Biology Department

2023 Senior Thesis Titles

  • Sexual selection for male advertisement call dominant frequency ratios in Xenopus petersii by Sarah Avendano
  • Auditory preferences in female Xenopus laevis for male advertisement calls by Charlie Ball
  • Big trouble, little forest : differential responses of sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) to ecological restoration in SW Oregon by Alex Bentley
  • Surviving the scorch : an ecological perspective on human mortality during heat-waves by Stockten Lucas Blanco
  • Misogyny and moralism : a history of bias in HIV/AIDS research by Margaret Anna Lake Britton
  • How the plane of cell division changes between wildtype and hdac mutants by Timothy K. Chao
  • Salted waters : the implications of salinization & predator kairomones for inducible multicellularity in phytoplankton by Stephen Crafton-Tempel
  • Big brain energy : CRISPR-Cas9 gene disruption reveals a requirement for the RA responsive transcription factor tshz1a in dorsal-ventral axis formation by Daphne Daniel
  • It's (not) a mut point : the effects of mutation on competitive ability in Daphnia makes a case for the conservation of intraspecific biodiversity by Jon D. DeVries
  • Yeah sex is cool, but have you tried obligate parthenogenesis? : the effect of methyl farnesoate on sex-determining genes in Daphnia pulex by Athena di Properzio
  • Exploration of mutation by looking at the Daphnia magna ionome by Safiya Olivia Inell Easthausen
  • Honey I ate the kids : fish brains, fry, & fluorescent imaging by Bean Fischer
  • A fish in the hothouse : trophic interactions and heatwave response in a freshwater community by Danny Gibson
  • Examining human impacts on stomatal development through drought and agrochemicals by Aidan Hanley
  • Rain. On. Me. : synthetic fibers in Portland rainwater by Ena Hashimoto
  • Two can play that game : an investigation into the co-occurrence of minisatellites and recombination hotspots by Madison Marie Held
  • It always rains but it never spores : defining sporulation patterns in PET degrading bacterial consortium by Audrey Hinchliff
  • An enzymatic biosensor for the detection of changes in acetylcholine and choline levels in Xenopus laevis by Nareg Kedjejian
  • How long are they really? : An investigation into the telomere length of Xenopus laevis with nanopore sequenceing by Nicholas Landman
  • Closing the loop : TPA recovery from a plastic degrading bacterial consortium by Helen Laster
  • Estradiol induced synaptic plasticity in Xenopus laevis larynx by Qiyang Liu
  • Flipping the script : divergent transcriptional elements in the hTERT promoter by Hart Monyatovsky
  • Full-length 16S rRNA sequencing reveals perturbations to gut microbiome composition in response to in vitro treatment with tamoxifen and 17ß-estradiol by Carlie Newman
  • Behavioral nuances of the Oregon Zoo chimpanzees pan troglodytes in captivity by Jaden Nichols
  • Quantification of plant hemoglobin gene expression in Glycine max by Christopher Declan O'Leary
  • Split discs and the challenges of purifying a protein from Drosophila cells by Helen K. Oberweis-Manion
  • Got milkweed? : A study on smoke water and monarch butterfly habitat by Ana S. Quintana Bernal
  • Hiding in plain sight : validation of an urban climate refugium for Thuja plicata (western redcedar) in Portland, OR by Tess Rutstein
  • Male-male clasping in African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis by Suhas Sakamuri
  • An investigation of Drosophila neural ECM proteoglycans and their association with human homologues related to schizophrenia by Maya Saxe
  • Something seems fishy : an exploratory study on Daphnia magna neuroanatomy and neural reactions to predation stress by Ana Topasna
  • A tale of two Quercus : storytelling of oak evolutionary genetics and local botanical history through artistic approach by Ziqi Xie