Research 
Honors
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2010 Honors Graduates
| Student Name | College | Research Supervisor | Research Department | Level of Honors | Thesis Title | Anna K Barker | Arts | John Schimenti | Biomedical Sciences | Honors | An investigation of embryonic lethal mutations L5Jcs11 and L5Jcs13, induced by ENU mutagenesis in the rump white inversion region of mouse chromosome five |
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| Stacy L Biddlecomb | Arts | Bernd Blossey | Natural Resources | Honors | Assessing Differences in P. australis Populations: An Evaluation of Plant Traits and Insect-Host Interactions | |||
| Christine Bricault | A&LS | Keith Perry | Plant Pathology | Highest Honors | Alteration of intersubunit acid-base pair interactions at the quasi-threefold axis of symmetry of Cumcumber mosaic virus disrupts aphid vector interactions | |||
| Neva Castro | Arts | Sondra Lazarowitz | Plant Pathology & Plant Microbe Biology | Honors | Expression of SYTE and SYTC during Arabidopsis thaliana Development | |||
| Diana Chen | Arts Siu | Sylvia Lee | Molecular Biology & Genetics | High Honors | Involvement of the Dynamin-Related Protein DRP-1 in the Insuling-like Signaling Pathway to Caenorhabditis elegans | |||
| Ina Chen | Arts | William Brown | Molecular Biology & Genetics | High Honors | Possible Connection Between Phospholipase A2 Activity and Dynein-Mediated Transport | |||
| Serena P Chiang | A&LS | Robin L Davisson | Biomedical Sciences | Honors | Elucidating the Etiology of Preeclampsia through Investigation of Thbs2 and Gcm1 | |||
| Erin T Chu | A&LS | Nathan Sutter | Medical Genetics, Vet Clinical Sciences | Honors | Skeletal Size and Shape Diversity in the Horse: Quantification of skeltal phenotype and a candidate gene screen for skeletal trait variation in Equus caballus | |||
| Stephanie Chu | A&LS | Patrick Stover | Nutritional Sciences | Honors | Interactions beween Iron and Folate Metabolism using Fth and cSHMT knockout mouse models | |||
| Rebecca E Daley | A&LS | Christine Goodale | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Honors | Hydrological and climatic controls on watershed export in an aggrading New Hampshire forest | |||
| Benjamin A Diner | Arts | Gregory Martin | Plant Pathology & Plant Microbe Biology | Highest Honors | Characterization of a possible role of Mai1 in effector-triggered immunity in Nicotiana benthamiana Lawrence Du Arts Richard Harrison Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Honors Developing sex-linked markers for the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubialis) | |||
| Madeline N Dunfee | A&LS | Alex Flecker | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Honors | Understanding the effects of agriculture on stream food webs based on stable isotope analysis | |||
| Carly A Elston | Arts | Andre Kessler | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | High Honors | The Role of Scents for Prey Attraction in the Carnivorous Pitcher | |||
| Maxine R Fields | A&LS | Paul D Soloway | Nutritional Sciences | Honors | The Possible Role of Xist in Regulating Methylation of Rasgrfl in Mice | |||
| Nathan Franck | Arts | Anthony Hay | Microbiology | Honors | Bacterial Two-Hybrid Analysis of In Vivo Interactions Between SigmaE and YbcQ a Putative Q-like antiterminator Protein | |||
| Joanne F Garbincius | Arts | Robert Gilmour | Biomedical Sciences | Honors | Expression Patterns of Gap Junction Proteins Connexin 40 and Connexin 43 in the Purkinje Fibers of German Shepherd Dogs with Inherited Ventricular Arrhythmia | |||
| Kevin F Gardner | A&LS | Carl Hopkins | Neurobiology & Behavior | High Honors | Analysis of Male Agonisitic Interactions in the Weakly Electric Fish, Brienomyrus brachyistius (Mormyridae) using a New Technique for Separating Electric Discharges | |||
| Philia Gau | A&LS | David Lin | Biomedical Sciences | High Honors | Air-assisted intranasal viral delivery to the olfactory epithelium and lung: An enhancement for studying neurodegeneration in the mouse olfactory epithelium | |||
| Lee M Gerwitz | A&LS | Robert Weiss | Biomedical Sciences | High Honors | The Effects of Partial Hus1 Impairment on Tumorigenesis | |||
| Patricia C Green | A&LS | Susana Mendez | Baker Institute for Animal Health | High Honors | The antibiotic pyrazinamide as a new antileishmanial drug | |||
| Michael C Grundler | Arts | Kelly Zamudio | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Highest Honors | Ecological Specialization Promotes Spatial Genetic Structure In Stream-Breeding Amphibians | |||
| Charlene S Hoi | A&LS | Tudorita Tumbar | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Highest Honors | RUNX1 Function In Mouse Skin Tumor Formation | |||
| Iris A Holmes | Arts | Kelly Zamudio | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Highest Honors | Genetic consequences of recent range expansions by the Boreal toad in Southeast Alaska | |||
| Suganthi Kandasamy | Arts | June Nasrallah | Plant Biology | Honors | Identification of Candidate Rapidly-Evolving Reproductive Genes in Arabidopsis | |||
| JungWoo Kim | Arts | Hening Lin | Chemistry and Chemical Biology | High Honors | Investigating the Acyl-group Specificity of Sirtuins | |||
| Thomas S Kraft | Arts | Saskyavan Nouhuys | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Highest Honors | Apparent Competition and Parasitoid-Host Interactions in Two Congeneric Lepidopteran Species | |||
| Kathleen LaBarbera | Arts | Irby Lovette | E&EB/ Lab of Ornithology | High Honors | Breeding synchrony cannot explain extra-pair paternity rate variation in northern temperate and southern temperate House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon) | |||
| Lucy X Li | Arts | Joel Baines | Microbiology & Immunology | Honors | Protein-Protein Interaction of Tegument Proteins, VP11/12 and VP13/14, in Herpes Simplex Virus Type-1 Virions | |||
| Alice Y Lu | A&LS | Volker Vogt | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Honors | Characterization of RSV Gag Incorporation and Trafficking into Virus-like Particles | |||
| Rong Ma | Arts | Robert Raguso | Neurobiology & Behavior | Honors | Geographic Variation in Floral Signals: Do perfumes have local dialects? | |||
| Lauren M Maistros | Arts | Warren Allmon | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | Honors | Convergent evolution of an extreme parietal callus in fossil caenogastropods: Constructional morphology and microstructure analysis | |||
| Christina L Masco | Arts | Tom Seeley | Neurobiology & Behavior | Honors | Parental Recognition in the Great Black-Backed (Larus marinus) | |||
| Grace A Masters | A&LS | Paul Sherman | Neurobiology & Behavior | Highest Honors | Host-parasite specificity and local host adaptation help to favor dispersal as a mechanism for anciently asexual bdelloid rotifers to avoid extinction by fungal parasites | |||
| Justine M Olszewski | Arts | Eric Alani | Molecular Biology & Genetics | High Honors | A role for the XBP1 gene in modulating SPO11 function in yeast meiosis | |||
| Christian K Owusu | Arts | Susana Mendez | Baker Institute for Animal Health | Honors | The Therapeutic Potential of Thymosin beta-4 against Cutaneous Leishmaniasis | |||
| Vinay L Patel | A&LS | Ronald Harris-Warrick | Neurobiology & Behavior | High Honors | Cloning and Characterization of slo Family Potassium Channel Isoforms in the Lobster Nervous System | |||
| Amanda J Podolski | Arts | Marla Lujan | Nutritional Science | Honors | The Phenotypic Spectrum of Over One Hundred Consecutive Women Evaluated for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome | |||
| India A Reddy | Arts | Joseph Fetcho | Neurobiology & Behavior | Highest Honors | Morphological and developmental patterning of excitatory and inhibitory interneurons in the larval zebrafish hindbrain and In vivo imaging of synaptic plasticity during sleep | |||
| Jane Rhyu | Arts | David L Deitcher | Neurobiology & Behavior | Honors | Localization and phenotypical characterization of M52, a novel temperature-paralytic seizure enhancer in Drosophila melanogaster | |||
| Julia M Rosenberg | Arts | Ken Kemphues | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Honors | Interaction of PAR-2 and LGL-1 with RAB Trafficking and RCD-1-Like Proteins in the early Caenorhabditis elegans Embryo | |||
| Daniel P Salisbury | A&LS | Charles Walcott | Neurobiology & Behavior | Honors | What’s in a wail? The presence of individual characteristics in common loon, Gavia immer, vocalizations | |||
| Laura F Seeholzer | A&LS | Laura Harrington | Entomology | High Honors | Sperm usage patterns in the dengue vector mosquito, Aedes aegypt | |||
| Lindsay G Serene | A&LS | Irby Lovette | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Honors | Ancient DNA Reveals a Mitochondrial Cline across a Classic Avian Hybrid Zone | |||
| Madeleine M Stone | Arts | Christine Goodale | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Honors | Carbon-Degrading Enzymes: Basic Kinetics and Response to Temperature | |||
| John A Stupinski | Arts | Robin Davisson | Biomedical Sciences | High Honors | Heart Failure and the Central Nervous System: Myocardial Infarction-induced AP-1 activation and the Paraventricular Nucleus | |||
| Tomomi Takada | Arts | Amy McCune | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Honors | Movements and habitat use by bowfin (Amia calva) in Oneida Lake | |||
| Emily S Taub | A&LS | Valerie Reyna | Human Development | Honors | Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and ApoE: What does epsilon4 Really Predict? | |||
| Michelle C Tong | Arts | Holger Sondermann | Molecular Medicine | Honors | EHD1 as a Potential Activator of Autoinhibited PACSIN1 | |||
| Shawna N Tonick | A&LS | Mariana Wolfner | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Honors | The Role of Female Proteins in the Proteolytic Processing Ovulin in Drosophila melanogaster | |||
| Justin L Torok | A&LS | Holger Sondermann | Molecular Medicine | Honors | Adding to the Repertoire of Genetically-Encoded Calcium Indicators: Construction and Characterization of RCaMP2 | |||
| Chia T Tseng | A&LS | Douglas Fantczak | Baker Institute for Animal Health | High Honors | Molecular Identification of the Equine Major Histocompatibility Complex and an Investigation of its Role in Reproduction | |||
| Nicholas W VanKuren | A&LS | Teresa Pawlowska | Plant Patholgy & Plant Microbe Biology | Highest Honors | Patterns of ribosomal RNA gene evolution in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi | |||
| Mitch J Walters | A&LS | David Winkler | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Honors | Comparing female characteristics to egg and yolk size in the Chilean Swallow (Tachycineta meyeni): insights from non-destructive photographic techniques | |||
| Li Wang | A&LS | Klaus Beyenbach | Biomedical Sciences | Highest Honors | Localization and Expression of a SLC4-like Cl- / HCO3- Exchanger in Renal Tubules of Adult Female Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti | |||
| Wendy M Wang | A&LS | W. Lee Kraus | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Honors | The Roles of NAD+-related Enzymes in Neuronal Gene Regulation | |||
| Victoria A Wells | A&LS | Maria Garcia | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Honors | Characterization of the Subcellular Localization of ZFP568, a Member of the Krüppel-associated Box Domain Zinc Finger Protein Family | |||
| Aaron G Wexler | A&LS | Alan Collmer | Plant Pathology & Plant Microbe Biology | Honors | PSPTO4723 Controls the Production of the Coronamic Acid Moiety of Coronatine in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 | |||
| Ellen C Woods | A&LS | AnuragA grawal | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | High Honors | Latitudinal Lines in Variation Among Populations of Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) | |||
| Cheng Zeng | A&LS | Jerry Feigenson | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Honors | Preparing Giant Unilamellar Vesicles through sequential monolayer assembly method | |||
| Jingwei Zhang | A&LS | Gregory Martin | Plant Pathology & Plant Microbe Biology | Honors | Functional analysis of the role of Mai5, MAPKKKa, and MAPKKK in plant innate immunity. | |||
| Judy Y Zheng | A&LS | Gerald Feigenson | Molecular Biology & Genetics | Honors | Phase Boundaries between Macroscopic and Nanoscopic Domains in a 4-Component Bilayer Mixture, DOPC/POPC/DSPC/Cholesterol | |||
