• Modeling a Human Undiagnosed Disease Using Zebrafish: Is COPB2 a Causative Gene? 

  Tremp, Brenna (2017)

  Understanding the causes for a disease is essential to find an adequate treatment. A lot of research focuses on diseases affecting a wide population or diseases that are rare. However, due to a lack of resources, very ...

• Using a Sequence-Specific Chromatin Remodeling Protein to Alter Heat Shock Response in S. Cerevisiae 

  Jean-Baptiste, Uriel (2017)

  Eukaryotic DNA is packaged into chromatin to fit in the nucleus. One of the organizational subunits of chromatin are nucleosomes, which are composed of DNA wrapped around histone proteins. These nucleosomes can be rearranged ...

• Investigating plant diversity patterns of Eastern Oregon's arid rangelands 

  Gee, Alexia (2017)

• Transition in Adolescent Girls 

  Rubalcava, Karen (2017)

  Adolescence is an important stage in the transition from childhood to adulthood this is when many physical, cognitive, and social changes occur. This stage is associated with an increasing range of problems, such ...

• Investigation of an Uncharacterized Aeromonas Protein involved in Host Colonization 

  Ngo, Julia (2017)

  The gut microbiota consists of a diverse community of microbes, living within the digestive tracts of humans, animals, and insects. While some microbes can cause infectious diseases, other microbes are vital for the ...

• The impact of physical activity and sleep in physiology following a mTBI 

  Lindsey, Garrett (2017)

  A mild traumatic brain injury (or MTBI) is a common occurrence in many individuals across a range of disciplines. The purpose of this study is to better understand how physical activity and or sleep impacts physiological ...

• Autism and the Simultaneous Tilt Illusion: Systemizing, Orientation Sensitivity, and Susceptibility to Context Effects 

  Solis, Victoria (2017)

• Climate Change Impacts on the Productivity and Community Dynamics of Pacific Northwest Prairie Systems 

  Okotie-Oyekan, Aimee (2017)

  Preservation of Pacific Northwest prairie ecosystems depends on our understanding of how climate change will impact levels of biodiversity within these systems. In the PNW, climate change models have predicted significant ...

• Lrig1 + Stem Cells and Their Role During Colitis Recovery 

  Jahahn, Nicholas (2017)

  The intestine is a highly regenerative organ in humans and mice in which epithelial cells are replenished weekly and damage is rapidly repaired. Lrig1 protein has been shown to mark a population of quiescent stem cells ...

• Characterization of Colonic Apoptosis Following DSS Induced Colitis in the Absence of Lrig3 

  Long, Cameron (2017)

  Research in the Powell lab focuses on the epithelium of the small intestine and colon during homeostasis and disease. Homeostasis within the gut requires intricate control of stem cell proliferation, differentiation, ...

• Auditory Cortex Mediates Hearing-Guided Prey Capture in Mice 

  Kelly, Lauren (2017)

  Hoy et al. found that vision was necessary for accurate prey pursuit and capture in mice through observing their behavior under various sensory conditions (2016). Although vision was crucial for successful captures, it was ...

• Role of the gene Ncad in neuronal circuit formation 

  Sahin, Hatun Mine (2017)

• Investigation of Pore-Forming Transmembrane Toxins using Native Ion-Mobility Mass Spectrometry 

  Young, Isabella (2017)

  Antrhax toxin (ATX) and Alpha-Hemolysin (AHL) are examples of large transmembrane pore-forming toxins that are similar in structure and are proposed to have specific protein-lipin interactions. Due to the difficulty of ...

• Preference Reversals in Donation 

  Chuanchaiyakul, Tanainan

  Generally, people make decisions based on available information. We tend to think that our decisions are originally from our own deliberation. However, these decisions can be influenced by choices presented to us. A previous ...

• Dissecting the Cortical Canonical Circuit of Auditory Cortex to Understand Gap Detection 

  Kayal, Donna; Weible, Aldis; Duckler, Ulysses; Narayanan, Arthy

  Speech comprehension requires processing sound information with a high degree of temporal precision. As a standard metric for assessing temporal acuity, gap detection allows us to understand the neural circuitry involved ...

• Formulations of Intelligence: How implementing diverse perspectives of intelligence into curriculum can provide variety on learning about and from the world 

  Kinney, Kathryn

  When you speak, how do you visualize or think about the words in your head? Do you write them on paper, or perhaps by typing them on a keyboard? You may not visualize your speech at all, but you may have a personal regulation ...

• Hair Cortisol Measurement and Relationships with Growth Among Amazonian Shuar Children 

  Mequanint, Tigest; Eick, Geeta; Urlacher, Samuel; Sugiyama, Lawrence S.

  Cortisol is a hormone secreted by the adrenal gland in response to stress. It is a widely-used biomarker of chronic stress. Measurement of cortisol from hair allows assessment of cumulative concentrations of cortisol, and ...

• Zebrafish gsdf mutant provides a disease model for human polycystic ovary syndrome 

  Liu, Jiawei

  Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most frequent problem when a couple comes to a fertility clinic. PCOS in women includes the accumulation of premature oocytes in ovaries. We discovered that zebrafish lacking activity ...

• Electrochemical Etching of Silver Scanning Tunneling Microscope Tips in Dilute Acetic Acid 

  Crowley, William

  Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) is used to image, manipulate, and spectroscopically characterize individual atoms and molecules to further develop an understanding of materials that have application in the semiconductor ...

• Similarity Effect and Altruism 

  Chuanchaiyakul, Tanainan

  Many models try to explain people’s decisions in multi-alternative scenarios but these models have not yet tested for the effect of interpersonal relationship that might affect people’s choices. For example, Tversky (1972) ...

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