical Sciences | The effects of protein kinase inhibitors, H89 and chelerythrine, on Aedes aegypti Malpighian tubule fluid secretion rates. | ||||
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| Pavel Sountsov | Arts | Thomas Cleland | Psychology | Detailed Model of the Glomerular Networks in the Olfactory Bulb | ||||
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| James P. Strassner | A&LS | Helene Marquis | Microbiology & Immunology | The early mucosal immune response to Listeria monocytogenes in BALB/c mice | ||||
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| Daniel C. Sukato | Arts | Robert Gilbert | Clinical Science | The Association of Escherichia coli Phylogenetic Group with Postpartum Uterine Disease in Dairy Cows | ||||
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| Ivy Tam | Arts | Ted Clark | Microbiology & Immunology | Alternative Promoters for the Production of Heterologous Proteins in Tetrahymena thermophila | ||||
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| Peymaun A. Vakhshoorzadeh | A&LS | Robin L. Davisson | Biomedical Sciences | DUOX2 Mediates Cardiovascular, Autonomic, and Baroreflex Function: An in vivo Study in Conscious Mice | ||||
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| Daniel J. Walsh | A&LS | Marjoleinvan der Meulen | Biomechanics | Mechanical Loading, Sex, Age, and Cortical Location Influence Bone Tissue Composition in Mice. | ||||
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| Lei C. Wee | Arts | Teresa Gunn | Biomedical Sciences | Mahogunin-depedent lysosomal trafficking of Attractin: Implications for pigmentation and spongiform neurodegeneration | ||||
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| Chyi Haw Yvette Wong | Arts | Ron Harris-Warrick | Neurobiology & Behavior | Role of Commissural Interneurons in Vertebrate Locomotion | ||||
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| Siyao Xing | A&LS | Steve Ealick | Chemistry & Chemical Biology | Crystallographic Studies on mutants of Trichomonas vaginalis Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase | ||||
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| Lu N. Yang | Arts | Bik Tye | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Characterization of Autonomously Replicating Sequences in S. kluyveri | ||||
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| Ho Yong Yi | Arts | William Horne | Clinical Sciences | A splice variant of the voltage-gated Ca2+ channel ( subunit interacts with a nuclear protein that regulates transcription | ||||
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| Mitsukuni Yoshida | A&LS | David Lin | Biomedical Science | Identification of Candidate Axon Guidance Cues in the Mouse Olfactory Epithelium | ||||
