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Merkle JA, Devergne O, Kelly SM, Croonquist PA, Evans CJ, Hwalek MA, Straub VL, Hamill DR, Peister A, Puthoff DP, Saville KJ, Siders JL, Villanueva Gonzalez ZJ, Wittke-Thompson JK, Bieser KL, Stamm J, Vrailas-Mortimer AD, Kagey JD. Fly-CURE, a multi-institutional CURE using Drosophila, increases students' confidence, sense of belonging, and persistence in research. JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOLOGY EDUCATION 2023; 24:e00245-22. [PMID: 38107988 PMCID: PMC10720528 DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.00245-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
Abstract
The Fly-CURE is a genetics-focused multi-institutional Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that provides undergraduate students with hands-on research experiences within a course. Through the Fly-CURE, undergraduate students at diverse types of higher education institutions across the United States map and characterize novel mutants isolated from a genetic screen in Drosophila melanogaster. To date, more than 20 mutants have been studied across 20 institutions, and our scientific data have led to eleven publications with more than 500 students as authors. To evaluate the impact of the Fly-CURE experience on students, we developed and validated assessment tools to identify students' perceived research self-efficacy, sense of belonging in science, and intent to pursue additional research opportunities. Our data, collected over three academic years and involving 14 institutions and 480 students, show gains in these metrics after completion of the Fly-CURE across all student subgroups analyzed, including comparisons of gender, academic status, racial and ethnic groups, and parents' educational background. Importantly, our data also show differential gains in the areas of self-efficacy and interest in seeking additional research opportunities between Fly-CURE students with and without prior research experience, illustrating the positive impact of research exposure (dosage) on student outcomes. Altogether, our data indicate that the Fly-CURE experience has a significant impact on students' efficacy with research methods, sense of belonging to the scientific research community, and interest in pursuing additional research experiences.
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- Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana, USA
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Evans CJ, Bieser KL, Acevedo-Vasquez KS, Augustine EJ, Bowen S, Casarez VA, Feliciano VI, Glazier A, Guinan HR, Hallman R, Haugan E, Hehr LA, Hunnicutt SN, Leifer I, Mauger M, Mauger M, Melendez NY, Milshteyn L, Moore E, Nguyen SA, Phanphouvong SC, Pinal DM, Pope HM, Salinas MBM, Shellin M, Small I, Yeoh NC, Yokomizo AM, Kagey JD. The I.3.2 developmental mutant has a single nucleotide deletion in the gene centromere identifier. MICROPUBLICATION BIOLOGY 2022; 2022:10.17912/micropub.biology.000653. [PMID: 36389120 PMCID: PMC9644223 DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 09/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The mutation I.3.2 was previously identified in a FLP/FRT screen of chromosome 2R for conditional growth regulators. Here we report the phenotypic characterization and genetic mapping of I.3.2 by undergraduate students participating in Fly-CURE, a pedagogical program that teaches the science of genetics through a classroom research experience. We find that creation of I.3.2 cell clones in the developing eye-antennal imaginal disc causes a headless adult phenotype, suggestive of both autonomous and non-autonomous effects on cell growth or viability. We also identify the I.3.2 mutation as a loss-of-function allele of the gene centromere identifier ( cid ), which encodes centromere-specific histone H3 variant critical for chromosomal segregation.
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- Cory J. Evans
- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA
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- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Biology Department, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, USA
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Yue C, Long Y, Ni C, Peng C, Yue T. Valence of Temporal Self-Appraisals: A Comparison Between First-Person Perspective and Third-Person Perspective. Front Psychol 2021; 12:778532. [PMID: 34858300 PMCID: PMC8631811 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.778532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Mental time travel is one of the most remarkable achievements of mankind. On the one hand, people perceive past self, present self, and future self as a continuous unity; on the other hand, people have the ability to distinguish among the three types of temporal selves because there are different representations of them. In this study, we used an adapted temporal self-reference paradigm to explore the processing mechanism of different temporal selves. Temporal self-reference was performed from the first-person perspective in Experiment 1 and from the third-person perspective in Experiment 2. The results indicated that people showed a more positive bias toward future self compared with past self and present self no matter in the first-person perspective or third-person perspective. There was no difference in recognition rate among past self, present self, and future self. Compared with the first-person perspective, present self-processing in the third-person perspective was more abstract and generalized, which may reflect that the third-person perspective has the same distancing function as time. This study can deepen understandings on temporal self-appraisals from different perspectives.
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- Caizhen Yue
- College of National Culture and Cognitive Science, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang, China
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- College of National Culture and Cognitive Science, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang, China
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- College of National Culture and Cognitive Science, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang, China
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- Laboratory of Emotion and Mental Health, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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Talley EM, Watts CT, Aboyer S, Adamson MG, Akoto HA, Altemus H, Avella PJ, Bailey R, Bell ER, Bell KL, Breneman K, Burkhart JS, Chanley LJ, Cook SS, DesLaurier MT, Dorsey TR, Doyle CJ, Egloff ME, Fasawe AS, Garcia KK, Graves NP, Gray TK, Gustafson EM, Hall MJ, Hayes JD, Holic LJ, Jarvis BA, Klos PS, Kritzmire S, Kuzovko L, Lainez E, McCoy S, Mierendorf JC, Neri NA, Neville CR, Osborn K, Parker K, Parks ME, Peck K, Pitt R, Platta ME, Powell B, Rodriguez K, Ruiz C, Schaefer MN, Shields AB, Smiley JB, Stauffer B, Straub D, Sweeney JL, Termine KM, Thomas B, Toth SD, Veile TR, Walker KS, Webster PN, Woodard BJ, Yoder QL, Young MK, Zeedyk ML, Ziegler LN, Bieser KL, Puthoff DP, Stamm J, Vrailas-Mortimer AD, Kagey JD, Merkle JA. Genetic mapping and phenotypic analysis of shotH.3.2 in Drosophila melanogaster. MICROPUBLICATION BIOLOGY 2021; 2021. [PMID: 34278244 PMCID: PMC8278230 DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Genetic screens are used to identify genes involved in specific biological processes. An EMS mutagenesis screen in Drosophila melanogaster identified growth control phenotypes in the developing eye. One mutant line from this screen, H.3.2, was phenotypically characterized using the FLP/FRT system and genetically mapped by complementation analysis and genomic sequencing by undergraduate students participating in the multi-institution Fly-CURE consortium. H.3.2 was found to have a nonsense mutation in short stop (shot), anortholog of the mammalian spectraplakin dystonin (DST). shot and DST are involved in cytoskeletal organization and play roles during cell growth and proliferation.
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- University of Evansville, Evansville, IN USA
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- Illinois State University, Normal, IL USA
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- Illinois State University, Normal, IL USA
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- University of Evansville, Evansville, IN USA
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Vrailas-Mortimer AD, Aggarwal N, Ahmed NN, Alberts IM, Alhawasli M, Aljerdi IA, Allen BM, Alnajar AM, Anderson MA, Armstong R, Avery CC, Avila EJ, Baker TN, Basardeh S, Bates NA, Beidas FN, Bosler AC, Brewer DM, Buenaventura RS, Burrell NJ, Cabrera-Lopez AP, Cervantes-Gonzalez AB, Cezar RP, Coronel J, Croslyn C, Damery KR, Diaz-Alavez L, Dixit NP, Duarte DL, Emke AR, English K, Eshun AA, Esterly SR, Estrada AJ, Feng M, Freund MM, Garcia N, Ghotra CS, Ghyasi H, Hale CS, Hulsman L, Jamerson L, Jones AK, Kuczynski M, Lacey-Kennedy TN, Lee MJ, Mahjoub T, Mersinger MC, Muckerheide AD, Myers DW, Nielsen K, Nosowicz PJ, Nunez JA, Ortiz AC, Patel TT, Perry NN, Poser WSA, Puga DM, Quam C, Quintana-Lopez P, Rennerfeldt P, Reyes NM, Rines IG, Roberts C, Robinson DB, Rossa KM, Ruhlmann GJ, Schmidt J, Sherwood JR, Shonoda DH, Soellner H, Torrez JC, Velide M, Weinzapfel Z, Ward AC, Bieser KL, Merkle JA, Stamm JC, Tillett RL, Kagey JD. B.2.16 is a non-lethal modifier of the Dark82 mosaic eye phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster. MICROPUBLICATION BIOLOGY 2021; 2021. [PMID: 33474526 PMCID: PMC7812380 DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Genetic screens have been used to identify genes involved in the regulation of different biological processes. We identified growth mutants in a Flp/FRT screen using the Drosophila melanogaster eye to identify conditional regulators of cell growth and cell division. One mutant identified from this screen, B.2.16, was mapped and characterized by researchers in undergraduate genetics labs as part of the Fly-CURE. We find that B.2.16 is a non-lethal genetic modifier of the Dark82 mosaic eye phenotype.
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- University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI USA.,Illinois State University, Normal, IL USA
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- Nevada State College, Henderson, NV USA
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Bieser K, Sanford J, Saville K, Arreola K, Ayres Z, Basulto D, Benito S, Breen C, Brix J, Brown N, Burton K, Chadwick T, Chen M, Chu K, Corbett B, Dill Z, Faughender M, Hickey A, Julia J, Kelty S, Jobs B, Krason B, Lam B, McCullough C, McEwen B, McKenzie J, McQuinn K, Moritz C, Myers K, Naugle E, Nutter A, O'Conke D, O'Grondik M, Patel K, Rudowski S, Sberna E, Stall G, Steiner T, Tanriverdi E, Torres Patarroyo N, Traster V, Tsai L, Valenti A, Villegas M, Voors S, Watson K, Wright M, Kagey J. Genetic mapping of shnE.3.2 in Drosophila melanogaster. MICROPUBLICATION BIOLOGY 2019; 2019. [PMID: 32550446 PMCID: PMC7252328 DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Kayla Bieser
- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Physical and Life Sciences, Nevada State College
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Ohio Northern University
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- Biology Department, University of Detroit Mercy
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Stamm J, Joshi G, Anderson MA, Bussing K, Houchin C, Elinsky A, Flyte J, Husseini N, Jarosz D, Johnson C, Johnson A, Jones C, Kooner T, Myhre D, Rafaill T, Sayed S, Swan K, Toma J, Kagey J. Genetic mapping of EgfrL.3.1 in Drosophila melanogaster. MICROPUBLICATION BIOLOGY 2019; 2019. [PMID: 32550448 PMCID: PMC7252331 DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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- Joyce Stamm
- Department of Biology, University of Evansville
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- Biology Department, University of Detroit Mercy
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- Biology Department, University of Detroit Mercy
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- Biology Department, University of Detroit Mercy
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- Biology Department, University of Detroit Mercy
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- Biology Department, University of Detroit Mercy
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