The Learning and Teaching Center Senior Student Assistant assist Admin. The Learning and Teaching Center, ext. The Learning and Teaching Center, ext. Studies effects of changes in environment on cyanobacterial cells. At least one semester of astronomy is necessary as background.
Student works on development of fluorescence assays for biological chromium.
Research involves developing synthetic methods for appropriate model compounds, typically chromium complexes with amino acids and small peptides, and mastering experimental techniques of absorption, excitation and emission spectroscopy. Project will examine in a systematic way the arguments put forth by various parties against American intervention in major foreign conflicts in the twentieth centry. Work on project involving use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to assay to production of storage molecules in cyanobacterial cells when their environment is varied. The student will be part of a research group consisting of several students and faculty from different disciplines. Training will be provided.