Around the Bay in 80 Days: Investigating the Relationship between Bird Diversity and Plants

Quinlan House, Wildlife Undergraduate Student

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between plant species richness and bird diversity within the area of Humboldt Bay situated in north-western California. Humboldt Bay hosts a unique array of natural areas such as redwood forests, coastal dune forests, and wetlands. We examined the effect of plant species richness and diversity on bird diversity in these three habitats around Humboldt Bay by conducting point counts, plant species censusing, and plant density sampling across 10 plots at each habitat.

Art 100 Revamp!

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Art 100 (Global Perspectives in Art) has been fully online for several years. For Spring 2019, Professor Julie Alderson converted the class to a blended format - retaining significant online components, but also introducing weekly face to face elements. In converting the class, she enlisted three advanced Art Education students - Liz Gordon, Alexa Pante and Maya Strauss, to freshen up the How To videos associated with the class. This presentation will present these videos which were designed to help students complete art projects for the course.

Art Integration: Deepening Learning Through the Arts

Other

The North Coast Arts Integration Project (NCAIP) is a four-year federally funded project that seeks to integrate and strengthen arts instruction in eight rural elementary and middle schools with the goal of improving student academic performance, reasoning skills, creative thinking and engagement. NCAIP increases student exposure to the arts through field trips and in-­school performances by local, national and international performing artists. In addition, our project builds community bridges by partnering teachers with local teaching artists and other local arts institutions. We will share examples of an arts integrated lesson and provide a chance for you to have a short arts experience.

Art is Culture, Culture is Medicine

College of Professional Studies

The aim of this project was to address the lack of Indigenous representation in the Boys & Girls Club in Klamath, which operates on the Yurok Reservation. We were tasked by the Yurok Tribe and the Boys & Girls Club of the Redwoods to create a culturally appropriate mural.

Art of Sustainability - UN Sustainable Development Goals Coloring Poster (English)

Morgan Barker, Art + Film Faculty

Library

Art of Sustainability - color, relax and learn - using the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These critical call-to-action elements represent sincere ways that we all can advocate for social, environmental and economic issues. Whether you are interested in climate change, working on inequality and injustice, reducing poverty, developing clean water and more - this coloring page will allow you to see these topics in new ways. What are the intersections you see in life, work and your university projects? Coloring page - created by Angela Lukanovich and Jen Panaro https://www.raisingglobalkidizens.com/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-coloring-poster/

Art of Sustainability - UN Sustainable Development Goals Coloring Poster (Spanish)

Morgan Barker, Other Faculty

Library

Art of Sustainability - color, relax and learn - using the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These critical call-to-action elements represent sincere ways that we all can advocate for social, environmental and economic issues. Whether you are interested in climate change, working on inequality and injustice, reducing poverty, developing clean water and more - this coloring page will allow you to see these topics in new ways. What are the intersections you see in life, work and your university projects? Coloring page - created by Angela Lukanovich and Jen Panaro https://www.raisingglobalkidizens.com/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-coloring-poster/

Artifact Analysis With Adobe Illustrator

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Our project's goal is to utilize the Adobe Illustrator Program with artifact analysis. Using artifacts obtained from the Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Archaeology project headed by Dr. Marisol Cortes Rincon. We will learn to use Adobe Illustrator to build digital images of the artifacts and create a database for them to be observed for present and future studies. We hope that our work will inspire continued use of this technique so others may be able to study artifacts in a digital and hard copy form so that artifacts can be better preserved and researched in multiple mediums and easily accessible to other scholars. This will allow for a stronger collaboration and interpretation.

ASR Membrane Protein and ApoA1 Detection in Nanodisc via Western Blot Analysis

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

Anabaena sensory rhodopsin (ASR) is a prokaryotic photoactive transmembrane G protein coupled receptor extracted from the cyanobacterium Nostoc. The potential for ASR and its transducer, ASRT, to transcribe/translate prokaryotic genes into products by light signals is an extremely attractive possibility for future membrane research. Nanodiscs are a useful tool for studying membrane proteins because they serve to create a stable amphipathic environment. In the present study, 6x-His ASR has been extracted, isolated, purified, and inserted into a MSP nanodisc with ApoA1 and DMPC. We examine ApoA1 insertion into the nanodisc via SDS-PAGE and chemiluminescent western blot analysis.

Assaying the Substrate Activities and Enantioselectivities of Recombinant Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenases toward Aryl Sulfides

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

Certain Flavin Monooxygenases (FMO) are enzymes with the potential to catalyze single-enantiomer oxidation of aryl sulfides to chiral sulfoxides. Aryl sulfoxides have a wide array of pharmaceutical and agricultural applications, but many of these enantiomers have yet to be selectively and efficiently synthesized. The enzymes examined in this study are FMOs from Mus musculus, Xenopus tropicalis, Homo sapiens, and BVMO4 and BVMO24 from Rhodococcus jostii RHA1. The genes were cloned into a vector for expression in Escherichia coli and whole-cell mediated reactions with various aryl sulfides were performed to determine their activity toward the substrates and to determine the enantioselectivity.

Assessing and mitigating metabolic response of HEK293 cells to cytotoxic metals using ascorbic acid

Elizabeth Kowalski, Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

We examined how HEK293 kidney cells responded metabolically to heavy metal poisoning by cadmium chloride (CdCl2), aluminum chloride (AlCl3), and cesium chloride (CsCl) using two fluorometric assays (resazurin and MitoTracker). We then attempted to mitigate adverse effects by treating these cells with ascorbic acid (vitamin C).