Honors Projects

Showing 61 - 70 of 564 Items

Miniature of Role of the Dopamine Subtype 1 Receptor (D<sub>1</sub>R) Modulation of the I<sub>h</sub> Current in Rhythmic Spinal Mammalian Motor Networks
Role of the Dopamine Subtype 1 Receptor (D1R) Modulation of the Ih Current in Rhythmic Spinal Mammalian Motor Networks
Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
  • Restriction End Date: 2025-06-01

    Date: 2022-01-01

    Creator: Grace Soeun Lee

    Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community



      Miniature of Enhancer usage variation assessed via chromatin-conformation within and among three species of <i>Drosophila</i>
      Enhancer usage variation assessed via chromatin-conformation within and among three species of Drosophila
      This record is embargoed.
        • Embargo End Date: 2027-05-19

        Date: 2022-01-01

        Creator: Maia B. Granoski

        Access: Embargoed



          Miniature of Discovery and characterization of novel crustin family antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the American lobster, <i>Homarus americanus</i>, using transcriptomics and peptidomics
          Discovery and characterization of novel crustin family antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the American lobster, Homarus americanus, using transcriptomics and peptidomics
          Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
          • Restriction End Date: 2027-06-01

            Date: 2022-01-01

            Creator: Emily Yuan-ann Pan

            Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community



              Miniature of Modern Love and Marriage:  The Problems and Insights of Rousseau, Beauvoir, and Plato
              Modern Love and Marriage: The Problems and Insights of Rousseau, Beauvoir, and Plato
              Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
              • Restriction End Date: 2025-06-01

                Date: 2022-01-01

                Creator: Isabella Angel

                Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community



                  Transforming the Humane: Human/Animal Relationships in Marlen Haushofer’s Die Wand and Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung

                  Date: 2022-01-01

                  Creator: Joosep R. Vorno

                  Access: Open access

                  In this project, I investigate Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung (1915) and Marlen Haushofer’s Die Wand (1963) through a magic realist interpretive strategy. I identify how, as a result of a mysterious opening premise, the two texts accomplish a human/animal transformation in the protagonists. While the transformations differ in several aspects, even at times being direct opposites, the way in which the characters navigate their new nonhuman selves poses many important questions about care and humaneness, the human condition, and social and familial structures. By drawing on discussions of magic realism – from its roots in Weimar German art criticism, its contemporary features in literature, and the inherently subversive nature of the narrative mode – I discuss how the lens of magic realism becomes a helpful tool in recognizing, exploring, and appreciating the human/animal transformations as a defamiliarization of the familiar.



                  Miniature of Attentional Inhibition of a Distractor on Memory Facilitation
                  Attentional Inhibition of a Distractor on Memory Facilitation
                  Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.

                      Date: 2016-05-01

                      Creator: Jacob M MacDonald

                      Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community



                        Miniature of Identification of Mutations in WAK Locus in Arabidopsis thaliana
                        Identification of Mutations in WAK Locus in Arabidopsis thaliana
                        Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.

                            Date: 2017-05-01

                            Creator: Arman Ashrafi

                            Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community



                              Miniature of Evaluation of design parameters for monosaccharide probes used in the metabolic labeling of bacterial glycans
                              Evaluation of design parameters for monosaccharide probes used in the metabolic labeling of bacterial glycans
                              Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.

                                  Date: 2024-01-01

                                  Creator: Sophia Elisabeth Nigrovic

                                  Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community



                                    Characterizing the influence of Atlantic water intrusion on water mass formation and primary production in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

                                    Date: 2015-05-01

                                    Creator: Courtney Michelle Payne

                                    Access: Open access

                                    With warming global temperatures and changes to large-scale ocean circulation patterns, warm water intrusion into Arctic fjords is increasingly affecting fragile polar ecosystems. This study investigated how warm Atlantic water intrusion and the tidewater glacial melting it causes impacted water mass formation and primary productivity in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Data were collected over a 2-week period during the height of the melt season in August near the Kronebreen/Kongsvegen glacier complex, the most rapidly retreating glacier in Spitsbergen. Since 1998, intruding waters have warmed between 4 and 5.5˚C, which has prevented sea ice formation and changed the characteristics of fjord bottom waters. Increased glacial melting in the last decade has changed the characteristics of surface waters in the fjord. Modeled light fields suggest that suspended sediment in this glacial meltwater has reduced the euphotic zone close to the ice face, preventing high primary production in both the consistent and intermittent sediment-laden meltwater plumes. However, measurements collected close to terrestrially terminating glaciers indicate that extremely high primary production can occur in conditions of low turbidity. The results of this study support a three-part model of the effects of warm-water intrusion on water mass formation and primary production, where changes in sea ice coverage and tidewater glacial dynamics affect the optical light field. This model allows for spatial predictions for the most likely impacts of warm water intrusion on primary production in Spitsbergen, and could be extrapolated out to explore potential phytoplankton response in other regions susceptible to warm-water intrusion.