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Creator:: Patel, Shalvi H.
Abstract:: Coral reefs are diverse ecosystems and serve many purposes including preventing erosion on coastlines and acting as a source of food, income, and culture. Acropora cervicornis, a staghorn coral, has faced a significant 80-89% decline in the Caribbean, attributed to a poorly-characterized epizootic, White Band Disease (WBD). Previous studies showed...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: :_____________________________________________________ Rebecca Vega Thurber Coral reefs are diverse ecosystems and serve many

Creator:: Duke, William C.
Abstract:: As important ecological cornerstones, coral reefs face threats from a myriad of sources, such as global climate change, and importantly, disease, the latter often as a result of microbial pathogens. An understudied group of major corals, fire corals, and their even less understood microbiome present an opportunity to learn more...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: :_____________________________________________________ Rebecca Vega Thurber As important ecological cornerstones, coral reefs face threats

Creator:: Boryer, Ellie
Abstract:: With mounting distrust for science, finding effective ways to educate the next generation of scientists has become increasingly important. Microbiology is a prevalent and complex subject and is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge technologies for a more in-depth look into the unseen world. However, many people are only ever...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: : _____________________________________________________ Rebecca Vega Thurber Key Words: microbiology, education, high school, survey, summer camp

Creator:: Greydanus, Logan
Abstract:: Coral reef health has been in severe decline around the globe in the past several decades, in many cases due to direct human impact. Human action, such as overfishing, habitat destruction and nutrient loading, has caused coral coverage to drop to record lows, threatening the future of these critically important...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract Approved: Rebecca Vega-Thurber Coral reef health has been in severe decline around the

Creator:: Polley, Tamsen M.
Abstract:: Myxobolus squamalis is a Myxozoan parasite of salmonids, which contributes to lowered fitness of hatchery and wild fish in the Pacific Northwest of North America. The only GenBank DNA sequence of M. squamalis is from Oncorhynchus tschawytscha (Chinook), but is not linked to a published morphological description. There is a...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Hallett and Dr. Rebecca Vega- Thurber for agreeing to participate in this project as committee members

Creator:: Molitor, Andrew
Abstract:: Glycosides are natural molecules found in many plants and hold potential to release new flavors and aromas into alcoholic beverages, particularly beer and wine. One way to free these flavors and aromas is by enzymatic hydrolysis catalyzed by βglucosidase. The activities of β-glucosidase are strain and species dependent in yeast...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: . APPROVED: Thomas Shellhammer, Mentor, representing Food Science and Technology Rebecca Vega Thurber

Creator:: Tep, Allison P.
Abstract:: The sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima is a model organism for the study of temperate symbiosis. Anthopleura elegantissima can engage in symbiosis with two different algal symbionts: the dinoflagellate Breviolum muscatinei and the chlorophyte Elliptochloris marina. One host enzyme that has been shown to be important in cnidarian-algal symbioses is carbonic...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: : 539–543 Morelan, Ian A., Gaulke, Christopher A., Sharpton, Thomas J., Thurber, Rebecca V., Denver

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