Biology Department

2022 Senior Thesis Titles

  • An investigation of genetic architecture and polymorphic microsatellite loci in Columbian monkshood (aconitum columbianum) by Ashraf, Ali Jamal
  • Phantom pathologies & unknown victims : the past, present, & future of Lyme disease by Hubbard, Nicholas John
  • Impacts of backyard habitat creation for birds at single-yard and city-wide scales by Krishnan, Ananke Garani
  • The blood line : FGF and RA signaling pathway interactions in the developing zebrafish retina by Maior-Leichtfried, Anna Alexandra
  • Shawty got low : chromosome reduction in the family osphronemidae by Mobley, Brendan
    Identifying oak hybridization in Portland : a genetic approach by Montgomery, Lucy
  • Lidar 3D modeling as a potential tool for Portland crow roost observations by Ruffins, Matthias Antonio Paul
  • The small molecules that rule our lives : quantifying steroids using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry by Stauffer, Celestina
  • Invasive or non-invasive : an abundance analysis of the new lepomis sp. fish in Reed Lake by Tehshar, Monlam
  • Capitalist pigs : biotechnology and sustainability in the pork industry by Thayer, William
    Tree health from space : modeling urban tree health using multispectral satellite imagery in Portland, OR by Zoll, Ingrid Tallulah Loraine
  • Tear gas and your period : highlighting the absence of information on the relationship between riot control agents and menstruation through a systematic literature review by Zoltak, Olivia
  • The bacterial solution to pollution : investigating and enhancing microbial degradation of polyethylene terephthalate by Beattie, Tobias A.
  • Expression and purification of novel PETase EstB from plastic degrading bacterial consortium by Ditter, Riyaz
  • Radioresistant bacteria of the Reed research reactor by Li, Kaitlyn J.
  • Characterizing the effect of CBD on salmonella pathogenicity by Trank-Greene, Mila
  • Identification of core promoter region of Xenopus laevis telomerase reverse transcriptase by Yin, Haofan
  • Investigating the cytoskeletal binding partners of the Drosophila protein split discs : a cell biologist's maladroit attempts at biochemistry by Zhao, Andrew J.
  • A dendrochronological analysis of legacy conifer growth response to restoration in southwestern Oregon by Ball, Isaac Joseph
  • Macroinvertebrate diversity in the Reed canyon stream by Miller, Victoria