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.