Many of our undergraduate students, about 65-80 or so any given year, perform significant research in the various laboratories within the Biological Sciences Department.  A number of these have made contributions significant enough for them to serve as co-authors on publications in scientific journals. Several of these students are co-authors on more than one paper, and some are even the first author of the publication. Many undergraduates also have served as co-authors on posters presented at national and international meetings. Some examples of the publications of which our undergraduates are co-authors and contributors to are given below, with the undergraduate students' names highlighted. In addition, powerpoint presentations of several recent undergraduate research projects can be found here.
 

Janson EM, Peeden ER, Stireman JO, & Abbot. 2010. Complexity without co-evolution in a mutualistic symbiosis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 2212-2228

Grogan K, Chhatre V, & Abbot P. 2010. The cost of conflict in aphid societies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 185-193.

Talley JM, DeZwaan DC, Maness LD, Freeman BC, Friedman KL. (2011) Stimulation of yeast telomerase activity by the ever shorter telomere 3 (Est3) subunit is dependent on direct interaction with the catalytic protein Est2. J Biol Chem. 286(30): 26431-9.

Majumdar, D., C.A. Nebhan, L. Hu, B. Anderson, D.J. Webb.  2011. An APPL1/Akt Signaling Complex Regulates Dendritic Spine and Synapse Formation in Hippocampal Neurons.  Mol. Cell. Neurosci.  46:633-644.

Brett, C.L., L. Kallay, Z. Hua, R. Green, A. Chyou, Y. Zhang, T.R. Graham, M. Donowitz, R. Rao. 2011. Genome-wide analysis reveals the vacuolar pH-stat of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.  PLoS One 6:e17619

Huang, H., B.E. Weiner, H. Zhang, B.E. Fuller, Y. Gao, B. Wile, K. Zhao, D. R. Arnett, W.J. Chazin, & E. Fanning. Structure of a DNA polymerase -primase domain that docks on the SV40 helicase and activates the viral primosome. J. Biol. Chem. 285, 17112-17122 (2010). Asymmetric inhibition of Ulk2 causes left-right differences in habenular neuropil formation

Authors: Robert W. Taylor, Jenny Y. Qi, Anna K. Talaga, Taylur P. Ma, Luyuan Pan, Clinton R. Bartholomew, Daniel J. Klionsky, Cecilia B. Moens, and Joshua T. Gamse Journal of Neuroscience, in press, 2011

Bowman, R., Xiong, Y., Kirsten, J., and Singleton, C. K. (2011). eIF2a Kinases Control Chalone Production In Dictyostelium discoideum.  Euk. Cell 10, 494-501.           

McDonald, M., Kendall, A., Bian, W., McCullough, I., Lio, E., Havens, W.M., Ghabrial, S.A., and Stubbs, G. (2010). Architecture of the potyviruses. Virology 405, 309-313 ?             

Glenn, J.D., J.G. King, and J.F. Hillyer. 2010. Structural mechanics of the mosquito heart and its function in bidirectional hemolymph transport. Journal of Experimental Biology. 213(4):541-50.

Andereck, J.W., J.G. King, and J.F. Hillyer. 2010. Contraction of the ventral abdomen potentiates extracardiac retrograde hemolymph propulsion in the mosquito hemocoel. PLoS ONE. 5(9):e12943.

Pendergast JS, Yeom M, Reyes BA, Ohmiya Y, Yamazaki S (2010) Disconnected circadian and cell cycles in a tumor-driven cell line. Commun Integr Biol.  3:536-539. PMCID: PMC3038057

Pendergast JS, Friday RC, Yamazaki S (2010) Photic Entrainment of Period Mutant Mice is Predicted from Their Phase Response Curves. J Neurosci. 30:12179-84. PMCID: PMC2943870

Pendergast JS, Friday RC, Yamazaki S (2010) Distinct Functions of Period2 and Period3 in the Mouse Circadian System Revealed by In Vitro Analysis. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8552. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008552. PMCID: PMC2804141  

Chafee, M.E., C.N. Zecher, M.L Gourley, V.T. Schmidt, John H. Chen, S.R. Bordenstein, M.E. Clark, and S.R. Bordenstein. (2011) Decoupling of host-symbiont-phage coadaptations following transfer to a new host species. Genetics 187: 203-215.  

Passarella RJ, Zhou L, Phillips JG, Wu H, Hallahan DE, Diaz R. (2009) Clinical Cancer Research:Recombinant peptides as biomarkers for tumor response to molecular targeted therapy. 15(20):6421-9,Epub 2009 Oct.13 PMID:19825959

2008   Ciarleglio, C.M., K. Ryckman, S.V. Servick, A. Hida, S. Robbins, N. Wells, J. Hicks, S.A. Larson, J.P. Wiedermann, K. Carver, N. Hamilton, K.K. Kidd, J.R. Kidd, J.R. Smith, J. Friedlaender, D.G. McMahon, S.

Stubbs, G., Kendall, A., McDonald, M., Bian, W., Bowles, T., Baumgarten, S., McCullough, I., Shi, J., Stewart, P., Bullitt, E., Gore, D. and Ghabrial, S. (2008). Flexible filamentous virus structures from fiber diffraction. Powder Diffraction 23, 113-117.

 

Kendall, A., McDonald, M., Bian, W., Bowles, T., Baumgarten, S.C., Shi, J., Stewart, P.L., Bullitt, E., Gore, D., Irving, T.C., Havens, W.M., Ghabrial, S.A., Wall, J.S., and Stubbs, G. (2008). Structure of flexible filamentous plant viruses. J. Virol. 82, 9546–9554.