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Elucidating Factors Affecting Cercosporin Production In Cercospora Leaf Blight Of Soybean To Develop Better Tools For Disease Management, Maria Izabel Costa De Novaes

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Fungal toxins are pathogenicity/virulence factors for many plant diseases, including Cercospora leaf blight (CLB) of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.). The pathogen, Cercospora cf. flagellaris, produces a perylenequinone toxin, cercosporin, which is activated by light to produce damaging reactive oxygen species. To identify novel solutions for CLB management, we studied factors that may impact the biology of cercoporin: fungal lipid droplets (LDs) and mineral and trace element composition (ionome) of the host. Furthermore, since artificial inoculation with the pathogen has been challenging, we also explored the usefulness of a previously developed cercosporin-based assay to study disease resistance. LDs …

Investigating Preferences And Behavior Within Environmental Economics, Sapana Bastola

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

To respond to the environmental problems posed by disposable plastic bags, several mechanisms exist, such as bag taxes and bans, but such policies are infeasible in several U.S. states and municipalities. This study uses a social quasi-experiment to examine the effect of a voluntary token-donation program, which reduces disposable plastic bag use by providing a small charitable donation incentive. We find that the token-donation program reduces the probability of disposable bag use by 11.4–12.9 percentage points, representing about a 30%–34% decrease in bag use. Our results demonstrate effective mechanisms to reduce plastic bags exist without government-mandated policy.

Despite the widespread …

Genetic Impairment Of Succinate Metabolism Disrupts Bioenergetic Sensing In Adrenal Neuroendocrine Cancer, Priyanka Gupta, Keehn Strange, Rahul Telange, Ailan Guo, Heather Hatch, Amin Sobh, Jonathan Elie, Angela M Carter, John Totenhagen, Chunfeng Tan, Yogesh A Sonawane, Jiri Neuzil, Amarnath Natarajan, Ashley J Ovens, Jonathan S Oakhill, Thorsten Wiederhold, Karel Pacak, Hans K Ghayee, Laurent Meijer, Sushanth Reddy, James A Bibb

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Metabolic dysfunction mutations can impair energy sensing and cause cancer. Loss of function of the mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzyme subunit succinate dehydrogenase B (SDHB) results in various forms of cancer typified by pheochromocytoma (PC). Here we delineate a signaling cascade where the loss of SDHB induces the Warburg effect, triggers dysregulation of [Ca2+]i, and aberrantly activates calpain and protein kinase Cdk5, through conversion of its cofactor from p35 to p25. Consequently, aberrant Cdk5 initiates a phospho-signaling cascade where GSK3 inhibition inactivates energy sensing by AMP kinase through dephosphorylation of the AMP kinase γ subunit, PRKAG2. Overexpression of p25-GFP …

Genetic Impairment Of Succinate Metabolism Disrupts Bioenergetic Sensing In Adrenal Neuroendocrine Cancer, Priyanka Gupta, Keehn Strange, Rahul Telange, Ailan Guo, Heather Hatch, Amin Sobh, Jonathan Elie, Angela M Carter, John Totenhagen, Chunfeng Tan, Yogesh A Sonawane, Jiri Neuzil, Amarnath Natarajan, Ashley J Ovens, Jonathan S Oakhill, Thorsten Wiederhold, Karel Pacak, Hans K Ghayee, Laurent Meijer, Sushanth Reddy, James A Bibb

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Metabolic dysfunction mutations can impair energy sensing and cause cancer. Loss of function of the mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzyme subunit succinate dehydrogenase B (SDHB) results in various forms of cancer typified by pheochromocytoma (PC). Here we delineate a signaling cascade where the loss of SDHB induces the Warburg effect, triggers dysregulation of [Ca

Visually Identified Tau 18f-Mk6240 Pet Patterns In Symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease, Natasha Krishnadas, Kun Huang, Stephanie A. Schultz, Vincent Doré, Pierrick Bourgeat, Anita M. Y. Goh, Fiona Lamb, Svetlana Bozinovski, Samantha C. Burnham, Joanne S. Robertson, Simon M. Laws, Paul Maruff, Colin L. Masters, Victor L. Villemagne, Christopher C. Rowe

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Background: In Alzheimer's disease, heterogeneity has been observed in the postmortem distribution of tau neurofibrillary tangles. Visualizing the topography of tau in vivo may facilitate clinical trials and clinical practice. Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether tau distribution patterns that are limited to mesial temporal lobe (MTL)/limbic regions, and those that spare MTL regions, can be visually identified using 18F-MK6240, and whether these patterns are associated with different demographic and cognitive profiles. Methods : Tau 18F-MK6240 PET images of 151 amyloid-β positive participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia were visually rated as: tau negative, limbic predominant (LP), …

Heritable Vaginal Bacteria Influence Immune Tolerance And Relate To Early-Life Markers Of Allergic Sensitization In Infancy, Kathryn E. Mccauley, Elze Rackaityte, Brandon Lamere, Douglas W. Fadrosh, Kei E. Fujimura, Ariane R. Panzer, Din L. Lin, Kole V. Lynch, Joanna Halkias, Ventura F. Mendoza, Trevor D. Burt, Casper Bendixsen, Kathrine Barnes, Haejin Kim, Kyra Jones, Dennis R. Ownby, Christine C. Johnson, Christine M. Seroogy, James E. Gern, Homer A. Boushey, Susan V. Lynch

Allergy & Immunology Articles

Maternal asthma status, prenatal exposures, and infant gut microbiota perturbation are associated with heightened risk of atopy and asthma risk in childhood, observations hypothetically linked by intergenerational microbial transmission. Using maternal vaginal (n = 184) and paired infant stool (n = 172) samples, we identify four compositionally and functionally distinct Lactobacillus-dominated vaginal microbiota clusters (VCs) that relate to prenatal maternal health and exposures and infant serum immunoglobulin E (IgE) status at 1 year. Variance in bacteria shared between mother and infant pairs relate to VCs, maternal allergy/asthma status, and infant IgE levels. Heritable bacterial gene pathways associated with infant IgE …

Oropouche Orthobunyavirus Infection Is Mediated By The Cellular Host Factor Lrp1, Madeline M Schwarz, David A Price, Safder S Ganaie, Annie Feng, Nawneet Mishra, Ryan M Hoehl, Farheen Fatma, Sarah H Stubbs, Sean P J Whelan, Xiaoxia Cui, Takeshi Egawa, Daisy W Leung, Gaya K Amarasinghe, Amy L Hartman

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Oropouche orthobunyavirus (OROV;

New Understanding Of How Faulty Metabolism Triggers Adrenal Cancer, Public Relations

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Parental Genetic Contributions To Neonatal Temperament In A Nonhuman Primate (Macaca Mulatta) Model, Elizabeth K. Wood, Jacob N. Hunter, Joseph A. Olsen, Laura Almasay, Stephen G. Lindell, David Goldman, Christina S. Barr, Stephen J. Suomi, Daniel B. Kay, James Dee Higley

Faculty Publications

Temperament is an individual’s nature and is widely believed to have a heritable foundation. Few studies, however, have evaluated paternal and maternal contributions to the triadic dimensions of temperament. Rhesus monkeys are widely utilized to model genetic contributions to human development due to their close genetic-relatedness and common temperament structure, providing a powerful translational model for investigating paternal and maternal genetic influences on temperament. The temperament of rhesus monkey infants born to 19 different sires and 50 different dams was assessed during the first month of life by comparing the temperament of paternal or maternal half-siblings reared with their mothers …

The Ecotoxicological Consequences Of Microplastics And Co-Contaminants In Aquatic Organisms: A Mini-Review, Farhan R. Khan, Ana I. Catarino, Nathaniel J. Clark

School of Health Professions

Microplastics (MPs, <5 mm in size) are a grave environmental concern. They are a ubiquitous persistent pollutant group that has reached into all parts of the environment — from the highest mountain tops to the depths of the ocean. During their production, plastics have added to them numerous chemicals in the form of plasticizers, colorants, fillers and stabilizers, some of which have known toxicity to biota. When released into the environments, MPs are also likely to encounter chemical contaminants, including hydrophobic organic contaminants, trace metals and pharmaceuticals, which can sorb to plastic surfaces. Additionally, MPs have been shown to be ingested by a wide range of organisms and it is this combination of ingestion and chemical association that gives weight to the notion that MPs may impact the bioavailability and toxicity of both endogenous and exogenous co-contaminants. In this mini-review, we set the recent literature within what has been previously published about MPs as chemical carriers to biota, with particular focus on aquatic invertebrates and fish. We then present a critical viewpoint on the validity of laboratory-to-field extrapolations in this area. Lastly, we highlight the expanding ‘microplastic universe’ with the addition of anthropogenic particles that have gained recent attention, namely, tire wear particles, nanoplastics and, bio-based or biodegradable MPs, and highlight the need for future research in their potential roles as vehicles of co-contaminant transfer.

Observation Tower #1, Pico Bonito, Honduras, Marcyn Del Clements

Appalachia

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A Peak Ahead: Looking For Thoreau, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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Who Led The First Ascent Of Denali? Hudson Stuck, Archdeacon Of The Yukon, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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A Wolf Called Romeo: He Was Supposed To Have Gone, Nick Jans

Appalachia

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Loving And Leaving The 49th State: Balancing Life, Adventure, And Family, Matt Heid

Appalachia

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Appalachia Summer/Fall 2012: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2012 - Volume LXIII, Number 2 - issue #234. The Lure of Alaska: Five writers tell why they went

Marquette Literary Review, Issue 4, Spring 2012, Sara Patek, Hannah Fogarty, Bridget Gamble, Angela Sorby, Tierney Acott, Jamie Collins, Chris Morales, Amelia Milota, Daniel Bryne, Erin Kelly, Morgan Rossi, Ben Stanley, Charlie Mohl, Bradley Fremgen

Marquette Literary Review

Table of contents

Ring of Fire, Tierney Acott, prose, ... 3

Just Imaginings, Jamie Collins, poem, … 7

Mariah, Chris Morales, poem, ... 9

All of this would stop, Amelia Milota, poem, ... 10

Jack, Avourneen, Daniel Bryne, poem, ... 11

This is a stick-up, Chris Morales, poem, … 13

952, Erin Kelly, prose, … 14

Synonymous, Amelia Milota, poem, … 17

Thoughts Collected on a Plane, Morgan Rossi, poem, … 18

What kind of middle name is Clifford? Hannah Fogarty, poem, … 20

Gold, Bridget Gamble, prose, … 21

Growing, Ben Stanley, poem, … 27

Bare Back, Morgan Rossi, …

Marquette Literary Review, Issue 3, Spring 2011, Emily Shackleton, Larry Watson, Graydon Larson-Rolf, Kira Boswell, Michelle Decamp, Liz Judy, Charles Mohl, Kayla White, Alexandra Boyd, Rose Gregory, Anna Olson, Alison Hanley, Brad Tharpe, Jahnavi Acharya, Allison Ellsworth, Caroline Campbell, Erin Kelly, Anthony Hollmaier, Matthew Sweeney, Matthew Bin Han Ong, Timothy Gorichanaz

Marquette Literary Review

POETRY

RING, Charles Mohl ... 4

BENEATH THE SOUTHERN SUN, Kayla White ... 5

A CHORUS OF AMBITION, Alexandra Boyd ... 9

OF PERCUSSION, Charles Mohl ... 10

HIVES, Charles Mohl ... 11

BBQ, Rose Gregory ... 12

FOREMAN, Anna Olson ... 13

DELIVERY, Rose Gregory ... 14

LIONS IN THE RAIN, Alison Hanley ... 15

SIC TRANSIT, Brad Tharpe ... 16

“TODAY I WON’T REPLY TO YOUR MESSAGES…”, Jahnavi Acharya ... 17

“WELL, IT’S TOMORROW…”, Jahnavi Acharya ... 17

HE CALLED HER PEACH, Kira Boswell ... 18

TRAVELER, Alexandra Boyd ... 19

PROSE

FOR MY ________ :, Alison Hanley …

Marquette Literary Review, Issue 1, Spring 2009, Jamie Bolker, Angela Sorby, Katherine Jacob, Ia Cha, Amy Schoofs-Rahne, Alex Elliott, Ali Boyd, Ian Parker, Desiree Valentine, Emilie Eschbacher, Amanda Wolff, Austin Gilmore, Kira Boswell, Cecilia Ehlenbach, Mark Brennan Kelley

Marquette Literary Review

Table of Contents

POETRY ... 2

AVALON THEATER, Amy Schoofs‐Rahne ... 2

ALABASTER, Alex Elliott ... 3

MENTAL SALUTATIONS, Ali Boyd ... 4

MUSSELS, Ian Parker ... 5

UNCERTAIN IS A VERB, Desiree Valentine ... 6

THE FUTURE, Ali Boyd ... 7

THE QUAIL’S HUSBAND, Emilie Eschbacher ... 8

PROGRESS REPORT, Amanda Wolff ... 9

FICTION ... 11

OVER CANADIAN WHISKEY, Austin Gilmour ... 11

WORDS OF RIGHT, Kira Boswell ... 24

NAPA VALLEY, Cecilia Ehlenbach ... 32

CREATIVE NON‐FICTION ... 38

THE PROFESSIONAL AND THE POLAR TWIN: A FIVE‐ACT DRAMA (WITH AUTHOR’S NOTES), Mark Brennan Kelley ... 38

Marquette Literary Review, Issue 13, Serina Jamison, Madeline Gruber, Kate Braun, Angela Sorby, Maxwell Gray, Andy Mayer, Margot Zamberlin, Lauren Demasek, Will Scheueman, Jacob Riyeff, Nikita Deep, Kayla Difranco, Tommy Donahue, Olivia Cimino, Kelly Kennedy, Meghan King, Sadaf Nasir, Grace Lambertson, Peter Spaulding, Maggie Miller, Urwa Ahmad, Claire Carlson, Ross Bravo, Hailey Wellner, Ryan Hagan, Mia Gleason, Sarah Aaron, Spencer Kilapatrick, Jack Murphy, Margarita Buitrago, Saul Lopez, Riley Knapp, Riley Ellison, Eren Joyce, Kelsie Kasky, Georgette Kouassi, Jannea Thomason, Hailey Whetten, Oluwappelumi Oguntade, Jessica Diebold

Marquette Literary Review

Table of contents

[cover] Andy Mayer, “Poet, Bound”

5 Margot Zamberlin, “Under the Rhododendron”

6 Lauren Demasek, “Mind Waves”

7 Will Scheueman, “At Home”

10 Jacob Riyeff, “Deer Camp”

12 Nikita Deep, “Hiraeth Lake”

13 Kayla DiFranco “An Ode to My Love”

14 Tommy Donahue, “Just Another Stat”

15 Olivia Cimino “A Full Swing”

17 Kelly Kennedy, “Winnie”

18 Meghan King, “Take Me There”

19 Lauren Demasek, “Soul of the Sea”

21 Sadaf Nasir, “Crystal Clear”

22 Grace Lambertson, “Fulfillment”

24 Peter Spaulding “Avylon Landing”

28 Sadaf Nasir, “Baldie”

29 Maggie Miller “The Charcoal Sky”

31 Nikki Deep, “Lost City” …

Marquette Literary Review, Issue 14, Spring 2022, Nora Bravos, Gwendolyn Lazenby, Rebecca Mathew, Eric Seger-Pera, Margarita Buitrago, Karen Nikhla, Fiona Kelly-Miller, Matthew Faller, Ben Lash, Kelsie Klasky, Alex Garner, Julie Whelan Capell, Gracie Overstreet, Matt Covington, Emma Mueller, C. K. Ives, Timothy Knapp, Eric Nassos, Tess Murphy, Bianey Calixto-Dominguez

Marquette Literary Review

Table of contents

[cover] When Day Comes, Leslie Damasek

1 Masthead

2 Masthead

3 Editor’s Note

4 Table of Contents

5 Table of Contents ————— Relationships

8 Gracie Overstreet, “On Non-happy endings”

7 Tess Murphy. “a windowsill”

9 Eric Seger-Pera, “A Long Time Ago in the Paleozoic”

10 Andy Mayer, “Interoception Frog”

11 Julie Whelan Capell, “Wrong and right”

12 Milwaukee Courthouse and St. John’s Cathedral

13 Gwendolyn Lazenby, “The Cycle”

18 Lake Michigan Shoreline

19 Ben Lash, “Time Without Time, Space Without Space”

20 Ben Lash “Maia’s Madison Grassland”

21 Claire Shiparski, “Un Tramonto a Lugano”

22 Biany Calixto-Dominguez, …

Pallavi Rastogi, Postcolonial Disasters: Narrating Catastrophe In The Twenty-First Century (2020): Review Essay, Sourit Bhattacharya

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This review essay reads literary-critical works of what is broadly understood as ‘postcolonial disasters’. It outlines how literary critics in the last decades have drawn upon cultural-geographical and anthropological readings of disasters to develop critical frameworks around how literary writers have used style, form, and aesthetics to represent postcolonial catastrophes. It then offers a detailed review of Pallavi Rastogi’s 2020 monograph, Postcolonial Disasters: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century. Through an engaged and critical reading, the essay attends to Rastogi’s insightful theorizing of the topic of ‘Disaster Unconscious’ and her wide-ranging interrogation of fiction from South Asia and Southern …

Incendiary Devices: Imagining E-Waste Frontiers And Africa’S Digital Futures, Treasa De Loughry

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, “Incendiary Devices: Imagining E-Waste Frontiers and Africa’s Digital Futures,” Treasa De Loughry focuses on different visual responses to e-waste in West Africa, from eco-documentary film and photography responses to the infamous Agbogbloshie e-waste yard in Ghana; to techno-utopian visions of e-waste bricoleurs, and e-waste as a signifier and artefact of the neocolonial nature of the capitalist world-ecology. The first half of this article focuses on Florian Weigensamer and Christian Krönes’ documentary film, Welcome to Sodom (2018), grounding it in critiques of the transmedial influence of the documentary form, while attending to the film’s pyrotechnical “optical regime” (Schoonover). …

Signs Of The Inhuman: Hauntings And Lost Futures In Verónica Gerber Bicecci’S La Compañía, Marcela Romero Rivera

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Current criticism of works of eco fiction maintains that one of the central contributions of this literary genre is a consciousness-raising effect that these works have on their readers by virtue of alluding, with varying degrees of specificity, to real-world environmental problems, implying that this is a central step towards remedying our current planetary climate crisis. This article suggests, conversely, that literary criticism of eco fiction necessitates a more rigorous material analysis—specifically one attentive to class and class antagonism—of these works and their conditions of production to understand their relation to power, as well as their affordances and limitations as …

Necropolitics And Visuality: Remembering ‘Speculative Fictions’ In Hong Kong After Rancière And Mbembe, Anthony Siu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, “Necropolitics and Visuality: Remembering ‘Speculative Fictions’ in Hong Kong after Rancière and Mbembe,” Anthony Siu examines images from Defiance.Voices, a two-volume collection that gathers photography and art illustrations about the Hong Kong Protests. He studies how paintings from the second volume register politics and events, arguing that visual art can be viewed as a new form of “speculative fictions,” a material ontology that historicizes modes of sovereign violence in postcolony. The introduction situates the debate of aesthetics in Hong Kong, conjoining Rancière’s thinking on “the people” and Achille Mbembe’s philosophy on “necropolitics.” The first cluster of …

Fredric Jameson And Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’S Periodizing The Black Internal Colony, Jeremy Matthew Glick

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In “Fredric Jameson and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Periodizing the Black Internal Colony,” Jeremy Matthew Glick reads these authors’ coupling of Black radical struggle with wars of decolonization as engaging against a twenty-first century war on revolutionary memory. This essay examines Jameson’s brief “Maoist Digression” in “Periodizing the Sixties” and discussion of Cuban Revolutionary Foco-theory as “neither in […] nor of it” and Spivak’s planetary turn’s link to Black internal colonialism analysis as a way to talk about the intersections of revolutionary politics and literary form. It concludes with a brief meditation on Amiri Baraka on the centrality of space for …

Sounding The State Of The World: Interview With Karim Rafi, Summer 2021, Matthew Brauer

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Matthew Brauer interviews Moroccan contemporary artist Karim Rafi about postcolonial creation in the 2020s in "Sounding the State of the World.” Beginning with Rafi’s shift to remote performances during the COVID-19 pandemic, the discussion approaches confinement as just the latest in a series of crises in North Africa and the world. The repeated experience of crisis opens a conversation about the contemporary experience of time, broached in relation to modern Moroccan art history, which emerged from and against the conservative institutions of the French Protectorate (1912-1956). The interview touches on a range of distinctive concerns in Rafi’s art practice, from …

Literature And Economy In Portuguese-Speaking Southern Africa, Thomas Waller

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In “Literature and Economy in Portuguese-speaking Southern Africa”, Thomas Waller offers a comparative reading of literary responses to neoliberalization in Portuguese-speaking southern Africa. Reading the proliferation of spectral effects in the Mozambican literature of the late 1980s alongside dystopian depictions of societal collapse in contemporary Angolan fiction, he suggests that writers in the two states have used distinctive aesthetic idioms to register the reintegration of southern Africa into the neoliberal world-system. In the fiction of Mozambican writers Aldino Muianga and Aníbal Aleluia, he shows how the legacy of colonial underdevelopment and its role in the transition to neoliberalism in Mozambique …

Periodizing The Present: The 2020s, The Longue Durée, & Contemporary Culture, Treasa De Loughry, Brittany Murray

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Episode 28: Peter Weishar: Reimagining Storytelling Through Themed Experiences, University Of Central Florida

Knights Do That Podcast Transcripts

Season three of Knights Do That, UCF's official podcast, returns with its first guest, Peter Weishar from the College of Arts and Humanities.

Weishar is the director of UCF's themed experience program, which includes an theatre MFA with a themed experience track, which launched in 2019, and an M.S. in themed experience, which launched in Fall 2021. This spring the first cohort of the themed experience track in the theatre MFA program graduated.

As UCF is training the future workforce of world builders and storytellers to fill the demand of this multi-billion dollar industry, Weishar — who …