| 2001-2002
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
| Robert Baker |
Evidence Contracting the Sib
Competition Model for Maintenance of Sexual Reproduction
in the Clonal Grass Dactylis glomerata (Poaceae) |
| Sarah Banner |
Bleomycin-Induced DNA Damage
and Repair in Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis |
| Justine Barry |
Evidence for the Exocytosis
Core Complex at the Cell Somata and Neuritic Projections
of the Bag Cells of Aplysia california |
| Arthur Bass |
Sexual Dichromatism and Condition
Dependence in Ultraviolet Coloration of two Species of
Jay (Corvidae) |
| Nina Bennett |
Managing Minnesota's Wolves |
| Elizabeth Bridges |
Clonal Recognition and Agonistic
Response in the Aggregating Sea Anemone Anthopleura elegantissima |
| Jeffery Brown |
Immunocytochemical Colocalization
of Proteasomes and the Estrogen Receptor |
| Hattie Brown (BMB) |
In Search of ScaR: Attempts
to Isolate and Purify a Metal Activated Transcriptional
Regulator |
| Rebekah Burns |
Microsatellite identification
and characterization in Tanichthys albonubes using Danio
rerio primers |
| Louis Calhoun (BMB) |
An Investigation of Binding
of Orotidine 5 Monophosphate to Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase
from Baker's Yeast by Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| Darrow DeLuca |
Potential Phase Variation Regulation
of the Bundle Forming Pilus in Enteropathogenic Escherichia
coli by PerA |
| Jennifer Dolan |
Ultraviolet Color Signaling
in Birds |
| Collin Dyer (BMB) |
Agonizing the Cannabinoid Receptor:
Expression, Purification, and Structural Characterization
of the Human CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor Extracellular N-Terminal
Region |
| Alena Gates |
The Fitness of Human Populations:
An Integration of Evolutionary Theory and Medicine |
| Hamid Reza Hamid |
Quantifying the role of APX
within Glycine max root nodules through the analysis of
sense and antisense cAPX transgenic cultivars of Glycine
max |
| Kristin Harper |
Sucrose Utilization in Enteropathogenic
E. coli |
| Evan Hayashi |
Investigation of the Hypothesized
Multimer Formation of the Ler Protein in Enteropathogenic
Escherichia coli by Chemical Cross-linking |
| Melissa Herman |
Sorting mechanisms for a secretory
protein examined by molecular modification |
| Patricia Hsue |
Who is Watching Whom? Effects
of Human Crowds and Environmental Enrichment on the Behavior
of Captive Chimpanzees |
| Lawrence Huang |
17B-Estradiol Has Opposing
Effects on p70 S6 Kinase Activity in Human Breast Carcinoma
MCF7 Cells |
| Katherine Johnson |
Phosphorylative Effects upon
Estrogen Receptor Function |
| Cedar Johnson-Fowler (BMB) |
A Preliminary Investigation
into the Reductive Cleavage of the Thiazoline Moiety of
Bacitracin A1 |
| Diana Jolles |
A Potential Genetic Trade-off
between Elaiosome and Seed Investment in Euphorbia peplus
(Euphorbiaceae) and Claytonia perfoliata (Portulacaceae)
and Achlys triphylla (Berberidacea) |
| Alisa Judy |
Bugs or the Baggage from Birth:
The Etiology and Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis |
| Nhi Khuong |
Host-Virus Interactions: Barley
Yellow Dwarf Virus Leaky Scanning and Replication in Saccharomyces
cerevisiae |
| Sarah Kliegman (BMB) |
Isolation and purification
of a DtxR homologue from Sulfolobus solfataricus |
| Amber Knoche |
Heterospecific call recognitionbetween
Western Scrub Jays (Aphelcoma californica) and Steller's
Jays (Cyanocitta stelleri) |
| Hatai Kraushaar |
Stage-dependent Temperature
Effects in Bombina orientalis |
| Michele La Merrill |
The Reed College Campus carbon
budget: sources and sinks of carbon in the grassland,
forest, and spring water of Reed College campus |
| Jenny Lessner |
Telomere Length Regulation
Throughout Xenopus laevis Development |
| Richard Martin |
17b-Estradiol Modulates the
Profile of Extracellular Regulated Kinase (ERK) Activation
Alone and In Combination With Insulin-like Growth Factor-I |
| Edmond Marzbani |
Relative quantification of
acidic peptide and egg-laying hormone from bag cells of
Aplysia californica |
| Lauren Mathewson |
A Phylogeographic Analysis
of Quercus garryana |
| Rachel Mills |
An Investigation into the Regulation
and Activity of the p53 Transcription Factor in Xenopus
laevis Splenocytes |
| Madrona Murphy |
A Land Ethic and the Ecology
of Recreation |
| Paula Anne Newman |
Tamoxifen may act through a
calcineurin, but not a p38, mediated pathway to induce
apoptosis in MCF-7 breast cancer cells |
| Steven Pierce |
Stop Codon Readthrough of Barley
Yellow Dwarf Virus ORF3-ORF5 in the Yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae and the Identification of Host Genes Involved |
| Lee Pollack (BMB) |
The attempted synthesis of
a novel ribozyme to catalyze a small molecule reaction |
| Amber Reed |
Characterization of Bombina
orientalis Telomeres |
| Noah Rindos |
Xenopus laevis telomere binding
with TRF1? |
| Christopher Robinson |
Ler-Mediated Anti-Repression
at the LEE 5 Operon in Enteropathogenic Escherchia coli
Occurs Independently of a Conserved DNA Motif and of the
Nucleoid-Structuring Protein H-NS |
| Nadine Sauer |
A Reinvestigation of Tardigrade
Embryology Reveals Enterocoely and Suggests New Phylogenetic
Affinities |
| Danielle Shea (BMB) |
Subgenomic RNA Transcription
in Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus: Establishing a reporter
system in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Shannon Taylor |
The Disjunction of Apoptosis
and the Cell Cycle in Xenopus laevis Splenocytes and Thymocytes |
| Tiffany Thornton |
The role of Interspecific competition
in allowing the coexistence of Ensatina eschscholtzii
oregonensis and Plethodon vehiculum |
| Jennifer Webster |
Mr. Toad Goes for a Ride: amphibian
decline, its causes, and solutions through management
and conservation |
| Elizabeth Weisiger |
Localization of the mRNA Xcat-2
by in situ hybridization in normal and inverted Xenopus
laevis embryos |
| Alison Wellman (BMB) |
The Solid-Phase Total Synthesis
of a Bacitracin A Derivative |
| Mary Whedbee |
A Spatio-Temporal Analysis
of Cell Death in the Developing Neural Folds of Xenopus:
Could Apoptosis Affect the Pattern of Neural Crest Migration? |
| Kyla Zaret |
An evaluation of methods for
monitoring Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonensis in the Reed
College Canyon |
| 2000-2001
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
 |
| Melanie Barnes |
Development and evolution of
the tetradynamous stamen condition in the Brassicaceae |
| Martha Baugh |
The Effects of Constant and
Varying Temperature on the development of Bombina orientalis--the
Oriental Fire Bellied Toad |
| Kimberly Butler (BMB) |
Attempted Synthesis of a Potential
Transition State Analog Inhibitor of Fumarylacetoacetate
Hydrolase |
| Jennifer Carter |
Quantitation of estrogen receptor
distribution in feline uterine and oviductal epithelial
cells using a green fluorescent protein chimera |
| Kenneth Custer (BMB) |
Melanopsin: The Molecular Origin
of Circadian Photoreception? |
| Eleanor Deardorff |
Cloning of Ebra: The brachyury
homolog of the direct developing salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii |
| Gregory Dutton |
Amphibian Monitoring in the
Reed College Canyon: Spatial Distribution of the Oregon
salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonensis |
| Emily Dykhuizen (BMB) |
Using Enzymes in the Organic
Synthesis of Carbocyclic Nucleoside Analogs |
| Boynn Finncarlin |
The Effects of Food Distribution
and Habitat Size and Shape on Growth in Bombina orientalis |
| Julie Frederickson |
Regulation at the Moment of
Fusion: Molecular Switching in Differential Exocytosis |
| Karl Schiller Gillick |
Height gradients in photochemical
efficiency of Lobaria oregana and L. pulmonaria. |
| Andrew Gold |
Attempted Introduction of Barley
Yellow Dwarf Virus into the Life Cycle of Saccharomyces
cerevisiae |
| Rebecca Ann Green |
Effect of HEp-2 cell association
of the expression of ler in enteropathogenic Escherichia
coli: Now they're glowing now they're not |
| Tabitha Christine Greiner |
An exploration into the mysterious
unknown: A Phylogeographic study of Oxalis oregana Nutt. |
| Leslie Hoover |
Sucrose catabolizm in pathogenic
Escherichia coli |
| Emily Janega (BMB) |
Investigation of the Expression
of the anb3 Integrin in Prostatic Adenocarcinoma |
| Kraig Harris Kraft |
Vacuum Infiltration Transformation
of Medicago truncatula with an Antisense Ascorbate Peroxidase
Construct; or How My Thesis Turned Me Into a Pariah |
| Rachel Leistikow |
Identifying Genes for Telomere
Binding Proteins in Xenopus laevis |
| Kristie Miller (BMB) |
Ler Mediated Regulation of
the Tir Operon in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli by
Footprinting and Deletion Analysis |
| JJ Miranda (BMB) |
A Protein Model for Studying
Cysteine / Helix Dipole Electrostatic Interactions |
| Raphaela Peck (BMB) |
Protein Localization and Transport
in Rat Hippocampal Neurons in Culture |
| Max Vick Ranall |
The Convergence of Far-Red
Light and Defense Signal Cascades: Cyclic-GMP and Chalcone
Synthase Regulation |
| Jennifer Robertson |
Effects of murine cytomegalovirus
(MCMV) infection on the interaction of MHC class I molecules
with the peptide loading complex |
| William Anthony Smith-Carlile |
Plasticity of Head Shape in
Larval Long-Toed Salamanders: Testing the Effects of Density
and Prety Type |
| Aaron Breese Terteling |
Where to Weave and Why: web-site
selection in the spider Zygiella x-notata |
| Lauren Thronson |
Protein Kinase C in Apoptosis
and Cell Growth in Xenopus laevis Splenocytes |
| Margaret Weisskirk |
Dorsal Determinants in Ensatina
eschscholtzii and Xenopus laevis: In Search of a Common
Mechanism |
| Heather Rachel Zornetzer |
The Wonder of the Wolphin:
A Morphological and Genetic Assessment of Interspecific
Hybridization in Cetaceans |
| 1999-2000
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
|
| Alicia Dawnstar Ashby |
The Endoderm of the Anterior
Archenteron is Not an Inducer of Olfactory Development
in Xenopus laevis |
| Alisha Danielle Baines |
Inter-Sex Dominance Hierarchies
in the Red Swamp Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii:
Who da' Man? |
| Muriel Lorena Bartol Wolfensberger |
Human Mating Strategies:
A Biological Perspective |
| Katherine Lois Beattie |
Interspecific and Intraspecific
Genetic Diversity in the Chloroplast Genome of Delphinium
leucophaeum and D. nuttallii |
| Brianna Caroline Bertoglio |
An Application of Epidemiologic
Method: Should Smallpox Be Destroyed? |
| Melinda Ann Biernacki |
Nonclassical Reponses to
Estrogen: Is There a Role for Protein-Protein Interactions? |
| Michael McCarron Bomier
(BMB) |
Transcriptional Regulation
of the LEE4 Operon in Enteropathogenic E. coli |
| Sylvia Marie Bousman |
Cloning the Telomerase
Catalytic Subunit Gene from Xenopus laevis |
| Kelly Noelle Buckle |
How Different is Different
Enough? Using Genetic Markers to Define the Species
Delphinium leucophaeum |
| Timothy Joseph Cascone |
An Investigation of the
Nature of Cannibalism in Bombina orientalis,
the Oriental Fire-Bellied Toad |
| Aaron Dyar Clark |
Old-Growth Logging and
Amphibians: A Study of Edge Effects in the Pacific Northwest |
| Ella Clark-Nicholson |
The Regulatory Involvement
of Protein Kinase C Isoforms in Xenopus laevis
Splenocyte Apoptosis |
| Sarah Mullen Crespi |
Characterization of Two
scFv Phage-Display Libraries Selected with Proteins
of the Bullfrog Sacculus |
| Colin Joe Daniel |
Regulation of Virulence
Genes in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli by
Factors Secreted from Members of the Human Intestinal
Microbiota |
| Athena Theresa Dodd |
Separating the Effects
of Gene Flow and Population History: A Phylogeographic
Study of Delphinium nuttallii Using Nested Clade
Analysis |
| Letty Ernst (BMB) |
Regulation and Inhibition
of Apoptosis by the Guanosine Binding Proteins |
| Robert Stater Foster |
Optimal Prey Selection
By Invasive European Green Crabs, Carcinus maenas,
and the Potential Impact on the Pacific Northwest's
Commercial Oyster Industry |
| Mark Thomas Harnett |
Neurophysiology of the
Nucleus Angularis: The Initiation of Intensity Coding
for Sound Localization in the Avian Auditory System |
| Allison Lara Hornor |
Seasonal and Spatial Variation
of Glutathione Reductase and Superoxide Dimutase in
an Old Growth (Pseudotsuga menziesii) Canopy |
| Carey Jeanne Huff |
Characterization of Nitrogen
Fixing Genes in Possible Associative Endophytic Bacterial
Isolates from Ammophila arenaria |
| Benjamin Matthias Iten |
Towards Establishing Engineered
Saccharomyces cerevisiae m1 Killer Virus Infections:
Building a System for Cytoplasmic Gene Expression |
| Dylan Huntley Jacobs (BMB) |
A Novel Operon Involved
in Energy Metabolism in Thermotoga maritime |
| Farida Jhabvala |
Visualization of the Estrogen
Receptor in Uterine and Oviductal Cells Using a Green
Fluorescent Protein Chimera |
| David Roberts Keeney (BMB) |
Is GTP Cyclohydorlase 1
the First Enzyme in the Biosynthetic Pathway to Queuosine?
The World May Never Know |
| Vanessa Anne Koelling |
An Examination of Population
Differentiation and Quantitative Trait Variation with
Respect to Nectar Spurs in Delphinium nuttallii |
| Bryan Joseph Laraway |
Determining the Cap-Dependent
Translation Initiation Requirements of Cap-Independent
Translation Initiation of the M1 Virus |
| Lindsey Alicia Leigland |
Sexual Dimorphism and Rhythmic
Dissociation in the Modified Pleopods of Callianassa
californiensis |
| Kristi Anne Lively |
Optimal Herbivore Defense
Strategy in Mustards |
| Alison Danese Madsen (BMB) |
Cloning, Overexpression,
and Characterization of Thermotoga maritime QueA:
A tRNA-modifying Enzyme |
| James Halsted Mapes |
Characterization of Ascorbat
Peroxidase and Glutathione S-Transferase from a Medicago
truncatula Root Nodule cDNA Library |
| David P. Matlaga |
The Genetic Consequence
of Cattle Grazing on Festuca idahoensis |
| Laurie Ellen Mazer |
Chloroplast and Nuclear
DNA Variation as Measures of Gene Flow in a Suspected
Hybrid Population of Delphinium pavonaceum |
| Brent Sterling Miller |
Clonal Plant Foraging:
A Review and Simulation Study |
| Marshall Curtis Miller
(BMB) |
A Structure Function Analysis
of Xylitol Binding in D-Xylose Isomerase |
| Howell Franklin Moffett |
Apoptosis and the Mitochodria
in Xenopus laevis Thymocytes: Conserved Mechanisms
of Cellular Suicides |
| Katherine Elizabeth Montieth |
A Test of Risk-Sensitive
Foraging Theory in the Frog Bombina Orientalis |
| Samuel Blaise Nichols-Geerdes
(BMB) |
Isolation and Characterization
of Terminal Restriction Fragment from Xenopus laevis |
| Thihan Myo Nyun (BMB) |
Identification and Characterization
of Polycomb Group Proteins |
| Jason Alan Oakes |
Gastrulation and Morphogenic
Movements in Ensatina eschscholtzii, a Large-Egged,
Direct-Developing Salamander |
| Antoinette Susanne Olivas
(BMB) |
Proteins That Bind to the
Amyloid Precursor Protein and the Effects They Have
on Signaling and Neurotoxicity |
| Hilleary Botts Osheroff |
Telomere Binding Proteins
in Xenopus laevis |
| Dora P. Pancheva |
A Study of Human Cytomegalovirus
G Protein-Coupled Receptor US28 Signaling in Smooth
Muscle Cells |
| Devon Seibert Pattillo |
Responding Without Control:
Models of Task Allocation in Ants |
| Clara Louise Peck (BMB) |
Determining the Conformational
Role of the Thymine Methyl Group in DNA: Theoretical
and Experimental Approaches |
| Gerard Werner Schneider |
Telomerase Activity in
Xenopus laevis |
| Sylvia Veronica Thompson |
Localization of NMDA Receptors
in Hippocampal Cells |
| Nicole Alexandra Vasilevsky |
Damage and Repair of Nerve
Cell DNA in Response to Oxidative Stress |
| Ron Jonathan Yahil (BMB) |
This is Your Life, and
It's Ending One Day at a Time: The Effects of Interleukin-2
and Dexamethasone Stimulation on Apoptosis in Thymocytes
of the South African Clawed Toad Xenopus laevis |
| 1998-1999
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
|
| Maki Aoki |
Light availability effects
on conifer seedling morphology and leaf surface wax
production |
| Sadia Zainab Azhar |
A Study on the Effects
of Insulin and Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) on Mitogen-Activated
Protein Kinase (MAP-Kinase) and Proliferation in Normal
and Cancerous Gastric Cells |
| Nicolas Gabriel Azios |
Evaluation of the Possible
Symbioses between Temperate Grass Crop Species and Nitrogen-fixing
Bacteria Isolated from European Beachgrass (Ammophila
arenaria) |
| Ashlee Beth Bergin |
Apoptosis and the Cell
Cycle: The Effects of Protein Kinase C Activation in
Xenopus laevis Splenocytes and Thymocytes |
| Patrick James Brown |
Co2 exchange, N2 fixation,
and Growth of Lobaria oregana Transplants in an Old-growth
Forest Canopy |
| Eric Russell Buhle |
Biotic Interactions and
Invasion Resistance: a Study of the Introduced Green
Crab (Carcinus maenas) on the West Coast of North America |
| Benjamin Thomas Burley |
Analysis of the Promoter
Regions of the Linear Plasmids pGKL1 & pGkl2 |
| Alexander Maclin Cripps |
Developing URA3* selectable
shuttle vectors to introduce heterologous UCS5 controlled
genes into the pGKL1 cytoplasmic dsDNA linear plasmid
by in vivo homologous recombination, in S. cerevisiae |
| Lev Valentine Hofmann |
Inversion of the Cytoplasmic
Contents of Xenopus laevis Embryos During the First
Cell Cycle Results in an Inverted Phenotype Displaying
a 180û Shift in the Expression Patter of VegT |
| Mojgan Hosseini-Varnamkhast |
Characterization of Proliferative
Senescence and Telomerase Activity in Chicken Embryonic
Fibroblasts |
| Quincey Ann Justman |
Insulin-induced Modifications
of Tyrosine Kinase Activity in the Bag Cells of Aplysia
californica: Evidence for Progressive Modulation of
Signal Transduction |
| Forest Michael Kaser |
Role of Two Species of
Endophytic Bacteria in the Nitrogen Nutrition of European
Beachgrass (Ammophila arenaria) |
| Michael Kelley |
Do Human Sex Pheromones
Exist? |
| Gordon Collin Kirkwood |
Cellular Specialization
as an Emergent Phenomenon: Studies of Differentiation
in Simulated Genetic Regulatory Networks |
| Eric Matthew Kofoed |
The Role of Insulin-Like
Growth Factor-1 in Feline Oviduct Proliferation |
| Sasha Bryn Kramer |
Associative Nitrogen Fixation
in Temperate Coastal Grasses |
| Jinah Lee |
Extracellular Calcium is
Necessary for Exocytosis in the Bag Cell Organs of Aplysia
californica |
| Michael Benjamin Lerner |
Diverging from your Ancestors:
Choloroplast DNA differences in Delphinium leucophaeum
and Delphinium nuttallii Populations in Oregon and Washington |
| Mara Elizabeth Matkovic |
Launching an M1 Virus Using
Replicons that are Transcribed from a cDNA Clone: Development
of a System for Use In Vivo |
| Mitchell Ellis McGlaughlin |
The Conservation Genetics
of the Pink Sand Verbena, Abronia umbellata ssp. breviflora
(Nytcaginaceae) |
| Elizabeth Anne Morgan |
ItŒs All in the Display:
Dominance Hierarchies and Recognition in the Red Swamp
Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii |
| Marie Sherleen Estrella
Nera |
Phosphatidylserine Exposure
on Apoptotic Lymphocytes of Xenopus laevis, the South
African Clawed Toad |
| Audra Rachelle Norris |
Yeast Virus Replication
and Gene Expression Using the Kluyveromyces lactis Killer
System |
| Sarah Louise Peters |
Stromal Regulation of Proliferative
Effects of 17b-estadiol and Epidermal Growth Factor
on Cultured Epithelial Cells of the Feline Uterus |
| Derek Carl Rookhuizen |
The Partial Antiestrogen
Tamoxifen and its Oxymetaboltie, 4-Hydroxytamoxifen
Increase ERK 1 and 2 Activity by a TPA-sensitive Pathway
in Uterine Epithelium |
| Erroll Hiett Rueckert |
Towards the Replacement
of the S. cerevisiae M1 dsRNA virus ORF with the URA3
ORF and Luc ORF |
| Autumn Ashworth Salamack |
Thermal Acclimation and
Compensation: The Effects of Temperature Shifts and
Initial Size on Metamorphic Traits in Bombina orientalis |
| Cameron Kyle Scott |
Love Thy Brother: Evidence
for Kin Recognition in the Trinidadian Guppy, Poecilia
reticulata |
| Forrest Glenn Stewart |
The Importance of Dynein
in the Fashioning of Left-Right Asymmetry in the African
Clawed frog, Xenopus laevis |
| Justin Worthington Taraska |
Sub-nuclear Targeting and
Protein-Proteir Interactions of the A-Kinase Anchoring
Protein, AKAP95 |
| Gretchen Elizabeth Vanderbee |
Macrophages Recognize Apoptopic
T-Lymphocytes Of the Anuran Amphibian, Xenopus laevis,
Via a Phosphatiidylserine-Dependent Mechanism |
| Jennifer Lyn Wonner |
Predator Inspection and
Female Mate Choice: Do Female Guppies Prefer the "Bold"
or the Beautiful? |
| Weiyi Zhao |
Analysis of Nucleic Acid
Annealing and Strand Exchange Functions of Nucleocapsid
and Capsid-Nucleocapsid Proteins From Moloney Murine
Leukemia Virus (Mo-MLV) |
| 1997-1998
GRADUATES |
THESiS
TITLE |
|
| Allison Heather Alvarado |
The Effects of Changing
Resources Levels and Initial Seize on Metamorphic Traits
in Bombina orientalis |
| Meredith Calvert |
The mechanism of axis specification
in the marine worm Urechis caupo and phylogenetic implications |
| Rahul Narayan Chavan |
The Viral Binding Site
of the M28 dsRNA Yeast Virus |
| Cheryl Ann Cotman |
Pathology, Genetics, and
Inflammation Response in AlzheimerŒs Disease |
| Sarah Nell Davidson |
Agrobacterium rhizogenes
Mediated Transformation in Soybean Glycine max |
| Adam Dao Douglass |
An Investigation of the
Signal Transduction Pathways Responsible for Differential
Exocytosis in the Bag Cells of Aplysia |
| Lucy Ann Goodwin |
Growth Factor Response
in Feline Oviductal Stromal Cells |
| Eliza Carmen Gould |
|
| Deanna Nicole Grant |
The Effects of Maternal
Eating Disorders on Fetal Development:The Little Fetus
That Couldn't |
| Kelly Beth Hardwicke |
Coordinating a Green Defense:
The Effects of Differential Exogenous Indoleacetic Acid
Feeding Schedules on the Herbivory-Induced Prooxidant
Defense Response Evoked in Lycopersicon esculentum by
Helicoverpa zea |
| Mark William Jarvis |
Evidence for TNF-(alpha)
Mediated Apoptosis In Xenopus laevis Splentocytes |
| Lemar Jerel Johnson |
Minimum Calcium Requirements
for Secretion in the Bag Cells of Aplysia californica |
| Claire Francoise G. Jouseau |
Ultraviolet Radiation and
the Amphibian Egg: shielding and focusing effects in
the capsules of Bombina orientalis |
| Pema Rami Naomi Kitaeff |
A Metapopulation Model
of a Multi-Species Marine Fisheries Reserve |
| YueSee Lee |
Psoriasis |
| Andre Limnander |
Yeast Virus Replication:
Initiation of the Life Cycle using a Yeast Cytoplasmic
Transcription System that is not Dependent on Homologous
Recombination |
| Mark Zhi Liu |
Distribution and Upregulation
of Homer messenger RNA in the Developing Rat Olfactory
Bulb |
| Xiomara Veronica Lopez |
Stromal-Induced Inhibition
of Epithelial Cell Proliferation is Overcome by 17(beta)-Estradiol
in the Feline Oviduct |
| Margaret Morrow Mayfield |
Shortcomings of Current
Crop Pollination Strategies: Lessons From Natural Pollination
Systems |
| Marie Elizabeth Mills |
Characterization of leaf
and bud phenolic compounds in Oregon white oak (Quercus
garryana) with respect to ultraviolet-B radiation and
visible light intensity and their potential for antioxidant
defense |
| Jessica Kelly Murray |
Seeding emergence in clearcut
old growth forests |
| Brian J. O´Shea |
Avian Response to Urban
Landscapes: Implications for Restorations of the Reed
Canyon |
| Rigel David Pearce |
Behavioral responses of
Upogebia pugettensis and Callianassa californiensis
(Docapoda: Crustacea) to anoxic stress |
| Anthia Saori Reagan |
De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum:
The Role of Apoptosis in Xenopus laevis Neurulation
and Rhombencephalic Neural Crest Migration |
| André Frederick
Rivard |
SK3 regulation in L6 muscle
cells Deciding on a model system for mytonic dystrophy |
| Ellen Frances Roberts |
Seasonal and Spatial Variation
in Oxidative Stress in an Old Growth Pseudotsuga meziesii
Canopy |
| Rachael Elaine Roberts |
The role of kinship and
familiarity in mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata |
| Dana Suzanne Schroeder |
Methylation in Subtelometric
Regions of the Chromosome and Suitability of Terminal
Restriction Fragments for Cloning in Xenopus laevis |
| Kalpa Shah |
17-beta Estradiol effects
on Extracellular Regulated Kinase (ERK) in Feline Oviduct
Epithelial Cells: Possible Mechanisms of Action |
| Jade Ara Stefano |
Regionally specific induction
of the central nervous system and its associated structures
in Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog |
| Jeffrey John Stephens |
Salicylate and Symbiotic
Stress: Swelling and Soreness in Soybeans |
| Andrea Leigh Sweigart |
Microsatelite-Based Estimates
of Individual Inbredding and Relatedness for a Population
of the Wildflower, Mimulus guttatus |
| Toshiko Tanaka |
Expression of a Putative
Cell Surface DNA Receptor in Escherichia coli |
| Rohini Wadhwani |
Developmental Profile of
Acetylcholinesterase in Ganglia of the Hawkmoth Manduca
sexta |
| Alex Michael Ward |
The Effects of Deuterium
Oxide on Nieuwkoop Center Activity in the African Clawed
Frog, Xenopus laevis |
| Terri Sue Webb |
The Pterygoquadrate Element
in Mus musculus, the House Mouse: What is it? |
| Cheyenne Welch |
Using the Double-Stranded
DNA Plasmids of Kluyveromyces lactis to Establish an
Engineered Population of M1 Double-Stranded RNA Viruses
in Sacharomyces cerevisiae |
| 1996-1997
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
|
| Leigh Alexandra Barnes |
Effects of floral age in
Mimulus guttatus (Scrophulariaceae): Do things really
get better with age? |
| Talicia Linn Brown |
Fire Ecology in the Ponderosa
Pine Community of the Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon
and Washington |
| Linnea Marie Brudenell |
An Investigation of Immunosuppression
in the Immune Response of Xenopus laevis, the South
African Clawed Toad, to a Human Allergen, Timothy Grass
Pollen. |
| Keith Darrin Calkins |
An Investigation of the
Effects of Insulin on Peptide Release from the Bag Cells
of Aplysia |
| Elizabeth Marie Cauble |
The Effects of Mating System
and Environment on Maternal Effects in Lupinus nanus
subsp.apricus and Lupinus bicolor (Fabaceae) |
| Nikolai C. H. Dembrow |
A preliminary investigation
of the distribution of peptides secreted by the bag
cells of Aplysia under unstimulated conditions |
| Ellen Jane Dorr |
Maternal Health and Neural
Tube Defects |
| Sascha Scott Ellers |
The Role of the Actin Cytoskeleton
in the Structural Organization of Secretory Vesicles |
| Cindy Lynn Ellig |
The Role of the Epithelium
in the Regulation of Stromal Cell Proliferation |
| Eric Paxton Fox |
A Cytoplasmic DNA-Based
Launching System for M1 dsRNA Viral Infections of the
Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Suzanne Melanie Fusaro |
Associative Nitrogen Fixation
in European Beachgrass (Ammophila arenaria) on the Oregon
Coastal Sand Dunes |
| Pastora Garcia-Jones |
Inductive Events During
D Quadrant Specification in a Member of the Mosaically
Developing Phylum Echiuroidea: Urechis caupo |
| Meredith Allison Burton
|
Systemic Stress and Cell
Death: Apoptotic modulation by monoamine Haberfeld stress-products
in heterogenous splenocyte populations |
| Quentin Wolf Heinemann |
Alternative Splicing in
the Pore Region of a Small Conductance Calcium-Activated
Potassium Channel from Drosophila melanogaster |
| Jennifer Ingham |
Limb Development and Digital
Reduction in Xenopus laevis |
| Jason Sherrill Julian |
Effects of Water Stress
on the Activities of Three Anti-Oxidative Enzymes within
the Root Nodules of Two Regionally Distinct Ecotypes
of Lupinus nanus |
| Maria Christine Loosen |
Cryptic Self-Incompatibility
in two Populations of Lupinus nanus (Leguminosae) |
| Christina Victoria Mangurian |
The FAScinating World of
Apoptosis: Expression of Fas and FasL in Xenopus laevis |
| Nicholas Chirivas Manoukis |
The Complex and Dynamic
Ecology of Drying Ponds: Interacting Effects of Density,
Hydroperiod, and Habitat Size on the Metamorphic Traits
of Bombina orientalis tadpoles |
| Rachel Howard McMahan |
Effects of Prior Activation
on Apoptosis in Xenopus laevis Splenocytes |
| Emily Mae Metcalfe |
Cloning a Terminal Restriction
Fragment From Xenopus Laevis |
| Alex William Monreal |
Effects of Altered Phosphorylation
Levels on Progesterone Receptor Localization |
| Bruce Barnes Moreira |
Edge effects and the reproductive
ogy of the clonal, herbaceous perennial, O. oregana:
Pollen limitation, clonal reproduction, low seed set
and implications for conservation |
| Jessica Kelly Murray |
Seedling Emergence In Clearcut
Old Growth Forests |
| Jonathan Tadashi Naito |
Effects of Ultraviolet
Radiation and Anthropogenic Acidification on Larval
Fitness in the Asian Fire-Bellied Toad, Bombina orientalis |
| Ali Nouri |
Setting the Limit on Neuropeptide
Transport Rate in the Bag Cells of A. californica |
| Kanao Otsu |
Synergistic Effect of Stromal-Epithelial
Interaction on Epidermal Growth Factor-Incuded c-fox
Expression in the Feline Oviduct |
| Emily Jane Hume Ross |
Bionic Nodules: The effects
of antioxidants on Azorhizobium caulindoans ORS 571. |
| Jonathan Andrew Sayer |
The Feline Reproductive
Tract as a Model System for Examination of the Proximal
Effectors of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I (IGF-I)-Induced
Mitogenesis |
| Naomi Carol Schoenfeld |
Horizontal Transmission
of Hepatitis B in Southeast Asian Refugees |
| Paul H. Wilkens |
Biologically Realistic
Single Neuron Modeling |
| Karen Christine Wolma |
The effects of 2.4-dichlorophenoxyacetic
acid (2,4-D) on the growth of Nitrosomonas europaea,
soil bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes |
| Cindy Dianne Yeatts |
A laboratory study of the
developmental effects of increased UV-B irradiation
on Xenopus laevis |
| 1995-1996
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
|
| Sanyaalak D. Burkhart |
The Distribution of Morphologic
and Allozyme Variation in the Endemic plant, Penstemon
barrettiae (Scrophulariaceae) |
| Rose Campbell |
An investigation of pollen
events over time in Lupinus nanus subspecies. apricus
and Lupinus nanus subsp. latifolius, with reference
to their mating systems. |
| Rae Ann Hafer |
Characterization of Isoflavonoids
in Soybean Root Nodules (Glycine max) |
| Wylie Neal Harris |
Seasonal Variation in Glutahione
Reductase Activity in Coastal and Cascade Populations
of Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) |
| Jeffrey Lee Hogg |
Analysis of an Inducible
DNA-Based System for Establishing Engineered dsRNA Viral
Populations in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Sarah Rebecca Hummasti |
Telomere Length Regulation
During Development in Xenopus laevis |
| Amy Caroline Jahns |
A Tail of Two Morphs: Color
Polymorphism in the Western Redback Salamander, Plethodon
vehiculum |
| Ariana Kramer |
Effect of Pollination on
Flower Production in Brassica rapa |
| Nathanael Issac Lichti |
Temperature Effects on
Calling Behavior and Physiology in a Field Cricket,
Gryllus integer: Possible Implications for Habitat Choice
and the Maintenance of Genetic Variation in Sexually
Selected Traits |
| Jan Tage Carl Liphardt |
The Packaging Signal of
the M28 dsRNA Yeast Virus |
| Karen Reed Lizars |
My Mother is a Dirty Old
Sock: A Review of Imprinting as Relevant to Wildlife
Rehabilitation and Captive Rearing |
| John Allan McDougall Jr. |
Metal Binding Studies on
Arabinose Isomerase |
| Lisa Joanne Michels |
Patterns of Regrowth and
Chemical Defense in Tansy Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea):
Effects of Plant Age |
| Nicole Anne Moreland |
G-Protein Mediated Growth
Cone Collapse in Cultured Neurons of Manduca sexta |
| Michelle Jennifer Nijhuis |
Home Range of the Cascade
Torrent Salamander (Rhyacotriton cascadae) and its Implications
for Conservation |
| Natasha Nicole Nikolaidis |
The Role of Zyxin in Mesoderm
Induction in Xenopus laevis |
| Christopher Markley Nyce |
Sexual Selection in the
Common House Cricket, Acheta domesticus: a Test of Female
Preferences for Groups versus Individuals |
| Benjamin John Polacco |
Unidirectional Gene Flow:
A Computer Model and a Population Genetic Survey of
the Water-Dispersed Annual, Impatiens capensisFfox |
| Jodi Marie Rymer |
Cell Adhesion: The Role
of Zyxin in Cell Adhesion and Catenin Localization |
| Tamara Zeudi Shaw |
The Topological Organization
of Secretory Vesicles in the Bag Cells of Aplysia californica:
An Investigation of Exocytosis in Neuroendocrine Cells |
| Chelsea Jean Smith |
Immobility as a Measure
of Crypsis: A Study of Antipredator Behavior in Field
Crickets |
| Kartini Bayosa Thomas |
Maternal Nutrition and
Infant Birthweight |
| Alistair Wilson |
Internal Telomeric Repeats
in Hamster: A Potential ?BackupΠTelomere |
| Joanne Yu-Ming Yew |
The Role of Neurotrophins
in Sensory Nerve Regeneration |
| 1994-1995
GRADUATES |
THESIS TITLE |
|
| Daniel Martin Baggott |
Towards a Galactose Inducible
DNA-Based System For Establishing dsRNA Viral Populations
in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Repression of L-A |
| Michèle Rosan Barnett |
The Greenhouse Effect and
Temperate Alpine Plant Communities |
| Christopher Martin Beachdel |
Splenic B Cell Apoptosis
in Adult Xenopus laevis, the South Africa Clawed Toad |
| Aaron Gabriel Beam |
Variability at chromosome
ends in Xenopus laevis |
| Jennifer Lynn Bechtold |
Binding of Telomeric and
Adjacent Sequences to the Nuclear Scaffold in a Chinese
Hamster Cell Line |
| Molly Louise Benson |
Sex Allocation Tradeoffs
in Field Mustard, Brassica rapa |
| Aaron Bitterman |
Feeding and Movements in
the Alligator Snapping Turtle, (Macroclemys temminckii):
Evidence for Ontogenetic Change in Behavior of Juveniles |
| John Gordon Burleigh |
Sexual Dimorphism and Genetic
Correlations in Thalictrum pubescens, a Cryptically
Dioecious Angiosperm |
| Wambui Chege |
Expression of a Suicidal
Phenotype from a Putative Full-Length cDNA Copy of the
M1 Double-Stranded RNA Killer Virus of Saccharomyces
cerevisiae |
| Lela Magdalen Creutz |
Cricket Love Songs: The
Courtship Call of Two Populations of the Field: Cricket,
Gryllus integer and its Implications in Female Mate
Choice |
| Sarah Lynne Dwiggins |
Lupinus lepidus and L.
latifolius: Making a Home on Mount St. Helens |
| Nil Emre |
Detection of the Transcript
Levels of Two Antioxidant Enzymes in Soybean (Glycine
max) Root Nodules |
| Catherine Lolita Finney |
In Search of a Novel Glutamate
Transporter Subtype: The Screening of a Human Retina
cDNA Library |
| Sara Jean Forbes |
The Role of the Cytoskeleton
in Neuropeptide Secretion by the Bag Cell Neurons of
A. californica: A Kinetic Study |
| Jennifer Anne Gaynor |
Duration of Metamorphosis
in Bombina orientalis: Evolutionary Implications of
Negative Fitness Correlation Among Anuran Life History
Traits |
| Govinddass I. Goleman |
A galactose-inducible system
of delivering the L-A virus like particle to Saccharomyces
cerevisiae via a cDNA clone in order to study the cis-acting
sequences required for viral propagation |
| Eric James Hennings |
Developmental Constraints
on Xenopus laevis Limb Patterning |
| Morning Dove Renee Howard |
Developmental Plasticity
in Hatching Time in Bombina Orientalis, the Oriental
Fire Bellied Toad |
| Shizuko Imai |
Investigation of the cis-acting
sequences required for the replication of virus-like
particles of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae, by constructing
a cDNA clone with a galactose-inducible system. |
| Stephanie Ann Jensen |
Possible Modification of
the Shadow Reflex in the A-cell of the Giant Barnacle,
Balanus nubilus |
| Shannon Lee Joyner |
Gene Regulation in the
Ascorbate-Glutathione Peroxide Scavenging System in
Soybean (Glycine max) Tissue. |
| Tae Soo Kim |
Potential for a Pollen
Competition in Cytisus scoparius |
| Melanie Konradi |
Genetic Substructure in
an Array of Populations of the Oregon Salamander, Ensatina
eschscholtzii oregonensis |
| Albert Moya Kun |
Pattern formation during
early development of Xenopus laevis: The effect of lithium
on dorsal/ventral differentiation of mesoderm after
induction by growth factor in isolated animal cap explants |
| Briana Christine Lindh |
The Response of Understory
Plants to Canopy Closure in a Second-growth Forest in
the Oregon Cascades |
| Shanna Leah Lorenz |
Factors limiting the female
reproductive success of the perennial herb, Erythronium
grandiflorum (Liliaceae). |
| Brome McCreary |
Territoriality and Aggressive
Behavior of A. Domesticus and G.Integer: Implications
for Captive Breeding Program and Reintroduciton Projects |
| Katarina Moseley |
ELISA Analysis of Defense
Strategies in Urtica dioica |
| Mathew Max Noell |
Location of Dorsal Lip
Formation in Functionally Inverted Xenopus laevis Embryos |
| Diana F. Pérez |
Effect of Temperature on
Habitat Selection of Gryllus Integer |
| Jonathan Richardson |
Spatial Structure and Composition
of the Soil Mesofauna in Differently-Managed Forest
Stands |
| Lori Michelle Roberts |
Regulation of Apoptosis
by Adhesion to Extracellular Matrix in Feline Uterine
Cells |
| Robin Elizabeth Russell |
The Basis of Pollinator
Discrimination between Male and Female Phase Flowers
in Impatiens capensis and the Implications for Plant
Mating Systems |
| Caitlin M. Smith |
Differential Peptide Release
from the Bag Cells of Aplysia: Evidence for Molecular
Control of Vesicle Trafficking |
| Anna Louise Specht |
Searching for Estrogen-Induced
Peptide Expression in the Feline Oviduct |
| Heather Tami Stewart |
The Slithy Toves in the
Tulgy Woods: A Field Study on the Variation in External
Morphology and Pigmentation Among Populations of Rhyacotriton
cascadae |
| Kinari Eve Thomas |
Regeneration of Two Primate-Dispersed
Rain Forest Trees, Alangium javanicum and Baccaurea
bracteata. |
| H. Garrett Rush Thompson |
A Molecular Characterization
of a Novel Chinese Hamster Minisatellite: A study of
conservation and curvature |
| Andrew Valdini |
Sound Production and Vibration
Sensitivity of the Blue Mud Prawn Upogebia pugettensis |
| Ngan Kim Vo |
Cloning and Sequencing
of an Embryonic Chick A Kinase Anchoring Protein |
| James Warren Zanzot |
Molecular Mutants Meet
Mycorrhizae: Glucosinolate Mutant Arabidopsis (Brassicaceae)
Effects on Spore Germination of Vesicular-Arbuscular
Mycorrhizal Fungi. |
| Noa Zerangue |
Arachidonic Acid Differentially
Modulates Human Glutamate Transporter Subtypes |
| Jamal Ben Zohur |
The Attempted Infection
of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with an Artificial Satellite
of the L-A Double-Stranded RNA Virus |
