Summer Scholars Program in Biology and Biomedical Research, 2007 Fellows and Abstracts

  1. Adedayo Adesokan
    The co-localization of PDD1 and PDD3 genes in Tetrahymena thermophila
    Mentor: Doug Chalker, Biology Department, Washington University in St. Louis
  2. Brandon Akers
    Prostaglandin Metabolite Activation of Ion Channel TRPA1
    Mentor: Gina Story, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine
  3. Ashley Aluko
    The Genetic Architecture of Congenital Heart Disease
    Mentor: Patrick Jay, Department of Pediatrics Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine
  4. Tonya An
    Practical Prevention of Nuclear Cataracts
    Mentor: David Beebe, Department of Ophthalmology, Washington University School of Medicine
  5. Jarius Anderson-Baylor
    Isolation and Identification of the Cell-Stress Inducing snoRNA
    Mentor: Jean Schaffer, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Washington University School of Medicine
  6. Adeetee Bhide
    Age Related Hearing Loss
    Mentor: Jianxin Bao, Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine
  7. Erica Cole
    The Rd Gene: Its Effects on the Pigmentation of Red Rice
    Mentor: Ken Olsen, Biology Department, Washington University in St. Louis
  8. Daniella Corcuera
    Computational study of introgression between Saccharomyces paradoxus and S. cerevisiae
    Mentor: Justin Fay, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine
  9. Brianna Davis
    Severe Congenital Neutropenia
    Mentor: Daniel Link, Department of Internal Medicine – Bone Marrow Transplant, Washington University School of Medicine
  10. Victor Ekuta
    The Effects on Individual Loci on Mandibular Morphology
    Mentor: James Cheverud, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine
  11. Alice Gu
    Construction of Green Fluorescent Protein Transcriptional and Translational Sortase Fusions in Enterococcus faecalis
    Mentor: Scott Hultgren, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine
  12. Amanda Hay
    DNA Polymerase Epsilon Subunit B is a novel conserved substrate of active ERK2
    Mentor: Tim Schedl, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine
  13. Perry Morocco
    Effects of Heterochromatin Protein 1 Duplications on Drosophila melanogaster
    Mentor: Sarah Elgin, Biology Department, Washington University in St. Louis
  14. Mitch Otu
    Expression of Oncomodulin in the Inner Ear
    Mentor: Dwayne Simmons, Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine
  15. Elizabeth Rose
    The Cloning and Structural Analysis of Membrane Proteins
    Mentor: Joshua Maurer, Chemistry Department, Washington University in St. Louis
  16. Manjaap Sidhu
    The Effects of Chemokines on Acute Infections of Herpes Simplex Virus-1
    Mentor: Patrick Stuart, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Washington University School of Medicine
  17. Alexander Tatara
    The Synthesis, Characterization, and Release of Poly(D,L-lactide-co-glycolide) Microspheres For Delivery Of Nogo-66(1-40) Antagonist Peptide and Chondroitinase ABC
    Mentor: Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
  18. Michael Wang
    Measuring the Difference Between the Magnetic Susceptibility of Oxygenated and Deoxygenated Blood
    Mentors: Mark Conradi and Jason Woods, Chemistry Department, Washington University in St. Louis
  19. Yan Wang
    The Role of VIP in Entrainment of the SCN
    Mentor: Erik Herzog, Biology Department, Washington University in St. Louis
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