Research Projects
By students in M.S. Biology for Teachers Program
1997 - Present

Alicia Blood
Neural Correlates of Migratory behavior in Gambel's White-Crowned Sparrows. 2004. Committee chair: Marilyn Ramenofsky, Biology.

Cathy Buck
2007. Committee chair: Tom Hinkley, CFR

Nancy Canino
Patterns of Infertility Diagnoses in Younger and Older Women. 1997. Committee chair: Michael Soules, Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Jeannie Chowning
SIV Envelope Variation and the development of Neutralizing Antibodies. 2004. Committee chair: Nancy Haigwood, Pathobiology, Microbiology.

Elise Cooksley
A Comparison of Morphological and Physiological Differences in the Sun and Shade Forms of Gautheria shallon. 2006. Committee chair: David Ford, CFR.

Lisa Comiskey
Corticosterone Treatment Has No Effect on Aggressive Behavior in Free-living, Artic Breeding, Male Savannah Sparrows, Passerculus sandwichensis. 1999. Committee chair: John Wingfield, Zoology.

Judy D'Amore
Tracking an Exotic Tunicate in Puget Sound, Washington. 2000. Committee Chair: Patricia Morse, Biology.

Susan Daughters
How Cola Consumption Affects the Bone Mineral Density in Teenage Girls. 2001. Committee chair: Susan Ott, Medicine.

James Doyle
Identification of Natural sequence Variation of a Candidate Gene for Bitter Taste Reception, TAS2R1. 2003. Committee chair: Debbie Nickerson, Genome Sciences.

Sara Frame
Eel Grass Dynamics: Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances in the South Puget Sound. 2007. Committee chair: Jennifer Ruesink, Biology.

Deborak Goodwin
Remote Sensing in the Nearshore: Quickbird Imagery in South Puget Sound. 2004. Committee chair: Miles Logsdon, Oceanography.

Katherine Hall
Phylogenetic and Geographic Relationships of Two Allopatric Species of Jumping Mice. 2005. Committee chair: James Kenagy, Biology.

Donald Heins
Duration Of Embryonic Development in Acheta domesticus. 1998. Committee chair: John Edwards, Zoology.

Riley Hoselton
Sexual Segregation in White-tailed Deer. 2000. Committee chair: John Edwards, Zoology.

Cara Ianni
Birds on Loan: Measuring the Extinction Debt of Urbanization. 2003. Committee chair: John Marzluff, CFR.

Oliver Jones
New Species and New Life History traits Discovered in Isolates of Microorganisms Cultured from the Black Sea. 2007. Committee chair: James Staley, Microbiology

Tim Krell
Contricution of Vacular Dispersion to Kinetics of Coronary Purines during Underperfusion. 1998. Committee chair: James Bassinthwaighte, Bioengineering.

James Kwan
The Innate Rhizotactic Patterns of Plant Roots. 1998. Committee chair: Liz VanVolkenburgh, Botany.

Stephen Larner
Nitric Oxide-Induced Apoptosis Via Activated p38-Mitogen Protein Kinase Mediated Bax Translocation. 2000. Committee chair: Richard Morris, Neurological Surgery.

Jennifer Lutz
Winter Study of the Bald Eagles In the Upper Skagit River System. 1998. Committee chair: David Manuwal, CFR.

Glen MacMaster
A complement response may activate metamorphosis in the ascidian Boltenia villosa. 2007. Committee chair: Billie Swalla, Biology.

Veronica Mantel
An Investigation in DNA Binding: the Genetic Screening of a Library of Mutants of the Homing Endonuclease I-Ppol. 2003. Committee chair: Ray Monnat, Pathology, Genome Sciences.

Thomas McDonald
A Comparison of Biodiversity in the Understory of Two Monoculture Plantations in Southwestern Costa Rica. 2005. Committee chair: Robert Gara, CFR.

Alyssa Matthews
Mating preferences in Zebra Fish. 2007. Committee chair: David Parichy, Biology

Jack Mehn
Using Scale Circuli to Infer Life-History Strategies of Lake Washington Chinook Salmon. 1999. Committee chair: Chris Foote, Fisheries.

John Moffatt
Endocrine and Morphological Responses to Prolonged Migratory Restlessness in Gambel's White-Crowned Sparrows. 2006. Committee chair: Marilyn Ramenofsky, Biology.

William Monahan
Insertion of Green Fluorescent Protein and Red Fluorescent Protein Genes into CB1 Receptors to Facilitate Internalization Studies. 2002. Committee chair: Kenneth Mackie, Anesthesiology.

Heather Neel
Correlation Between Skin Ulcers and Distribution of Ichthyophonus Spores in the Skeletal Muscle of Pacific Herring, Clupea pallasi. 2006. Committee chair: Richard Kocan, Fisheries.

Claire Olsovsky
Puget Sound Algae and Trichloroethylene Production. 1998. Committee chair: Rose Ann Cattolico, Botany.

Nathan Oxnard
Coordination of Nuclear and Cytoskeletal Events in the Drosophila Blastoderm Cycles. 2006. Committee chair: Gerold Schubiger, Biology.

Danica Ready
The Use of Paleoecology in Studying Climate Change. 2000. Committee chair: Estella Leopold, Botany.

Bryan Robles
Enhanced Translocation of rCB1 in HEK Cells by Insertion of a Preprolactin Signal Sequence. 2002. Committee chair: Kenneth Mackie, Anesthesiology.

Michelle Rogers
Molt Migration Behavior of the Ash-Throated Flycatcher, Myiarchus cinerascens. 2005. Committee chair: Sievert Rohwer, Biology.

Martha Stachans
In-Vitro Characterization of Astrocytes and Implications for Cannabinoid Use in Disease. 2003. Committee chair: Nephi Stella, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behvioral Sciences.

Jennifer Todd
Analysis of proportions in anterior dentition of Macaque monkeys. 2007. Committee chair: Patricia Krammer, Biological Anthropology.

Cynthia Updegrave
1000 years of history at the Duwamish River mouth: ecological changes associated with stratigraphic changes in core sediments. 2007. Committee chair: Estella Leopold, Biology.

Jamie Wakefield
Cloning of the Rat Insulin Receptor Substrate -2 cDNA. 2003. Committee chair: Robert Steiner, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Physiology & Biophysics.

Carl Wigren
Chamber Emptying in Ammonoid and Nautiloid Cephalopods As a Function of Septal Complexity .1997. Committee chair: Peter Ward, ESS, Biology.