Subject Area
Biology
Description
Olivia Kozub ’23
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Pamela Snodgrass, Biology
All organisms have an internal clock that drives physiological processes known as circadian rhythms. Being able to predict the environment and prepare for it, rather than simply react, is so critical to survival that this ability has been conserved from single cell organisms all the way to humans. These rhythms can be measured at the gene level, the protein level, the cellular level, the tissue level, all the way to oscillations in behavior. Measuring the metabolic activity of normal fly brains at different times of day will chart the rhythm of metabolic activity in a circadian manner. By comparing rhythms of animals with mutated circadian clock genes, we gain an understanding of how the molecular clock governs brain metabolic activity.
Publisher
Providence College
Date
4-26-2023
Type
Poster
Format
Text
Language
English
