1999 Prefreshmen Biology Summer Scholars

1. Juan Chaparro.
   Study of the Family Araceae.
   Mentor: Dr. Thomas B. Croat

2. Ryan Collins.
   Development of a 3-D MRI Atlas of the Baboon Brain.
   Mentor: Dr. Kevin Black

3. Jeffery C. Giering.
   Cloning and Study of the Pol I Largest Subunit.
   Mentor: Dr. Craig Pikaard

4. William Gordon.
   Study of ddmB, a DNA Methylation Mutation of Arabidopsis.
   Mentor: Dr. Eric Richards

5. Alyssa D. Gregory.
   Effects of G-CSF Receptor Mutations on the Microbicidal Activity of Murine Neutrophils in vitro.
   Mentors: Dr. Daniel C. Link, Dr. Morgan L. McLemore

6. Laurel Griggs.
   Radar Modeling of Post-1993 Missouri River Floodplain Vegetation Changes.
   Mentor: Dr. Raymond E. Arvidson

7. Glenda-Gayle Haskin.
   Using a Two-Hybrid System to Identify Proteins that Interact with Glut4-interacting Kinase and Akt.
   Mentors: Dr. Mike M. Mueckler, Haru Murata

8. Farley C. Johnson.
   Genetic Screens of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Deletion Strains in Search of Proteins involved in TOR Signaling.
   Mentors: Dr. Steven Zheng, Ting-Fung Chan

9. Katherine Kosman.
   Plasmid Construction in the Role of NFkB in Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1.
   Mentors: Dr. Lee Ratner, Mike Robek

10. By Sherif Latif.
    A New DNA Diagnostic Test based on Fluorescence Polarization Detection.
    Mentor: Pui-Yan Kwok MD, Ph.D.

11. Lin Lin.
    The Phosphatidylinositol-3 Kinase Signaling Pathway of Colony Stimulating Factor-1 (CSF-1).
    Mentor: Dr. Angel Lee

12. Kristina N. Mays.
    Assessing the Specificity of APC CC-1 Labeling in vivo and in vitro.
    Mentor: Dr. John W. McDonald, M.D. Ph. D.

13. Grace Messah.
    The Construction and Characterization of a CD28 Mutant.
    Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Green

14. Amy Nichols.
    Notch1 Signaling Requires Intracellular Processing.
    Mentors: Stacey Huppert, PhD and Raphael Kopan, PhD

15. Brandon Roberts.
    Fine Mapping Adult Body Weight in Mice: QTL Analysis.
    Mentor: Dr. James Cheverud

16. Ashwin Srinivas.
    Cancer Screening by Detection of p53 Mutations.
    Mentors: Dr. W. Barnes and Dr. P. Theodorakis

17. Jessica Straatmann.
    Neuronal and Glial Cell Numbers in the Subgenual Prefrontal Cortex in Relation to Aging and Alzheimer's Disease.
    Mentor: Dr. Joseph Price

18. William Wooten.
    A Test of the Interaction of HP2 with HP1.
    Mentors: Carolyn Craig, Chris Shaffer, and Sarah Elgin

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