Student Highlights

"Dalmatian Toadflax is larger and hosts fewer weevils when growing at urban sites"

"Building a Biological Hammer"

Alex Friedman and Brittany Bergam
Department of Biology, Gonzaga University
at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
2010 Annual Meeting
January 3 - 7, 2010
Seattle, WA

"The atypical plethodontid salamander Karsenia korenea has typical plethodontid skin"

Brett Wagner
Department of Biology, Gonzaga University
July 22 - 27, 2009 at the 2009 Joint Meeting of Icthologists and Herpotologists
Portland, OR

Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington

June 28 - July 1, 2009
Members of the Shepherd, Warren and Cremeens labs represented Gonzaga at the 2009 NORM meetings.

For a list of poster titles and pictures, see here.

Spokane Intercollegiate Research Conference

April 25, 2009
A number of students from the Chemistry and Biology Departments presented their research at the SIRC, which was held at Whitworth University this year.

See a complete list of presentations here.

"Cloning and Expression of Putative Class II HMG CoA Reductase from B. cenocepacia”

Holly Dembinski
Department of Chemistry, Gonzaga University
April 18 at the West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference
Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA

“Gene Dosage Effect:  Can the Apparent Lethality of ExtraChromosome VI in Yeast be Alleviated by the Addition of the TUB1 Gene?”

Kirstie Keller
Department of Biology, Gonzaga University
April 18 at the West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference
Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA

“Comparison of three tools used for measuring road density”

Padraic Stoy
Department of Biology, Gonzaga University
April 9 at the Intermountain GIS Conference in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho
Sponsored by the Idaho chapter of URISA (Urban and Regional Information Systems Association)

“Orbital Overlap (Area and Volume) as a Function of Rotation”

Ryan R. Cloke , Robert C. Ray, Thomas M. McKenzie, Shannon R. Overbay, and Matthew E. Cremeens, Departments of Chemistry and Mathematics, Gonzaga University, April 4th, 2009 at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Mathematical Association of America, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA