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Washington University Senior Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research

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Table of Contents, Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research

Forewords

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Foreward, Washington University Senior Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Spring 2018, Office of Undergraduate Research

Feature Articles

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The Three Delays Revisited: Barriers to maternal and Infant Health in Iganga, Uganda, Victoria Collins

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"No Man's Land": Missing Voices in the Anglophone Canon of Russian Literature, Hilah Kohen

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Cultivating Community: Towards a Black Women-Centered Alternative Food Politic, Sally Rifkin

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Monitoring and Evaluating of the Nutrition Project, A Project of Uganda Development and Health Associates, Sophie Abo

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Burkholderia Bacteria are Genralist Invaders of Distantly-Related Social Amoebae that Sometimes also Establish Cooperative Farming Interactions, Omowumi Adekunle and Rory Mather

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Identifying Potential Cross-Talk Between the Fasted Liver and Dysfunctional Heart, Oyinkansola Adenekan

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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

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Tracking the Localization of CpsA, an Essential Virulent Factor of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Nashwa Ahmed

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The Effects of Dictostelium Discoideum on Burkholderia Dispersal, Moid Ali

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The Evolution of Chemical Defenses in White Clover: When and Where Does Cyanogenesis Matter Most?, Brenda Alvarado

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Streaming Enrollment in Early Child Care Centers Using Stable Matching, Rishab Arora, Julia Burns, Melissa Crombie, and Mo Wu

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The Effects of Germline Sequestration on Mulitcellularity, Odion Asikhia

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Ribosomal RNA-Processing Protein:How Does It Affect the Growth of Plasmodium Falciparum?, Yolotzin Avila-Cruz

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Hueristic Approach to Spiking Nueral Networks, Bryce Bagley and Blake Bordelon

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After the Crash: Treatment of Motor Vehicle Accident-Associated PTSD Using Art Therapy, Sarah Banks

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Soybean-Derived Human EGF Enhances Weight Gain and Lean Muscle Mass in Malnourished Mice, James Bao

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Isoltation, Sequencing, and Annotation of Bacteriophage Gilson, Morgan Bately, Ahmed Hanafy, Nupur Singh, and Nathan Soria

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50 States of Purpose: A Study of Purposeful Living in the United States, Gemma Baugh

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The Application of Poly Acrylic Acid as a pH Sensitive Hydrogel in WGM Resonators, Zaneta Belay

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The Effects of Fibroblast-Co-culture on HeLa Tumor Cells, Alex Benton

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Emotion Regulation and Authentcity, Jessica Birg

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Performing Culture in the Tourist City: The Construction of Essentialized Identity in Cuzco, Perú, Gabriela Bloom

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Naturalizing Scales of Injustice in Jordanian Water, Seth Blum

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Imagination May Override Spontaneous Retrevial of Prospective Memory Intentions, Casey Bowen

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Mastery Motivation in Children: Can Increased Task Difficulty Enhance Task Competence?, Casey Bowen and Alyssa Hunt

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Buying Breathe: A Study of the Juxtaposition of Yoga as a Commodity, a Biophysical Workout, and a Quasi-religious Experience in Yoga Teacher Trainings in Midwest America, Sarah Burack

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Driving Gene Expression in the Heterochromatic Environment of the Fourth Chromosome of D. melanogaster, Jacob Cantrell

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Soil Respiration in Native Tallgrass Prairies under Climate Change: The Role of Above and Belowground Diversity, Erin Carroll

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The Role of Soil Microbes and Plant Diversity in Pollination and Soil Carbon Sequestration under Climate Change, Erin Carroll and Savannah Fuqua

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Gene Mutations Associated with Dystonia-Parkinsonism Do Not Impair PLA2G6 Phospholipase Activity, Sthitadhi Chakraborty

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Using Cave Bacteria to Inhibit Pseudogymnoascus destructants, the White Nose Pathogen, Austin Chan

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Experimental Verification of Metallic Glass Prediction from Liquid Data, Ryan Chang

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Linking Circadian Clocks to Mammalian Ovulation, Sneha Chaturvedi

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Encoding the Expectations of a Sensory Stimulus, Alex Chen

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A Clickable Neurosteroid Analogue Retains NMDA Receptor Activity and Accumulates in Nuerons, Daniel Chen

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A P-element Mobilization Screen in Drosophila melanogaster Using a Transgene Containing GAA Repetitious Sequence, Frank Chen, Mitchell Grinwald, Mikayla Johnson, and Kendra Woodruff

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TFEB-dependent Induction of Thermogenesis by Trehalose, Phillip Chen

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High Protein Diets Induce Autophagic Disruption in Microphages of Atherosclerotic Lesions, Sunny Chen

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Juvenation's Masks: From Mary Pickford to "Little Fresh Meat", Tina Chen

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Isolation and Genomic Analysis of Phage PumpkinSpice, Brandon Chia, Mackenzie Cunningham, Paul Rice, and Tiana Saak

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Evolution of Sociality: Using Williams-Beuren Syndrom to Identify Conserved "Social Genes", Iris Chin

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Comparative Functional Annotation of Moose Swiss Cheese. Rohr, and Big Mau, Rehan Choudhury, David Plant, Eric Sallinger, and Tara Suresh

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NMD Gene Screen, Abigail Chua

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Monitoring and Evaluating of the Nutrition Project, A Project of Uganda Development and Health Associates, Anand Chukka

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CIViC: Bridging the Gap between Clinical Treatment and Cancer Research, Kaitlin A. Clark

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Fragility of Metallic Glasses and the TA/TG Ratio, Julia Cohen

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Potential Mechanism of Neonatal Bloodstream Infections from a Mouse Model, Paige Coughlin

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Mind the Gap: Underlying Issues and New Opportunities for the MARTA System after the Collapse of Interstate-85, Megan Craig

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Parkinson's Disease Fibrils: Analyzing Aggregation Growth Properties in a Cell System, María I. Dabrowski

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Role of Heme Detoxification Protein in Plasmodium falciparum Heme Metabolism, Varun K. Dalmia

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Sensing a fear of Demise: Researching the Intersection between Religion and Colonialism in the Dying Days of the British Empire, Paul d'Ambrosio

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Using the CRISPR/Cas9 System on Murine Cytomegalovirus, Trenton Dawson

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Tenxsim: Simulator for Pure and Heterogeneous Genomic Sequence with 10X Genomics, Guanlan Dong

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Genomic Analysis of Mycobateriophage, Kradal: Evolutionary Insights within the Recently Discovered BM Cluster, Aja Drain, Lauren King, Tuka Mousa, and Jerry Sun

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Buffering against Heat, Drought, and Fungus in White Clover: Does Cyanogenesis Play a Role?, Maya Dutta

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Cytochrome P450 Ontogeny and Drug Reactions in Children, Jack Elliot-Higgins

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Exploring the Role of miRNA in Regulating CD36 Fat Activity, Thom Ellison

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Intersection of Law and Local Understandings of Domestic Violence in Iganga, Uganda, Nicolette Esparza

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Isolation, Purification, and Genomic Analysis of the Novel Bacteriophage Kradal, Adeshola Fanegan, Katie Gemperli, Sofia King, and Jesse Yavner

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Collective Memory, Chinese National Narrative, and the Century of Humiliation, Jacob Finke

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Orthongonal Metal Templating Strategies for the Synthesis of Poly[n]catenanes, Jeremy Fisher

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Differing Measures of Paternal Antisocial Personality as Predictors of Child Abuse and Neglect, Lauren Fournier

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Time-Dependent Effects of apoE Reduction Using Antisense of Oligonnucleotides in a Model of β-amyloidosis, Caroline Francis

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Comparative Analysis of Transciption Start Sites and Conserved Motifs in Drosophila F and D Elements, Ben French and Joe Zielke

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Are Populations More Stable at the Center of Their Geographic Range? A Test Using Big Data Sets, Savannah Fuqua

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Improving the Genome Assemblies of Multiple Dropsohila and Bacterio[hage Species, Margaret Gaggioli

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History Community-Based System Dynamics, Krista Galleberg

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Analysis of Immunolabeled Neuronal Cells in a Rodent Model of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration, Matthew Gayoso

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Genomic Analysis CD56Bright and CD56Dim Natural Killer Cells, Joe Germino

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A Structural and Genomic Investigation of Novel Bacteriophage Kromp, Laura M. Goh, Benjamin L. Kelsky, and Muhammad Mousa

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Involvement in Sports, Hippocamal Volume, and Depressive Symptoms in Preadolescent Children, Lisa Gorham

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Tracking Transcription Factors: Validating the Brd4-HypB Calling Card System in vitro, Lucia Grandison

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Translation of Master Regulator GCN4 Is Resistant to eIF4E Mediated Inhibition of Cap Recognition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Alison Greenlaw

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Insect Diversity Survey of White Clover in Wild vs Cultivated Environments, August Gremaud and Alex Mahmound

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Amplification of Motivated Behaviors Through Mu-Opiod Signaling in the Nucleus Accumbens, Anthony Guglin

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Development of in vitro Fluorescence Polarization Assay Characterizing the Interaction between Nipah Viral Proteins, Laura Hagenah

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The Art of Terror: Iconoclasm in Modern Radical Islamic Terrorism, Christopher Hall

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Micotoroid Resonators for microRNA Quantitation, Gabriela Hall

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Isolation and Annotation of Bacteriophage Yaboi, Molly Harback, Michael Hogarty, Rocio Rubiano, and Richa Sinkre false

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Employing Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs) to Model NF1-Associated Low Grade Gliomas, Kelly Hartigan

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Identifying Novel Epigenetic Dependencies in Pre-Leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Emily Haussler

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Sequential Expression of let-7 and E93 during the Larva to pupa Transition in Drosophila, Michaela Henderson

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More than Caucasian Copycats: Cultural Beauty Standards behind South Korean Cosmetic Surgery, Alice Herrmann

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Isolation and Genomic Characterization of Streptomyces Phage Circinus, Alice Herrmann, Amy Kwan, Caelan Miller, and Brandon Tang

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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

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Role of CHMP5 in Endosomal Trafficking, MaeMae Huang

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Changes in ECM Distribution during Small Intestinal Adaptation Following Massive Small Bowel Resection, William Hyunhak Goo

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gRNA Design Pipeline, Shrikar Iragavarapu

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Dendritic Cells Induce Memory-Like Characteristics in Activated Natural Killer Cells, Devika Jaishankar

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PexRAP-Med19 Interactions, Nitya Janardhan

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Investigating Mycobacterium smegmstis' Electron Transport Chain Through Use of Chemical Inhibitors, Keshav Jayaraman

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Elucidating Host/Microbe Interactions by Comparing Ancestral and Evolved Burkholderia Resistances to Dictyostelium discoideum, Cara Jefferson

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Investigation of the Anterior Lateral Ligament, Matthew Jenkins

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Changing Dominance Hierarchies: Competition between Dictyostelium discoideum in the Vegetative State, Daniela Jimenez

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Legitmacy and Constraint:The Failure of Multilateralism in SEATO, Syrus Jin

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The Effects of Increased Spontaneous Activity on Potentiation of the GABAA Receptor by Allosteric Modulators, Alexander Johnson