Submissions from 2023
Small Community Water Systems Have the Highest Prevalence of Mn in Drinking Water in California, USA, Miranda Aiken and Samantha C. Ying
Virtual and In Vitro Screening of Natural Products Identifies Indole and Benzene Derivatives as Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease (Mpro), Dony Ang, Riley Kendall, and Hagop S. Atamian
Physiological and Transcriptomic Responses of Two Artemisia californica Populations to Drought: Implications for Restoring Drought-Resilient Native Communities, Hagop S. Atamian Dr. and Jennifer L. Funk
Computational Design and Molecular Modeling of Morphine Derivatives for Preferential Binding in Inflamed Tissue, Makena Augenstein, Nayiri Alexander, and Matthew Gartner
Dynamic Characteristics of Aerosol Optical Properties over Dibrugarh City in the North-Eastern Indian Region during 2018–2021, Akshansa Chauhan, Shukla Acharjee, Ramesh P. Singh, and Brent N. Holben
Insight from Biology Program Learning Outcomes: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Noelle Clark and Jeremy L. Hsu
Timing and Magnitude of Drought Impacts on Carbon Uptake Across a Grassland Biome, Andrew Felton and Gregory R. Goldsmith
Developing Future Biologists: Developmental Biology for Undergraduates from Underserved Communities, Jacqueline V. Graniel, Jessica Teitel, M. Rebecca Glineburg, Erez Cohen, Laura A. Buttitta, Scott Barolo, and Benjamin L. Allen
Methylene Blue Inhibits Cromakalim-Activated K+ Currents in Follicle-Enclosed Oocytes, Dmytro Isaev, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, Georg Petroianu, Dietrich Ernst Lorke, and Murat Oz
The Social Environment Alters Neural Responses to a Lipopolysaccharide Challenge, Patricia C. Lopes, Josh J. Faber-Hammond, Chandler Siemonsma, Sachin Patel, and Suzy C.P. Renn
Evaluation of qPCR to Detect Shifts in Population Composition of the Rhizobial Symbiont Mesorhizobium japonicum during Serial in Planta Transfers, Kenjiro W. Quides, Yoobeen Lee, Teresa Hur, and Hagop S. Atamian
Behavioural Defences Against Parasites Across Host Social Structures, Sebastian Stockmeier, Yuko Ulrich, Gregory F. Albery, Sylvia Cremer, and Patricia C. Lopes
Epidermal Threads Reveal the Origin of Hagfish Slime, Yu Zeng, David C. Plachetzki, Kristen Nieders, Hannah Campbell, Marissa Cartee, M. Sabrina Pankey, Kennedy Guillen, and Douglas Fudge
Submissions from 2022
Evidence for Phylogenetic Signal and Correlated Evolution in Plant-Water Relations Traits, Eleinis Ávila-Lovera, Klaus Winter, and Gregory R. Goldsmith
Future Colorado River Basin Drought and Surplus, Rama Bedri and Thomas Piechota
Quantifying and Manipulating the Angles of Light in Experimental Measurements of Plant Gas Exchange, Z. Carter Berry, Jerry LaRue, and Gregory R. Goldsmith
Identification and Characterization of Epicuticular Proteins of Nematodes Sharing Motifs with Cuticular Proteins of Arthropods, Bruno Betschart, Marco Bisoffi, and Ferial Alaeddine
Relationship of Sphaeroma quoianum to Sediment Characteristics and Invertebrate Community, Morgan E. Brown, Jason K. Keller, and Christine R. Whitcraft
A Push for Inclusive Data Collection in STEM Organizations, Nicholas P. Burnett, Alyssa M. Hernandez, Emily E. King, Richelle L. Tanner, and Kathryn Wilsterman
Professional Development for Early Career DBER Scholars through In-Person and Virtual Career Panel Workshops, Miranda M. Chen Musgrove, Elizabeth Genné-Bacon, Kelsey Gray, Ashley B. Heim, Anupriya Karippadath, Rita Margarida Magalhães, Brie Tripp, and Anna J. Zelaya
Convergence in Water Use Efficiency Within Plant Functional Types across contrasting climates, Savannah S. Cooley, Joshua B. Fisher, and Gregory R. Goldsmith
Ecological Protection Alone Is Not Enough to Conserve Ecosystem Carbon Storage: Evidence from Guangdong, China, Lihan Cui, Wenwen Tang, Sheng Zheng, and Ramesh P. Singh
Technical Note: On Uncertainties in Plant Water Isotopic Composition Following Extraction by Cryogenic Vacuum Distillation, Haoyu Diao, Philipp Schuler, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Rolf T. W. Siegwolf, Matthias Saurer, and Marco M. Lehmann
Seeing Light from a Different Angle: The Effects of Diffuse Light Environments on the Function, Structure, and Growth of Tomato Plants, Kendra B. L. Ellertson, Gregory R. Goldsmith, and Z. Carter Berry
Possible Overestimation of Nitrogen Dioxide Outgassing during the Beirut 2020 Explosion, Ashraf Farahat, Nayla El-Kork, Ramesh P. Singh, and Feng Jing
Climatic Influences on Summer Use of Winter Precipitation by Trees, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Scott T. Allen, Sabine Braun, Rolf T. W. Siegwolf, and James W. Kirchner
Female Presence Does Not Increase Testosterone but Still Ameliorates Sickness Behaviours in Male Japanese Quail, Brenna M. G. Gormally, Kaelyn Bridgette, Aubrey Emmi, Delilah Schuerman, and Patricia C. Lopes
The Effect of Infection Risk on Female Blood Transcriptomics, Brenna M. G. Gormally and Patricia C. Lopes
Emory-Tibet Science Initiative: Changes in Monastic Science Learning Motivation and Engagement During a Six-Year Curriculum, Kelsey M. Gray, Cindy Achat-Mendes, Ann Cale Kruger, Tashi Lhamo, Rinchen Wangyal, Gelek Gyatso, and Carol M. Worthman
Calcium Bistriflimide-Mediated Sulfur(VI)–Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx): Mechanistic Insights toward Instigating Catalysis, Brian Han, Samuel R. Khasnavis, Matthew Nwerem, Michael Bertagna, Nicholas D. Ball, and O. Maduka Ogba
Characterizing the Amino Acid Activation Center of the Naturally Editing-Deficient Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase PheRS in Mycoplasma mobile, Nien-Ching Han, Arundhati Kavoor, and Michael Ibba
Flexible Drought Deciduousness in a Neotropical Understory Herb, Julia G. Harenčár, Eleinis Ávila-Lovera, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Grace F. Chen, and Kathleen M. Kay
Prediction of Cultivation Areas for the Commercial and an Early Flowering Wild Accession of Salvia hispanica L. in the United States, Mohammad Hassani, Thomas Piechota, and Hagop S. Atamian
Characterizing First-Year Biology Majors’ Motivations and Perceptions of the Discipline, Jeremy L. Hsu and Lauren Dudley
Exploring Physiology Instructors’ Use of Core Concepts: Pedagogical Factors that Influence Choice of Course Topics, Jeremy L. Hsu and Patricia A. Halpin
Student Motivations and Barriers toward Online and In-Person Office Hours in STEM Courses, Jeremy L. Hsu, Melissa Rowland-Goldsmith, and Elaine Benaksas Schwartz
Capsaicin Inhibits Multiple Voltage-Gated Ion Channels in Rabbit Ventricular Cardiomyocytes in TRPV1-Independent Manner, Dmytro Isaev, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, Waheed Shabbir, Frank Christopher Howarth, and Murat Oz
Response of Surface and Atmospheric Parameters Associated With the Iran M 7.3 Earthquake, Feng Jing and Ramesh P. Singh
Pronounced Changes in Thermal Signals Associated with the Madoi (China) M 7.3 Earthquake from Passive Microwave and Infrared Satellite Data, Feng Jing, Lu Zhang, and Ramesh P. Singh
Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter and Dissolved Organic Carbon in Lakes Across an Elevational Gradient From the Mountains to the Sea, Kyle Juetten, Angela L. Strecker, Aaron Harrison, Zachary Landram, Warren J. De Bruyn, and Catherine D. Clark
Assessment of WRF-3DVAR Data Assimilation on Simulation of Heavy Rainfall Events Associated with Monsoon Depressions over Bay of Bengal, Shilpi Kalra, Sushil Kumar, B. K. Mahala, A. Routray, and Ramesh P. Singh
Escherichia coli Alanyl-tRNA Synthetase Maintains Proofreading Activity and Translational Accuracy Under Oxidative Stress, Arundhati Kavoor, Paul Kelly, and Michael Ibba
Increased Aerosols Can Reverse Twomey Effect in Water Clouds Through Radiative Pathway, Pradeep Khatri, Tadahiro Hayasaka, Brent N. Holben, Ramesh P. Singh, Husi Letu, and Sachchida N. Tripathi
Symmetry-Resolved CO Desorption and Oxidation Dynamics on O/Ru(0001) Probed at the C K-edge by Ultrafast X-Ray Spectroscopy, Jerry LaRue, Boyang Liu, Gabriel L. S. Rodrigues, Chang Liu, Jose Antonio Garrido Torres, Simon Schreck, Elias Diesen, Matthew Weston, Hirohito Ogasawara, Fivos Perakis, Martina Dell'Angela, Flavio Capotondi, Devon Ball, Conner Carnahan, Gary Zeri, Luca Giannessi, Emanuele Pedersoli, Denys Naumenko, Peter Amann, Ivaylo Nikolov, Lorenzo Raimondi, Carlo Spezzani, Martin Beye, Johannes Voss, Hsin-Yi Wang, Filippo Cavalca, Jörgen Gladh, Sergey Koroidov, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Manuel Kolb, Piter S. Miedema, Roberto Costantini, Tony F. Heinz, Alan C. Luntz, Lars G. M. Pettersson, and Anders Nilsson
Oxidative Stress Strongly Restricts the Effect of Codon Choice on the Efficiency of Protein Synthesis in Escherichia coli, Lorenzo Eugenio Leiva, Sara Elgamal, Sebastian A. Leidel, Omar Orellana, Michael Ibba, and Assaf Katz
Anticipating Infection: How Parasitism Risk Changes Animal Physiology, Patricia C. Lopes
Maternal Responses in the Face of Infection Risk, Patricia C. Lopes, Brenna M. G. Gormally, Aubrey Emmi, Delilah Schuerman, Chathuni Liyanage, Ursula K. Beattie, and L. Michael Romero
Development of a Men’s Health Course for First-Year Undergraduates Using Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies, Ania A. Majewska, Johnasha D. Stuart, Kelsey M. Gray, Pearl V. Ryder, and Ethell Vereen
Evaluating Alternative Ebullition Models for Predicting Peatland Methane Emission and Its Pathways via Data–Model Fusion, Shuang Ma, Lifen Jiang, Rachel M. Wilson, Jeff P. Chanton, Scott Bridgham, Shuli Niu, Colleen M. Iversen, Avni Malhotra, Jiang Jiang, Xingjie Lu, Yuanyuan Huang, Jason Keller, Xiaofeng Xu, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Paul J. Hanson, and Yiqi Luo
Evaluating Alternative Ebullition Models for Predicting Peatland Methane Emission and Its Pathways via Data–Model Fusion, Shuang Ma, Lifen Jiang, Rachel M. Wilson, Jeff P. Chanton, Scott Bridgham, Shuli Niu, Colleen M. Iversen, Avni Malhotra, Jiang Jiang, Xingjie Lu, Jason Keller, Xiaofeng Xu, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Paul J. Hanson, and Yiqi Luo
Landslide Detection in the Himalayas Using Machine Learning Algorithms and U-Net, Sansar Raj Meena, Lucas Pedrosa Soares, Carlos H. Grohmann, Cees van Westen, Kushanav Bhuyan, Ramesh P. Singh, Mario Floris, and Filippo Catani
Arginine Methylation of the PGC-1α C‑Terminus Is Temperature- Dependent, Meryl Mendoz, Mariel Mendoza, Tiffany Lubrino, Sidney Briski, Immaculeta Osuji, Janielle Cuala, Brendan Ly, Ivan Ocegueda, Harvey Peralta, Benjamin A. Garcia, and Cecilia Zurita-Lopez
Open Hardware in Science: The Benefits of Open Electronics, Michael Oellermann, Jolle W. Jolles, Diego Ortiz, Rui Seabra, Tobias Wenzel, Hannah Wilson, and Richelle L. Tanner
Methanol Decomposition on Ni(111) and O/Ni(111), Henrik Öström, Bingjie Zhang, Tiffany Vallejo, Bryn Merrill, Jeremy Huang, and Jerry LaRue
Effects of Cannabinoids on Ligand-gated Ion Channels, Murat Oz, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, and Mohamed Omer Mahgoub
Catastrophic Ice-Debris Flow in the Rishiganga River, Chamoli, Uttarakhand (India), Vijendra Kumar Pandey, Rajesh Kumar, Rupendra Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Suresh Chand Rai, Ramesh P. Singh, Arun Kumar Tripathi, Vijay Kumar Soni, S. Nawaz Ali, Dakshina Tamang, and Syed Umer Latief
Preventing Chlorogenic Acid Quinone-Induced Greening in Sunflower Cookies by Chlorogenic Acid Esterase and Thiol-based Dough Conditioners, Nana Baah Pepra-Ameyaw, Christine Lo Verde, Charles T. Drucker, Cedric P. Owens, and Lilian W. Senger
Territory Holders Are More Aggressive towards Older, More Dangerous Floaters, Walter H. Piper, Katherine R. Lee, and Brian Hoover
Rapid Bacterial and Fungal Successional Dynamics in First Year After Chaparral Wildfire, M. Fabiola Pulido-Chavez, James W. J. Randolph, Cassandra A. Zalman, Loralee Larios, Peter M. Homyak, and Sydney I. Glassman
Analysis of Air and Soil Quality around Thermal Power Plants and Coal Mines of Singrauli Region, India, Harsimranjit Kaur Romana, Ramesh P. Singh, Chandra S. Dubey, and Dericks P. Shukla
Atom-Specific Probing of Electron Dynamics in an Atomic Adsorbate by Time-Resolved X-Ray Spectroscopy, Simon Schreck, Elias Diesen, Martina Dell'Angela, Chang Liu, Matthew Weston, Flavio Capotondi, Hirohito Ogasawara, Jerry LaRue, Roberto Costantini, Martin Beye, Piter S. Miedema, Joakim Halldin Stenlid, Jörgen Gladh, Boyang Liu, Hsin-Yi Wang, Fivos Perakis, Filippo Cavalca, Sergey Koroidov, Peter Amann, Emanuele Pedersoli, Denys Naumenko, Ivaylo Nikolov, Lorenzo Raimondi, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Tony F. Heinz, Johannes Voss, Alan C. Luntz, and Anders Nilsson
Environment-Driven Shifts in Inter-Individual Variation and Phenotypic Integration within Subnetworks of the Mussel Transcriptome and Proteome, Richelle L. Tanner, Lani U. Gleason, and W. Wesley Dowd
Virtual Expeditions Facilitated By Open Source Solutions Broaden Student Participation in Natural History Research, Richelle L. Tanner and Talia Y. Moore
Open Source Solutions in Experimental Design: An Introduction to the Symposium, Richelle L. Tanner and Kirt L. Onthank
A Highly Active Esterase from Lactobacillus helveticus Hydrolyzes Chlorogenic Acid in Sunflower Meal to Prevent Chlorogenic Acid Induced Greening in Sunflower Protein Isolates, Christine Lo Verde, Nana Baah Pepra-Ameyaw, Charles T. Drucker, Tracie L. S. Okumura, Katherine A. Lyon, Julia C. Muniz, Chloe S. Sermet, Lilian Were Senger, and Cedric P. Owens
Vegetation Type and Fire Severity Mediate Short-Term Post Fire Soil Microbial Responses, Cassandra A. Zalman, Emily Hanna, Jessica Rush, Katina Boise, and Loralee Larios
Spatio-Temporal Changes in Vegetation in the Last Two Decades (2001–2020) in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region, Yuan Zou, Wei Chen, Siliang Li, Tiejun Wang, Le Yu, Min Xu, Ramesh P. Singh, and Cong-Qiang Liu
Submissions from 2021
Functional Seizures: The Patient’s Perspective of a Diagnostic and Treatment Odyssey, Heather J. Andrini, Sydni L. Au Hoy, Ashley M. Okhovat, Juliana Lockman, and Gregory R. Goldsmith
Above- and Below-Ground Functional Trait Coordination in the Neotropical Understory Genus Costus, Eleinis Ávila-Lovera, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Kathleen M. Kay, and Jennifer L. Funk
Empowering Hope-based Climate Change Communication Techniques for the Gulf of Maine, Aimee Bonanno, Megan Ennes, Jennifer A. Hoey, Emily Moberg, Sarah-Mae Nelson, Nette Pletcher, and Richelle L. Tanner
Kelp Morphology and Herbivory are Maintained Across Latitude Despite Geographic Shift in Kelp-wounding Herbivores, Nicholas P. Burnett, Eric J. Armstrong, Rosemary Romero, Charlotte C. Runzel, and Richelle L. Tanner
Dynamics of Amphan Cyclone and Associated Changes in Ocean, Land Meteorological and Atmospheric Parameters, Akshansha Chauhan, Ramesh P. Singh, Rajesh Kumar, and Prasanjit Dash
The Degradation of Acetaldehyde in Estuary Waters in Southern California, USA, Warren J. De Bruyn, Catherine D. Clark, Aaron W. Harrison, Mary Senstad, and Sovanndara Hok
Ultrafast Adsorbate Excitation Probed with Subpicosecond-Resolution X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy, Elias Diesen, Hsin-Yi Wang, Simon Schreck, Matthew Weston, Hirohito Ogasawara, Jerry LaRue, Fivos Perakis, Martina Dell'Angela, Flavio Capotondi, Luca Giannessi, Martin Beye, Filippo Cavalca, Boyang Liu, Jörgen Gladh, Sergey Koroidov, Piter S. Miedema, Roberto Costantini, Tony F. Heinz, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Johannes Voss, Alan C. Luntz, and Anders Nilsson
An Examination of Factors Influencing Small Proton Chemical Shift Differences in Nitrogen-Substituted Monodeuterated Methyl Groups, Stuart J. Elliott, O. Maduka Ogba, Lynda J. Brown, and Daniel J. O'Leary
Air Quality Over Major Cities of Saudi Arabia During Hajj Periods of 2019 and 2020, Ashraf Farahat, Akshansha Chauhan, Mohammed Al Otaibi, and Ramesh P. Singh
Recovering Ecosystem Functions in a Restored Salt Marsh by Leveraging Positive Effects of Biodiversity, Megan Fitzgerald, Karla Gonzalez, Jennifer L. Funk, Christine R. Whitcraft, and Bengt J. Allen
Atlantic Ocean Variability and European Alps Winter Precipitation, Giuseppe Formetta, Jonghun Kam, Sahar Sadeghi, Glenn Tootle, and Thomas Piechota
Plant Traits are Differentially Linked to Performance in a Semiarid Ecosystem, Jennifer L. Funk, Julie E. Larson, and Joni Ricks-Oddie
Enhanced Detection of Expanded Repeat mRNA Foci with Hybridization Chain Reaction, M. Rebecca Glineburg, Yuan Zhang, Amy Krans, Elizabeth M. Tank, Sami J. Barmada, and Peter K. Todd
Facilitating Constructive Discussions of Difficult Socio-Scientific Issues, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Brenna M. G. Gormally, Rebecca M. Green, Aaron W. Harrison, Brian A. Hoover, Kenjiro W. Quides, Zachary Thammavongsy, Shana R. Welles, Bingjie Zhang, and Kelsey M. Gray
The Mechanism of β-N-methylamino-l-alanine Inhibition of tRNA Aminoacylation and Its Impact on Misincorporation, Nien-Ching Han, Tammy J. Bullwinkle, Kaeli F. Loeb, Kym F. Faull, Kyle Mohler, Jesse Rinehart, and Michael Ibba
Promoting Academic Integrity and Student Learning in Online Biology Courses, Jeremy L. Hsu
Characterizing Biology Education Research: Perspectives from Practitioners and Scholars in the Field, Jeremy L. Hsu, Audrey Chen, Eduardo Cruz-Hinojoza, Duyen Dinh-Dang, Elizabeth A. Roth-Johnson, Brian K. Sato, and Stanley M. Lo
Instructor Strategies to Alleviate Stress and Anxiety among College and University STEM Students, Jeremy L. Hsu and Gregory R. Goldsmith
Defining Understanding: Perspectives from Biology Instructors & Biology Education Researchers, Jeremy L. Hsu, Stanley M. Lo, and Brian K. Sato
Emergence of Non-Hexagonal Crystal Packing of Deswollen and Deformed Ultra-Soft Microgels under Osmotic Pressure Control, Molla R. Islam, Rachel Nguyen, and L. Andrew Lyon
Changes in Tropospheric Ozone Associated With Strong Earthquakes and Possible Mechanism, Feng Jing and Ramesh P. Singh
Underground Burning of Jharia Coal Mine (India) and Associated Surface Deformation Using InSAR Data, Jungrack Kim, Shih-Yuan Lin, Ramesh P. Singh, Chen-Wei Lan, and Hye-Won Yun
Neurotranscriptomic Changes Associated with Chick-directed Parental Care in Adult Non-reproductive Japanese Quail, Patricia C. Lopes and Robert de Brujin
Sickness Behaviors Across Vertebrate Taxa: Proximate and Ultimate Mechanisms, Patricia C. Lopes, Susannah S. French, Douglas C. Woodhams, and Sandra A. Binning
California Drought Outlooks Based on Climate Change Models’ Effects on Water Availability, Lauren Lynam and Thomas Piechota
Progressive Destabilization and Triggering Mechanism Analysis Using Multiple Data for Chamoli Rockslide of 7 February 2021, Wenfei Mao, Lixin Wu, Ramesh P. Singh, Yuan Qi, Busheng Xie, Yingjia Liu, Yifan Ding, Zilong Zhou, and Jia Li
CowN Sustains Nitrogenase Turnover in the Presence of the Inhibitor Carbon Monoxide, Michael S. Medina, Kevin O. Bretzing, Richard A. Aviles, Kiersten M. Chong, Alejandro Espinoza, Chloe Nicole G. Garcia, Benjamin B. Katz, Ruchita N. Kharwa, Andrea Hernandez, Justin L. Lee, Terrence M. Lee, Christine Lo Verde, Max W. Strul, Emily Y. Wong, and Cedric P. Owens
Changes in the Flood Plains and Water Quality Along the Himalayan Rivers After the Chamoli Disaster of 7 February 2021, Sansar Raj Meena, Kushanav Bhuyan, Akshansa Chauhan, and Ramesh P. Singh
Snow Covered with Dust after Chamoli Rockslide: Inference Based on High-Resolution Satellite Data, Sansar Raj Meena, Kushanav Bhuyan, Akshansha Chauhan, and Ramesh P. Singh
Chamoli Disaster: Pronounced Changes in Water Quality and Flood Plains Using Sentinel Data, Sansar Raj Meena, Akshansa Chauhan, Kushanav Bhuyan, and Ramesh P. Singh
Rapid Mapping of Landslides in the Western Ghats (India) Triggered by 2018 Extreme Monsoon Rainfall Using a Deep Learning Approach, Sansar Raj Meena, Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Cees J. van Westen, Thimmaiah Gudiyangada Nachappa, Thomas Blaschke, Ramesh P. Singh, and Raju Sarkar
Improvement of Atmospheric Pollution in the Capital Cities of US during COVID-19, Ritvik Mishra, Akshansha Chauhan, Ramesh P. Singh, N. C. Mishra, and Rozalin Mishra
Dynamic Relationship Study between the Observed Seismicity and Spatiotemporal Pattern of Lineament Changes in Palghar, North Maharashtra (India), Biswajit Nath, Ramesh P. Singh, Vineet K. Gahalaut, and Ajay P. Singh