LycoGenes
Volume 5 - 2001-2002 Academic Year

A Journal of Biology work done by and for Lycoming College Students.

Biology Colloquium - meets Thursday @ noon, room G-11

Date Presenter(s) Topic/Abstract
8/30 Orientation  
9/6 Dr. Briggs and Alyssa Macri MB - Goldenrod and Gall Flies
AM - Goldenrod gall flies (Eurosta Solidaginis): Choice by Solidago Altissima flies and S. Gigantea flies among three different goldenrod (Solidago sp.) extracts
9/13 Tom Coombs, Jennifer Leader JL - Your American Cancer Society in Lycoming County & You
TC - Chemical differences between preferred and unpreferred Solidago altissima clones and the link to Eurosta solidaginis galling behavior.
Friday, 9/21, 
3:30 PM
Dr. Ramon F Dacheux, Professor of Ophthamology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham Homecoming Distinguished Alumni Lecture
9/27 Jason Herres  
10/4 Kiley Engel, Breann Wolfe KE - SEA TURTLE PROTECTION PROGRAM –BALD HEAD ISLAND, N.C.

BW et al. - MECHANISM OF INSULIN SECRETION: EVIDENCE FOR INVOLVEMENT OF RYANODINE RECEPTORS AND CALCIUM-INDUCED CALCIUM RELEASE

10/11 Joshua Bogart JB - Biocontrol of Tamarisk Ramosissima
10/18 Dr. David Deerfield, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center  
10/25 Michelle Oetinger MO - Methamphetamine
11/1 Chris Robbins CR - Site Directed Mutagenisis of S. a. purL
11/8    
11/15 Exit Exam  
11/29 Greg English, Chris Fuller, Dawn Lipinski CF - The banding of the Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus) at Bear Mountain Banding Station

GE - Asthma

12/7 Ryan Linn, Nate Kalii  
1/10 Connie Wilson, Erin Dunleavy  CW - Organic Farming
1/17 Amy Hoffman, Kim Hoffman KH - The Vampires of New England – Mythical Mystery to Modern Medicine

AH - G proteins

1/24 Morgan Wilson
1/31 Leanne Jones, Kevin Trolene KT - Correlation of Oral Ingestion of Creatine Monohydrate to Weight Gain in Albino Mice: "Making Mickey more of a Mouse"

LJ - These Feet Are Made For Walking

2/7 Chris Brennan, Lori Hollich CB - The Amplification and Cloning of Staphylococcus aureus purM into a pET vector 

LH - Day and Home Range of Cebus capucinus

2/14 Mike Greenage, Stephanie Ruppert MG - investigate how aspirin affected clotting time in mice

SR - Under the Sea

2/21 Megan Chenoweth, Ashley Hughes, Sarah Way MC - The Effects of Ginkgo Biloba and Docosahexaenoic Acid on the Memory of Mice

AH - The Piping Plover

SW - DNA Fingerprinting

3/7 Amanda Dunkle, Michael Lookenbill, Richard Jones, Andy Blaskovich RJ - Tuberculosis (TB)

AB, ML, AD - PA DEP Black Fly Suppression Program

3/14 Jason Yufer, Christina Panko, John Roesgen, Samantha Keener JY - Grey Squirrel

JR - The effects of saliva in plant wounding

CP , SK - Assessment of Leaf Processing Rates, Percent Organic Content, and Fungal Biomass via a Chemical Indicator

3/21 Erina Wilsoncroft, Shiela Swagler, Josh Diehl JD - An overview of the lens making process

EW - Physician Assistants

3/28 Eric Frey, Megan Dellinger, Deanna Andreoli DA- Alzheimer's Disease: The most common cause of Dementia

MD - Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis

EF - Industrial Hemp

4/4 Vince Fiorenza, Scott Foura VF - Juvenile Diabetes

SF - Total Knee Replacement

4/11 Chris Dehart, Matt Sieger, Dan Matthews MS - Parvo virus found in canines

DM - The Woolly Mammoth

4/18 Dan Miller, Sara Hirst DM - Pocono Medical Center