2001 Summer Scholars Program

  1. Kwame Adu-Wusu
    Helicobacter pylori
    Mentor: Robin G. Lorenz, M.D.,Ph.D
  2. Ellen Bailey
    The role of Bcl-x in Apoptosis of p53 -/- Cells Following DNA Damaging Treatments
    Mentor: Steven J. Weintraub, Ph.D
  3. Sean Crawford
    The Factors of FATP and ACS in Lipid Uptake in the Intestine and Liver
    Mentor: Nicholas O. Douglas, M.D.
  4. Scott Crick
    Screening Alzheimer's Patients for Mutations in Exons 16 & 17 of the ß-Amyloid Precursor Protein Gene
    Mentors: Sumi Chakraverty, Ph.D., and Alison Goate, Ph.D
  5. Angela Duff
    Fractionation and Separation of Molecules Using Gel Filtration Chromatography
    Mentor: Carl Romano. Ph.D.
  6. Cristina Fernandez
    Formation of EzrA for Protein Expression and in vitro FtsZ Polymerization Assembly
    Mentor: Petra Levin, Ph.D.
  7. Jia-Jan Fu
    The Role of FGFs and BMPs in Lens Fiber Cell Differentiation
    Mentor: David Beebe, PhD
  8. Masha Gelfand
    Identifying Genes Regulating Synaptic Development
    Mentor: Aaron DiAntonio, Ph.D.
  9. Adam Greenbaum
    Loss of Heterozygosity in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia- 2A
    Mentor: Paul Goodfellow, Ph.D.
  10. David Ham
    Characterization of Influenza A Virus Protein Interactions
    Mentor: Andrew Pekosz, Ph.D
  11. Lauren Harte
    The study of cellular deletion is essential to understanding the body's immune system
    Mentor: Patrick Stuart, Ph.D
  12. Eugenia Legarda
    Characterization of Novel Antibodies Generated Against Flk-1 Expressing Cells
    Mentors: Kyunghee Choi, Ph.D., Wen Jie Zhang, Ph.D.
  13. Navin Mahadevan
    Analysis of Gene Expression and Evolution in Amphioxus
    Mentor: Jeremy Gibson-Brown, Ph.D
  14. Durba Mitra
    The Use of Pseudorabies Virus to Define Neural Circuitry in Rat Brain
    Mentor: AD Loewy, Ph.D.
  15. Kelly O'Shea
    Detection of Eye Position using Delaunay Tessellation and Five-Dimensional Meshing
    Mentor: Gavin Perry, Ph.D
  16. Juliana Pernik
    The Biochemistry of Citrate Synthase
    Mentor: Linda Kurz, Ph.D
  17. Anuj Shah
    Isolation and Incorporation of the Kv2.2 Gene into Mouse Potassium Channels
    Mentor: Jeanne Nerbonne, Ph.D
  18. Rachel Torrey
    Blues Clues: An Analysis of Neuronal and Glial Cell Number in the Orbitofrontal Region of the Prefrontal Cortex in Relation to Mood Disorders
    Mentor: Joseph Price Ph.D 
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