2006 HOWARD HUGHES FELLOWS AND ABSTRACTS

  1. Amanda Adeleye - Mentor:  Scott Saunders
    HEPARAN SULFATE PROTEOGLYCANS IN ZEBRAFISH DEVELOPMENT
  2. Meredith Albin - Mentor:  David H. Gutmann
    IDENTIFICATION OF GENETIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TUMORS ARISING IN DIFFERENT BRAIN REGIONS
  3. Nikhil Angelo - Mentor:  Erik Herzog
    OPTIMIZING LOW DENSITY PRIMARY CULTURES IN ORDER TO FIND A NEUROCHEMICAL MARKER FOR PACEMAKING CELLS IN THE SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS
  4. David  Edmund C. Anstey - Mentor:  Kathryn G. Miller
    THE ROLE OF MYOSIN VI IN BACULOVIRUS INFECTION
  5. M. Fola Babatunde - Mentor:  Timothy A. Graubert
    MLF1, A CANDIDATE GENE FOR CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED LEUKEMIA
  6. Natalie Badowski - Mentor:  Deanna Barch
    INCREASED PREFRONTAL CORTEX ACTIVATION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA FOLLOWING COGNITIVE TRAINING USING THE AX-CPT
  7. Saranya C. Bala - Mentor:  James M. Cheverud
    IDENTIFYING QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI EFFECTING LIVER WEIGHT IN SM/J X LG/J MICE
  8. Somalee Banerjee - Mentor:  Jeffrey M. Gidday
    ELUCIDATING PRECONDITIONING-INDUCED, AKT-MEDIATED SIGNALING MECHANISMS OPERATIVE IN CEREBRAL ENDOTHELIUM THAT PROTECT THE MICROVASCULATURE FROM STROKE
  9. Tyrone Ford Caruthers - Mentor:  Joe Henry Steinbach
    TRUNCATED VERSION OF GABA-A b3 RECEPTOR MAY LEAD TO SUPERIOR HIGH-DEFINITION STRUCTURAL DATA
  10. Ying Kai Chan - Mentor:  Robyn S. Klein
    THE ROLE OF THE CHEMOKINE CXCL10 AND ITS RECEPTOR CXCR3 IN WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS
  11. Kangli Chen - Mentor:  Phyllis K.  Stein
    TRACING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HRV AND MORTALITY
  12. Elizabeth C. Clark - Mentor:  Jonathan M. Chase
    EFFECT OF PREDATOR DIVERSITY ON TROPHIC CASCADE STRENGTH: DOES PREY DIVERSITY MATTER?
  13. Emily Dangremond - Mentor:  Tiffany M. Knight
    EFFECTS OF HABITAT TYPE ON PREDATION IN THE ENDANGERED PLANT, LUPINUS TIDESTROMII
  14. Katherine E. DeGuire  - Mentor:  Eric J. Richards
    THE EFFECTS OF NMCP MUTATIONS ON NUCLEAR SIZE IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA
  15. Alejandra Figueroa-Clarevega - Mentor:  Sarah CR Elgin
    REPETITIOUS ELEMENT 1360 AS A TARGET FOR HETEROCHROMATIN FORMATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
  16. Jonathan Garst Orozco - Mentor:  Lawrence B. Salkoff
    CUMULATIVE ACTIVATION OF A VOLTAGE-GATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS IN C. ELEGANS: A NOVEL PHENOMENON
  17. Anna Cristina Garza - Mentor:  Petra A. Levin
    STRUCTURE/FUNCTION ANALYSIS OF A CELL DIVISION PROTEIN IN BACILLUS SUBTILIS
  18. Elizabeth Germino - Mentor:  Marco Colonna
    THE P110 d AND g SUBUNITS OF PI3K INHIBIT MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION AND MAY ACCOUNT FOR THE INHIBITION OBSERVED IN DAP12-/- CELLS
  19. Thomas Giarla - Mentor:  Jonathan M. Chase
    CONTAGION OR COMPRESSION? PREDATOR EFFECTS ON COLONIZATION IN ADJACENT AQUATIC HABITATS
  20. Anne K. Greenberg - Mentor:  Barbara A. Schaal
    BIODIVERSITY AND ENERGY AVAILABILITY: TESTING THE EVOLUTIONARY RATES HYPOTHESIS
  21. Jennifer Ann Hadley - Mentor:  Igor R. Efimov
    THE ROLE OF TISSUE STRUCTURE AND INTERCELLULAR ELECTRICAL COUPLING VIA CONNEXIN43 IN ARRHYTHMOGENESIS IN A TRANSGENIC RABBIT MODEL OF HEART FAILURE
  22. Damara Rochelle Hamlin - Mentor:  Anthony Hinrichs
    ASSOCIATION OF GENETIC VARIANTS IN INTRON 2 OF THE NEUREXIN 1 GENE WITH ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE AND NICOTINE DEPENDENCE
  23. Tassy Nicole Hayden - Mentor:  Tamara G. Hershey
    Diabetes, Depression, and Therapy in Expectant Mothers: Impact on Infant Development
  24. Matthew Hayes - Mentor:  Timothy B. Schedl
    IDENTIFICATION OF DIS-3 (DISJUNCTION IN MEIOSIS) AS A NOVEL DIRECT TARGET OF ERK2
  25. Samuel Carlton Haywood - Mentor:  Simon Fisher
    INTRAHYPOTHALAMIC INSULIN INFUSION DOES NOT AUGMENT THE COUNTERREGULATORY RESPONSE TO GLUCOSE DEPRIVATION?
  26. Henry Huang - Mentor:  Stephen L. Johnson
    REGENERATION: ARE CELL LINEAGES RESTRICTED OR DO CELLS TRANSDIFFERENTIATE IN THE REGENERATING ZEBRAFISH FIN?
  27. Timothy Kaminsky - Mentor:  Jeffrey S. McKinney
    BACTERIAL mRNA AS A TARGET FOR ANTIMICROBIALS
  28. Abhisek Chandan Khandai - Mentor:  Joseph L. Price
    EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS OF THE DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX
  29. Grace Pei Yein Lee - Mentor:  Petra A. Levin
    GENETIC SCREEN FOR NEGATIVE REGULATORS OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS CELL DIVISION
  30. Stephanie Leu - Mentor:  Joshua A. Maurer
    UTILIZING SURFACE CHEMISTRY IN AXON/DENDRITE DIFFERENTIATION
  31. Felix Lui - Mentor:  Susan K. Flowers
    LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS WITH MODEL ORGANISMS (LIMO) PROGRAM
  32. Robert Andrew Mackey - Mentor:  Phyllis K. Stein
    T-WAVE ALTERNANS AND SUDDEN DEATH IN EPHESUS
  33. Daniel Martin - Mentor:  Tiffany M. Knight
    ROOT DEFENSE AGAINST NATIVE FUNGI IN GARLIC MUSTARD
  34. Mario Martinez - Mentor:  Barry P. Sleckman
    THE ROLE OF DOWNSTREAM ATM PROTEINS IN DOUBLE STRAND BREAK REPAIR DURING V(D)J RECOMBINATION
  35. Jason Metcalf - Mentor:  Katherine P. Ponder
    THE ROLE OF FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR SIGNALING IN MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS BONE DEFECTS
  36. Michelle Lena Miller - Mentor:  Susan K. Dutcher
    MAPPING THE MIA1 GENE IN CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII
  37. Cristina Diez Montero - Mentor:  Douglas L. Chalker
    AN EXAMINATION OF THE SEQUENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF THE R-ELEMENT, AN INTERNALLY ELIMINATED SEQUENCE IN TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA
  38. Timothy Jay Notton - Mentor:  Stephen M. Beverley
    REVERSE GENETIC ANALYSIS OF LAG1 IN LEISHMANIA MAJOR
  39. Benjamin S. Oberman - Mentor:  Zhoufeng Chen
    EXPRESSION PATTERN OF BOMBESIN FAMILY HOMOLOGS IN MOUSE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD
  40. Beryl A. Ojwang - Mentor:  Jeffrey M. Gidday
    ERYTHROPOIETIN PROTEIN AND RECEPTOR EXPRESSION IN MOUSE RETINA AFTER PRECONDITIONING WITH HYPOXIA AND DEFERROXAMINE
  41. Sheri Peterson- Mentor:  Dana R. Abendschein
    EFFECTS OF NONTARGETED, DOXORUBICIN-CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES ON NEOINTIMAL THICKENING AFTER CAROTID INJURY IN RATS
  42. David James Phillips - Mentor:  Peter M.J. Burgers
    ASSESSING THE ROLES OF A NOVEL DOMAIN WITHIN THE YEAST PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN (PCNA) DURING DNA REPLICATION AND REPAIR
  43. Kristin Irene Powell - Mentor:  Tiffany M. Knight
    POLLINATION BIOLOGY AND BREEDING SYSTEMS OF CO-OCCURRING RARE AND INVASIVE CIRSIUM
  44. Pavel Rodriguez - Mentor:  Shrikant Anant 
    FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS OF RNA BINDING PROTEIN CUGBP2
  45. Jennifer Shoshana Rosenberg - Mentor:  Jonathan M. Chase/James Vonesh
    THE IMPORTANCE OF HABITAT SELECTION AND POST-COLONIZATION PREDATION IN AQUATIC COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY
  46. Brian D. San Francisco - Mentor:  Robert G. Kranz
    ENVIRONMENTAL IRON LIMITATION: BENEFITS TO AN ORGANISM WITH A SYSTEM I VERSUS A SYSTEM II CYTOCHROME C BIOGENESIS PATHWAY
  47. James Gregory Shaw - Mentor:  Jonathan B. Losos/Michele A. Johnson
    MICROHABITAT USE IN JUVENILE ANOLIS LIZARDS
  48. Molly Shook - Mentor:  Craig Pikaard
    CHARACTERIZATION OF HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES FROM ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA
  49. Luz Silverio  - Mentor:  Tiffany M. Knight
    HERBIVORY RESPONSE AND DEFENSE DIVERSITY WITHIN THE LESPEDEZA GENUS
  50. Brian John Smeets - Mentor:  Tiffany M. Knight
    SHIFTS IN HERBIVORY PREFERENCE WITH ELEVATED CARBON DIOXIDE AND NITROGEN ENRICHMENT
  51. Hank Haw Sun - Mentor:  Mark P. Goldberg
    A COMPARISON OF TWO VIRAL VECTORS FOR GENE DELIVERY INTO MOUSE BRAIN:  IS LENTIVIRUS MORE TOXIC THAN ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS?
  52. Brittany Joy Teller - Mentor:  Tiffany M. Knight
    EFFECTS OF MANAGEMENT ON GARLIC MUSTARD (ALLIARIA PETIOLATA) FITNESS
  53. Ania Truszczynski - Mentor:  Tiffany M. Knight
    THE EFFECT OF CO-EVOLVED MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES ON INVASIVE SPECIES
  54. Jocelyn C. Tsai - Mentor:  Tiffany M. Knight
    THE LONG TERM EFFECTS OF GARLIC MUSTARD (ALLIARIA PETIOLATA) ON ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL COMMUNITIES
  55. An Ran Tyrrell - Mentor:  Justin C. Fay
    POLYMORPHISMS IN NON-CODING REGIONS LEAD TO DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION
  56. Neil-Jeremy Wingkun - Mentor:  Janet Sue Rader
    MUTATION ANALYSIS OF THE POU2F3 PROMOTER REGION
  57. Henry Wu - Mentor:  Susan M. Culcian
    CHARACTERIZATION OF MISTARGETED RETINAL GANGLION CELL PROJECTIONS TO THE DORSAL LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS (DLGN) OF THE THALAMUS IN THE PHR MUTANT
  58. Kaiming Wu - Mentor:  Katherine N. Weilbaecher
    EFFECTS OF P2Y12 DEFICIENCIES ON OSTEOCLAST DEFECTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR OSTEOLYTIC BONE LESIONS

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