Author Archives: Deven11

In my 8-credit thesis with Dr. Bazely, my goal is to understand the distribution of the fungal endophyte within Festuca hallii and F.campestris. By the end of the semester, I should have a body map of either grass that displays where the endophyte is found and where it is most concentrated. To do this I am fixing andContinue reading “My 8 Credit Thesis With Dr. Bazely”

In Fungal Endophyte Symbiosis and Plant Diversity in Successional Fields, Clay and Holah aim to improve the understanding of the impact of endophyte infection within Tall fescue (Festuca arundinace) on biodiversity and succession. To do this, they seeded 8 20x20m plots of land with Tall fescue seeds, half of which had a high rate of infection formContinue reading “Summary of my Birth Year Article”

The monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria Araucana) is an endangered tree species that is found in the Andean regions of Argentina and Chile and are threatened with deforestation through logging and anthropogenic fires. The female trees produce cones that are pollinated via wind dispersal, that are then dispersed via gravity over short distances and animals overContinue reading “My Monkey Puzzle Tree Article Summary”

My secondary nomination for the film festival was the Serengeti Rules (2019) a 84 minute documentary about several scientists in the 1960s who discover important rules of ecosystem balance through keystone species. The particular section of the movie that sparked my nomination was about Tony Sinclair studying the population boom of wildebeest after a diseaseContinue reading “The Serengeti Rule: My Film Festival Runner Up”

Vaccines are used to illicit an immune response in the body by imitating an infection from a disease. The immune system is trained to fight off the actual infection once your body has encountered it. Most vaccines work through two mechanisms, the antigen is used to specify the immune system’s adaptability to the pathogen itselfContinue reading “How the mRNA Compares to Other Vaccine Types”

As the human population continues to grow, so does our need to feed it. The current method of farming is not sustainable or efficient enough to continue providing food to even the current human population. Major changes to how we farm food are needed to responsibly feed humanity. What Makes Farming so unsustainable? Fresh waterContinue reading “Agriculture: Present and Future”