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2005 LSU-HHMI Summer Undergraduate Research Program


This page contains abstracts of papers presented by students in 2005 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
Chelsea Agar and Vince J. LiCata, Biological Sciences. A Comparison of the effects of bound DNA on the thermostability of Type I DNA polymerases from Thermus aquaticus and Escherichia coli
Monty Aghazadeh and Norimoto Murai, Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, LSU Agricultural Center Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the Neomycin Phosphotransferase Gene from Transposon 903
Ali Baghian and Knostantin Kousoulas, Pathobiological Sciences, LSUSVM Construciton of recombinant vesicular stomatitis viruses (VSV) expressing Bovine Coronavirus E, M and S Proteins
Bryant Boyd and Jacqueline Stephens, Biological Sciences The Effects of Botanicals on Adipogenesis
Jillian Bybee (Carroll College) and Steven Soper, Chemistry Detection of Sporadic Genetic Mutations Using an EndoV/Ligase Scanning Assay
Krishen Cunnusamy and James Moroney, Biological Sciences RNAi Analysis of Carbonic Anhydrases Cah3, Cah6 and Cah7 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Katherine Faust and Robb Brumfield, Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Sciences Genetic structure of a hybrid zone between two species of Jamaican Streamertail Hummingbirds
Celeste Gary and David Longstreth, Biological Sciences Increasing Salt Concentration Stimulates Changes in Secreted Proteins by Suspension Cells from Alternanthera philoxeroides
Jose M Garza (UTPA), Jim Belanger, Biological Sciences Neuroethology – Crustacean Orientation in Airborne Odor Plumes
Waqar Haque (University of Houston) and Fareed Aboul-ela, Biological Sciences Stability of an RNA Stem Loop in the West Nile Virus RNA
Eric Harris (Troy) and Vince Wilson, Biological Sciences Methylation-specific PCR Analyses of DNA from Norma, Neoplastic, and Cancerous Skin Specimens
Jared Landry and M.C. Rush, Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, LSU Agricultural Center In Vitro Selection for Mutants Resistant to Toxic Compounds in Rice
Leslie Lekatz (Bemidji State) and William T. Doerrler, Biological Sciences Cloning and overexpression of Imp/OstA, an essential Escherichia coli outer membrane protein with a possible role in lipid transport
Rachael Liesman (Illinois Wesleyan University) and Konstantin G. Kousoulas, LSUSVM Pathobiological Sciences In Vivo demonstration of Protein-Protein Interactions between Herpes Simplex Virus Type-1 UL20 and gK during viral egress from infected cells
Michael McCormick and James Moroney, Biological Sciences Generation and Characterization of Insertional Mutants in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that Cannot Grow on Air Levels of CO2
Daren Molina (UTPA) and F.A. Rainey, Biological Sciences Survival of Soil Bacterial Communities Following Desiccation
Dayle Parnell-Lampen (Providence) and Kirsten Prufer, Biological Sciences Developing an immunoprecipitation method to identify nuclear transport protein interactions of LXRα and LXRβ
Corin Schowalter and Robert Strongin, Chemistry A Convenient Preparation of Xanthene Dyes
Daniel Serna (UTPA) and Dr. Randall Gayda, Biological Sciences Analysis of Salmonella Isolates from Turtles by Repetitive DNA PCR Primers
Arman Sheybani and John Caprio, Biological Sciences A Study of Synergism in Vertebrate Olfaction
Corey Smith and Larry Lomax, LSUSVM Pathobiological Sciences Tumor Cell Necrosis and Tumor Angiogenesis Inhibition as an Indication of the Effectiveness of an Antiangiogenesis Vaccination in a Rodent Model of Breast Carcinoma
Jing Zhou and John Larkin, Biological Sciences Genetic Mapping of Siamese Phenotypic Modifiers
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Utibe Bickham and Paul Ahlquist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Characterization of Newly Identified Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) Transcripts
Brittany Marchant (University of Science, Philadelphia) and Gudrun Schmidt, Chemistry Flow Induced Structures in Polymer-Clay Hydrogels
Amanda Steffens (U Wisconsin – River Falls) and Paul Russo, Chemistry
Temperature Response of Poly- £`-carbobenzyloxy-L-lysine

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