Research Projects 2006
Therapeutic Targeting of Ire1 as a Novel Anticancer Strategy
Silpa Poola-Kella, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Professor Albert Koong, Radiation Oncology
Lab Mentor Doug Feldman
The Role of erbB Receptors in the Formation and Maintenance of Neuromuscular Junctions
Jarrad Aguirre, Yale University *2009 Rhodes Scholar!*
Professor Will Talbot, Developmental Biology
Lab Mentor Dave Lyons
Molecular Genetic Basis of Dental Evolution in the Three-Spine Stickleback
Stephanie Nuñez, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Professor David Kingsley, Developmental Biology
Lab Mentor Craig Miller
Characterization of the Novel Interaction between Calcineurin and Whi3 in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Blake Brown, University of California, Irvine
Professor Martha Cyert, Biological Sciences
Lab Mentor Patrice Wout
Targeting Neurogenin3 to Monitor Development of Pancreatic Islet Progenitors
John Salcedo, Williams College
Professor Seung Kim, Developmental Biology
Lab Mentors Ryan Rodriguez and Pei Wang
Characterization of Natural Killer (NK) Cell Populations in Different Rat Lymphoid Compartments
Glendon Wu, University of Maryland, College Park
Professor Sheri Krams, Immunology
Lab Mentor Karine Piard-Ruster
Investigating Upstream Regulation of the p38 MAP Kinase Pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans
Luis Cocka, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Professor Man-Wah Tan, Genetics
Lab Mentor Trupti Kawli
Role and Regulation of VHL Protein-Interacting Deubiquitinating Enzyme
Katya Adachi, University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Amato Giaccia, Radiation Oncology - Radiation Biology
Lab Mentor Denise Chan
Reactive Oxygen Species and Focal Cerebral Ischemia
Mercedes Giles, Spelman College
Professor Pak Chan, Neurosurgery
Lab Mentors Carolina Maier and Trisha Crandall
Redistribution of Centrosomal Proteins During Myogenesis
Khadijatou Leila Njimoluh, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Professor Tim Stearns, Biological Sciences and Genetics
Lab Mentor Jens Lüders
Characterization of Polioviral Protein 2BC’s Function in the Modification of a Cellular Protein
Ashley Acevedo, University of Missouri-Columbia
Professor Karla Kirkegaard, Microbiology and Immunology
Lab Mentor Matt Taylor
Toxoplasma Gondii Interferes with Cytochrome C-Mediated Induction of Host Cell Apoptosis
Adriana Mejia, University of Texas, San Antonio
Professor Matthew Bogyo, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology
Lab Mentor Carolyn Phillips
The Association of Gigaxonin with a Novel Fbox Protein and its Localization at the Late Endosome
Ross McMillan, Morehouse College
Professor Yanmin Yang, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Lab Mentor Elizabeth Allen
The Physiological Interaction of p53 and 53BP1: Two Proteins Implicated in the Repair of DNA Double Strand Breaks
M. Ryan Corces-Zimmerman, Princeton University
Professor Or Gozani, Biological Sciences
Lab Mentor Ioulia Kachirskaia
Probing the Role of Methionine 116 in Ketosteroid Isomerase Catalysis
Andrew Clark, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Professor Dan Herschlag, Biochemistry
Lab Mentor Paul Sigala
Revisiting False Promoters Mapped by cDNA Alignments to Locate Positive Promoter Regions in the Human Genome
Rashidah Green, Brown University
Professor Rick Myers, Genetics
Lab Mentor David Johnson
Tubulin: Microtubule Organizing Center Dynamics in the Membrane of Activated T-Cells
Joycelyn Faraj, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Professor Mark Davis, Microbiology and Immunology
Lab Mentors Morgan Huse and Lawrence Klein
Identification of Yeast-Human Gene Orthologs that Cause Microsatellite Instability
Maria Pineda, Barry University
Professor and Lab Mentor Hanlee Ji, Oncology
Investigating Differences in Transcription, Evolution, and Expression between Ancestral and Derived CHKov1 Genes to Infer Causes of Pesticide Resistance
Raymond Malfavon-Borja, California State University, San Marcos
Professor Dmitri Petrov, Biological Sciences
Lab Mentors Josefa Gonzalez and Yael Aminetzach
Verifying a Mutational Hotspot on the supF gene for a Translesion Synthesis Polymerase Activity Detection Reagent
Tiffany Williams, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Professor Karlene Cimprich, Molecular Pharmacology
Lab Mentor Christina MacDougall
Protein Kinase C: Its Effects on MARCKS and Differentiation in Muscle Cells
Rachel LaFond, University of Minnesota
Professor Daria Mochly-Rosen, Molecular Pharmacology
Lab Mentor Che-Hong Chen
