PCR - Spring 2013

Table of Contents Page 1: DNA Barcode of Anoplophora glabripennis

By Adam Fraites’13 and Alexa Van Besien’13 Page 4: Determining the Effect of Light Intensity and Type of Light on Respiration of Algae

By Nicole Witte’13, Ashley Zhou’13, Ryan Toomey’13 and Adam Palmer’13 Page 6: Biophotovoltaics: Generating Electricity from Moss

By Jennifer Guo (VI) Page 10: Comparing Skin Pigmentation and Melanin Production to the Mutagenic

Effects of Ultraviolet Rays Using Sordaria fimicola

By Ellen Cahill’13 Page 13: Plasmid Construction for a Zebrafish Model of Huntington’s Disease

By Sonalika Reddi’13 and Amanda Haik’13 Page 16: Factors Influencing Healing Rates of Arthroscopic Repairs of the Rotator

Cuff

By Kaitlyn Friedman’13 Page 19: The Effects of Exercise on Short-Term Cognitive Ability

By Mac Hugin’13 and Jack Wollmuth’13 Page 21: Nepetalactone: The Creation of a Natural Insect Repellent

By Dan Vaysberg’13 and John-Tod Surgeon’13 Page 24: Correlation Between Fish Feed and Quality of Their Feces as Fertilizer

for Fast Plants

By Emily Kamen’13 and Dan Muro’13 Page 26: Expression of Perforin and Granzyme B in the Liver and Spleen of BEP

Neurons and Cortical Cells Implanted Rats Induced with Liver Cancer

By Rahul Rakhit’13 Page 29: Correlating Incline and Heart Rate in Teenage Male Runners

By Sam Ricciardi’13 Page 31: Using Algae to Create Biodiesel

By Mikell Graves’13, Cole McCollum’13, and Harrison Homer’13