Please join the Biology department on Saturday, April 10th, as their seniors virtually present their senior comps projects.
PRESENTATIONS
Spring 2021
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			 8:30-9:15  | 
			
			 Adriana Tatum  | 
			
			 Rabies in Arctic Foxes: Shifting Ecological and Epidemiological Dynamics Due to Climate Change  | 
		
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			 9:15-10:00  | 
			
			 Mia Jones  | 
			
			 Evading Epidemics: Linking Ebola Outbreaks to Recent Deforestation and Human-Primate Interactions  | 
		
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			 10:00-10:45  | 
			
			 Harjas Dhillon  | 
			
			 Public Health Impacts of Ecological Degradation: Agrochemical Pollution in Schistosomiasis Endemic Areas  | 
		
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			 10:45-11:00  | 
			
			 Break  | 
			
			 
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			 11:00-11:45  | 
			
			 Mika O’Shea  | 
			
			 Double trouble: systemic effects of fungal and viral co-infection in little brown bats (M. lucifugus)  | 
		
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			 11:45-12:30  | 
			
			 Janet Orozco  | 
			
			 The Scourge of Mosquito Dispersal  | 
		
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			 12:30-1:00  | 
			
			 Lunch  | 
			
			 
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			 1:00-1:45  | 
			
			 Cambrie Motooka  | 
			
			 No harm, no FOWL...except on Poultry Farms  | 
		
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			 1:45-2:30  | 
			
			 Izzy Funes  | 
			
			 Superfood or Silent Killer?: Exploring the Link Between Açaí Pulp Production and Acute Chagas Disease  | 
		
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			 2:30-3:15  | 
			
			 Jasmine Davis  | 
			
			 "Double Hit Hypothesis": Air Pollution and Respiratory Viral Infection  | 
		
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			 8:30-9:15  | 
			
			 Matt Sandoval  | 
			
			 Seeing is Not Always Believing: The unseen connection between β-amyloid pores, membrane damage repair, and Alzheimer's Disease  | 
		
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			 9:15-10:00  | 
			
			 Jackson Caudle  | 
			
			 Fostering Urban Ecosystems: phenotypic plasticity and adaptation by urban bird species  | 
		
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			 10:00-10:45  | 
			
			 Hope Hendry  | 
			
			 Cetacean Conservation: Stress Induced Cardiomyopathy in a Globalized World  | 
		
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			 10:45-11:00  | 
			
			 Break  | 
			
			 
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			 11:00-11:45  | 
			
			 Elisa Garcia  | 
			
			 Sustainable Gene Editing: Increasing Protein Yield in the Livestock Industry  | 
		
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			 11:45-12:30  | 
			
			 David Paine  | 
			
			 Living on the Edge of Immortality: Cell Transdifferentiation in Turritopsis dohrnii  | 
		
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			 12:30-1:00  | 
			
			 Lunch  | 
			
			 
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			 1:00-1:45  | 
			
			 Jacey Reed  | 
			
			 Therapeutic Development for Alzheimer's Disease: NAD+ Reverses Several Pathological Hallmarks  | 
		
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			 1:45-2:30  | 
			
			 Selah Wilson  | 
			
			 We All have Skin in The Game: The Impact of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation on the Epidermal Genome  | 
		
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			 2:30-3:15  | 
			
			 Taylor Yoshida  | 
			
			 A Novel Approach to Friedreich's Ataxia: Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cell Fusion Rescues Dying Neurons  | 
		
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			 3:15-4:00  | 
			
			 Siddhant Jain  | 
			
			 Miracles of a medicinal plant: wound healing abilities of Ephedra ciliata  | 
		
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			 4:00-4:45  | 
			
			 Leeza Lu  | 
			
			 The Early Bird Gets the Worm: Climate Change and its Effect on Bird Migration  |