Stevenson University Biology

Biology Alums earn Forensic Science Masters Degree graduates
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Four biology alumni earned their Master of Science in Forensic Science at the first ever Stevenson University commencement on December 15, 2008. Pictured here are Laura Parrish, Stephanie Roberg and Sarah Kight. Not pictured is Steve Mrozinski.
Congratulations Grads!!

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Forensic Science graduate students
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Brittany Barrick, Sarah Kight and Jessica Sullivan, all students who did their thesis research in forensic DNA analysis with Dr. Meredith Durmowicz, graduated yesterday. Congratulations!!

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December 2008 Biology Graduates
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The Biology Department saw seven students graduate in the first ever Stevenson University commencement ceremony today! Pictured here, from left to right, are biology grads Eric Baker, Catherine Connelly and Tara Cohen. Not pictured are Sierra Hall (biology), Eleasia Hamlin (biotechnology), Courtney Naff (biology), and Dhaval Patel (biology). [...]

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Brandon Cooper, senior biotechnology major
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For his Biology Honors contract project, Brandon Cooper, senior biotechnology major, created a classroom activity that has students use traditional structure-function relationships to make a cladogram that shows the evolutionary relationships between organisms within the same domain. The students will then use bioinformatics tools to make [...]

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Jenna Moyer, junior biology major
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Junior Biology major Jenna Moyer recently presented her Biology Honors contract project to the department. Her work was an extension of her summer research with Dr. Joe Matanoski, in which she found that fruit flies show an age-related decline in short term memory. For her honors project, [...]

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Diana Miller, BIO ‘07, is currently working in a research laboratory in the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, studying Gaucher’s Disease using shRNA to knockdown the enzyme in human embryonic stem cells. She recently presented her work at the Maryland Stem Cell Symposium, and was a co-author on a [...]

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Krystal Burns, Honors Senior Research Capstone student
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Krystal Burns, senior biology major, presented her Honors Senior Research Capstone seminar to faculty and other students today. Her research, which was completed at the University of Maryland Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, was entitled, “Prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes after endodontic treatment”.

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Dawn Andanar, Biotechnology major
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Dawn Andanar, senior biolotechnology major, presented her Biology Honors project to the department faculty. She developed an instructional activity that introduces students to the use of bioinformatics databases to build trees that depict the evolutionary relationship of organisms. The activity will be used in the introductory biology courses [...]

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Lauren Bonsal, Honors Senior Research Capstone student
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Lauren Bonsal, Honors Senior Research Capstone student, presented a seminar on her research project on the role of the protein osteopontin in prostate cancer progression. Lauren completed her research at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry.

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Tim Potter analyzing microarray data
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Tim Potter, Applied Mathematics major, works with microarray data from Dr. Sanders’ other research students. He is studying which genes are turned up and which are turned down when yeast are grown with different sugars.

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