Events

"Do microbes adapt to climate change and does it matter for global carbon cycling"

• Sarah Evans '05, University of California, Irvine
  

Student Presentations

• Robert Logan '13 presents - "Drying Springs: Persistence of Namib Desert Springs & Implications for Conservation"
• Ringdahl-Mayland '13 presents - "The Role of the gnu PSIA and cat1 in Psychrobactor Biofilm Formation"
• Joseph Abraham '13 presents - "Investigation of Microbubble and Ultrasound Mediated Thromboprophylaxis in Porcine Models of Extracardiac Graft"

Student Presentations

• Noah Most '13 - "Expanding the Skeletogenic Gene Regulatory Network in Sea Urchins"
• Rachel Weinstein '13 - "Caenorhabditis elegans pmr-1 acts in conjunction with other key regulators of intracellular calcium in embryonic development"
• Joe Lytle '14 - "Genetic Interrogation of non-estrogenic activities of bisphenol A"

"Encounters with the Namib Desert: Integrating class & site-based learning"

• Julia Clymer, Carla Eckland, Ian Gold, Annie Klodd, Julia Krezanar, Robert Logan, Ian Luby & Kathryn Vincent

"Infectious Prions: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of a Fatal Neurodegenerative Disease"

• Michael Miller, Ph.D., Grinnell College '04, M.D./Ph.D. Candidate, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Summer Research Opportunities

• Grinnell College Biology Faculty
  

"The Physiology, Function, and Evolution of Vertebrate Locomotor Tissues"

• Kevin Middleton, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine

"Extreme Microbes: Life in the Siberian Permafrost"

• Shannon Hinsa-Leasure, Assistant Professor of Biology, Grinnell College

"Selection of physiology and tallgrass communities"

• Mark Sherrard, University of Northern Iowa

Student Presentations

• Chris Kaiser-Nyman '13 - "PSCs are required for delayed enhancement of neurotransmitter release caused by Muscarine"
• Xingjie Zhang '13 - "A subset of Abd-B Neurons are required for female fly pausing response during courtship"
• Jay Dreier '13 - "Complement-mediated glial cell ablation"

"Making One Cell Two: Control of Cytokinesis by RhoA"

• William Bement, University of Wisconsin

"Molecules, Mice, and Men: Cardiovascular Disease in Marfan Syndrome"

• Jason Cook '07, Mt. Sinai Medical Center

"The genetic architecture of maize domestication and range expansion"

• Laura Shannon '07, University of Wisconsin

Student Presentations

• Pelle Hall '14 - "RNA-seq data refines Brassica napus metabolic network"

• Sarah Jensen '15 - "Studies of Akt function: Effects of Akt knockdown on cell proliferation in S. purpuratus"

• Ian Luby '13 - "Analysis of the distribution of Echinacea pallida in a fragmented landscape across two spatial scales"

The "C. elegans" Hailey-Hailey disease homolog pmr-1 is essential for cell migration during gastrulation.

• Vida Praitis, Associate Professor of Biology, Grinnell College

"What to do with that BIO/BCM major after graduation"

• Biology Faculty & CDO Staff

"Genetics and Molecular Genetics of Plant Circadian Rhythms"

• Professor Robert McClung, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College

"An Essential Tyrosine Phosphatase Homolog Regulates Cell Separation and Morphology in Caulobacter crescentus"

• Dr. Kathleen Ryan, Associate Professor, University of California - Berkeley

“The diverse pollination biology of three related Silene species: do mutualisms have a cost?”

• Dr. Michelle Dudash, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Maryland

Student Presentations

• Aude Bouagnon '12 - "Serotonergic regulation of fat through AMP-activated protein kinas"
• Kelly Bruce '12 - "Cox expression at the lizard neuromuscular junction: Design and implementation of a novel qPCR protocol"
• Griffin Smith '12 - "Diversity and abundance of Echinacea Pallida’s Bee Forager Community"

"Endocytosis: How Receptors on the plasma membrane are internalized and recycled"

• Dr. Steven Caplan, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center

"Statins – Good for the Heart, Good for the Brain: Neuroprotective Mechanisms of Simvastatin"

• W. Gibson Wood, PhD, University of Minnesota

Student Presentation

• Zheng Su ‘12 - PGE2-glycerol, a metabolite of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonylglycerol, enhances neurotransmitter release at the vertebrate neuromuscular junction via activation of the TRPV1 receptor

• John Stanton-Geddes, PhD, University of Minnesota Department of Plant Biology

• Annie Klodd '13 - Consistent relationship between total foliar nitrogen and canopy density across grazing treatments in the tallgrass prairie.
• Corbin Eule '12 - Dissecting the C-terminus targeting signal of rhodopsin.
• Božo Sušac '12 - Identification of Novel E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Interactors Using Yeast Two-Hybrid Screen

"Rubisco activase and heat stress: A case study in gene expression."

• Ben DeRidder, Assistant Professor of Biology, Grinnell College

Student Presentations

• Kevin Jennison '12 - Niche differentiation in two closely-related California annuals at intermediate spatial scale
• X. Stephen Zhang '11 - N-acetylaspartylglutamate modulates nicotine induced nitric oxide release at the lizard neuromuscular junction
• Mike Nodzenski '12 - Running speed and heart rate are significantly reduced on treadmills compared to free-running settings in college runners

Student Presentations

• Julie Podair ‘12 - Role of effector OspC3 in phagosomal escape during Shigella flexneri pathogenesis
• Qimeng Gao ‘13 and Alexander Aaring ‘13 - Biofilm inhibition through synthetic biology: Engineering an environmental bacterium to degrade biofilms

"Metabolic Oxidative Stress and Cancer Biology.”

• Dr. Douglas Spitz (’78), Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa

"The Pseudomonas putida Biofilm Matrix: Protein-Polysaccharide Interactions Critical to Biofilm Formation and Stress Relief.”

• Dr. Larry Halverson, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University

• Simon Medaney, Cranfield University, UK

• Stuart Allison, Professor of Biology, Knox College

• Holland Hauenstein’12 - The effect of row spacing on the temporal and spatial spread of Bean pod mottle virus in soybean
• Michael Cole’12 - Examining microglial response to ischemia using BV-2 cells as an in vitro model
• Camila Barrios Camacho’12 - Isolation and characterization of tRNA via reciprocal circulating chromatography

"Translational Science and Public Health."

• Dr. James C. Torner, MS, Ph.D. Professor and DEO, Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa

• Rebecca Mandt ’13 - Characterization of the dimerization and partner binding properties of the HP1a-CSD-CTE R188Q mutant
• Jamie Morford ’13 - Localization of the calcium-sensing receptor at the vertebrate neuromuscular junction
• Kathryn Walder ’12 - The role of NAAG at the neuromuscular junction: Using complement mediated ablation to investigate glial cell function