Senior Thesis Titles 2008
MEGAN BARBER
Investigating the Use of Inquiry as an Effective Teaching Tool
Maria J. Donoghue, Department of Biology
DOMINIC D. BAULA
Methylene Blue as an Inhibitor of α-synuclein Aggregation
Anita Sidhu-Hough, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and, Joseph H. Neale, Department of Biology
LAUREN BLATT
Factors Influencing Retention of Scientific Information.
Ronda J. Rolfes, Department of Biology
ADAM BOBEL
Affects of Various Diets on Pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) Induced Seizure Thresholds in Rats
Douglas A. Eagles, Department of Biology
JOHN J. BROCKLAND
Helping or Hurting? The Role of G-CSF in Breast Cancer and Neutropenia
Anne G. Rosenwald, Department of Biology
LAUREN CADWALLADER
The developmental impact of orthographic knowledge on phonological awareness.
Rhonda B. Friedman, Cognitive Neuropsychology; and, Joseph H. Neale, Department of Biology
KRISTEN COREY
Investigating the Nature and Purpose of Student Inquiry
Maria Donoghue, Department of Biology
CHRISTINE M. CUTILLO
Interaction of Intracellular Nitrite with the Hormone Binding Domain of Estrogen Receptor-α Results in the Recruitment of Transcription Coactivators
Mary Beth Martin, Departments of Oncology and Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology; and Anne G. Rosenwald, Department of Biology
JAMES DIPIETRO
Agonist activities of Sazetidine-A on α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
Yingxian Xiao and Ken Kellar, Department of Pharmacology
ZACHARY C. DOBBIN
Caveolin-1 regulation of Bcl-2 in paclitaxel-mediated apoptosis in breast cancer
Ayesha Shajahan and Robert Clarke, Department of Oncology; and, Lori G Estes, Department of Biology
ERIN DOHERTY
Novel Treatment Modalities for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Steven Singer, Department of Biology
AMINE EL-AMRAOUI
Learning and Brain Development in Monarch Butterflies
Martha Weiss, Department of Biology
MICHAEL W. FASHINPAUR
Traumatic Brain Injury: An Overview of Current Research and Treatment Theory
Maria J. Donoghue, Department of Biology
ROBERT J. FECZKO
Developmental Time Course for the Formation of the Indirect Striatofugal Axonal Projections from D2-Dopamine Receptors Expressing Medium Spiny Neurons in Mice
Lawrence F. Kromer, Department of Neuroscience; and, Maria J. Donoghue, Department of Biology
GEORGINA FERZLI
The analysis of the relationship between scientific understanding and scientific writing in student work
Ronda J. Rolfes, Department of Biology
PHILIP FUJIMOTO
Immune function of the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus
Peter Armbruster, Biology Department
JOSEPH CARL FUSCO
The Effect of Giardia lamblia Infection on the Expression of Villin Protein in the Small Intestine
Steven Singer, Department of Biology
DOMINICK GADALETA
Determination of the sensitivity of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) DNA probes for Short Stature Homeobox (SHOX) gene deletions
Jan Blancato, GUMC Cytogenetic Department; and Elena Casey, Department of Biology
GAURAV GARG
An Ultrastructural Survey of the Toe of Xenopus laevis
George B. Chapman, Department of Biology
SERWA GYAMFI
The Role of Leptin as the Metabolic Signal for the Onset of Puberty and the Gender Specificity of Leptin During Puberty
Douglas A. Eagles, Department of Biology
MOIRA HILSCHER
The impact of FGFBP1 on mammary gland development in a primary epithelial transplant model
Anton Wellstein, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
NIELS V. JOHNSEN
The Role of Ephrins and Eph Tyrosine Kinase Receptors in Regulating the Topographic Organization of Striatal Axonal Projections in Mice
Lawrence F. Kromer, Department of Neuroscience; and, Lori G. Estes, Department of Biology
YOUN-HOA JUNG
Phenethyl ethanol and tryptophol as potential quorum sensing molecules in Candida albicans
Richard Calderone, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; and, Ronda Rolfes, Department of Biology
NIKOLAS S. KAPPY
Ketogenic and Calorie Restricted Diets Provide Resistance to PTZ-Induced Seizures in Rats Returned to Normal Ad Libitum Diets.
Douglas Eagles, Department of Biology
CLAIRE E. KREYCIK
The role of Csfrb in the growth and differentiation of the CBFB-MYH11+ cell line ME-1
Paul Liu and R. Kate Hyde, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH; and, Anne Rosenwald, Department of Biology
KRISTYN KROLIKOWSKI
The Effect of NAAG Peptidase Inhibition in PCP and Amphetamine Animal Models of Schizophrenia
Joseph H. Neale and Rafal T. Olszewski, Department of Biology
CHRISTIAN LARSEN
Effect of Midline Transcription Factors Xnot, Pintallavis, and Xbra on Sox3 Expression during Early Neural Development
Elena Casey, Department of Biology
MICHELLE M. LORICA
Colon Cancer: A Retrospective Investigation of Potential Genetic and Environmental Causes in a Single Case Study
Maria Donoghue, Department of Biology
PRISCILLA LUI
Potential Id2 Binding Partners and Their Role in Cell Proliferation
Dean Rosenthal, Georgetown University Medical Center; and, Lori Estes, Department of Biology
DAVID LY
Polymorphism of promoter and coding regions may play a role in expression level variation observed with different alleles of KIR2DL5
Carolyn Hurley and Noriko Steiner, Lombardi Cancer Center; and, Anne Rosenwald, Department of Biology
SARA A. MADANIKIA
Tazarotene-Induced Gene 1 (TIG1) Is A Putative Tumor Suppressor Gene Which Shows Carboxy-Terminal Targeting To The Midbody During Cytokinesis.
Stephen Byers, Department of Oncology; and, Anne Rosenwald, Department of Biology
CAITLIN B.L. MAGRAW
The Effects of Ephrin-B3 Ligand Deletion on Corticospinal Tract Regeneration after Spinal Cord Injury
Lawrence F. Kromer, Department of Neuroscience; and, Maria J. Donoghue, Department of Biology
STEPHANIE MAJESKI
The Effects of Provisioning on the Development of Foraging in Wild Bottlenose Dolphin Calves (Tursiops sp.)
Janet Mann, Department of Biology
PATRICK G. MANNING
Determining the regions in Bas1 and Pho2 required for regulation and protein interaction necessary for the transcription of the ADE genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Ronda Rolfes, Department of Biology
LAURA R. MATTHEWS
Mutations in the Dimerization and Multimerization Regions of the Hepatitis Delta Antigen Disrupt Binding to the HDV Genome in Vitro
John L. Casey, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; and, Steven M. Singer, Department of Biology
ERNICA NOEL
Understanding genetic variation in Giardia lamblia: the microsatellite approach
Heidi Elmendorf, Department of Biology
JAMES O’HARE
FGF-2 in Neural Stem Cell Cultures
Maria Donoghue, Department of Biology
CHRISTOS POLYMEROPOULOS
Study of changes in gene expression patterns of astrocyte cultures using ligands for the mGluR3 receptor
Dr. Joseph H. Neale, Department of Biology
SAMANTHA POWELL
The Use of Innovative Literature Sources to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension and Scientific Understanding
Heidi Elmendorf, Department of Biology
HEMAL N. SAMPAT
A New Cell System for Studying the Biochemical Activity of HIV-1 Nef
Jon W. Marsh, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Regulation, National Institute of Mental Health; and, Steven M. Singer, Department of Biology
IRENE SAY
Investigating the Spatiotemporal Regulation of Sox3 in Xenopus laevis by an Evolutionary Conserved Region
Elena Casey, Department of Biology
MAURA M. SCANLON
The role of caveolin-1 and survivin in drug resistance of breast cancer cells
Ayesha Shajahan and Robert Clarke, Department of Oncology; and, Lori G. Estes, Department of Biology
KATHERINE A. SPERLE
The Role of Calcium as a Physiological Activator of Estrogen Receptor-alpha
MaryBeth Martin, Department of Oncology & Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology; and, Dr. Anne Rosenwald, Department of Biology
LAURYN MICHELLE STEVENS
Skeletal Muscle Fiber Diameter and Systemic IGF-1 Alterations in AIBΔ3 Transgenic Mice with Physical Activity
Priscilla Furth, MD, Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center; and, Anne Rosenwald, Department of Biology
NICHOLAS STOLER
The Extraction of Native Giardia lamblia Actin through Differential Detergent Treatment
Heidi Elmendorf, Department of Biology
KATHLEEN ELISABETH TUMELTY
The effects of exercise on muscle fiber diameter, mammary gland proliferation, and morphology in wild-type, rtTA transgenic and rtTA/AIB1-∆3 transgenic mice
Priscilla Furth, MD, Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center; and, Anne Rosenwald, Ph.D, Department of Biology
DANIEL F. VANCE
Tabanid Flight Seasonality, Abundance, and Habitat Distribution in the Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve, Virginia
Edward M. Barrows, Department of Biology
AMELIA WESSELINK
Current Treatment for HIV Infection
Steven Singer, Department of Biology
JAMES T. WILLIAMS
Early Life Exposure to Metalloestrogens and Development
Mary-Beth Martin, Department of Oncology & Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology