• Screening Trichoderma spp. as a Biocontrol Agent of Impatiens Downy Mildew (Plasmopara obducens) 

  Klooa, Alyssa (2018-07)

  A relatively recent epidemic of Plasmopara obducens, the oomycete responsible for Impatiens downy mildew, has spread throughout several countries including the United States. If P. obducens oospore behavior is similar to ...

• Patronage as Power, Identity, and Self-Legitimization in Medieval Europe 

  Fellows, Laura

• COMMON TERN (STERNA HIRUNDO) HATCHING SUCCESS RELATED TO NESTING PATTERN ON POPLAR ISLAND 

  Zimnik, Mia (2018-05)

  This study serves to understand how location within a colony may impact the successful hatching of a common tern nest. Previous research has shown that returning breeding birds will choose areas on the periphery of a colony ...

• Identifying locations in the greater Washington D.C. area most at risk from future development 

  Cunningham, Kelly (2018-04)

  The purpose of this project was to identify locations in the greater Washington, D.C. area most at risk from future development. In order to determine these areas, research was conducted using master plans, databases, ...

• Re-Presenting Black Masculinities in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me 

  Aaouinti-Haris, Asmaa (2018-04)

  Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir and letter to his son Between the World and Me (2015)—published shortly after the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement—provides a rich and diverse representation of African American male ...

• DEVELOPING METHODS TO DIFFERENTIATE SPECIES AND ESTIMATE COVERAGE OF BENTHIC AUTOTROPHS IN THE POTOMAC USING DIGITAL IMAGING 

  Stanfield, Kevin (2018-05)

  This study developed methods for the quantification of benthic autotroph coverage in the Upper Potomac using digital imagery captured with drone-mounted cameras. Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) is an integral part ...

• Development of a protein microarray for analysis of humoral immune responses to flavivirus infection and vaccination 

  Pugh, Christine (2018-04-13)

  Dengue virus (DENV), yellow fever virus (YFV), West Nile virus (WNV), and Zika virus (ZIKV) are the leading causes of mosquito-borne human flavivirus infections in the Americas. Serological assays for diagnosis and ...

• WNT/NFΚB CROSSTALK MAY DOWNREGULATE CYTOPLASMIC Β-CATENIN LEADING TO INDUCTION OF EMT. 

  Wilt, Geoffrey (2018-04)

  Molecular interactions in the cell are not bound by discrete cellular pathways; there is significant communication between the pathways leading to tightly regulated processes. The current research will examine if Wnt and ...

• Influences of Vegetative Best Management Practices on Macroinvertebrate Populations in Agricultural Streams of Montgomery County, Maryland 

  Weyand, Michael

  Best management practices are critical for mitigating the pernicious effects of urbanization on water quality within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This study examined the influences of vegetative best management practices ...

• NUSA SOLUBILITY IN ESCHERICHIA COLI: DISCORDANT HOMOLOGUES 

  Strathern, Leslie (2018-03)

  Solubility is a recurrent challenge when overexpressing non-native proteins in Escherichia coli (E. coli) for purification. N-utilizing substance A (NusA) is often used as a fusion tag to enhance the solubility of its ...

• Finding Inspiration in Organic Forms 

  Gianni, Jenna (2018)

  Finding Inspiration examines the growth processes and environmental effects that add patterns, shapes, and textures to natural objects. Soda-fired ceramic sculptures based on the artist’s collection of found organic forms ...

• Emily Dickinson in the Postprint Era 

  Lopez Sanchez, Irene (2018-04)

  For over a century, the editing of Emily Dickinson has become one of the most controversial topics among literary scholars. In the 1890s, the first editions of Dickinson’s poems established her as a major American poet of ...

• Analysis of Metabolic Pathways in Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells 

  Peach, Amanda (2018-04-06)

  Cancer stem cells are now thought to play a critical role in cancer relapse and metastasis, therefore finding a way to target these cancer stem cells is crucial to cancer treatment. One such way to target the cancer stem ...

• Analysis of Acetate Ester Production in Wild Yeast to Identify Strains that Improve Flavor in Commercial Fermentation 

  Powell, Katie

  Craft beer has become a huge industry and every brewer is seeking a flavor blend that sets them apart. Small differences in flavor profiles in beer have been accomplished by varying ingredients, temperature, pitching rate, ...

• DETERMINING REGULATION OF PROTEINS DUE TO ACCUMULATION OF ANKRD11 IN KBG SYNDROME 

  Taylor, Kelly (2018-02-25)

  KBG Syndrome is a rare disease with a widely variable phenotype and a single known genetic cause. Different aberrations, including both sequencing and copy number variants, within the ANKRD11 gene produce KBG Syndrome. The ...

• The Fact of Whiteness: Female 

  Scibelli, Tara (2018-03)

  My creative writing thesis poetry collection covers a variety of issues currently in public discourse and is written using different conventions. The poems touch on motherhood/feminism, religion, LGBTQ issues, bullying, ...

• Comparison of High-Throughput Sequencing Methods for Monitoring Genetic Changes in Ebolavirus Populations 

  Nagle, Elyse R. (2017-05)

  Amplicon-based sequencing of Ebolavirus is a powerful tool to monitor the genetic changes in the viral population during a drug study. Short amplicons are generated covering the whole virus genome and a library is generated ...

• OVEREXPRESSION OF ADENYLATE CYCLASE ISOFORMS ALTERS CELL SIGNALING PATHWAYS IN NF1-NULL MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMORS 

  Hughes, JoAnna (2017-11)

  The second messenger, cyclic-AMP (cAMP), is produced by ten adenylate cyclase (ADCY) isoforms. Previous studies indicate that ADCY isoforms may lead to either activation or inhibition of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), ...

• THE EFFECTS OF IMPERVIOUS SURFACE, GEOMMORPHOLOGY, AND STREAMBED SCOUR DEPTH ON ESSENTIAL BROOK TROUT HABITAT 

  Bowins, Jade (2017-12)

  Results of this study determined whether percentage of impervious land cover and geomorphology within the upstream drainage area of designated field sites would be predictive of average scour depth and whether this scour ...

• Assessing the utility and feasibility of immune function assays to understand Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) health in the Chesapeake Bay watershed 

  Smith, Cheyenne (2017-11)

  Skin lesions and mortality events of both adult and young smallmouth bass have occurred in the Chesapeake Bay, an area largely influenced by agriculture and heavily impacted by various toxic contaminants. Co-infections of ...

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