Davidson College Biology Students' Home Pages

Student Web Pages for Biology at Davidson College

This page is a work in progress that will collect work submitted by biology students. It will begin collecting student projects January, 1997.

Student Research Projects and Posters - Unrestricted Access
- Science and Math Student Research Symposia
Honors Theses - Unrestricted Access
Student WWW Pages for Classes - Unrestricted Access
Student Term Papers - Restricted Access
Examples of Student Resumes - Biology Related - Restricted Access

Student Research Projects/ Posters

Development Of Calcium Pools In Early Embryonic Chicken Hearts
Poster by Sean M. Mercer ('96) and Jeffery D. Cromartie ('97)

Development Of The Sarcoplasmic Reticulum As A Calcium Pool In Early Embryonic Chicken Hearts
Poster by Jeffery D. Cromartie ('97), Sean M. Mercer ('96) Sallie R. Permar ('97), and A. M. Campbell

Purification and Characterization of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Poster by Brad Ellison ('97) and John H. Williamson

Purification and Characterization of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Poster by Edward Gordon ('97), Chad Newman ('97), A. Malcolm Campbell, and John H. Williamson

Effects of Pollen Addition on Andromonoecy in Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense )
Poster by Janet C. Steven ('96) and Patricia A. Peroni

Purification and Characterization of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase from Brassica oleracea
Poster by Rudy Beiler ('97), Leo Dozier ('97), Brad Edwards ('97), Slade Worley ('97), and John H. Williamson

Male Infant Care in Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia Variegata ): Parental Investment or Access to Mates?
Poster by Margaret B. Scott ('96)

Nest Site Fidelity: Costs and Benefits of Parasite Avoidance
Poster by Katie Lannon ('98), Mark Stanback, and Anne Ford ('98)

Pepper, Palatability, and Pedagogy: Seed Choice and Competition in Campus Birds
Poster by Mark Stanback and Katie Lannon ('98)

Hatching Patterns in Birds: Testing a Critical Assumption
Poster by Anne Ford ('98), Mark Stanback, and Katie Lannon ('98)

A Comparison of Queen Number and Reproductive Allocation in Two Southeastern Populations of the Ant Leptothorax curvispinosus
Poster by Kenneth Howard ('98), Valerie Banschbach, and Patricia A. Peroni

Ecological Genetics of White Campion (Silene latifolia ) Seed Banks: A Comparison of Light and Dark Germination Among Maternal Families
Kelly N. Kiefer ('99), Katherine R. Okey ('98), and Patricia A. Peroni

Effects of Pollen Addition on Gender Expression and Fruiting in North Carolina Piedmont Populations of Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense), an Andromonoecious Herb
Katherine R. Okey ('98), Kelly N. Kiefer ('99), and Patricia A. Peroni

Subcloning of the H+-ATPase pmh1 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Lindsay Cohen ('99), and A. Malcolm Campbell

Nest Site Selection in the Eastern Bluebird: The Role of Parasite Aviodance
Anne Ford ('98), Katie Lannon ('99), Jasmina Radeva ('99), Ned Robinson ('00), Ellen Rockwell ('99), Kelly Westbrook ('99), and Dr. Mark Stanback

Molecular Characterization of a Mutation that Disrupts Agglutination in Chlamydomonas
AM Campbell, AJ Coble ('98), TH Ch'ng ('99), LD Cohen ('99), EM Long*, KM Russo ('99), and EV Armbrust**
in collaboration with *Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and **Marine Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

First Annual Davidson College Animal Physiology Symposium - Spring Semester 1998

Comparative Turtle Ecology in the Piedmont of North Carolina
Shane Lindsay ('00), Jenny Roberts ('00), and Michael E. Dorcas - Summer 1999
Paper to be submitted to Chelonian Conservation and Biology

Regional Body Temperature Variation in Corn Snakes Measured Using Temperature-Sensitive Passive Integrated Transponders
Andrew W. Roark ('99) and Michael E. Dorcas - Spring 1999
IN PRESS in Journal of Herpetology

Optimizing Amphibian Monitoring Programs: The Use of Automated Recording Systems to Measure Variation in Anuran Calling Activity
Scott R. Briggs ('99) and Michael E. Dorcas - Spring 1999