Mentored Student Research Projects

Undergraduate Students

Biology Honors Research Projects (BIO498)

Daniel Krause, 1994, Characterization of the glyoxysomal membrane proteins of monocots and dicots. Written report and Departmental seminar.

Karen Bank, 1995, Molecular analysis of the AAT-4 gene in soybean. Written report and Departmental seminar.

Ali Ousmanou, 1995, Immunological comparison of three soybean aspartate aminotransferase (AAT) isozymes with the protein product of a new cDNA clone. Written report and Departmental Seminar

Amy Stephens, 1995, Purification and characterization of the glyoxysomal aspartate aminotransferase of soybean. Written report, Sigma Xi presentation, Mid-Atlantic Molecular Biology Poster Session, Research Publication: Stephens AS, et al., (1998) Plant Science 139:233-242.

Tammy Felker, 1995, The expression and cellular localization of soybean aspartate aminotransferase-1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Written report and Sigma Xi presentation.

Kris Kelly, 1995, Immunological characterization of the aspartate aminotransferase isozyme-3. Written report and Sigma Xi presentation

Tarra Trottnow, 1996, Subcellular targeting of soybean glyoxysomal AAT in yeast. Written report and Sigma Xi presentation

Deanna Rizzo, 2000, The use of yeast gal promoter to regulate expression of soybean aspartate aminotransferase-1 in yeast. Written report and Student Research and Creativity Day Presentation.

Deborah Pasternack, 2000, Analysis of evolution of aspartate aminotransferase gene family using 3D protein modeling. Written report and Student Research and Creativity Day Presentation.

John R. Leatherbarrow, 2000, Inverse PCR of the 5' flanking region of soybean AAT-1. Written report and Student Research and Creativity Day Presentation.

Brian Lucas, 2000, Expression of Nuclease P1 from Penicillium citrinum in Escherichia coli. Written report and Student Research and Creativity Day Presentation.

John Nowak, In Progress, Expression of full length AAT1 open reading frame in yeast: analysis of start codon use.

Amy Jesionowski, In Progress, Expression of the P1 nuclease in Escherichia coli using the pFLAG expression vector.

McNair Scholars Research Projects

Jennifer Arnold, 1994, Analysis of cation exchange chromatography of soybean aspartate aminotransferase isozymes. Written Report and McNair presentation.

Heather Horton, 1995, Analysis of bi bi ping pong enzyme mechanism of cloned soybean aspartate aminotransferase isozymes. Written Report and McNair presentation.

Angela Caba, 1995, Analysis of kinetic parameters of soybean aspartate aminotransferase isozymes. Written Report and McNair presentation.

Adisa Sills, 1995, Analysis of kinetic parameters of cloned soybean aspartate aminotransferase isozymes. Written Report and McNair presentation.

Independent Projects (Bio495/499)

Linda Laskowski, 1993, Zymograms to quantify soybean AAT enzyme activity. Written Report.

Jeffery Smith, 1993, Characterization of the proteins of the glyoxysomal membranes in corn. Written Report.

Sara White, 1997, Evolution of mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase. Written report.

Chun-Yen Tsao, 1997, Role of genetic context in the expression of yeast metabolic genes. Written Report.

Keven Marshal, 1999, Detection of UV induced thymine dimers in DNA using restriction endonucleases. Written Report.

Graduate Students

Jason Scalia, 1998, Active oxygen species are required for the induced resistance response in cucumber. Master of Arts Thesis.

Michael S. Paluch, 1999, Expression and subcellular targeting of soybean glyoxysomal aspartate aminotransferase in yeast. Master of Arts Thesis.

Dongmei Liu, 1999, Cloning and expression of the nuclease P1 from Penicillium citrinum. Master of Arts Thesis

Michelle Rose, In Progress, Effect of population bottle neck on genetic variation in black footed ferrets. Candidate for Master of Arts.

 

John R. Leatherbarrow, In Progress, Comparison of enzyme kinetics of nuclease P1 expressed in Penicillium citrinum and Escherichia coli. Candidate