CURE Examples
Discipline
Core Competencies
- Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering) 7 matches
- Developing and using models 1 match
- Planning and carrying out investigations 7 matches
- Analyzing and interpreting data 8 matches
- Using mathematics and computational thinking 3 matches
- Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering) 5 matches
Nature of Research
State
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Identification of Telomere Regulating Genes in Drosophila melanogaster
Chun Zhou, Mercy College-Main Campus
The role of environmental contaminants on zebrafish development and reproduction
Jillian Nissen, SUNY College at Old Westbury
There is increasing evidence that course-embedded research experiences improve student success, retention and persistence in STEM fields. This course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE), in concert with the CURE designed by Fernando Nieto from SUNY College at Old Westbury, is intended to provide an authentic research experience that will integrate into the second semester of the Freshman biology laboratory. Students will explore the effects of environmental contaminants on the development and reproduction of two model organisms, Arabidopsis thaliana and Danio rerio. While working in groups, students will select contaminants that are relevant to their local community and develop a research question and experimental design to be undertaken for half a semester for each model organism. Students will be assessed on the basis of an oral presentation, a written research report, and laboratory notebook.
Core Competencies: Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering), Using mathematics and computational thinking, Planning and carrying out investigations, Analyzing and interpreting data, Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
Target Audience: Introductory, Major
CURE Duration: Half a term
Harmful Algal Blooms of NY. "HAB Hunters"
Jeff McLean, Rockland Community College
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) represent an increasing threat to New York's waterways and drinking water sources. HAB-associated toxins are known to be both neurotoxic and hepatotoxic in animals and humans, causing cases of animal fatality and human illness in recent years. We propose a CURE to study these blooms and the environmental conditions that promote them. As an additional aim, we intend to study the biodynamics of cyanobacteriophages that infect these algae and explore the possiblity of using cyanophages as an option for bloom mitigation.
Core Competencies: Planning and carrying out investigations, Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering), Analyzing and interpreting data, Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
Nature of Research: Wet Lab/Bench Research, Applied Research, Basic Research, Field Research
State: New York
Target Audience: Major
CURE Duration: Multiple terms
Heather Fiumera, SUNY at Binghamton
Target Audience: Upper Division, Major
CURE Duration: A full term
HAB
Jillian Decker, Rockland Community College
Students will determine causes and biocontrol of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CHABs). Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) represent an increasing threat to New York's waterways and drinking water sources. HAB-associated toxins are known to be both neurotoxic and hepatotoxic in animals and humans, causing cases of animal fatality and human illness in recent years. We propose a CURE to study these blooms and the environmental conditions that promote them. As an additional aim, we intend to study the biodynamics of cyanobacteriophages that infect these algae and explore the possibility of using cyanophages as an option for bloom mitigation.
Core Competencies: Analyzing and interpreting data
Nature of Research: Wet Lab/Bench Research, Applied Research, Field Research, Basic Research
State: New York
Target Audience: Non-major, Major
CURE Duration: A full term
Exploration and Management of Mastitis-Causing Microbes on Operating Dairy Farms
Kimberly Tarvis, SUNY College of Agric and Techn at Cobleskill
Inflammation of the mammary gland and udder tissue, known as mastitis, is the most prevalent disease contributing to economic loss on dairy farms in the United States (Bar et al., 2008). Mastitis can cause both clinical and subclinicial disease, both of which are losses to a dairies financial viability. A clinical case of mastitis for dairy cows in their second lactation and greater have a 35% chance of premature culling from a herd. Along with this premature exit, the cost per clinical mastitis case in the first 30 days in milk is estimated to be a staggering 4 (Rollin et al., 2015). Subclinicial mastitis cases can lead to over ,500 in monthly loss on dairy farms with 50 cows or less, and over ,000 per month of farms of 500 cows or more. (Ruegg, 2011). The need to identify, quantify and realistically manage these mastitis-causing microbial populations is of the up-most interest to dairy producers. Students in this CURE project will be discovering and quantifying the microbes that found on the SUNY Cobleskill dairy farm and/or surrounding collaborative farms that directly and indirectly cause mastitis in lactating & non-lactating cows and livestock. Once these organisms have been identified, further research will be conducted to analyze management methods to reduce these populations. Emphasis will be placed on practical management of these microbes by producers on operational dairies.
Epigenetic inhibitor screen
Lissette Delgado-Cruzata, CUNY John Jay College Criminal Justice
This CURE is designed for biology students in their junior or senior year. The research experience focuses in the understanding of screening of enzyme inhibitors and the analysis of downstream targets, with the ultimate goal of identifying compounds with potential therapeutic value in cancer research.