SURF Conference-Molecular Biology MB-1 (A): 39 and Me: Evolution of Dogs Through the Study of Genomics Lauren Flynn & Elisabeth Arevalo MB-2 (B): Evaluating Divergence in the Polymorphic Haitian Freshwater Fish Limia nigrofasciata Using Mitochondrial and Nuclear Gene Sequences Jazmyn Graham & Heather Axen MB-3 (A): Assessing Physiological Plasticity in the Face of Climate Change in Natural and Lab Reared Drosophila from Thermally Stable Low Elevation Sites Christina Taft, Anna Wilson-Wuestefeld & Heather Axen MB-4 (B): Investigating Mechanisms of Physiological Plasticity in the Face of Climate Change: Assessing Natural and Lab Reared Drosophila from Thermally Variable High Elevation Sites Anna Wilson-Wuestefeld, Christina Taft & Heather Axen MB-5 (A): Generation of a CRISPR-Activating System to Evaluate the Effect of Gene Overexpression on Yeast Life Span Cameron Dodier & Christopher Burtner MB-6 (B): Conformational Heterogeneity of 4-Aminobiphenyl Bulky Adducts Allen Schroeder, Ang Cai & Bongsup Cho MB-7 (A): Conformational Heterogeneity may Affect Mutations with 4-ABP Mirim Ji, Ang Cai & Bongsup Cho MB-8 (B): Characterizing the Effect of N-Terminal Acetylation on Structure and Phase Separation of the RNA-Binding Protein FUS Anna Bock, Anastasia Murthy & Nicolas Fawzi MB-9 (A): Effects on Structure and Function of Spontaneous Peptidyltransferase Center Mutations in Rhodothermus marinus Sophia Silvia, Steven Gregory & Samantha Donahue MB-10 (B): The Expression and Purification of N-Terminally Acetylated Ssa1 Chaperone from Saccharomyces cerevisiae Alijah A. Griffith & William Holmes MB-11 (A): The Effect of N-Terminal Acetylation on the Protein Tau William Holmes & Abigail Fleurima MB-12 (B): Determining the Effects of N-Terminal Acetylation on Tau Phase Seperation Dynamics Fantashia-tene Lopes & William Holmes MB-13 (A): The Role of the FANCD2 Protein in Mitotic DNA Synthesis Eden Francoeur & Niall Howlett MB-14 (B): Analyzing the Impacts of Loss of the FANCA Protein on Chromatin State Mileena Nguyen & Niall Howlett MB-15 (A): Phosphorylation of FANCD2 and ID2 by Cyclin Dependent Kinases Benjamin Piraino, Niall Howlett & Juan Cantres MB-16 (B): Molecular Phylogeny of Gregarine in the Narragansett Bay Area Abigail Harrington, Elizabeth Hunter & Chris Lane MB-17 (A): Biological Evaluation of 4-Aminobiphenyl DNA Adduct Bethany Lewis, Roy Chen, Ke Bian, Vincent Falkowski, Rui Qi & Deyu Li MB-18 (B): Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Identify Genes Required for Zebrafish Pigment Cell Migration and Stripe Formation Yenelsy Cepeda & Larissa Patterson MB-19 (A): Identification of CRISPR/Cas9 Induced Mutations in Zebrafish ALX Homeobox 4a Melanie Cragan & Larissa Patterson MB-20 (B): Investigating the Control of Ribosomal Protein Expression in Francisella tularensis Maria Santiago, Hannah Trautmann, Jamie Wandzilak & Kathryn Ramsey MB-21 (A): Developing an in situ Hybridization Method for the Identification of Merocysits kathae in the Atlantic Sea Scallop Placopecten magellanicus Victoria Love, Allex Gourlay & Roxanne Smolowitz MB-22 (B): Effects of Maternal Opioid Usage on the Insilin and Leptin Signaling Pathways in F1 Offspring Frances Deju-Calixto, Leo DeOrsey, Jeni Melo, Fair Vassoler, Christopher Schonhoff, Elizabeth Byrnes & Anika Toorie MB-23 (A): Diet-Induced Changes in the Gluconeogenesis and Glycogenolysis Metabolic Pathways in F1 Offspring as a Result of Maternal Adolescent Opioid Exposure Leo DeOrsey, Frances Deju, Jeni Melo, Fair Vassoler, Christopher Schonhoff, Elizabeth Byrnes & Anika Toorie MB-24 (B): The Effects of Maternal Opioid Usage on the Glycolytic Pathway in F1 Offspring Jeni Melo, Leo DeOrsey, Frances Deju-Calixto, Fair Vassoler, Fangfang Qu, Christopher Schonhoff, Elizabeth Byrnes, Donna Sloanim & Anika Toorie MB-25 (A): Implementing a Baculovirus Expression System to Optimize the Solubility of DNA Polymerase Theta Morgan Andrews, Floralba Parra, Melonnie Furgason, & Jamie B. Towle-Weicksel MB-26 (B): Investigating the Role of Human MRE11 in Cancer Sokkim Hout, Sreerupa Ray, Melonnie Furgason, Jamie B. Towle-Weicksel MB-27 (A): Cancer-Associated Variants of DNA Polymerase Theta Display Altered Bypass Activity on Damaged DNA Sandy Lastor, Olivia Atkins & Jamie B. Towle-Weicksel MB-28 (B): Heat Shock Physiology: Measuring the Metabolic Impacts of Thermal Stress in Drosophila melanogaster Sarah Ramsaran & James Waters MB-29 (A): Designing a Graphical User Interface for the Modeling of Metabolic Networks Sierra Rowley, Ke Zhang & Ying Zhang ConnectApplyTourGive