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ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
This study investigates the potential effects of hunting on the length of bison (Bison bison) bellows, a guttural vocalization which is essential to male-male competition and therefore femal…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Among the partying set of high school students, both alcohol and energy drinks are popular. However, this is a dangerous practice. It would be interesting to know how heart rate is affected…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC) in patients under 50 now accounts for 10% of new diagnoses. While unexplained, trends in EOCRC may be related to diet, which is associated with 29% of a…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
The introduction of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) to habitats of the North American river otter has had a profound impact. Exposure to dangerously high levels of these EDCs has led t…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Grain-Free foods are becoming an issue in veterinary science today (Bentley, personal communication, Sep. 6, 2024). Grain-free dog foods have been known to cause conditions such as hyperthyr…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
The presence of microplastics in the human body has been recently discovered, but little is known about whether they can cause harm to bodily systems. This experiment uses C. Elegans as a ba…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
This study was performed to increase awareness of the potential risks of high levels of nitrates. My goal was to determine how sodium nitrate affects the model organism Caenorhabditis elegan…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
This project sets out to test the effect that light intensity has on the growth of mealworms. By letting the meal worms grow in 3 different magnitude of lumens and one group in the dark, the…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Traditional nesting boxes fail to replicate the stable microclimate of natural tree hollows crucial for mature tree species, due to offset designs causing large temperature fluctuations, lea…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
This project tracked intestinal parasites in stray feline populations on Oahu to assess severity of the presence of parasites in the environment with posed zoonotic risks. Using fecal flotat…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Non-native species pose a global threat to aquatic ecosystems, with the potential to spread rapidly, reduce biodiversity, and induce ecological changes. The globally distributed Australian t…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Artificial lighting significantly reduces insect populations, contributing to their mass extinction alongside habitat loss, pollution, invasions, and climate change. This project aims to dev…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Fall armyworms damage over 80 host plants, especially maize, and cause annual crop losses of around $9.4 billion. With the global population projected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, the…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Ants – with their ability to assist in seed dispersal and scavenging – are an often overlooked foundational part of our ecosystems. In fact, according to the Journal of Animal Ecology, ants…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Birds generate calls and songs with distinct frequency patterns. Spectrograms have long been used to visualize those sound patterns by mapping changes in pitch and amplitude over time. While…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Anti-apoptotic B-cell leukemia/lymphoma (Bcl-2) family proteins are reported to be overexpressed in around half of all human cancers, linked to tumorigenesis, chemotherapy resistance, and po…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Chronic wasting disease(CWD) is a contagious, fatal prion disease found in cervids, specifically whitetail and mule deer, resulting in their decline. Data (sex, species, CWD status, and harv…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
The gastrointestinal tract microbiome is vital for proper nutrition, balanced metabolism, and a healthy immune system and is foundational for understanding diseases and ailments related to m…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
Disease-causing mosquitoes represent a public health problem as they are vectors of various arboviruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, and zika, which can cause serious sequelae in those infe…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this project is to determine if exposure to cycad plant seeds causes neurological symptoms in larval and adult-stage apterous fruit flies. I hypothesized that if I expose frui…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences Third Award
This research proposed and built the first integrated AI-based honeybee health assessment system called BeeMind AI. It includes eight different sensors, allowing it to track in-hive and exte…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences Second Award
Drought stress, one of the most critical factors affecting leading to the decline of honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations worldwide, is regarded as a potential threat to species extinction…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
With the rapid expansion of human settlement in the Northwest Georgia region, it has become more critical than ever to understand the ecological impact, development has had on our local ecos…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
Polyclad flatworms have a highly branched digestive system combining features of the gastrovascular cavity and the gastrointestinal tract. However, the exact function of this system remains…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
When cattle or other livestock eat hay wrap or hay string it causes the animal to die because the string is a filler and is not digestible so the animal thinks they are not hungry because th…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
Biofortification increases the nutritional value of food crops by increasing the vitamin and mineral content. The objective of this research was to determine if a feed supplement including a…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Organisms detect sensory stimuli through peripheral neurons and transmit the information to cortical brain regions for processing: creating an internal neural map of the external environment…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences Third Award
Alzheimer's disease, the most prevalent form of dementia affecting over 24 million people worldwide, is characterized by cognitive decline and progressive neurodegeneration; this is mainly d…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
Niacin is an essential nutrient for life. It serves as a precursor to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), a critical coenzyme for ATP production, DNA repair and gene expression. In hum…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Despite covering less than one percent of the ocean floor, coral reefs sustain an estimated one-third of all known marine species, with most coral species inhabiting deep or cold waters acro…