St. Edward's University: 2004 Senior Seminar

Biology Schedule And Abstracts

BIOL 4149 Senior Seminar March 26, 2004 Trustee Hall Presentation Schedule
TIME	ACAD 113 O'Leary	Title
2:45 PM	Pamela Scheiber	Elucidation of Glyphosate Resistant Conyza canadensis in Tissue Culture to Examine the Mechanisms Conferring Resistance
3:10 PM	Samantha Ramirez	Comparison of Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) Regions of the 16s-23s rRNA Gene in Selected Populations of the Cyanobacterium Nostoc; A Correlation with Environmental Factors
3:35 PM	Rita Salinas	The Simultaneous Addition of Acetosyringone With Agrobacterium tumefaciens During Tissue Culture of Nicotiana tabaccum to Optimize Efficacy of Transformation
4:00 PM	15 minute break
4:15 PM	Christopher Melton	Human Immunoresponse to Infection by Taenia solium, a Brain Parasite, in Developing Countries
4:40 PM	Eliza Vermillion	Monarch Larvae Sensitivity to Bt Corn Pollen
5:05 PM	Sofia Angelo	An Ethological Study of the Entrance Opening Behavior of Bembecinus neglectus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
5:30 PM	15 minute break
5:45 PM	Robert Croll	Is the Degree of Phenotypic Plasticity an Organism Displays Affected by Environment?
6:10 PM	Wilfried T. Foadey	Isolation and Comparison of Selected Plant EPSPS Coding Regions to Better Understand the Evolution of Glyphosate Resistance

BIOL 4149 Senior Seminar March 26, 2004 Trustee Hall Presentation Schedule
TIME	ACAD 116 Quinn	Title
2:45 PM	Ronz J. Rivera II	The Heritability of Sexual Orientation in Twin Studies
3:10 PM	Jamie Schoener	Dispersal Distance of Corn Pollen
3:35 PM	Shane Clark	A Comparative Study to Determine the Best Treatment for Alleviating Temporomandibular Joint Disorder Symptoms
4:00 PM	15 minute break
4:15 PM	Natalie Reney	Examining the Human Presenilins, Amyloid Precursor Protein, and the Related Proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans to Find New Therapies for the Alzheimer's Disease
4:40 PM	Chris Dougherty	Evaluation of Olanzapine Versus Clozapine in the Treatment of Dopaminergic Drug-Induced Psychosis in Parkinson’s Disease
5:05 PM	Tiffany Haney	Antibiotic Resistance- Finding the Best Strategy for Reducing Resistance
5:30 PM	15 minute break
5:45 PM	Javier Castillo	Insect attraction to the webs of the common garden spider, Argiope aurantia
6:10 PM	Danielle Baker	Effects of Varying the Concentration of Agrobacterium tumefaciens During the Transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana