The Effects of Octanol on Gap Junctions and Actin of Neoblasts during Smed Pl...Marianne Gadiano
An independent project for Developmental Biology Lab (BIOL340), testing the effects of octanol exposure on the regeneration of Schmidtea mediterranea planaria. We tested to see whether or not actin was involved in the gap junction communication of migrating neoblasts during regeneration. We performed RT-PCR and Western Blot assays to detect any changes in actin levels from RNA and protein. Our results show that there seems to be little correlation between actin and gap junctions. We would like to conduct future studies on myosin, F-actin, and G-actin. The poster for this project was presented as part of the Spring 2016 Investigative Biology Labs Poster Session at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Including BIOL340L, the session also features research projects from students in the Molecular and General Genetics Lab, and the Phage Hunters: Genome Analysis Lab. The session serves to inform the public about the upper-level laboratories offered by the Biological Sciences department at UMBC.
The Effects of Octanol on Gap Junctions and Actin of Neoblasts during Smed Pl...Marianne Gadiano
An independent project for Developmental Biology Lab (BIOL340), testing the effects of octanol exposure on the regeneration of Schmidtea mediterranea planaria. We tested to see whether or not actin was involved in the gap junction communication of migrating neoblasts during regeneration. We performed RT-PCR and Western Blot assays to detect any changes in actin levels from RNA and protein. Our results show that there seems to be little correlation between actin and gap junctions. We would like to conduct future studies on myosin, F-actin, and G-actin. The poster for this project was presented as part of the Spring 2016 Investigative Biology Labs Poster Session at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Including BIOL340L, the session also features research projects from students in the Molecular and General Genetics Lab, and the Phage Hunters: Genome Analysis Lab. The session serves to inform the public about the upper-level laboratories offered by the Biological Sciences department at UMBC.
