| Student
|
Mentor |
Project |
| Amy Elizabeth Baker
|
Mitch McVey,
Biology Department |
"An investigation of the multiple
roles and regulation of Drosophila DNA
polymerase theta" |
| Kenneth Brand |
Juliet Fuhrman,
Biology Department |
"Effects of RNAi Feeding Experiments
to Silence the lgx-1 and F48E3.8 genes of
Caenorhabditis elegans" |
| Julia M. Carlson |
Klaus Miczek,
Psychology Department |
"Aggression, Alcohol, and Stress: How
Acute Injections of CRF1 Receptor Antagonist
Increase Medial Prefrontal Cortex Serotonin
After Alcohol Self-Administration" |
| Kathryn Carnazza |
Vanessa Wheeler |
"Differential Gene Expression in a
Mouse Model of Huntingtin's Disease" |
| Bill Foo |
Philip Starks,
Biology Department |
"Across colony effects of genetic
diversity on thermoregulation" |
| Laura Glassman |
L. Michael
Romero, Biology Department |
"The Stress of Learning in European
Starlings" |
| Malcolm Kearns |
David Cochrane,
Biology Department |
"The Neurotensin-Induced Release
Pathway of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in
Human Mast Cells" |
| Soo-Mi Lee |
Catherine
Freudenreich, Biology Department |
"The Effect of the (AT)n Dinucleotide
Repeat Length on the Fragility of the Flex1
Region within the Human Common Fragile Site
FRA16D in S. cerevisiae" |
| Jessica Oh |
Erik Dopman,
Biology Department |
"Period and Clock as Candidate Genes
for Pdd, a Major Factor of Voltinism Differences
in the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis)"
|
| Justin Michael Pick
|
David Kaplan,
Biomedical Engineering |
"Controlled Release of Growth
Factors-BMP-2 and VEGF-from a Silk Scaffold to
Upregulate Osteogenesis in Human Mesenchymal
Stem Cells" |
| Meredith Rogers |
Juliet Fuhrman,
Biology Department |
"RNAi knockdown of a putative chitin
deacetylase in C. elegans" |
| Jon Sasenick |
David Cochrane,
Biology Department |
"The Effects of Melatonin on Mast Cell
Activation" |
| Lucas Schlager |
Catherine
Freudenreich, Biology Department |
"Investigating Pathways of (ATTCT)
Repeat-mediated Fragility" |
| Daniel J. Slate |
Barry Trimmer,
Biology Department |
"Fictive Crawling in Manduca sexta"
|
| Adam Snider |
Catherine
Freudenreich, Biology Department |
"Functional human homologs of S.
cerevisiaeSrs2: Role of Srs2, Mph1, hFbh1, and
hRtel1 in DNA replication and repair across CAG
repeat sequences" |
| Gautam Surya |
J. Michael Reed,
Biology Department |
"Calculating the Extinction Risk of a
Migratory Species" |
| Yuantee Zhu |
Alan S. Kopin,
Tufts Medical Center |
"Optimizing the Screening of
Recombinant Membrane Tethered Peptide Libraries
on G protein-Coupled Receptors" |
| Kelly Banks |
Barry Trimmer,
Biology Department |
"Radial and Longitudinal Precision of
the Defensive Strike Response in Manduca Sexta" |
| Jake Chiam |
Edouard Vannier,
Tufts Medical School |
"Cytokines in Host Resistance to Babesiosis" |
| Jon Fricchione |
John B. Levine
|
"Isolation Rearing Perrturbs Metabolic
Activity in the Hippocampus and Thalamus" |
| David Gennert |
Sergei Mirkin,
Biology Department |
"Testing of A Selectable System to
Study Polyglutamine Encoding CAG Expansions in
Mammalian Cells" |
| Laura Glassman |
L. Michael
Romero, Biology Department |
"Unpredictable food availability as an
ethologically relevant chronic stressor in
European Starlings" |
| Tommy Hu |
J. Michael Reed,
Biology Department |
"Variation in seasonal song pattern
of the grasshopper sparrow Ammodramus savannarum" |
| Tommy Hu |
J. Michael Reed
and Philip Starks, Biology Department |
"Variation in song pattern of the
grasshopper sparrow Ammodramus savannarum in
relation to pair bonding" |
| Carrie Hui |
Mitch McVey,
Biology Department |
"BRCA2 and its role in repairing DNA
damage caused by topotecan, a water soluble
analog of camptothecin" |
| Carrie Hui |
Mitch McVey,
Biology Department |
"CPT and BRCA247 and their roles in
DNA damage repair caused by camptothecin and its
analogs in Drosophila melanogaster" |
| Ray Kameda |
J. Michael Reed,
Biology Department |
"Determining the Vital Rates of the
Firefly Luciola cruciata" |
| Tim Korpita |
Colin Orians,
Biology Department |
"Induced Sequestration of Storage
Molecules in Solanum lycopersicum in response to
a Simulated Herbivory Event" |
| Jordana Laks |
Catherine
Freudenreich, Biology Department |
"The role of ATP-dependent chromatin
remodeling and histone modification in
maintaining CAG repeat stability in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae" |
| Linda Le |
Michael Levin,
Biology Department |
"A Quantitative RT-PCR Protocol for Building
an Anterior-Posterior Gene Regulatory Network in
Planarians" |
| Dana Marcinkowski-
Desmond |
Sergei Mirkin,
Biology Department |
"Does the S-Phase Checkpoint Have an Effect
on Large Scale GAA Repeat Expansion?" |
| Dana Marcinkowski-
Desmond |
Sergei Mirkin,
Biology Department |
"Effects of essential and
nonessential genes on rates of expansion of
(GAA)100 repeats in yeast S. cerevisiae" |
| Stephanie McNamara |
David Kaplan,
Biomedical Engineering |
"Engineering a silk scaffold for the design
of an in vitro model of the Blood-Brain Barrier" |
| Evangelia Murray |
Philip Starks,
Biology Department |
"An assessment of hemolymph protein
concentrations in Apis mellifera" |
| Hong Ng |
Juliet Fuhrman,
Biology Department |
"Detection of Chitin Deacetylase
Activity in Nematodes: Is Caenorhabditis elegans
Chitin Deacetylase Developmentally Regulated?" |
| Hong Ng |
Juliet Fuhrman,
Biology Department |
"Detection of Chitin Deacetylase
Activity in Nematodes: Caenorhabditis elegans
contains multiple isoforms" |
| David Peck |
J. Michael Reed,
Biology Department |
"Repeatable Flight Initiation
Distance in Bobolinks (Dolichonyx orizivorus):
Evidence for Consistency in Avian Temperament" |
| Brian Pennarola |
Michael Levin,
Biology Department |
"Vibration of Xenopus Embryos
Disrupts Early Mechanisms Involved with the
Generation of Left-Right Asymmetry" |
| Amber Richards |
Magali Saint-Geniez
|
"Development of an iPS-RPE Cell Line
Marker using MITF-A and hRPE65 promoters" |
| Elizabeth Santone |
Jan Pechenik,
Biology Department |
"Heat stress in two tidal zones: a
comparison of upper thermal tolerance,
dehydration, and fecundity in subtidal and
intertidal populations of the marine slipper
limpet Crepidula fornicata" |
| Emma Sass |
J. Michael Reed,
Biology Department |
"Reproductive variability as a potential
factor in extinction risk in small, cooperative
breeding populations" |
| Yevgeniy Serebrenik
|
Barry Trimmer,
Biology Department |
"Characterization of neural
development in Drosophila melanogaster by
temporary inhibition of the peripheral nervous
system during embryogenesis" |
| Reed Shimberg |
Sergei Mirkin,
Biology Department |
"A model system to study
contractions of the (GAA)n repeats in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
and to identify genes involved in the process of
contraction" |
| Zach Silver |
Edouard Vannier,
Tufts Medical School |
"Resolution of Babesiosis: B Cells
are Required, but Fc Receptors are not" |
| Zach Silver |
Edouard Vannier,
Tufts Medical School |
"CD4-CD8- T cells Promote the
Resolution of Parasitemia in Babesiosis" |
| Laura Sloan |
Catherine
Freudenreich, Biology Department |
"Effects of Functional PCNA
Interacting, Phosphorylation, and Translocase
Domain Mutants of Srs2 on Fragility of CAG/CTG
Repeat Sequences in S. cerevisiae" |
| Rachel Steward |
Francie Chew,
Biology Department |
"Adaptation of the native butterfly
Pieris napi oleracea to exotic invasive garlic
mustard in the context of seassonal variation in
host plant quality" |
| Rachel Steward |
Francie Chew,
Biology Department |
"Native butterfly encounters an
evolutionary trap: survival analysis of P. n. oleracea adapting to invasive garlic mustard (Alliaria
petiolata)" |
| Mollie Tucker |
Philip Starks,
Biology Department |
"Brood energetics: Calculating
energy use across various brood classes and
colony sizes in Polistes dominulus"" |
| Glenn Verner |
L. Michael
Romero, Biology Department |
"Feather CORT and Plumage Coloration
in Male Blue Grosbeaks" |
| Kaiden Waldron-Francis
|
L. Michael
Romero, Biology Department |
"Corticosterone receptor
characterization in skin of house sparrows
(Passer domesticus)" |
| Kaiden Waldron-Francis
|
L. Michael
Romero, Biology Department |
"Characterization of glucocorticoid
and mineralocorticoid receptors in skin of house
sparrows (Passer domesticus)" |
| Alyson Yee |
Barry Trimmer,
Biology Department |
"Optimization of
stimulus, force and power in Manduca sexta
caterpillar muscles" |
| Arissa Young |
Kelly McLaughlin,
Biology Department |
"Examining the role of V-ATPase-dependent
proton flux in the development of the pronephric
kidney in Xenopus laevis tadpoles" |
