BIOL 238 Project Index 2013

Katie Adlam, Lactobacillus plantarum and its biological implications

Kyle Bailey, Environmentally essential bacteria: Geothrix fermentans

Ariel Bartholomew, Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme Disease

Kiersten Bell, Sexual Reproduction of Pathogenic Eukaryotes

Jimmy Chapman, Mycoplasma hominis

Rafael Contreras, Puccinia graminis (Stem wheat rust)

Rebecca Dann, Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxins

Michael Gallaher, Herpesviridae: Viral Cycle, Capsid Transport, and Cancer Treatment

Hunter Gervelis, The CRISPR Immune System in Bacteria and Archaea

Connor Gibbons, Bacillus Anthracis: Anthrax Lethal Toxin

Marta Hamilton, Human Metapneumovirus

Mark Michael Harden, Microbial Biofuels: Current Production and Future Prospects

Hildy Joseph, Virulence of Pseudomonas savastanoi

Sam Kaplan, Two Modes of Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis by Members of the Genus Streptomyces

Kelsey McMurtry, Neisseria meningitidis causing meningococcal meningitis

Sam McQuiston, Nipah Virus

Morgan O'Connor, The Threat of Airborne Transmission of Influenza A: H5N1

Laurel Ota, Link Between Microbes and Obesity

Helen Rogers, Secondary Metabolites in the Aspergillus Genus

Ali Stamatoiu, Membrane proteins as mechanisms of immune system evasion in Trypanosoma brucei

Ian Stewart-Bates, Prions and Encephalopathies

Faiza Sulaiman, User:Using Yeast to Convert Carbon Dioxide Gas to Carbonates For Building Materials

Rodney Tucker, Murine Leukemia Virus (MuLV)

Emily Tysinger, Ehrlichia: tick-borne pathogen in canines and humans

Nicole Valentini, Swarming Motility in Proteus Mirabilis: Causative Agent of UTIs

Audrey White, HIV-Derived Lentiviral Vectors and Their Use as Gene Therapy Agents Against Human Immunodeficiency Virus