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Environmental Variation Shapes the D. Melanogaster Microbiota

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Ashton Tanner, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wildlife Sciences

A signaling pathway-driven bioinformatics pipeline for predicting therapeutics against emerging infectious diseases

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Tiana Scott, College of Life Sciences, Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Development of a Unique Antibiofilm Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Marissa Badham, College of Science, Chemistry

Interleukin-6 mediated regulation of ENaC via Time-Dependent MAPK Family Activation

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Harini Srinivasan, College of Science, Chemistry

Does Gender Influence Participation and Performance in Bioinformatics? 

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Mikaylie Parco, College of Life Sciences, Biology

ß-cell reduced proliferation under glucolipotoxic conditions are exacerbated by prolonged TMAO supplementation

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Kacie Russon, College of Life Sciences, Nutritional Science

Host acquisition on the effects of the geography specific microbiota of Drosophila melanogaster

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Shayna Scott, College of Life Sciences, Microbiology

Interviews of Undergraduate Bioinformatics Students Suggest Contrasting Reasons Why Men and Women Do or Do Not Participate in Cl

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Emilee Severe, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wildlife Sciences

Correlation of Physical Activity with White Matter Hyperintensity Change

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Gauri Garg, College of Science, Biology

Synaptic Plasticity: Learning and Unlearning

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Austin Stewart, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Neuroscience

The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Limited Nkx6.1 Synthesis and Translocation

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Jared Wieland, College of Life Sciences, Biology

Investigation of a Translatable Animal Model in Order to Understand the Etiology of Heterotopic Ossification

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Rose Godfrey, College of Medicine, Orthopaedics

PRSKB: A Web-based Polygenic Risk Score Calculator and Knowledge Base

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Ed Ringger, College of Life Sciences, Biology

Reciprocal Peer Tutoring Homework Assignment on Student Learning: Effective Across Different Courses with Different Instructors?

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Madeleine Tullis, College of Life Sciences, Biology Science Education

Why Parents Say No to Having Their Children Vaccinated Against Measles: A Systematic Review

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Mallory Showalter, College of Life Sciences, Public Health

The Effects of NR4A1 on Insulin Secretion

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Drake Watkins, College of Life Science, Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Can students reap the benefits of reciprocal peer tutoring individually, or is the social interaction required?

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Inori Tsuchiya, College of Life Sciences, Bioinformatics

Lineage Tracing in Zebrafish with CRISPR Prime Editing

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Sahar Kanishka, College of Science, School of Biological Sciences

Nkx6.1 overexpression restores beta cell functionality under glucotoxic conditions

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Kristopher Wieland, College of Life Sciences, Nutrition

Evaluating Feature Correlation in Large Alzheimer's Disease Multi-Domain Datasets

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Erik Huckvale, College of Life Sciences, Biology

Exploring the Effects of Oleate on Nr4a1 Transcriptional Activity and Binding

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Liana Leininger, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Neuroscience

Effects of the Ketogenic Diet on Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Anna Everett, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Neuroscience

Effects of TMAO on Beta-cell Apoptosis

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Jordan Davis, College of Life Sciences, Physiology and Developmental Biology

The Ramp Atlas: A user-friendly online repository of tissue and cell-type specific ramp sequences

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Taylor Meurs, College of Life Sciences, Biology

The Effects of Nr4a3 on Insulin Secretion

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Peter Ellsworth, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wildlife Sciences

Downstream Targets of Nkx6.1 and Pdx1 Present Targets for Inducing Beta-Cell Proliferation

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Daelin Jensen, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wildlife Sciences

Microbiome Effects on Drosophila melanogaster Metabolomics

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Sarah Gottfredson, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wildlife Sciences

Staying or Leaving STEM: Factors Influencing Undergraduate Major Decision

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Amanda Aamodt, College of Life Sciences, Biology

Epigenetic Profiling of Human Peripheral Blood Monocytes

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Nolan Cole, Life Sciences, Micor-Molecular Biolody

Acetobacter to Lactobacillus Ratios within Drosophila Melanogaster Microbiota, Diet and Environment Across a Latitudinal Range

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Amanda Morrison, College of Life Sciences, Plant and Wild Life Sciences

Beta Cell Replication through Nkx6.1

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Connor Littlefield, College of Life sciences, Nutrition, dietetics and food science

The Effect of Glucotoxicity Induced ROS on Beta Cell Nkx6.1 Expression and Insulin Secretion

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Weston Elison, College of Life Sciences, Physiology and Developmental Biology

Feeding rate as a prediction tool for intraindividual variation in D. Melanogaster

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Tyler Burke, BYU, Plant and Wildlife Sciences

Do Cocoa Flavanol Metabolites Induce Proliferation and Protect Against Apoptosis in Pancreatic β-cells?

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Chad Mourino, College of Life Sciences, Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences

Paucilactobacillus wasatchsensis WCD04 biofilm formation and adherence to stainless steel

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Lizell Mejias, College of Science, Microbiology

Effect of Inorganic Salts on the Growth of Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Niharika Mishra, College of Science, Microbiology

Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 Role in Retinal Regeneration

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Landry Batis, College of Science, Zoology

Gluconate Metabolism by Paucilactobacillus wasatchensis WDC04 can be a cause of Late Gas Defect in Aging Cheese

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Kate Sorensen, College of Science, Microbiology

Lactobacillus curvatus Metabolomics

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Dallin Leatham, College of Science, Microbiology

COI barcoding in mayflies (Ephemeroptera)

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Avery Larsen, College of science, Biology

The Utilization of Liposomes for Delivery of Gentamicin to Biofilms

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Nathan Buhler, College of Humanities and Life Sciences, Biology

Identification and characterization of PD-L1 in bovine placentas

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Andre Nguyen, College of Science, Biology

Isolation and purification of bacterial species from rhizosphere of native plant Ceanothus velutinus (Snowbrush)

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Katherine Webb, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate

Competitive night-time stomatal response of Populus trichocarpa during drought

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Karrin Tennant, College of Science, School of Biological Sciences

Can Little Changes Kill You? Using Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp to Examine Developmental Mortality

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Jessica Jones, College of Science, Biology

Association of genetic polymorphisms of Cyclooxygenase II gene and prostatic diseases.

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenters: Bryson Edwards, College of Science, Biology

Bird Age and Likelihood of Fatal Collisions

January 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Presenter: Taylor Kenyon, College of Science, Biology