Please join the Biology department on Saturday, April 10th, as their seniors virtually present their senior comps projects.

BIOLOGY SENIOR COMPS
PRESENTATIONS
Spring 2021
 
Please reach out to oasin@oxy.edu for Zoom details.
 
Pandemics, Climate Change, and Conservation | Dr. Braker
 

8:30-9:15

Adriana Tatum

Rabies in Arctic Foxes: Shifting Ecological and Epidemiological Dynamics Due to Climate Change

9:15-10:00

Mia Jones

Evading Epidemics: Linking Ebola Outbreaks to Recent Deforestation and Human-Primate Interactions

10:00-10:45

Harjas Dhillon

Public Health Impacts of Ecological Degradation: Agrochemical Pollution in Schistosomiasis Endemic Areas 

10:45-11:00

Break

 

11:00-11:45

Mika O’Shea

Double trouble: systemic effects of fungal and viral co-infection in little brown bats (M. lucifugus)

11:45-12:30

Janet Orozco

The Scourge of Mosquito Dispersal

12:30-1:00

Lunch

 

1:00-1:45

Cambrie Motooka

No harm, no FOWL...except on Poultry Farms

1:45-2:30

Izzy Funes

Superfood or Silent Killer?: Exploring the Link Between Açaí Pulp Production and Acute Chagas Disease

2:30-3:15

Jasmine Davis

"Double Hit Hypothesis": Air Pollution and Respiratory Viral Infection

 
Life On The Edge | Dr. North
 

8:30-9:15

Matt Sandoval

Seeing is Not Always Believing: The unseen connection between β-amyloid pores, membrane damage repair, and Alzheimer's Disease

9:15-10:00

Jackson Caudle

Fostering Urban Ecosystems: phenotypic plasticity and adaptation by urban bird species

10:00-10:45

Hope Hendry

Cetacean Conservation: Stress Induced Cardiomyopathy in a Globalized World

10:45-11:00

Break

 

11:00-11:45

Elisa Garcia

Sustainable Gene Editing: Increasing Protein Yield in the Livestock Industry

11:45-12:30

David Paine

Living on the Edge of Immortality: Cell Transdifferentiation in Turritopsis dohrnii

12:30-1:00

Lunch

 

1:00-1:45

Jacey Reed

Therapeutic Development for Alzheimer's Disease: NAD+ Reverses Several Pathological Hallmarks

1:45-2:30

Selah Wilson

We All have Skin in The Game: The Impact of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation on the Epidermal Genome

2:30-3:15

Taylor Yoshida

A Novel Approach to Friedreich's Ataxia: Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cell Fusion Rescues Dying Neurons

3:15-4:00

Siddhant Jain

Miracles of a medicinal plant: wound healing abilities of Ephedra ciliata

4:00-4:45

Leeza Lu

The Early Bird Gets the Worm: Climate Change and its Effect on Bird Migration

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Bioscience Building Room 200