Biology Department

2001 Senior Thesis Titles

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  • The Effects of Constant and Varying Temperature on the Development of Bombina orientalis, the Oriental Fire-Bellied Toad by Martha Magdalen Baugh
  • Quantitation of Estrogen Receptor Distribution in Feline Uterine and Oviductal Epithelial Cells Using a Green Fluorescent Protein Chimera by Jennifer Suzanne Carter
  • Cloning of Ebra: The Brachyury Homolog of the Direct Developing Salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii by Eleanor Rose Deardorff
  • Amphibian Monitoring in the Reed College Canyon: Spatial Distribution of the Oregon Salamander, Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonensis by Gregory Brian Dutton
  • The Effects of Food Distribution and Habitat Size and Shape on Growth in Bombina orientalis by Boynn Finncarlin
  • Regulation at the Moment of Fusion: Molecular Switching in Differential Exocytosis by Julie Hazen Frederickson
  • Height Gradients in Photochemical Efficiency of Lobaria oregana and L. pulmonaria by Karl Schiller Gillick
  • Attempted Introduction of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus into the Life Cycle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Andrew William Gold
  • Effect of HEp-2 Cell Association of the Expression of ler in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli: Now They're Glowing, Now They're Not by Rebecca Ann Green
  • An Exploration into the Mysterious Unknown: A Phylogeographic Study of Oxalis oregana Nutt by Tabitha Christine Greiner
  • Sucrose Catabolism in Pathogenic Escherichia coli by Leslie Anne Hoover
  • Vacuum Infiltration Transformation of Medicago truncatula with an Antisense Ascorbate Peroxidase Construct; or How My Thesis Turned Me into a Pariah by Kraig Harris Kraft
  • Identifying Genes for Telomere Binding Proteins in Xenopus laevis by Rachel Lindsay Leistikow
  • Ler Mediated Regulation of the Tir Operon in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli by Footprinting and Deletion Analysis by Kristie Joanna Miller
  • The Convergence of Far-Red Light and Defense Signal Cascades: Cyclic-GMP and Chalcone Synthase Regulation by Max Vick Ranall
  • Effects of Murine Cytomegalovirus (MCMV) Infection on the Interaction of MHC Class I Molecules with the Peptide Loading Complex by Jennifer Ellen Robertson
  • Plasticity of Head Shape in Larval Long-Toed Salamanders: Testing the Effects of Density and Prety Type by William Anthony Smith-Carlile
  • Where to Weave and Why: Web-Site Selection in the Spider Zygiella x-notata by Aaron Breese Terteling
  • Protein Kinase C in Apoptosis and Cell Growth in Xenopus laevis Splenocytes by Lauren Renata Thronson
  • Dorsal Determinants in Ensatina eschscholtzii and Xenopus laevis: In Search of a Common Mechanism by Margaret A. Weisskirk
  • The Wonder of the Wolphin: A Morphological and Genetic Assessment of Interspecific Hybridization in Cetaceans by Heather Rachel Zornetzer