A Jupyter Notebook Educational Repository
Presenter Name: Nicholas Baker
I am creating a repository of jupyter notebooks for the chemical engineering department to use. These notebooks will make sovling problems and coding easier for the students. It will also be a framework to be updated as new information needs to be added. It will be a resource for students to use and hopefully make their lives easier, and encourage them to maintain using code throughout their college career.
Unraveling the Q system function in prokaryotes
Presenter Name: Peyton Leyendecker
Here, we explored the QF transcription factor activation mechanism in prokaryotes by characterizing the behavior of a fusion protein (TetR-QFAD) consisting of the tetracycline repressor (TetR) and the QF activating domain (QFAD) downstream of the T7 promoter. We demonstrate that when placed downstream of the T7 promoter, TetR-QFAD functions as a repressor and an activator depending on the presence of aTc.
The Cause of Excess Magmatism in the Northern Atlantic Margin
Presenter Name: Autumn Hartley
Large Igneous Provinces are known to be prominent drivers of climate change in Earth’s past. When the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum occurred, the North Atlantic Igneous Province was forming. In this project, the causes behind the formation of this province are examined through the lens of geothermometry, melting regimes, and composition of the mantle source using data from the International Ocean Discovery Program’s Expedition 396.