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ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
The increased usage of food preservatives in the American diet over the past decades has led to a greater need to examine their health effects. Of particular concern was the preservative sod…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Vaping has become one of the most popular substitutes for smoking. Often touted as an healthier alternative to cigarettes, its increase in popularity has led to an alarming increase in addic…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Sex differences in the brain can be seen in the behavior of rodent species in approaches towards mating, acts of aggression, and parenting, which are regulated by gonadal sex hormones. Devel…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) are widely considered to be among the most agile and swift modern winged insects. As implied by their name, hoverflies can hover as well as perform rapid and…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
A precipitous decline in brown trout populations in southwestern Montana rivers is threatening Montana’s sportfishing industry, valued at more than $375 million annually. Although the cause…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
Adapting the evidence-based medical practice of giving oral sucrose to human infants before painful procedures, during the 2020-21 foreign animal disease outbreak of RHDV2 (Rabbit Hemorrhagi…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to provide a healthy balanced diet for my rabbits. Focusing on the rabbits health and their fur. Their fur can be a direct reflection of their overall healt…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Due to asthma, I was prescribed prednisone a lot when I was young. After my 7th grade physical, my growth showed a decrease from the 50th percentile to the 20th percentile. My doctor suggest…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Tetragonilla collina is an underground burrow stingless bee. They build a long round nesting tube that enrich with propolis to protect barrier against external invaders or weathering threats…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
The remarkable ability of planarian flatworms to heal severe wounds, replenish missing tissue, and recreate missing organs has long captivated biologists, but across the hundreds of planaria…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
The Chrysemys picta, also known as the Western Painted turtle, is a very common breed of amphibian living in the Sandhills of Nebraska. This project investigated the change in location over…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
In this study the N-Methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor was perturbed, and the resulting phenotypic effects were studied. It was hypothesized that the role of the NMDAR in neurodevelopmental…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences First Award
Salts are important for nerve conduction. However, excessive salt causes defects in learning and memory in mice. To investigate the mechanisms of salt-induced learning impairment, I used Dro…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Honeybees are an essential part of both natural ecology and human agriculture. Monitoring beehive health is an essential component of beekeeping. Proper monitoring is needed to prevent Colon…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Climate change caused by global warming formed an environment that is advantageous for vectors and pathogens. Moreover, Incheon, Korea is border on ports and airports, so the possibility for…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Varroa destructor mites have led to a worldwide decline in honeybee populations through the introduction of viruses to bee colonies, including Varroa destructor virus, Lake Sinai Virus, and…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is caused by disruption of cellular homeostasis when clusters of the protein alpha-synuclein aggregate dopaminergic neurons. However, no prescription drug directly t…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
The Red-crowned Parrot (Amazona viridgenalis; RCPA) is a monotypic species native to northeastern Mexico, where it is considered endangered by IUCN due to capture for the cagebird trade and…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
The aim of our study was to find out how natural essential oils, medicinal plants, cosmetic fragrances, food flavors, smoke liquids, and fishing lures affected the motor activity of Shelford…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
A subspecies of the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus septentrionalis, was recently discovered to have been introduced to the native habitat of another subspecies, T. d. taka…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Tetherless motion tracking is an essential technique for studying insect behavior, allowing for precise recreation and analysis of insect pathing trajectories. One potential application of t…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
As the world’s population continuously increases, there is a limitation of the food supply that does not meet the consumers’ demands. With this issue, insects have been introduced by the Foo…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
The goal of this project was to assist malaria research by expediting the process of producing transgenic mosquitoes. In this project, I developed and tested a novel automated instrument for…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
Honey bees are an essential part of global food production and revenue. However, pollinators around the world are declining at a rate faster than ever recorded due to pesticides, diseases an…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Introduction: It is known that mechanosensory halteres, the reduced hindwings of flies, send information to the brain about wing-steering, head movement, and take-off stabilization. Most fli…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Malaria can be transmitted by Anopheles. Anopheles similarly ingest a variety of bioactive factors during host feeding. Theoretically, therapeutic proteins in ingested blood, such as antibod…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Because of the recent Spotted Lanternfly outbreak of September 2014, in the United States’ Mid-East, an indirectly concerning threat has been posed on the sustainability of traditional envir…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Weak eggshells can be a problem for many farmers who raise poultry for their eggs. A weak or soft shell can be difficult to sell therefore losing the farmer money. This project aims to fix t…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Through every livestock manager’s ownership of ruminants, or polygastric animals, ruminal tympany (bloat) is an issue that is very commonly encountered. In primary ruminal tympany, more comm…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
This experiment was conducted to determine whether the Pheidole Megacephala, Tapinoma Melanocephalum, and Paratrechina Longicornis are sinistral or dextromanual or ambidextrous. It was hypot…