PROJECTS
Seminars:
Female Genital Mutilation: The silent oppression of Women
Jeffrey Mozgala, BS, BSN, RN, MSN-FNP Student
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is estimated to affect 200 million women worldwide. It is practiced commonly in the Middle East and Africa. It is a unknown practice in the Western World. The purpose of this experiment was to exam the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of women towards FGM by reviewing and synthesizing current, relevant research.
Counting Wildlife With Lasers
Z.Jean, G. Dzikunu
To count the monarch butterflies, the used a FARO scanner. FARO scanner can be used to reconstruct the natural environment of species and derive data. It generated a 3D reconstruction of animal clusters so they could estimate the amount of butterflies on the tree using the Subtractive Volume Method(SVE).
Impairment of insulin signaling in rat hepatocytes that over suppress glycerol-3-phosphate aclytransferase-1
Janai Gaston
Obese people are predisposed to have insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, but the exact molecular mechanism remains unknown. To determine why incresead glycerolipid synthesis leads to insulin resistance, they increased glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase-1.
The infected virus on water -MS2
Sabrina
The research focused on different water samples. She infected the different water samples with a virus, MS2. MS2 is an icosahedral single strand RNA virus.
She took different bacteria and infected them with MS2 for seven days, then filtered them. The water samples were collected from different rivers or lakes, and infected them with MS2. In conclusion, the virus MS2 can affect the families of enterobacteriaceae and staphylococcus araceae. In the future, she will be using PCR to identify what those bacteria are and classify which family they come from. This will also let her know if MS2 virus became a part of the cells of those particular bacteria.
The Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Diphenylmethoxypiperidines
Jill Keith, Ph.D
Diphenylmethylpiperidine, is also known as deoxypipradrol. It's piperdine stimulant based drug that's related to methylphenidate and pipradol.
Why study piperidines? Chemical imbalances in neurotransmitters dopamine synthesis of small molecules so they can target specific areas. This research focuses on drug addictions. She discussed how Ritalin is overused but how it can also be used for good things as well.
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