| Student School | Sponsor | Project/Name |
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Ashley Addeo,University of Southern Florida 2010 | Pranoti Mandrekar Ph.D., Rheumatology | "Acute alcohol exposure induces Hsp70" |
Jessica Adefusika, University of Rhode Island 2010 | Robert Matthews, Ph.D., Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology | "Biophysical Characterization of the S134N Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Variant of Human Superoxide Dismutase" |
Chika Agi, University of Michigan 2010 | Brian Lewis, Ph.D., Gene Function & Expression | " IRF1 in Cytokine/Chemokine Suppression During HSV-1 Brain Infection" |
Jeremy Agu, Columbia University 2009 | Robert Finberg, Ph.D., Medicine | "Electrospinning Biocompatible Polymeric Nanofiber Membranes"Identifying the Earliest Signs of Canonical Wnt Signaling during Mouse Development" |
Kwadwo Ansong, University of UMass Boston 2010 | Neal Silverman, Ph.D., Infectious Disease | "Hormonal Regulation of Innate Immunity in Drosophila" |
Thomas Beesley, Wagner College | Gary Stein,Ph.D., Cell Biology | "The Role of Runx2 Y433A in Osteoblast Differentiation" |
Laura Louise Campbell, Smith College 2010 | Jose R. Lemos Ph.D., Physiology | "Purinergic receptors in isolated mouse neurohypophysial terminals" |
Roxanna Cortes, Pomona College 2010 | Paul Gardner, Ph.D., Psychiatry-BNRI | "ASCL1 Regulates the Expression of Specific Nicotinic Receptor Subunit" |
Aiden Galarza,Park University 2011 | Anthony Poteete, Ph.D., Molecular & Genetics & Microbiology | "Chromasonal Gene Amplification in Escherichia Coli" |
Brianna Gray, Spelman College 2010 | Gyongyi Szabo M.D. Ph.D., Rheumatology | "Acute Alcohol Increases BCL-3, A Negative Regulator of NF-κB" |
La Tonya Gillespie, Voorhees College 2009 | Jitesh Pratap, Ph.D., Cell Biology | "Runx2 Promotes Metastatic Properties of Lung Cancer Cells " |
Melissa Hauser, Elms College 2009 | Gary Ostroff, Ph.D., Molecular Medicine | "Using Quantum Dots as a Model Nanoparticle to Demonstrate Nanoparticle Encapsulation in Glucan Particles" |
Ariel James, Norfolk State University 2009 | Jaime Rivera, Ph.D., Cell Biology | "Identifying the Earliest Signs of Canonical Wnt Signaling during Mouse Development" |
Ester Kim, University of California Berkley 2010 | Steve Grossman, M.D.,Ph.D., Cancer Biology | "Role of the 26S proteasome subunit S5a in p53 degradation" |
Jordan Marshall, University of Missouri Columbia 2009 | Robert Woodland Ph.D., Molecular & Genetics & Microbiology | "Introducing mBcl-XL to growth factor dependent cells by transgenic retroviral infection" |
Chizoba Ngesina, University of North Carolina 2008 | Jean King, Ph.D., Psychiatry-Neuroimage Research | "Modulation of Nicotine Addiction by Epigenetic Factors" |
Brittane Parker, University of Oklahoma 2009 | Anthony Imbalazano, Ph.D.,Cell Biology | "The Role of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 in Adipogenesis" |
Timothy Pasek, University of Florida 2010 | Jeffery Nickerson, Ph.D., Cell Biology | "Linking Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer" |
Giselle Sullivan, Scripps College 2010 | Lucia Languino, Ph.D., Cancer Biology | "Identifying Cancer Stem Cells in the Prostate" |
Daniel Reed, Juniata College 2010 | Jon Goquen, Ph.D., Molecular & Genetics & Microbiology | "Exploring the Role of Ymt Dependent Colonization of Y.pestis in D.malanogaster" |
Charles Vasquez, University of Minnesota 2009 | Hong Zhang, Ph.D., Cell Biology | "Identification of Taxol Resistance Associated Genes in Human Breast Cancer" |
Chi Wing Qu, Yale University 2010 | Robert Finberg, Ph.D., Medicine | "The Roles of MyD88 in the TLR7-Mediated Antiviral Immunity Against Influenza" |
Rasheedat Yussuf, John Hopkins University 2010 | Christopher Sassetti, Ph.D., Molecular & Genetics & Microbiology | "Comparative Growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis in Streptomycin and Para-aminosalicylic Acid" |
Tenzin Yeshi, Hunter College 2011 | Michael Brodsky, Ph.D., Gene Function & Expression | "Determining the DNA Binding Specificity of Transcription Factors using Bacterial One-Hybrid System" |
Shiva Annamalai, Casr Western Reserve University 2010 | Jie Song, Ph.D.,Orthopedics | "Electrospinning Biocompatible Polymeric Nanofiber Membranes"
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Sandi Chen, Amherst College2009 | Zheng Zheng Bao, Ph.D., Endocrinology | "PMA and IGF-1 Induced Pinocytosis Requires PAK1, a p21-Activated Kinase" |
Rocco Debacco, University of UMass Boston 2009 | Terrence Flotte, M.D., Gene Therapy Center | "Chemical Compounds that Inhibit Molecular Chaperons in Alpha 1 Antitrypsin" |
Jenna Hubacz, Assumption College 2010 | William Theurkauf, Ph.D., Molecular Medicine | "Analysis of the Role of Chk2 Kinase in the Mitotic DNA Damage Response in Drosophila Embryos" |
Gieric Laput, University of Michigan 2010 | Alonzo Ross, Ph.D., Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology | "Mutants of PTEN, a Master Regulator in Cancer and Autism" |
Shaun Lavallee, Boston University 2009 | Robert Matthews, Ph.D., Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology | "Analysis of hydrophobic interactions in the folding kinetics of bacterial chemotaxis protein CheY" |
Andrew Lee, Wake Forrest University 2009 | Elliot Androphy, Ph.D., Medicine | "Effects of chromatin remodeling proteins on E6 and E7 gene expression in high risk human papillomaviruses" |
Mary Elise Lynch, University of Scranton 2010 | Jie Song, Ph.D.,Orthopedics | "FlexBone: A Novel Osteoconductive Synthetic Bone Graft" |
Soyeon Park, University of Pennsylvania 2010 | Jean King, Ph.D., Psychiatry-Neuroimage Research | "Neuroprotection in the Early Stages of Parkinson Disease: Alterations Due to Nicotine" |
Isha Parulkar, Columbia College 2010 | Gary Stein, Ph.D., Cell Biology | "MicroRNA Processing Enzyme Dicer is Essential for Bone Formation in vivo" |
Haleema Sadath, Rice University 2009 | William Marshall, M.D., Infectious Disease | "Phosphorylation Site on N1, a Vaccinia Virus Virulence Factor" |