Category Archives: Brain & Behavior

3 November 2023 By: Madisyn Jarvey, Aveya O’Donnell, and Gus Pieper Within the past two weeks, we have continued to troubleshoot our Myoneurin (MYNN)primer set four and beta-actin for our qPCRs and standard curves. So far, our MYNN results have … Continue reading →

13 October 2023 By: Aveya O’Donnell, Madisyn Jarvey, Gustav Pieper             Our group has been focusing our research on the brain and gene expression of green anole lizards (Anolis carolinensis) during the breeding and non-breeding seasons with respect to the … Continue reading →

29 September 2023 By: Ellie Malone, Emma Rieper, Anna Wilcox The past two weeks we have been working on the preliminary steps of conducting a quantitative PCR (qPCR) on our two genes, ZYG11A and HS6ST1. This includes troubleshooting our genes … Continue reading →

15 September 2023 By: Georgia Deml and Rebecca Fasching             This semester has already shown some unique challenges. The first of these challenges came with combining the remnants of our groups from last semester. Combining our groups meant that we … Continue reading →

26 April 2023 By: Aveya O’Donnell, Madisyn Jarvey, Gustav Pieper Our group has spent the semester researching the brain and gene expression of Green Anole Lizards (Anolis carolinensis) during the breeding and non-breeding seasons. The gene that our group has … Continue reading →