Principles of Biology I      (BIOL 106)                                                                       Fall 2009

Poster Project Research Topics

You will be choosing one of these topics on which to conduct a research project for the scientific poster presentation (more information will be given).  The library exercise you are conducting in week 2 is directly related to learning to conduct the research for this project.  Your instructor will have a mechanism by which each person will have the opportunity to choose a topic from this list.  If you have a topic of particular interest to you that is not on this list, please discuss it with your instructor.  If it is a valid topic for this project, you will receive permission to pursue it.  You will receive further instructions and time lines for conducting your research on this topic.

When you approach this topic, you must consider it from a biological point of view.  We will discuss this in lab as your project develops.

1) Fats in the human diet

2) Antioxidants and free radicals

3) Performance enhancing drugs

4) Prion diseases

5) HIV and AIDS

6) West Nile Virus

7) Lyme Disease

8) Phytoestrogens-health benefits and dangers

9) Hanta Virus or Hantavirus

10) Cholesterol and heart disease

11) Hormone Replacement Therapy

12) Ovarian cancer

13) Breast cancer

14) Cervical cancer

15) Prostate Cancer

16) Nanotechnology and biology

17) Non-traditional treatments in medicine

18) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

19) Autism

20) Malaria

21) Alzheimer’s disease

22) Avian (Bird) flu

23) H1N1 - Swine Flu

24) Stem cell research

25) Autoimmune diseases – choose one

26) Endocrine disrupters/environmental hormones

27) Fungal diseases of plants – choose one

28) Fungal diseases of animals – choose one

29) Bioaccumulation of toxins in fish.

30) MERSA (in place of flesh eating bacteria)

31)  VOCs in the environment

32) Deforestation and biodiversity