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2002 LSU-HHMI Summer Undergraduate Research Program


This page contains abstracts of papers presented by students in 2002 LSU-HHMI Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Click on the abstract title in the following list to get the details.

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Name (Professor, Affiliation) Abstract Title
Elizabeth Baldwin (Alan J. Biel, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Effects of Overexpression of Aminolevulinate Synthase on Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis in Rhodobacter capsulatus
Kevin Bauerle (Huangen Ding, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Dimerization of HscA, a Heat Shock Cognate Protein, and its Potential Role in Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly
Matthew G. Brieden (UTPA), (Elmer K. Godeny, Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine) Identification of Culicoides in the LSU deer herd and their ability to harbor epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV)
Melissa Bueche (Huangen Ding, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Modification of DNA Repair Enzyme, Endonuclease III [4Fe-4S] cluster, by Nitric Oxide and Peroxynitrite
Roosevelt V Campbell (University of Texas – Pan American) (Mohamed A. F. Noor, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Elucidation of Genetic Changes Associated with the Transcription of TRAP100 in Related Species of Drosophila
Jason Churchman (John C. Larkin, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) The Use of Activation Tagging to Identify Genes Involved in the Siamese Pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana
Hina N. Dave (David G. Baker, Dept. of Laboratory Animal Medicine, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine) Comparison of fecal, liver, and cecal PCR assay for diagnosis of Helicobacter hepaticus infection in mice
Eduardo F. Gallo (University of New Orleans) (Elmer K. Godeny, Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine) Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus (EHDV): Passive Immunization of White-tailed Deer and Growth in Insect Cells
Taylor S. Gwin (John C. Larkin, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Do T-DNA insertions in the Calreticulin gene cause a mutant floral phenotype in Arabidopsis thaliana?
Kristine Hawkins (University of Texas – Austin) (David Horohov, Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine) The effect of vaccination on interleukin-4 and interferon-gamma gene expression in young foals.
Christopher Herrington (Vanderbilt University) (Marcia Newcomer, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Overexpression of Retinal Binding Enzymes
Tiffany Hierath (Jim Ottea, Dept. of Entomology, LSU Agricultural Center) An evaluation of lytic peptides as a termiticide
Ashantice Higgins (Howard University) (David Pollock, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 used to test the functionality of the duplicate control region found in snake mtDNA
Farheen Khan (Vince LiCata, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) A Glimpse Into the Denatured States of Klentaq and Klenow
Kristen R. LeBleu (James V. Moroney, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Genetic and Molecular Characterization of BleR Insertional Mutants in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Jennifer Liford (Jill Blackmer, Dept. of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine) Development of three-dimensional tissue assemblies of equine tracheal epithelial cells under microgravity conditions
Lacey Millet (Jim H. Belanger, LSU Dept Biological Sciences) Adaptations to load changes in the locomotor systems of terrestrial and amphibious crabs.
Allan Mirpuri (David Pollock, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Evolutionary Analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I in Vertebrate Mitochondrial Genomes
Philip Mark Neal (John Battista, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) The Threshold Dose of Ionizing Radiation Required for Inactivation of Small Circular DNA
Elizabeth Robert (Notre Dame University) (David Donze, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Identification of Three Genes that Reduce tRNA Heterochromatin Barrier Activity in Blocking Silencing in Saccharomyces cervisae
Kristy I. Roper, Jacob E. Dowden, (Grover L. Waldrop, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Targeting Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Using Bacteriophage Display
Jaime Rueda (University of Texas – Pan American) (Vince L. Wilson, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences and Institute of Environmental Studies) A novel assay used to detect germline intragenic mutations caused by ENU in Drosophila melanogaster
Arshin Sheybani (Lilian de Jonge, Pennington Biomedical Research Center) A Drop in Delta RQ during an Adaptation to a High Fat Diet as an Indicator for Developing Obesity
Abimbola Sokunbi (Anne Grove, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Does Size Really Matter?
Lauren J. Solhjoo (Vince J. LiCata, LSU Dept. of Biological Sciences) Affect of Varying Salt Concentrations on the Stability of Adipocyte Lipid-Binding Protein
Lynn Taylor (St. Mary’s College) and Errika Whitaker (Grambling State University and a participant in LSU’s BRIN Program) (James Miller, Dept. of Pathobiological Science, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine) The Effect of Duddingtonia flagrans in reducing infective larvae in feces of ewes and lambs
John W. Wood (Vincent L. Wilson, LSU Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Environmental Studies) Aberrant Promoter Methylation and Epigenetic Instability in Vulvar Lichen Sclerosis and Squamous Cell Carcinoma

 

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