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The leptin-mediated central nervous system controls of skeletal metabolism
Presenter: Anurag Majumdar
Faculty Research Mentor:
Dr. Erica Scheller
WashU Research Program: BioSURF Program
Acknowledgements:
This work was supported by a Washington University Biology Summer Fellowship
The neural regulation of bone and bone marrow metabolism has long been a subject of study especially in regards to the study of...
Implicit Reinforcement Learning, Cognition, and Negative Symptoms: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and Schizophrenia
Presenter: Landon Miles
Faculty Research Mentor:
Deanna Barch
WashU Research Program: OUR Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA)
Acknowledgements:
I'd like to thank Erin Moran and Deanna Barch for the help they provided.
Reinforcement learning (RL...
Investigating VLDLR and ApoER2 as potential receptors for Sindbis Virus.
Presenter: Sarah Ash
Faculty Research Mentor:
Emily Madden
Zoom Q&A Date & Time:
December 2nd, 10 AM
Zoom Q&A Link:
https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82264929137?pwd=VEtQb2RwNURBbDUvUDA2dFhUYUtsQT09
WashU Research Program: uSTAR Summer Scholars Program
Acknowledgements:
Michael Diamond, Emily Madden, Jim Skeath, Jennifer Kohl, MARCU-STAR
The Sindbis virus belongs to the Togaviridae family and alphavirus genus, which includes several other mosquito borne viruses. ...
Optimizing Hsp104 against neurodegenerative aggregating substrates
Presenter: Kira Jones
Faculty Research Mentor:
Dr. Meredith Jackrel
WashU Research Program: uSTAR Summer Scholars Program
Acknowledgements:
Dr. Jackrel, Karlie Miller, Dr. Skeath, uSTAR Summer Scholars
Multiple neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD) are caused by the...
Identification of amino acid positions essential to tetracycline destructase function
Presenter: Anisha Loganathan
Faculty Research Mentor:
Gautam Dantas
Acknowledgements:
First, I would like to thank Dr. Gautam Dantas and Kevin Blake who guided me for the last three years, without whom this research thesis would not be possible. I would also like to thank Dr. Tim Wencewiz and Emily Williford for allowing me to join their lab for the past semester to continue working on this project. Also, I would like to thank everyone who has worked on the Tet destructase project: Luke Diorio-Toth, Yao-Peng Xue, Bin Wang, and everyone in the Dantas and Wencewicz labs for continuously providing support and resources. I’d like to thank the WUSTL Biology Department and Patrick Clark for providing me with the opportunity to pursue undergraduate research. Lastly, I would like to thank the grant funding that made this research possible, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through grant 2U01AI123394 awarded to Dr. Dantas and Dr. Wencewicz.
Patterns of female affiliation across habitat types in male philopatric red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) in Kibale National Park, Uganda
Presenter: Randall Hartmann
Faculty Research Mentor:
Krista Milich
WashU Research Program: OUR Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA)
Acknowledgements:
Support for this research was provided by the Washington University in St. Louis Office of Undergraduate Research. Thank you to to the Uganda Wildlife Authority, the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology, Makerere University Biological Field Station and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for research. Data and sample collection was conducted by Kugonza Moses, Sabiiti Richard, Atwijuize Seezi, Koojo John, Bangirana Wilfred, Ongwang Jimmy, Karamagi Richard, and Mutebi Michael.
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