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Washington University Senior Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research
Table of Contents
Table of Contents, Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research
Forewords
Foreward, Washington University Senior Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research
Feature Articles
The Three Delays Revisited: Barriers to maternal and Infant Health in Iganga, Uganda, Victoria Collins
"No Man's Land": Missing Voices in the Anglophone Canon of Russian Literature, Hilah Kohen
Cultivating Community: Towards a Black Women-Centered Alternative Food Politic, Sally Rifkin
Abstracts A-I
Monitoring and Evaluating of the Nutrition Project, A Project of Uganda Development and Health Associates, Sophie Abo
Burkholderia Bacteria are Genralist Invaders of Distantly-Related Social Amoebae that Sometimes also Establish Cooperative Farming Interactions, Omowumi Adekunle and Rory Mather
Identifying Potential Cross-Talk Between the Fasted Liver and Dysfunctional Heart, Oyinkansola Adenekan
Partial Knockdown of Putative MTSA2 Gene Supports Its Role in 6mA Adenine Methylation of the Somatic Genome in Tetrahymena Thermophila, Matthew Agritelley and Antiana Richardson
Tracking the Localization of CpsA, an Essential Virulent Factor of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Nashwa Ahmed
The Effects of Dictostelium Discoideum on Burkholderia Dispersal, Moid Ali
The Evolution of Chemical Defenses in White Clover: When and Where Does Cyanogenesis Matter Most?, Brenda Alvarado
Streaming Enrollment in Early Child Care Centers Using Stable Matching, Rishab Arora, Julia Burns, Melissa Crombie, and Mo Wu
The Effects of Germline Sequestration on Mulitcellularity, Odion Asikhia
Ribosomal RNA-Processing Protein:How Does It Affect the Growth of Plasmodium Falciparum?, Yolotzin Avila-Cruz
Hueristic Approach to Spiking Nueral Networks, Bryce Bagley and Blake Bordelon
After the Crash: Treatment of Motor Vehicle Accident-Associated PTSD Using Art Therapy, Sarah Banks
Soybean-Derived Human EGF Enhances Weight Gain and Lean Muscle Mass in Malnourished Mice, James Bao
Isoltation, Sequencing, and Annotation of Bacteriophage Gilson, Morgan Bately, Ahmed Hanafy, Nupur Singh, and Nathan Soria
50 States of Purpose: A Study of Purposeful Living in the United States, Gemma Baugh
The Application of Poly Acrylic Acid as a pH Sensitive Hydrogel in WGM Resonators, Zaneta Belay
The Effects of Fibroblast-Co-culture on HeLa Tumor Cells, Alex Benton
Emotion Regulation and Authentcity, Jessica Birg
Performing Culture in the Tourist City: The Construction of Essentialized Identity in Cuzco, Perú, Gabriela Bloom
Naturalizing Scales of Injustice in Jordanian Water, Seth Blum
Imagination May Override Spontaneous Retrevial of Prospective Memory Intentions, Casey Bowen
Mastery Motivation in Children: Can Increased Task Difficulty Enhance Task Competence?, Casey Bowen and Alyssa Hunt
Driving Gene Expression in the Heterochromatic Environment of the Fourth Chromosome of D. melanogaster, Jacob Cantrell
Soil Respiration in Native Tallgrass Prairies under Climate Change: The Role of Above and Belowground Diversity, Erin Carroll
The Role of Soil Microbes and Plant Diversity in Pollination and Soil Carbon Sequestration under Climate Change, Erin Carroll and Savannah Fuqua
Gene Mutations Associated with Dystonia-Parkinsonism Do Not Impair PLA2G6 Phospholipase Activity, Sthitadhi Chakraborty
Using Cave Bacteria to Inhibit Pseudogymnoascus destructants, the White Nose Pathogen, Austin Chan
Experimental Verification of Metallic Glass Prediction from Liquid Data, Ryan Chang
Linking Circadian Clocks to Mammalian Ovulation, Sneha Chaturvedi
Encoding the Expectations of a Sensory Stimulus, Alex Chen
A Clickable Neurosteroid Analogue Retains NMDA Receptor Activity and Accumulates in Nuerons, Daniel Chen
A P-element Mobilization Screen in Drosophila melanogaster Using a Transgene Containing GAA Repetitious Sequence, Frank Chen, Mitchell Grinwald, Mikayla Johnson, and Kendra Woodruff
TFEB-dependent Induction of Thermogenesis by Trehalose, Phillip Chen
High Protein Diets Induce Autophagic Disruption in Microphages of Atherosclerotic Lesions, Sunny Chen
Juvenation's Masks: From Mary Pickford to "Little Fresh Meat", Tina Chen
Isolation and Genomic Analysis of Phage PumpkinSpice, Brandon Chia, Mackenzie Cunningham, Paul Rice, and Tiana Saak
Evolution of Sociality: Using Williams-Beuren Syndrom to Identify Conserved "Social Genes", Iris Chin
Comparative Functional Annotation of Moose Swiss Cheese. Rohr, and Big Mau, Rehan Choudhury, David Plant, Eric Sallinger, and Tara Suresh
NMD Gene Screen, Abigail Chua
Monitoring and Evaluating of the Nutrition Project, A Project of Uganda Development and Health Associates, Anand Chukka
CIViC: Bridging the Gap between Clinical Treatment and Cancer Research, Kaitlin A. Clark
Fragility of Metallic Glasses and the TA/TG Ratio, Julia Cohen
Potential Mechanism of Neonatal Bloodstream Infections from a Mouse Model, Paige Coughlin
Mind the Gap: Underlying Issues and New Opportunities for the MARTA System after the Collapse of Interstate-85, Megan Craig
Parkinson's Disease Fibrils: Analyzing Aggregation Growth Properties in a Cell System, María I. Dabrowski
Role of Heme Detoxification Protein in Plasmodium falciparum Heme Metabolism, Varun K. Dalmia
Sensing a fear of Demise: Researching the Intersection between Religion and Colonialism in the Dying Days of the British Empire, Paul d'Ambrosio
Using the CRISPR/Cas9 System on Murine Cytomegalovirus, Trenton Dawson
Tenxsim: Simulator for Pure and Heterogeneous Genomic Sequence with 10X Genomics, Guanlan Dong
Genomic Analysis of Mycobateriophage, Kradal: Evolutionary Insights within the Recently Discovered BM Cluster, Aja Drain, Lauren King, Tuka Mousa, and Jerry Sun
Buffering against Heat, Drought, and Fungus in White Clover: Does Cyanogenesis Play a Role?, Maya Dutta
Cytochrome P450 Ontogeny and Drug Reactions in Children, Jack Elliot-Higgins
Exploring the Role of miRNA in Regulating CD36 Fat Activity, Thom Ellison
Intersection of Law and Local Understandings of Domestic Violence in Iganga, Uganda, Nicolette Esparza
Isolation, Purification, and Genomic Analysis of the Novel Bacteriophage Kradal, Adeshola Fanegan, Katie Gemperli, Sofia King, and Jesse Yavner
Collective Memory, Chinese National Narrative, and the Century of Humiliation, Jacob Finke
Orthongonal Metal Templating Strategies for the Synthesis of Poly[n]catenanes, Jeremy Fisher
Differing Measures of Paternal Antisocial Personality as Predictors of Child Abuse and Neglect, Lauren Fournier
Time-Dependent Effects of apoE Reduction Using Antisense of Oligonnucleotides in a Model of β-amyloidosis, Caroline Francis
Comparative Analysis of Transciption Start Sites and Conserved Motifs in Drosophila F and D Elements, Ben French and Joe Zielke
Are Populations More Stable at the Center of Their Geographic Range? A Test Using Big Data Sets, Savannah Fuqua
Improving the Genome Assemblies of Multiple Dropsohila and Bacterio[hage Species, Margaret Gaggioli
History Community-Based System Dynamics, Krista Galleberg
Analysis of Immunolabeled Neuronal Cells in a Rodent Model of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration, Matthew Gayoso
Genomic Analysis CD56Bright and CD56Dim Natural Killer Cells, Joe Germino
A Structural and Genomic Investigation of Novel Bacteriophage Kromp, Laura M. Goh, Benjamin L. Kelsky, and Muhammad Mousa
Involvement in Sports, Hippocamal Volume, and Depressive Symptoms in Preadolescent Children, Lisa Gorham
Tracking Transcription Factors: Validating the Brd4-HypB Calling Card System in vitro, Lucia Grandison
Translation of Master Regulator GCN4 Is Resistant to eIF4E Mediated Inhibition of Cap Recognition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Alison Greenlaw
Insect Diversity Survey of White Clover in Wild vs Cultivated Environments, August Gremaud and Alex Mahmound
Amplification of Motivated Behaviors Through Mu-Opiod Signaling in the Nucleus Accumbens, Anthony Guglin
Development of in vitro Fluorescence Polarization Assay Characterizing the Interaction between Nipah Viral Proteins, Laura Hagenah
The Art of Terror: Iconoclasm in Modern Radical Islamic Terrorism, Christopher Hall
Micotoroid Resonators for microRNA Quantitation, Gabriela Hall
Isolation and Annotation of Bacteriophage Yaboi, Molly Harback, Michael Hogarty, Rocio Rubiano, and Richa Sinkre false
Employing Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs) to Model NF1-Associated Low Grade Gliomas, Kelly Hartigan
Identifying Novel Epigenetic Dependencies in Pre-Leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Emily Haussler
Sequential Expression of let-7 and E93 during the Larva to pupa Transition in Drosophila, Michaela Henderson
More than Caucasian Copycats: Cultural Beauty Standards behind South Korean Cosmetic Surgery, Alice Herrmann
Isolation and Genomic Characterization of Streptomyces Phage Circinus, Alice Herrmann, Amy Kwan, Caelan Miller, and Brandon Tang
Investigating Sex Differences in the Brain Tumor Microenvironment, Cameron Hill
Discovery and Genomic Analysis of Bacteriophage Hiyaa, William J. Hsaio, Julia K. Lieu, and Zoe Chunqi Tian
Role of CHMP5 in Endosomal Trafficking, MaeMae Huang
Changes in ECM Distribution during Small Intestinal Adaptation Following Massive Small Bowel Resection, William Hyunhak Goo
gRNA Design Pipeline, Shrikar Iragavarapu
Abstracts J-R
Dendritic Cells Induce Memory-Like Characteristics in Activated Natural Killer Cells, Devika Jaishankar
PexRAP-Med19 Interactions, Nitya Janardhan
Investigating Mycobacterium smegmstis' Electron Transport Chain Through Use of Chemical Inhibitors, Keshav Jayaraman
Elucidating Host/Microbe Interactions by Comparing Ancestral and Evolved Burkholderia Resistances to Dictyostelium discoideum, Cara Jefferson
Investigation of the Anterior Lateral Ligament, Matthew Jenkins
Changing Dominance Hierarchies: Competition between Dictyostelium discoideum in the Vegetative State, Daniela Jimenez
Legitmacy and Constraint:The Failure of Multilateralism in SEATO, Syrus Jin
The Effects of Increased Spontaneous Activity on Potentiation of the GABAA Receptor by Allosteric Modulators, Alexander Johnson