Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Biology: Recent submissions
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No Longer Forgotten: Pupation as a Critical Link in the Lepidopteran Life Cycle
(Georgetown University, 2021)Holometabolous insects, those that undergo complete metamorphosis, owe their tremendous evolutionary success in large part to an efficient division of labor between a larval phase that focuses on feeding, and an adult phase ... -
The Interplay between Human Behavior and Infectious Disease Dynamics
(Georgetown University, 2021)Human behavior and infectious disease are related in a dynamic feedback loop. This integral and ubiquitous relationship is often ignored in epidemiological modeling, leading to findings that overlook a crucial element in ... -
Pseudophosphatases Enhance Siw14, an Inositol Pyrophosphate Phosphatase that Negatively Regulates the Environmental Stress Response through Msn2
(Georgetown University, 2021)Inositol pyrophosphates are high energy signaling molecules found across eukaryotes that are important for diverse cellular processes like phosphate homeostasis, the immune response, fungal pathogenicity, endocytosis, ... -
Purinergic Signaling Regulates the Form and Function of the Developing Cochlea
(Georgetown University, 2020)Hearing depends on a properly formed inner ear to transmit sound information to the brain. Purinergic signaling has been implicated in the development of the inner ear, especially with regard to the cochlea. P2rx3 receptors ... -
Studies on Matrix-Metalloproteinase 13 as a Novel Microglial Inflammatory Agent in Familial Synucleinopathy
(Georgetown University, 2020)α-Synuclein is a 140-amino acid protein highly expressed in presynaptic terminals and is also associated with Lewy body pathology found in Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. We and others have ...
