Life Sciences - Undergraduate Research

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The 2020 MU Life Sciences Week was cancelled this year due to the pandemic; therefore, we are especially pleased that the Undergraduate Forum has provided a venue for students majoring in animal sciences, biology, biochemistry, natural resources, nutrition, plant sciences, and psychology. Faculty mentors in the life sciences disciplines have academic appointments in Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources; Arts & Science, Engineering, Health Professions; Human Environmental Sciences; Medicine; and Veterinary Medicine.

Thanks to the support of the MU Libraries staff, we are able to offer a comment feature to the digital Forum and encourage you to leave questions and comments May 1-5, 2020 keeping in mind MU’s Statement of Values (Respect, Responsibility, Discovery, and Excellence - missouri.edu/mission-values)
We also encourage the students to check-in periodically over the 5 days and respond to questions.

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Synthesis of a trithiol ligand for 72, 77As theranostic pharmaceutical applications (Manring)
Project category: Life Sciences, Author information: Simon Manring, Chemistry, Junior, Columbia, Missouri, Faculty mentor: Silvia Jurisson (Chemistry), Funding source: Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (LS UROP), Collaborators: Simon E. Manring, F. Najafi Khosroshahi, S. S. Jurisson
Uncovering the roles of Arabidopsis Thaliana E3L2 in pattern triggered immunity (Costigan)
Project category: Life Sciences, Author information: Will Costigan, Biochemistry, Junior, Bloomington, Illinois, Faculty mentor: Scott Peck (Biochemistry), Funding source: Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (LS UROP), Collaborators: Will Costigan, Jared Ellingsen, and Scott Peck
Using a qPCR technique to monitor germination of bacillus anthracis spores in soil (Oberdiek)
Using high-throughput phenotyping to characterize the srfr1 arabidopsis mutant (Juncu)
Project category: Life Sciences, Author information: Rucsanda Juncu, Biochemistry, Junior, Columbia, Missouri, Faculty mentor: Ben Spears (Plant Sciences), Funding source: BioInformatics and Plant Sciences (BIPS), Collaborators: Rucsanda Juncu, Madison Creach, Dr. Benjamin Spears, and Dr. Walter Gassmann
Vagal tone and perceived support within adolescent friendships : sonsidering the role of interaction type and gender (Huang)
Project category: Life Sciences, Author information: Taoru Huang, Journalism, Senior, Yangquan, China, Faculty mentor: Amanda Rose (Psychological Sciences), Collaborators: Taoru Huang, Wenting Sun, Sarah Borowski, and Amanda Rose
White-tailed deer and coyote activity in an agroforestry landscape (Stoudt)
Xenoestrogen effects on hypothalamic and hippocampal gene expression (Long)

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