2000 HHMI/WU FELLOWS' SYMPOSIUM

Reports on Results of Work Supported by The Undergraduate Biological Sciences Educational Program of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Washington University in St. Louis

 

HHMI SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

WELCOME
Mark Wrighton, Chancellor, Washington University
"Research: Knowledge Creation and Education"

Fellows
Mentors
Titles
9:15

Elizabeth Viets

Larry Snyder

Interference in the brain: the effect of simultaneously processing two stimuli

9:30

Sherif Latif

Pui-Yan Kwok

Fluorescence polarization in homogeneous nucleic acid analysis II: 5'-nuclease assay

9:45

Vikram Budhraja

Mark Watson and Bill Shannon

Statistical analysis of DNA microarrays

10:00

William Neeley

John S. Taylor

Preparation and characterization of UV photoproduct analogs N-mT[6-4]T, 5-mC[6-4]T, and their respective Dewar isomers as probes for the mechanism of UV-induced mutagenesis

10:15

Kendra Conkright

Jeffrey H. Teckman

The effect of fasting on the liver of mice transgenic for the human a-1 ATZ gene

10:30-11

COFFEE BREAK View Posters #1-4, 6-10 & 14

11:15

Olivia Chuang

Steven D. Shapiro

The role of macrophage elastase in host defense

11:30

Anne Swart

Thomas B. Croat

Revision of the Araceae of Rio Cenepa and adjacent areas

11:45

Ryan Huffman

Carolyn J. Anderson

Comparison of cytotoxicity between copper-64 and copper-61 in vitro

12:00

Zachery Reichert

Garland R. Marshall

Using expressed protein ligation to study G protein and transmembrane, G protein coupled receptor's 3D structure

12:15

LUNCH and John Russell &endash; Announcement of PEW Symposium

1:00

View Posters # 11-21

1:30

View Posters # 1-3, 15, 15-21

2:00

View Posters # 5-10, 11-13

2:30

Nathan Gosse

Stephen L. Johnson

Toward positional cloning of the zebra fish pigment pattern mutation jaguar

2:45

Jason Diamond

Harold Burton

fMRI of early blind subjects performing a verb generation task to heard nouns

3:00

Kristen Haut

Joseph Price

Gyral asymmetry in the orbital-medial prefrontal cortex

3:15

Sarah Tsou

Joseph Price

Neuronal loss in the hippocampal area CA1 in aging and Alzheimer's disease

3:00
Scientific Keynote Speaker

Roy Curtiss, III, George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology .
"A Journey through Science"

POSTERS

 
  1. Brian Aguirre B-cell trafficking into the central nervous system requires the presence of an immune response. Mentor Anne H. Cross
  2. Joshua Bedwell Thalamic projections from the brainstem reticular formation: a retrograde tracing study in the rat. Mentor Arthur Loewy
  3. Ryan Bickel An evolutionary approach to the morphology of chameleons. Mentor Jonathan Losos
  4. Michael Birman Neural strategies to resolve ambiguous otolith information based on transient movements. Mentor Dora Angelaki
  5. Amber Bowers Transformation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii through electroporation . Mentor Susan Dutcher
  6. Melissa Calcaterra Reduced number of stromal cells found in murine model of accelerated senescence (SAM-P6). Mentor Matthew J. Silva
  7. Elizabeth Anne Champion The construction of a recombinant, attenuated Salmonella typhimurium vaccine expressing a Listeria monocytogenes Tcell epitope for comparative evaluation of cytotoxic T cell response in mice. Mentor Roy Curtiss III
  8. Amy Chen Transplantation of oligospheres and embryoid bodies to remyelinate the injured spinal cord. Mentor John W. McDonald
  9. Colleen Collins Towards the synthesis of a "caged" (photoactivated) chemotherapeutic agent. Mentor John S. Taylor
  10. Brett Fite Linkage of protein conformation changes to enzymic catalysis detected by tryptophan fluorescence in citrate synthase mutants. Mentor Linda C. Kurz
  11. Mai-Lan Ho Role of b-catenin in human endometrial tumor initiation and development. Mentor Paul Goodfellow
  12. Kate Knox A morphological comparison of Anolis occulatus and A. marmoratus to anole ecomorphs of the Greater Antilles. Mentor Jonathan Losos
  13. Bonny Leung Fine mapping an obesity gene on mouse chromosome 18. Mentor James M. Cheverud
  14. Grace Messah The role of CD28 in the regulation of IL-13 production. Mentor Jonathan Green
  15. Amy Nichols Does notch activity have a role in adipogenesis? Mentor Raphael Kopan
  16. Mark Rivkin Therapeutic window for Zn chelation with CaEDTA following transient global ischemia Mentor Dennis Choi
  17. Alissa Ruch Examining the possible involvement of the unidentified ORF, ssl3127, in manganese transport in Synechocystis pcc sp. 6803. Mentor Himadri Pakraski
  18. Maja Svrakic Intramembraneous ossification proteoglycans: peptides involved in the facial and skull development of a mouse embryo . Mentor Judith M. Gurley
  19. Brandi Thompson The genetic analysis of heterochromatin protein 2, a protein involved in gene silencing. Mentor Sarah C.R. Elgin
  20. Wendy Whiteside Induction of matrilysin expression by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its relationship to innate host defense in the mouse respiratory tract. Mentor William C. Parks
  21. Michael Zulliger Using computational optical sectioning microscopy to test the hypothesis that adhesion sites serve as microtubule binding sites in BY-2 tobacco cell. Mentor Barbara Pickard

     



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