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Undergraduate Programs Guided Research

This web page is being reviewed and is expected to be updated for the Fall 2009 semester. In the meantime, please contact the department's administrative office for updates about academic requirements.

Undergraduate biology students at Adelphi University have the opportunity to undertake guided research in the laboratory or in the field under the supervision of faculty. To receive credit for satisfactory research work, students must first contact and arrange to do research with a specific faculty member and then register for the appropriate research course.
  • Students who plan to fulfill their Capstone Experience requirement by completing a research thesis, and/or are seeking Honors in Biology, should take BIO 498 followed by BIO 499.

  • Students who want to get research experience but are not seeking Honors in Biology and will not use a research thesis to fulfill their Capstone Experience requirement should begin with BIO 497. These students may if they choose continue in research either with BIO 498 (thesis not required) or with BIO 499 (thesis required).

Guided Research Courses
Course#
Description
Credits
BIO 497 1st semester research course designed for students to gain exposure to research.
Prerequisite: 12 biology credits including BIO 111, 112.		 2 cr
BIO 498 1st semester research course designed for students who intend to continue on to BIO 499 (for Capstone Experience and/or Honors in Biology) or a 2nd semester research course for those students who have taken BIO 497 and do not wish to use BIO 499 to fulfill their Capstone Experience requirement. (Note: students who take BIO 497 and BIO 498 can continue on to BIO 499) A written report may be required by the instructor.
Prerequisite: 20 biology credits including BIO 111, 112.		 2-3 cr
BIO 499 2nd semester research course taken after either BIO 497 or (recommended) BIO 498.
Requires a written thesis or research report and satisfies requirements for Capstone Experience and also for Honors in Biology.
Prerequisite: 22 biology credits including BIO 111, 112 and either BIO 497 or 498.		 3 cr

  • Students enrolling in these courses will be required to present their research at the end of each semester in the Biology Department Undergraduate Research Seminars.

  • All students registered for these courses must have previously attended or must attend early in the semester a one day laboratory safety training course.
Recent undergraduate research projects include:
  • "Identification and characterization of genetic modifiers of axr4-2 in Arabidopsis"

  • "Investigating the effects of the pesticide bifenthrin on neurite retraction"

  • "Mimicking the heterozygous state of BRCA2 carriers using RNAi"

  • "Decreased testosterone levels and a delayed puberty in rats treated with DEHP"

  • "An in-depth look at multiple sclerosis"

  • "Collagen II-induced rheumatoid arthritis in DBA/2 mice"

  • "Germination success and flowering times in yellow monkey flower Mimulus guttatus"

  • "Atrazine exposure may alter tissue structure in gonad and gills of freshwater mussels"

  • "Viruses as vectors: examining the role of uncultured bacteriophage communities in the horizontal transfer of metal resistance genes"

  • "Obesity and reproduction"

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Contact
 For additional information, please contact:

Department of Biology
Science Building, Room 103
Adelphi University
Garden City, NY 11530
p - 516.877.4200
f - 516.877.4209
This page last modified on March 26, 2009.
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