Completion of independent research and a thesis are required to graduate with Honors in Biological Biological Sciences. This page provides an archive of Honors theses completed since 1998.

 

 

2007

• Rebecca Baggott - Androgen activity on the mosquitofish, Gambusi holbrooki, in the Fenholloway River, FL.
• Jordan Ferrage - The developing vertebrate limb and protease treatment: gene expression and morphological changes.
• Kelsey Eliasson - Identification of fungi species in a Hurricane Katrina flooded home 
• using internal transcribed spacer regions 4 and 5.
• Annie McBride - The Epidemiology of Health Care in Post-Katrina New Orleans.
• Rachel Nuwer - Domestication of three indigenous fish species in the South of Lao PDR: Experiments on the propagation of two catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus and Hemibagrus wyckioides) and one carp (Cirrhinus microlepis).
• Leon Perniciaro - High rates of the Chagas parasite in Louisiana insect vectors and the state's first human case of vector-borne transmission.
• Thomas H. Shoultz - Mitochondrial translocation in hypoxic pulmonary artery endothelial cell.
• Ashley Tate - Strains of Trypanosoma cruzi circulating in Southeast Louisiana. 

 

2006

• Yandace K. Brown - Field Anesthesia and Surgical Implantation of Radiotransmitters into Nine-Banded Armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus)
• Ava S. Coleman - A Preliminary evaluation of microsatellite loci variation within Echinacea.
• Lauren R. Galmiche - A Study of Astroglial Glutamate Transporters in Alcoholic Rats
• Sam J. Gentle - RANKL plus AZT treatment significantly increases mitochondrial DNA integrity in osteoclasts.
• Brian T. Hess - Epitope mapping in Leishmania proteins for vaccine development
• Ryan M. Ivie - HTLV-I: The Viral Protein Tax and Lymphoid Transformation
• Mary Jane Maher - Effects of alcohol storage on eggs of three darter species (Etheostoma zonale, E. flabellare, and E. caerulem)
• Rachel A. Pastorek Trichomonas vaginalis recurrence among HIV+ women
• Kendle N. Pryor - Identification of Tax regions of protein interaction with ternary complex factor (TCF) and SRF.

 

2005

• Michele Abbene - A Preliminary Assessment of The pH Status of Mill Pond, Long Island , New York.
• Juan Calix - Preliminary Assessment of Gene Flow among Triatoma dimidiata Populations in Central America.
• Megan Daigle - Serological survey for Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies in primates resident at the Tulane National Primate Research Center.
• Sarah Happe - Interaction of Transcription Factor IA1 and Palladin and Its Regulation of Reporter Gene Expression.
• Sarah Kohler - The Significnce of CEACAM1 and Annexin VI to Liver Cancer.
• Bronwyn Welsh - Biodiversity and Activity Patterns of Bats Populating Bayou, Swamp, and Marsh Habitats of Jean Lafitte National Park, Louisiana .

 

2004

• Katherine M. Smith - The role of Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type I (HTLV-I) Tax in cell transformation.
• Raquel Barrera - Genetics of a Chagas Disease Vector in Central America.
• Miriam Ducruet - Genetics of a Chagas Disease Vector in Central America.
• Caroline Champagne - Survival of the finless: effects of fin-clipping on brown darters (Etheostoma edwini).
• Lillian Zamora - Reproductive life history of fat sleepers (Dormitator maculatus) in the Mississippi River delta.
• Christopher Gabler - Dynamics of the Mississippi River delta: wetland accretion and productivity.
• Christine Brownyard - Cadherin 11 expression in the developing chick embryo using in situ hybridization and RT-PCR.

 

2003

• Philip Bucolo - The influence of fluctuating salinity on phytoplankton assemblages in the Lake Ponchartrain Basin.
• Rachel Foley - An alternative diagnostic technique for patients with kidney disease.
• Sarah Frost - Effects of fish body size and sex on swimming performance in golden shiners (Notemigonus crysoleucas).
• Myra Hughey - Reproductive life history of blackbanded darters (Percina nigrofasciata) in Northwest Florida.
• Alicia James - Investigations of palmelloid stage formation in the life history of Synura and Mallomonas (Synurophyceae).
• Melissa Kaintz - Microhabitat use of blackbanded darters (Percina nigrofasciata) in Northwest Florida.
• Victoria Solderitch - The structure and stability of a synthetic variant of an egg white protein.
• Richard Imsais - Comparison among three different types of stents in the normal porcine trachea.
• Kathryn Watts - The structure and stability of a synthetic variant of an egg white protein.

 

2002

• Crescent Combe - Chagas’ disease vector, Triatoma dimidiata, is panmictic among two villages in Guatemala.
• Catherine DiGiorgio - Identification of novel integrations in murine T-cell lymphomas induced by a recombinant retrovirus containing sequences from Moloney murine leukemia virus and feline leukemia virus.
• Gianna Griffith - Habitat selection and reproductive life history of pipefishes at Seahorse Key, Florida.
• Jessica Landry - The regulation of the Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase signal (MAPK) transduction pathway by the human T cell leukemia virus Type I (HTLV-1).
• Olivia Erin LeDee - Avian risk assessment in three dimensions.
• Deepthi Lingam - Isozyme analysis in common salvinia.
• Linh Nguyen - ISSR/ RAPDs Variation in Sagittaria platyphylla.
• Thanh Nguyen - ISSR/ RAPDs Variation in Sagittaria platyphylla.
• Tabitha M. Quebedeaux - Neuroprotective effects of estrogen on middle-aged female rats with beta-amyloid and ibotenic acid hippocampal lesions.
• Debra Salvia - Chagas’ disease vector, Triatoma dimidiata, is panmictic among two villages in Guatemala.
• Mehul Sheth - Glycyl-tRNA synthetase and transcription termination in yeast: investigation into a tRNA-like structural motif at the mRNA 3' end.

 

2001

• Adam Oliver - Biochemical characterization of Western Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivores leucostoma) venom.
• Shawn Vincent - The induction of ovulation in the anuran Eleutherodactylus coqui.
• Lisa Badon - Caridovascular and cardiac responses elicited by "binge" administration of 3,4-methylenedioxymetham phetamine (MDMA).
• Kelly Gabler - Detection of mouse mammary tumor virus-like sequences in human chromosomes using fluorescence in situ hybridization.
• Astrid Gutierrez - Population genetic analysis of Triatoma dimidiata by RAPD-PCR among three houses in Guatemala.
• Sarah Kott - Population genetic analysis of Triatoma dimidiata by RAPD-PCR among houses in a village in Guatemala.
• Michelle Martinez - swimming performance in the golden shiner, Notemigonus crysoleucas.
• Bridget Ory - Life history characteristics of two populations of the blackbanded darter (Percina nigrofasciata).
• Kristen McCreary - Physical structure and zonation of seagrass beds of Seahorse Key, Florida.
• Courtney Siems - Structure of fish communities in seagrass beds of Seahorse Key, Florida.
• Rachel Delatte - Relative importance of adjacent seagrass beds to the Florida Blenny (Chasmodes saburrae)
• Simone Pitre - Ontogeny of habitat selection by pink shrimp (Farfantepenaeus duorarum).

 

2000

• Maha Y. Askar - Sexual dimorphism in size and shape within Miopithecus talapoin (Primates, Cercopithecidae).
• Melissa Burmeister - Identification of phosphorylated Tetrahymena H2A histone Variants in Tetrahymena and transgenic S. cerevisiae.
• Virginia Burmeister - Phosphorylation of H2A histone variants during germination in wheat.
• Margaret Couvillon - Histone phosphorylation during the cell cycle: western analysis of H2A and H3 histone phosphorylation in temperature-sensitive cell cycle mutants of yeast S. pombe.
• Russell Ferlita - The physiochemical effect of linker DNA on higher order chromatin structure.
• Angela Molinario - Phosphorylation of Tetrahymena H2A histone variants in transgenic yeast.
• Elizabeth Moore - The common uses of medicinal plants in the Maya village of San Miguel, Belize.
• Cerinda Morales - Foraging efficiency of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in introduced and native submerged aquatic vegetation.
• Gianna Rossi - Effects of estrogen on working memory performance assessed in the water Maze in middle-aged female rats.
• Orlena Tampira - Habitat selection of brittlestars in Seahorse Key, Florida.
• Laura Toups - Geographic variation in the colubrid snake Manolepis putnami.
• Laura Lee Wilkinson - The annual sediment accretion and plant biomass accumulation in different habitats of the Mississippi River delta.

 

1999

• Eunice Blackmon - Fishing for phosphoproteins.
• Melissa Bossetta - Histone changes in cell cycle-arrested Saccharomyces cerevisae cultures.
• Sheri Brewer - Histone changes in various strains of Schizosaccharomyces pombe cultures.
• Joanna DeSalvo - Distribution and habitat use of damselfly larvae in the estuarine portion of the St. Johns River, Florida.
• Joseph Fair - Isolation of the cell-surface receptor for Human T-Lymphotropic Virus 1.
• Brian Mailey - DNA bands reveal genetic patterns of spontaneous polymorphisms in clonal populations.
• Candice Millro - Population genetics of a Chagas disease vector in Guatemala.
• Sarah E. Pivach - Analysis of histone modification in Tetrahymena thermophilia.
• Vita Venezia - DNA bands reveal genetic patterns of spontaneous polymorphisms in clonal populations.
• Nga T. Vu - Fluctuating asymmetry in Louisiana muskrats: comparison of traditional and geometric morphometric methods.

 

1998

• Stephanie J. Authement - Abundance and distribution of woody species in remnant bottomland forests of extreme southeastern Louisiana.
• Bridget Brahney - Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli in vector samples from Guatemala.
• Tiffany E. Crane - The effects of habitat on vertical accretion on natural crevasse splays at Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
• James Fee - Investigating the function of H2A phosphorylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae through a mutational analysis.
• Juan Flores - Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli parasites in fecal drops of vector Rhodnius prolixus.
• Alane E. Furlotte - A floristic survey of Synurophyceae from southeastern Australia.
• Gregory S. Herbert - The systematics and evolutionary history of the Neogene gastropod genus Eupleura H. and A. Adams, 1853 (Family Muricidae).
• Melissa E. Kay - Evaluating the effects of salinity and feed type on growth rate and feed conversion of juvenile Florida pompano, Trachinotus carolinus.
• William Starks - Phylogenetic analyses of Synura, section Synura (Synurophyceae) using ITS/5.8s sequences and scale morphology.
• Michael Termini - A PCR analysis for morphologically similar species of Ascogregarina in Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.
• Mary C. Willis - Histone isolation and analysis of phosphorylation in the C-terminal region of histone H2A in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.