Toxicology graduate students in TOX 502 are analyzing BTEX compounds using solid phase
microextraction (SPME) and gas chromatography - mass spectrometry system
in the Koziel lab (Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering).
A sampling of present toxicology graduate student projects.
(Coats Lab/Entomology) research involves evaluating the insecticidal activity of the natural product conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) against the
European corn borer. This includes studying the development, survival, fecundity, and fatty acid
profiles of corn borers fed a CLA-enriched diet.
(Reddy Lab/Food Science and Human Nutition and Kanthasamy Lab/Biomedical Sciences) Discover the neuroprotective effect of phytic acid,
a natural iron chelator, in cell culture model and animal model of Parkinson’s disease.
Recent Student Seminar Titles
- (Coats Lab): "Mosquito Repellency to Plant Essential Oils"
- (Coats Lab/Entomology Department): “Laboratory evaluation of the environmental fate of two monoterpenoid insecticides: thymol and phenethyl propionate'”
- (Coats Lab/Entomology Department): “Environmental Studies on the Fate and Behavior of Pharma Proteins Produced in Transgenic Corn”
- (Coats Lab/Entomology Department): "Development of methods to assess the environmental fate and effects of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Cry1F and Cry3Bb1 proteins".
- (Wolt Lab/Agronomy Department): “Assessing Fumonisin B1 in corn and effects on swine productivity: Problem Formulation”
- (Kanthasamy Lab): "Resveratrol Protects Dopaminergic Neurons in Parkinson's Disease Models by Modulating the PKC-delta Dependent Apoptotic Signaling Pathway"
- (Hendrich Lab): "Age- and Gender-Related Differences in the Apparent Adaption to Immuntoxicity of Deoxynivalenol in BALB/c mice"
- (Murphy/Brehm-Stecher Labs): "Antimicrobial Properties of Metal Nanoparticles"
