McNair Summer Research

One Drug for All RNA Viruses

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Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: With cases and deaths constantly rising, and a vaccine that has yet to been developed, scientists everywhere are focusing their efforts on repurposed drugs, preexisting FDA approved drugs used to treat other viruses/illnesses, to see which ones are safely effective at treating Covid-19 patients with … Read more

An Analysis of the Impact of Identity on Women of Color Housing Activists

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Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: Throughout history, Black Indigenous Women of Color(BIWoC) have been at the forefront of a variety of social movements and have served as integral catalysts of social change and development. Advocacy and activism has proven to be instrumental in fostering healthy change. Group identity, such as … Read more

The role of DARPP-32+ NNs in zebra finch song production

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Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: Zebra finches incorporate new neurons into song regions throughout adulthood in a process called adult neurogenesis. Even after song is mastered, two types of adult-born neurons (NNs) are added to HVC, the zebra finch’s vocal center (Tokarev, et al., 2016). One type of HVC NN … Read more

Identifying Sites of Sequence Variation Among Populations of Drosophila sechellia Using Bioinformatics Pipeline

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Live Poster Session: Zoom LinkThursday, July 30th 1:15-2:30pm EDT Abstract: Drosophila sechellia is a species of fruit fly found on the Seychelles Islands off the eastern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. After colonization of the island chain, D. sechellia evolved many derived traits associated with specialization on its preferred host plant Morinda citrifolia … Read more