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Come and Sit: A Dream Scene - detail 3
No full textMaterials: found objects, electronic music composition, video
Dimension: variable
Adviser: John Shimon
Graduation year: 2019https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2019/1037/thumbnail.jp
The Maternal Body of James Joyce\u27s Ulysses: The Subversive Molly Bloom
Get PDFThis paper provides a feminist criticism of Ulysses in an attempt to understand the relevance of Joyce and this novel today, as academia is experiencing a welcome pressure to move away from the study of ‘old white men.’ The interest of this paper is an interest in the alterity of the bodies of Ulysses. While once these bodies challenged the common discourse because they were ruled obscene, the bodies of the text continue to challenge both critics and a male literary tradition. As Joyce said about Ulysses, “my book is the epic of the human body.” Ulysses itself can be read as a body, and a body that is an ‘other’ to literary convention. The value of Ulysses in this context is in Molly, “Joyce’s female voice.” On all levels except, perhaps, express authorial intent, Ulysses is and revolves around the subversive, maternal body. And Molly, the subversive and embodied mother that she is, may be the final voice of this text in a way that Joyce himself is not
815 - Detail 2
No full textMaterials: Pine, Oil Paint
Dimensions: painted sculptures each 30 x 30 x 12 inches
Project Advisor: Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2019https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2019/1034/thumbnail.jp
815 - Detail 3
No full textMaterials: Pine, Oil Paint
Dimensions: Painted Sculptures each 30 x 30 x 12 inches
Project Advisor: Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2019https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2019/1036/thumbnail.jp
815 - Installation View
No full textMaterials: Pine, Oil Paint
Dimensions: painted sculptures each 30 x 30 x 12 inches
Project Advisor: Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2019https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2019/1045/thumbnail.jp
Tracing Time - Installation View
No full textMaterials: Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, acrylic paint
Dimensions: 14 x 3.5 feet
Project Advisor: Meghan Sullivan
Year of Graduation: 2019https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2019/1042/thumbnail.jp
Novel Characterization of the Role of Orthologous XAP5 in Caenorhabditis elegans
Get PDFCilia are one of the oldest and most well conserved cellular organelles. Cilia provide an essential role in cellular locomotion, fluid regulation, and are a site for signal transduction pathways involved in sensation. A new study suggests that XAP5 is a transcription factor in a unicellular organism, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, which regulates gene expression needed for proper cilium assembly. Our study investigates the conservation of the role of XAP5 in a multicellular system, Caenorhabditis elegans. Alignments between protein, coding region, and promoter sequences for XAP5 orthologs from related species show a good conservation in DNA and protein sequences. As part of the million-mutation project, we obtained a strain, VC40591, which carries a mutation in a gene corresponding to xap-5 (CExap5). To remove unwanted mutations we “backcrossed” our strains twice to replace mutant chromosomes with wild type chromosomes. Backcrossed strains containing CExap5(gk709587) showed chemosensory and dwelling defective patterns, similar to C. elegans with known ciliary deficiencies. Furthermore, a dye-filling assay showed an irregular pattern of dye filling in the tail and sometimes in both the head and tail, at multiple stages of development. However, CExap5 mutant worms typically showed dye filling in the adult stage. Difference at multiple life stages suggest a developmental problem that must be further studied. Overall, our results indicate that CE-XAP5 confers a loss-of-function phenotype consistent with a cilia deficiency, which might suggest a conservation in function with its orthologous protein
