Student Research Projects
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Semester	Course/Hrs.		Student's Name	Description
Spring 1998 (with G. Smith)	ABIO 499 3 hrs.		Grant Bledsoe	Isolation and RFLP analysis of bacterial DNA from a possible sea urchin pathogen
Spring 1998 (with G. Smith)	ABIO 499 3 hrs.		Joyce Bledsoe	RAPD PCR (randomly amplified polymorphic DNA) analysis of a possible sea urchin pathogen
Summer 1998	ABIO 499 3 hrs.		Rhonda Foster	Identification of fungal isolates obtained from air samples at St. John's Bay, US Virgin Islands
Summer 1998	ABIO 499 3 hrs.		Nong Viangsmooth	Living with AIDS: An education program in Thailand and its effect on the AIDS rate in the Northern Region
Fall 1998	ABIO 399 2 hrs.		Shelly Cole	Retroviral pseudotyping
Fall 1998 (with G. Smith)	ABIO 399 2 hrs.		Kathryn Burkhart	Fungal ecology of tropical oceans; sequences analysis of 18S ribosomal DNA
Fall 1998 (with G. Smith)	ABIO 399 2 hrs.		Jeff Dowdy	Fungal aeromycology; RAPD PCR analysis of fungal DNA
Spring 1999 (with G. Smith)	ABIO 499 3 hrs.		Kathryn Burkhart	The African Dust Hypothesis: Isolation of fungal DNA from African dust samples using a lyticase protocol
Spring 1999 (with G. Smith)	ABIO 499 3 hrs.		Jeff Dowdy	Relationship of African dust to coral disease: extraction and identification of fungal DNA
Spring 1999	ABIO 499 3 hrs.		Michele Glendenning	The use of ribozymes to reduce HIV-1 tat expression in mammalian cells
Summer 1999	ABIO 499 3 hrs.		Shelly Cole	Characterization of plasmid DNA required for the production of HIV pseudotyped virus
Spring 2000	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Briana Childers	Characterization of the use of Dihydrofolate Reductase (DHFR) as a selective marker for gene therapy in murine leukemia cells
Spring 2000	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Mindy Herring	Characterization of B-globin gene expression in murine erythroleukemia cells
Spring 2000	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Matthew Swift	Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) and its implementation into a fourth grade science curriculum
Spring 2000	ABIO 199 2 hrs		Leigh Stone	The use of gene therapy in the treatment of Sickle Cell Disease
Fall 2000	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Michael McNeill	Characterization of the use of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) as a marker for gene therapy in murine leukemia cells
Fall 2000	ABIO 499 3 hrs		April Mixon	Generation of high titer ecotropic retrovial producer cells that express the human B-globin gene
Fall 2000	ABIO 499 3 hrs		William Perella	The use of an anti-HIV-1 ribozyme to reduce tat expression in mammalian cells
Fall 2000	ABIO 399 2 hrs		Amber Thacker	Optimization of electroporation characteristics for NIH 3T3 cells and their derivatives
Spring 2001	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Jamie Holmes	DHRF as a gene therapy marker
Spring 2001	ABIO 499 3hrs		Shaun Opperman	Analysis of human beta-globin levels in transduced MEL cells
Fall 2001	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Jennifer Ray	Cloning and analysis of genes in the bph cluster of LB400
Fall 2001	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Faith Zimmerman	Identification of the Rab11b vesicle
Spring 2002	ABIO 399 2 hrs		Pam Wall	DHFR as a selectable marker for gene therapy
Spring 2002	ABIO 499 3 hours		Cindy Hollinghead	Use of site directed mutagenesis to analyze the function of an anti-HIV tat ribozyme
Spring 2002	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Khai Le	Cloning and analysis of genes in the bph cluster of LB400
Spring 2002	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Jimmy Ridgeway	Development of a T-helper assay for analysis of HIV-1 Tat
Fall 2002	ABIO 299 3 hrs		Carol Journey	Design and synthesis of an anti-tat hammerhead ribozyme
Fall 2002	ABIO 399 2 hrs		Leigh Ryan	Design and synthesis of an anti-tat hammerhead ribozyme
Fall 2002	ABIO 399 2 hrs		Pamela Wall	Design, synthesis, and cloning of anti-tat hammerhead ribozymes
Spring 2003	ABIO 399 2 hrs		Carol Journey	Design and cloning of Tat 5919Δ non-catalytic ribozyme
Spring 2003	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Leigh Ryan	Design and cloning TAT 5877 ribozyme
Spring 2003	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Margaret Shoup	Design and cloning of anti-HIV-1
Spring 2003	ABIO 499 3 hrs		Pamela Wall	Analysis of anti-tat hammerhead ribozyme's catalytic activity
Fall 2003	ABIO 399 2 hrs		Jacklyn Davis	Testing of ribozyme expression in an RNA Pol 1 cassette
Fall 2003	ABIO 399 2 hrs		Vanessa Guy	In vitro testing of ribozymes targeted to HIV-1 tat mRNA
Fall 2003	ABIO 399 2 hrs		Carol Journey	Structural analysis of HIV-1 tat RNA
Fall 2003	ABIO 399 2 hrs		Rebecca Napier	Design and cloning of anti-HIV tat ribozymes
Fall 2003	ABIO 399 2 hrs		Natalia Surzenko	Design and cloning of anti-HIV tat ribozymes
Fall 2003	ABIO 299 3 hrs		Bianca West	Design and cloning of anti-HIV tat ribozymes

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