This research takes a sociological look at sexual assault on airplanes, and why there seems to be a higher rate of reporting. Sexual assault is of high interest in the field of sociology, but there seems to be a gap in the data about those incidents that take place on airplanes. We used 80 news […]
B03: Genetic Manipulation of Nerve Ensheathment in fruit flies: Impacts on Motor Behaviors
The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a well-known genetic model organism, with over 100 years of research. Over a 10-day life cycle, an embryo hatches to give rise to a larva, which grows in size and, after a four day period of metamorphosis, a fly emerges. Each stage has distinct behaviors, which are associated with […]
BRII-02: Does Late Bilingualism Impact Cognitive Flexibility?
Executive functioning encompasses all the cognitive processes that are involved in conscious thought and action (Anderson, 2002). Research in bilingualism has suggested that those who know a second language have certain advantages in these cognitive processes (Bialystok, Craik, Green, & Gollan, 2009). However, it has also been suggested that those who learn their second language […]
BRIV-05: Induction of Retina Regeneration by Interleukin-6
Millions of people throughout the world suffer from visual impairment due to retinal degenerative diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. These afflictions can lead to severe retinal damage which does not heal spontaneously. The embryonic chick has been used as a model organism to study retina regeneration in the hopes to find […]
B55: Gaslighting: Manipulating an Individual’s Ability to Recognize Abuse
After interning for four weeks at the EVE, a domestic violence shelter in Marietta, Ohio, this past J-term, I was exposed to group counseling sessions and the term gaslighting. After researching the epidemiology of gaslighting and domestic violence, three apparent gaps emerged for further research: How does the victim recognize the cycle of abuse?; How […]
C49: Alleviating Hunger Close to Home: An Innovative Solution to Food Insecurity in Butler County
This poster reviews prevalence, risk factors, and health consequences of food insecurity and proposes a solution to fill a gap in Oxford’s food insecurity services. This solution is inspired by proposals presented by students at the 2020 Social Innovation Weekend where students worked in teams to understand food insecurity and develop solutions. Food insecurity impacts […]
A24: Developing Non-invasive Real-time Metabolic Monitoring Using Spectral Phasors on Autofluorescence
Spectral phasor analysis of NADH autofluorescence has been shown to be an effective approach to measuring cellular metabolism. Extending this technique to tissue samples offers a novel method for non-invasive, real-time monitoring of healthy and diseased states of tissue. However, complex light interactions within tissue offer a significant barrier to autofluorescence measurements. To characterize the […]
BRIV-02: Taking the ‘Vir’ Out of ‘Virtus:’ Feminine Demonstrations of Virtus in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
My project, entitled, “Taking the ‘Vir’ Out of ‘Virtus:’ Feminine Demonstrations of Virtus in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline,” examines the impact of the Queen from Cymbeline participating in the ancient Roman idea of masculinity, virtus, as this idea was received in early modern England. There were a couple questions I wanted to answer through my research: first, […]
B06: Harnessing CRISPR-Cas9 to Reprogram Cell Fate
Destruction of the neural retina in mammals currently leads to irreversible blindness. Unlike humans, newts possess the ability to regenerate a functional neural retina from their retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE), a cell type that lies behind the neural retina. We will develop a method to individually regulate genes by activating and repressing specifically targeted genes. […]
C19: Engineering an Oncolytic Adenovirus to Specifically Target Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer remains a disease with an incredibly high mortality rate since it is virtually undetectable in its early stages and is difficult to treat with current therapies in later stages. The gene high mobility group AT-hook 1 (HMGA1) is upregulated in this type of cancer, which increases the resistance to chemotherapy and increases tumor […]
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