Neurology

Projects in this category include:

• The effect of Ziziphus jujuba as a treatment to reduce oxidative stress and subsequent Gram-negative bacterial infection in a Drosophila melanogaster model of Parkinson's Disease (Lexie Ben-Meir '21)

• The Effect of Arthrospira Platensis Before and After Aluminum-Exposure in Combating Metal-Induced Oxidative Stress in Caenorhabditis Elegans (Lauren Evans-Katz '20)

• The Effect of Isolation and Socialization on the Dopamine D2 Receptors in the Dopaminergic Reward Pathways of Food Addiction in Drosophila melanogaster (Leila Mirdamadi '20)

• The effects of Bisphenol A (BPA) on Fragile X Syndrome phenotypes in male and female wild-type and dFMR1 mutant Drosophila melanogaster (Alyssa Ponrartana '23)

• Exploring the Neural Responses Elicited by Perfect, Interrupted, and Neapolitan Cadences using Electroencephalography (Kennede Tucker '20)

• Using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) to Correct the Huntington’s Gene Mutation (HTT) in C. elegans With the Disease (Gracey Wyles '21) (housed under the CRISPR tab)