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Research Scholars - Life Sciences Project Archives
2023 Summer Session
- eDNA extraction of marine water samples with the DNeasy PowerSoil TM Pro Kit but not DNeasy PowerWaterTM Kit, leads to successful detection of Haliotis rufescens COX1 gene
Wang, A., Kuruvadi, K., Vazquez, A. - Successful Haliotis rufescens cytochrome c oxidase I gene detection in environmental DNA
samples when using DNeasy PowerSoilTM Pro Kit compared to DNeasy PowerWaterTM Kit
Byun, L., Khan, R., Levine, E., Li, D., Vaquez, A. - Benzo[a]pyrene decreases the abundance of two pathogens from the genus Providencia in Drosophila melanogaster
Lee, B., Su, E., Grubbs, N., Moreau, L., Feng, Z., Griffin, L.
2022 Fall Session
- The COX1 gene reveals that species relatedness corresponds to habitat similarity
Ovalle, M., Lee, A., Traylor, L. - The COX1 gene sequence indicates Oryzias latipes is more closely related to the endangered black abalone, Haliotis cracherodii , than Danio rerio
Lam, K., Patil, M., Gao, S., Tapia, T. - The COX1 gene sequence of human is more similar to Oryzias latipes than Caenorhabditis elegans
Lee, J., Fries, W., Bhagvat, C.
2022 Summer Session
- CCR4-NOT complex subunit twin is downregulated in Drosophila melanogaster females vs. males
Rao P., Park M., Martinez A., Gilmartin C., He A., Lindsey Griffin - Fmr1 is upregulated by 1.14-fold in standard conditions of femail vs. male Drosophila melanogaster
Bokka R., Odanlumen E., Shamoun S., Srinivas V., Wang E., Lindsey Griffin - Identifying endangered H.crocherodii, the black abalone, through evironmental DNA isolation and COX1 DNA barcoding
Hannah Y., Melanya Z., Gaspard R., Sreeya G., Aiping W., Zonathan Z., Armando V., Zuying F.
2022 Spring Session
- Female D. melanogaster up-regulation in Cyp18a1 gene in controlled conditions
Lindsey Griffin, Attar M., Daido Rin.
2022 Winter Session
- The genetic relatedness between red abalone; blacklip and greenlip abalone; medaka and zebrafish
Turhan, E., Noshin F., Akat E., Sharma I. - Mitochondrially encoded COX-1 DNA and eDNA in Haliotis rufescens is more similar to Oryzias latipes than Danio rerio.
Cao S., Lane H., Carruthers N., Siddiqui I., Eisan S., Griffin L. - eDNA sequencing proves accuracy in the analysis of COX1 gene coding region of abalone
Andrade S., Ekmekciler O., Hingorani S., Huynh L. - Abalone COX-1 gene sequencing and phylogenetic analysis
Tashin S., Chaubey S., Clark K., Ozmen S., Jain R.
2021 Fall Session
- Species relatedness to Haliotis cracherodii (black abalone)
Thontepu T., Lewis E., Jiang C. - DNA barcoding Oryzias latipes, Haliotis, C. elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, and Homo sapiens to find species proximity with Haliotis cracherodii using COX1 gene
Liang J., Fei K., Eachambadi V.
2021 Winter Session
- Effects of heat stress on heat shock gene expression in C. elegans
Choe A., Oh J., Park C., Wu S. - Exposure to HFPO-DA in C. Elegans reveals increased gene expression levels for genes gcs-1 and lmd-3
Alondra S., Logan O., Deanna G., Dana O. - Gene expression of swan-2, involvement in response to heat stressors, is expressed ~ 1.2 fold higher in C. elegans exposed to heat shock than those that were not, under controlled laboratory conditions
Quach E., Wu Q., Shaikh N. - Heat exposure to C. elegans at 33°C results in induction of genes dnj-13-14 and rage-1 and repression of genes gcs-1, swan-2 and epg-3.
Liang J., Whetstone M., Suratwala M., Cobaj E., Vo A. - HFPO-DA causes for impactful regulation of aging and damage control genes
Dylan G., Nadia S., Krishnadev L., Isai R. - HFPO-DA exposure has statistically significant effect on gene expression in C-elegens roundworms
Das P., Shoaib J., Naidu A. - Varied gene expression levels after HFPO-DA exposure across ten target genes involved in biological aging processes in Caenorhabditis elegans
Yang K., Quiaoit J., Pantoja S., Rao R., Zheng D. - Gene expression of epg-3, gcs-1 and swan-2 were upregulated and dnj-13 and ragc-1 were downregulated in C. elegans under heat stress compared to C. elegans under normal conditions
Eliana S., Rosa H., Seemal H., Anirudh R., Monique S.
2020 Fall Session
- hpo has sexually dimorphic gene expression in male and female fruit flies
Davies A., Rockson B., Tran R., Jensen A. - hpo has sexually dimorphic gene expression in male and female Drosophila MelanogasterMurakami K., Yang K., Kim E., Ghosh M.
- Dop2R does not have altered expression in female D. melanogaster exposed to GenX a potential toxicant
Osumanu A., Ramos A., Martinez J., Blandy M., Sanchez R. - Female Drosophila melanogaster do not exhibit differences in Dop2R gene activity in the brain after exposure to GenX
Rodriguez D., Phelps S., Tyagi S., Maharem O. - brat is significantly expressed 107.5 fold more in male than in female Drosophila melanogaster at baseline
Duckett C., Kimura C., Long L., Duarte K., Pasumarthy S. - A tumor suppressor gene, brat, has sexually dimorphic gene expression in male and female D. melanogaster
Zhao A., Presnall I., Hyler I., Cann E., Yamoah B. - The dopamine regulatory gene torsin is sexually dimorphic in male and female Drosophila melanogaster.
Dela Cruz A., Guerrero K., Noda T., Vargas A. - Torsin is significantly upregulated in Male fruit fly brains compared to Female fruit fly brains
Kotamarti A.,Contreras J., Zida S., Perez Orozco D. - tay does not have a sexually dimorphic expression in female and male D. melanogaster
Sawaya A., Truong K., Cobbinah M., Benyamin M., Baidoo M. - No significant change in expression of tay in Drosophila melanogaster after exposure to GenX
Wang J., Kobayashi C., Fowzy Z., Cassel N., Quiaoit J., - Expression of Pink1 in fruit fly brains does not have a significant change when exposed to GenX , a potential toxicant
Gonzalez A., Owusu-Hienno V., Essein D., Hayford M. - Expression of Pink1 in male and female D. melanogaster is unaffected by GenX treatment
Gonzalez C., Parelius S., Ng C. , Su J. - Expression of mitochondrial metabolic regulation gene Sirtuin 2 significantly downregulated in female compared to male D. melanogasterSinha A., Valencia I., Gonzalez E., Myers C.
2020 Winter Session
- Tumor suppressor gene l(3)mbt shows 5.09-fold greater expression in males than females Drosophila melanogaster
Delouri P., Ranjan S., Thontepu T. - Fmr1 is expressed 3.714-fold higher in male Drosophila melanogaster
Jacobo N., Nguyen A., Peters A. - Lee G., Shokri J., and Naderolasli Z.
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Expression of Pink1 is higher in female fruit flies relative to males by 1.8-fold
Nguyen T., Gutierrez R., Martinez A. -
Male fruit flies express Guardian of Genome, p53, 4.19-fold more than females
Hernandez K., Cookinham E., Aiu K -
Sexually dimorphic tay gene expression is 71.4-fold higher in male Drosophila melanogaster than in females
Lin S., Waters L., Reyes M. -
Torsin, a dystonia associated gene, is expressed 61.7-fold lower in female Drosophila melanogaster
Adawag J., Bagnas R., Quizon S. -
Female and Male Drosophila melanogaster express similar levels of depression and metabolic regulator gene, Hnf4
Gaxiola S., Camacho A., Mesri L.
2019 Fall Session
- GenX treatment resulted in unaltered expression of protein-modification gene sir-2.1 in Caenorhabditis elegans
Thontepu T., Hernandez Perez K., Gilbert-Aiu, K - Metabolic genes nhr-49 and pxmp-4 downregulated by 4.3 fold and 1.8 fold in GenX stressed Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans)
Gaxiola S., Mesri., Whall D - prx-11, a gene coding peroxisome membrane protein, was upregulated by 1.7 fold in GenX-treated Caenorhabditis
Delouri P., Ranjan S. - pqm-1 & daf-16, two lifespan-regulating genes, have no significant expression changes in Caenorhabditis elegans stressed with low-concentration GenX
Gupta K., Camacho J., Reece K. - Upregulation of oxidative stress-response gene lmd-3 by 2.4-fold in Caenorhabditis elegans after GenX exposure
Ilnytskyy D., Perez C., Kozik S.
2019 Summer Session
- gcs-1was upregulated by 1.5-fold, and epg-3 was downregulated by 2-fold in heat stressed Caenorhabditis elegans
Cruz R., Ordonio, T., Yacoby, T. - foxo, a major regulator of cell metabolism, is expressed 1.47-fold higher in female than male Drosophila melanogasterheads under standard laboratory conditions
Erwin Y., Perko L. - 1-fold expression difference in spen, a gene involved in neural development, between D. Melanogastermale and female heads
Vogel, M., Lee, J. - Heat-stressed induced gene expression ofswan-2 gene in elegans
Udata S., Wilson J. - Sid (stress-induced DNase type-I) gene in melanogasterheads is more active in males than females by 4-fold under control conditions
O’Connell K. - hpo* and Sid* genes are expressed 2.91-fold and 4.49-fold higher, respectively, in melanogastermale heads than female heads under standard laboratory conditions
Garcia, D., Pehrson A. - Gene expression of Cdk4, a regulator for cell division, is expressed ~ 1.4-fold higher in melanogaster male heads than female heads under controlled laboratory conditions
Xie, S., Walia, E., - 72-fold upregulation of autophagosome-assembly regulatorragc-1 gene in heat-stressed Caenorhabditis elegans
Yilgin A., Suro E. - Barcoding genesrbcL and matK reveal Shaw’s Agave genetic diversity while Biolog EcoPlates quantify variation in microbial substrate utilization within Pt. Loma Cabrillo National Monument
Haagensen, S., Villa, A., Rogers, M. - Apoptosis -Inducing Factor gene (AIF) in fruit fly heads is significantly upregulated (>8x*) in males compared to females under standard laboratory conditions
Hine, A., Macchiarella, A. - Gender and head- specific gene expression study reveals thathpo* & sws genes are respectively 3x & 4x upregulated in males compared to females under standard conditions
Kadiyala, A. Vazquez, L. - Statistically Significant Upregulation (3.2-fold) of heat shock protein coding gene, dnj-13in heat-stressed C. elegans
Pingol A., Serrano D.
Research Scholars - Marine Science Project Archives
2023 Summer Session
2022 Summer Session
- Effect of Shell Fragments on the Surface Temperatures of Aggregating Anemone (Anthopleura Elegantissima)
N.M. Gottlieb, T.J. Hokanson, M.R. Liskov - Heat Transfer in Aggregating Verses Solitary Strawberry Anemones (Corynactis Californica)
C.Bustos, M. A.Bravo, L.P. Kelly, N. Baxamusa - Rate of Conduction for Striped Shore Crabs (Pachygrapsus Crassipes) in Cold Versus Hot Environments
J. Cheng, S. Foss, E. Li, C. Shi - Effect of Shell Color on Preferred Environmental Temperature in Blueband Hermit Crabs (Pagurus Samuelis)
L. Maschler, P. Randolph, A. Ringler - The Correlation Between Mass and Rate of Heat Transfer in Striped Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus Crassipes)
D. Shi, N. Handa
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Research Scholars - Sports Medicine Project Archives
2021 Summer Session
- Body Mass Index and Ankle Injuries: Does BMI Correlate with Ankle Injury Among Athletes?
L. Chai, J. Chanveer, K. Fong, D. Jayaram, J. Piserchio - Do Targeted Warm-Ups Help Prevent Injury and Increase Performance in Different Sports?
R. Davda, R. Gadikota, L. Holt, R. Korsunskiy, M. Cuellar - Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Weight and Mood Over a Five Day Period
S. Iter, S. Shah, T. Brewster, T. Payyappilly, T. Truong
Research Scholars - Reproductive and Oncofertility Academy (ROSA) Project Archives
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Research Scholars -Academic Connections Project Archives
2017 Summer Session
- Simulation of Orientation Dependent Chirality in Plasmonic Structures
Aaron Ho - Determining the Relationship Between Neutrophil Elastase and Salivary α-amylase in Cystic Fibrosis Sputum and Oral Samples
Alexander Chen, Arnav Amruth - Characterization of Vacuolar Iron Transporter 1 (VIT1) from Tulipa Gesneriana
Andrew Rodriguez - Identifying Molecules with Antibiotic Activity Against E. Coli
Anvitha Aluri, Isabella Morse - Comparison of the Fitness of W303 Yeast and BC187 Yeast When Under ER Stress
Arushi Dogra - Identification of Potential Secondary Metabolites in Extracted Cyanobacteria and Algae
Christopher Cedric Bautista, Shabir Barkzai - Protecting Therapeutic Peptides From Proteolysis with Branched Structures using Click Chemistry
David Wang - Neurohistology: How to Identify Neuronal Proteins in Distinct Brain Regions and Cell Types
David Zeng - Visualizing Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Gene Locus in Live B-Lymphocytes
Hugo Wu - Contacts Between the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Other Membranes in Neurons
Jihyeon Je - Crystal Structure of a Pre-Catalytic Group II Intron From Pylaiella Littoralis
Johan Sanchez - Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange on Murine Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator (muPA)
Lisbeth Arroyo Castanon, Mahima Masih - Glycosaminoglycan Synthesis for Embryoid Body Incorporation
Maggie Zhang - Observing Lectin Binding Specificity on Glycan Microarrays
Meera Ravichandran - The Effects of Amyloid Beta on AMPA Receptors
Mia Franco - Metal Binding and Disulfide Bone Breakage Can Be Decoupled in an Engineering Metalloprotein
Naomi Abraham - Scanning the Transposon Insertion Line for HSFTF24
Samantha Renard - Chirality of Light and the Magneto-Electric Effect
Shashank Sridhar - PCR-Targeting of a Plasmid for Heterologous Expression of Thalassospiramides
Stephanie Carreto - 3D Imaging Method to Visualize the Network of LRRK2-Positive Filaments in Cells and Investigate their Relation to Other Organelles
Udit lyengar - Development of Pyridine Phosphate-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks
Vicki Xu - Following Evolution of 3D Reciprocal Space Maps of Insulating and Metallic Phases of VO2 During Phase Transition
William Lin - Charachterization of Vacuolar Iron Transporter 1 (VIT1) From Tulipa Gesneriana
Zoe Lachow
2018 Summer Session
- The Bursting of Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase mRNA During B Cell Activation
Aarjav Joshi - Identification of Proteases as Potential Targets for the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis
Adelpha Chan - Role of Dimerization in Retrotransposition of Group II Introns
Ariella Mandel - Determining the Effects of Varying Pressures and Tempertures on the Stability of Methane Clathrate Compounds Using Molecular Dynamics
Aryan Goyal - Modeling the Many-Body Interactions of Water Within a Metal Organic Framework
Danica Pietrzak - Determining Which Genes are Expressed and Repressed in Embryonic Stem Cells and Neural Progenitor Cells
Elise Vu - Identifying the Highest Affinity Nanobody Binder for RHC-1 to Investigate its Effects on Plants' Stomatal Mechanism
Ethan Park - Identifying Mechanism of Action of Antibacterial Compounds Using Bacterial Cytological Profiling
Hillary Zhou - Analysis and Classification of Organelle Trajectories in the Cytoplasm
James Ni - Expressing BF99H & BF99H/BS188A Variants of Nitrogenase in Azotobacter Vinelandii
Kendall Shields - Characterizing the Function of VICTR-like Genes and their Role in the Regulation of ABA in Response to DFPM in Arabidopsis Plants
Luis Prado - Disordered TAD Prediction Data Analysis of Homo Sapiens Transcription Factors
Margaret Campbell - Characterization of GRB2 Binding Site Mutation on Oncogenic Fusion Protein BCR-FGFR1
Maya Millstein - Identifying the Highest Affinity Nanobody Binder for RHC-1 to Investigate its Effects on Plants Stomatal Movement
Meron Teklu - Characterizing the Function of VICTR-like Genes and their Role in the Regulation of ABA in Response to DFPM in Arabidopsis Plants
Minzae Kim - Serine Proteases as Potential Markers for Diagnosis and Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis
Patrick Ma - Disordered Transactivation Domain Prediction Analysis of Homo Sapiens and Mus Musculus Transcription Factors
Samantha Renard - Identifying Mechanism of Action Antibacterial Compounds Using Bacterial Cytological Profiling
Sathvika Anand - Determining the Relationship Between Phosphorylation and Bindings of Nedd4-1 to AMPA Receptors
Shaun Konganda - Comparing Two Different Preparations of the W215A/E217A Mutant Thrombin by Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange
Sherrice Law - Temperature-Induced Rotation in Liquid Crystal Elastomer Toroids
Sophia Lipkin - Synthesis of a Fluorescent, Thermoresponsive Aqueous Polymer System
Tammy Le - Temperature-Induced Rotations in Liquid Crystal Elastomer Toroids
Tobey Shim - Different DNA Sequences Sense the Presence of the NF-kB TAD in Different Ways
Turner Clark - Using Electron Microscopy to Visualize the Ornate Large Extremophilic RNA Fused to a Group II Intron Ribonucleoprotein
Yash Rachepalli
2016 Summer Session
- Inducing the expression of violacein using the T7 promoter in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3)
Alex Orebic - Assay for Nitrite Reductase Activity in Engineered Metalloproteins
Allen Mao - Validating the Effectiveness of Proteolytic Enzyme Supplements to Digest Protein
Erika Peletis and Miyu Horiuchi - Gd(III)-based Enzyme-Responsive Nanoprobes as MRI Contrast Agents
Ezra Arovas - Determining the 3D Structure of the Peach Latent Mosaic Viroid
Ilaria Cobb - 1,2-HOPTOs as a Novel Scaffold for the Development of New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase-1
inhibitorsf
IqraDarnji - Moorea, Problematic or Not?
Jack Meghreblian - Elucidating the Mechanism of Nitrate Uptake in
Plantsf
Jasmine Lee, Maria Sofia Ospina, Yajaira Perez-Lascurain - NF-κB Interaction with Nucleosomes
Julia Zeng - Crystallization of ASB9-containing Subunit of Cullin-RING E3 Ligase
Kacey Zimmerman - The Effect of AcrAB-TolC MDR Pump and Media on Susceptibility to Antibiotics
Katherine Chou - Modeling Aqueous Halide Salts at the Interface with Many-Body Molecular Dynamics
Lauren Zhang - Cloning a genetically encoded
pH sensitive fluorescent AMPA-type glutamate receptors subunit fusion protein (pHRed -GluA1) to study the internalization and subsequent degradation of AMPARs by the lysosome
Lydia Yeshitla, Marian Badriyha, - Elucidating new genes involved in hematopoietic specification using a forward genetic screen
Matt Anderegg - Identifying Therapeutic Targets for Joint Specific Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Bayesian Network Models
Melissa Wei - Exploring Glycan Binding Interactions on Murine Myoblasts and Myotubes via Fluorescence Microscopy and an
Enzyme Linked Lectin Assay (ELLA)
Michelle Niu - Isolation, Purification, and Identification of Micro-organisms in Live Miso
Mengxuan Zhang - Lectin Binding on MDCK Cells and Glycan Microarrays
Nadeen Allah Werdi - Controlled T-Cell Development with Specialized Stromal Cells and Receptors
Nalani Coleman - Synthesis of Ciclopirox and its Analogues
Nathan Adamek - Identification of Potential Secondary Metabolites in Extracted Cyanobacteria
Raymond Banke Constriction and Expansion of Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Sabrina Chan- Chloroplast Proteome of Maize Leaf
Samantha Kan - Investigation of a chemical ligand that specifically targets 5fC in DNA
Samarth Menta - Synthesis of a Cargo-Linked Peroxynitrite Cleavable Monomer
Shivani Avasarala - Effects of Phd3 Knockdown on HIF-2a in HepG2 Cells
Tavisha Thapar - Simulating Quantum Wave Packets Using Schrödinger's equation
Vikram Sharma and Neel Saswade
2015 Summer Session
- Determining Effects of Pressure of Hydrogel Formation in Vitro
Abhinav Kadiyala - Phospholipid Vesicles as Microreactor Milieu for Biochemical Activity of FadD10
Advait Patil - Effects of Surface Modification on Suspension Stability of UiO-66-NH2
Akash R. Kumashi - Synthesis of UV-Cleavable, Drug-Containing ROMP Monomers Towards the Generation of Nanomaterials for Targeted Cancer Therapy
Ami Ikeda - The first phage protein detected in the infected host assembles a ring structure surrounding the infected nucleoid
Anadela Navarrete - Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy: From Sample Preparation To Reconstruction Of 3D Models
Andrea Villanueva - Extraction of Natural Products from the Brown Alga Dictyota
Ashley Nicoll - The major capsid protein of a bacteriophage is localized close to the infection nucleoid in the host cell
Celeste Valdivia - Integrin αvβ3 suppresses expression of the pro-apoptotic mediator PUMA in Breast Cancer cells
Charlie Michael - Caloric Restriction In Yeast
Chetana Thappeta - Secondary Structure Analysis of Catalytic RNAs
Dennis Aldea - Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (F.I.S.H.)
Estevan Negrete - Extraction and hemical nalysis of genus Laurencia sample
Fei Yan - Establishing Rag1 Overexpressed pro-B Cell Line by Retroviral Transduction
Gayathri Kalla - Surface Instability Of Inverted Polymer Tubes
Hersh Gupta - A Quantitative Assay of Immediate Early Gene Expression in the Mouse Hippocampus
Isha Mehrotra - Identification of Purified Glyoxysome Proteins by Mass Spectrometry
Jerry Lin - Xyloside Restructuring of the Glycocalyx
Jose A. Alvarez-Castillo - Growing and Harvesting Nitrogenase Proteins from Azotobacter Vinelandii
Kara Dunne-Dombrink - Amyloid Beta Leads to Synaptic Depression
Lenda Lawrence - Purification of Acrodysostosis and Carney Complex Disease Mutants of RIα
Lizbeth Contreras - Gibson Assembly
Marc Tardieux - Cell Resurfacing Modeling with Mimetic Glycopolymers to Study the Effect of Sialic Acid 3D Presentation
Rency Mallari - Structural study of P-glycoprotein-mediated transport of Aβ across the blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease
Rohan Mehrotra2014 Research Scholars Poster Projects - PDF format - Exploration of IκB:NFκB binding through Hydrogen Deuterium Mass Spectrometry
Shevya Awasthi - Fabrication, measurements, and applications of thermoresponsive and double network hydrogels
Yvonne Yeh
2014 Summer Session
- Phosphorylation of IκBβ is required to mediate the dissociation of NFκB from DNA
Alexandra Krstic - The Use of Alpha-Synuclein in Artificial Cell Division
Alexander Orebic - Biosynthesis of Bromocoumaric Acid in Bromoalterochromide A.
Andrea J. Gollwitzer - Screening for HSP:Gal4 Homozygous Transgenic Fish
Andrea Villanueva - Observing Interfacial Creases in PDMS
Anusuya Arjavalingam - Modeling the Effects of Guest Molecules in Metal-Organic Frameworks
Ethan Epperly - Fishing for Microbes: Developing a screen to isolate PUFA producing Bacteria
Hannah Reid, Nidhi Bangari - Developing Metalloenzyme Inhibitor Library Compounds
Jennifer De Leon - The affects on spetin7 expression in multiple cell culture techniques
J. E. Engel - Development of Glycopolymers Capable of Cell Surface Remodeling
Keaton Mertz - Synergy Effect of Polymyxin B (PMB) on the Bacteriophage 201 Phi2-1 Infection in Pseudomonas Chlororaphis
Klara Zakery - Energy Conservation with Hydrogel
Landen Conway - Extracting and Sequencing the 16ExEEExxtracting and Sequencing the 16s Gene of a Panamanian Cyanobacteria S Gene of a Ptannimanian Cyanobactreria
Lindsey Clark - Synthesis of Acid-Sensitive, Taxol-loaded, Enzyme-Responsive Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery
Meera Rachamallu - Comparing the Infectious Efficiency of Different Transfection Methods
Nathan Mallipeddi - Extraction of cyanobacteria from Palmyra Atoll for identification of biologically active compounds
Rachel Taubman - Synthesis of Functionalized Metal-organic Frameworks
Stuart Webb - Determining the Structure of Thrombin Using Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectroscopy
Varun Venkatesh - Synthesis of a Drug-Linked Peroxynitrite Cleavable Monomer (DLPCM) for Targeted Myocardial Tissue Repair
Willie Wu
2013 Summer Session
- Characterization of Ecm29: A 26S Proteasome Interacting Protein
Ajinka Nene - Geranium Telluride Synthesis
Alex Fong - Refolding Thrombomodulin EGFs 4-6 in E. coli
Avery Bonner - Isolating a Gene from Bacterial Plasmid DNA
Danny Srole - Interaction of ASB9 with creatine kinase
Darren Kahan - Engineering New Metalloprotein Scaffolds Through Disulfide bond Formation
Eduardo Ramirez - Effects of Diet on Inflammatory Responses in the Intestines
Eric Song - Single-cell dose dependent lipopolysaccharide response of NFκB nuclear translocation in macrophages
Jasmine L. Dibazar - Bidirectional Conversation Between Neural Nuclei and Synapses
Karla Mendoza - E. coli Expression Vector for Bromoalterochromide Gene Cluster
Lauren Gulland - Molecular Simulations of Water Diffusion in Metal-Organic Frameworks
Marc Matossian - Isolation of Potentially Active Compounds from Halimeda sp.
Megan Rooney - Single Cell Transcriptomics Reveals Heterogeneity of Gene Expression in Mouse Cells
Nupur Banerjee - Thermoelectric Properties of Materials
Rishi Kodukula - Single-cell dose dependent lipopolysaccharide response of NFκB nuclear translocation in macrophages
Rita Tran - Effects of Diet on Inflammatory Responses in the Intestines
Rohun Saxena - Isolation of antimicrobial compounds from insect-associated bacteria
Sabrina Chen - Encapsulation of Cell-Free Synthesis via Emulsion Vesicles
Sampreeti Chowdhuri - Effects of Solvents and Structures of Amphiphilic Polymers on the Formation of Nanoparticles
Shyam Krish - Single Cell Transcriptomics Reveals Heterogeneity of Gene Expression in Mouse Cells
Tanmay Ghai - Pro-Social Behavior and Empathy in Rats
Vivian Phillips - Construction of Plasmids Containing Site Specific Damages
Zixin Chen
2012 Summer Session
- The Role of the Regulatory Spine in Eukaryotic Protein Kinase Activity
Aishwarya K. Nene, Hiruy M. Sibhatu, Susan S. Taylor - The Role of LincRNA in B Cells
Amy He, Murre Laboratory - Thermo-Responsive Polymeric Materials: Norbornene NIPAM Analogues
Baseem Taraz, Matt Thompson, Nathan Gianneschi - Formation of Nanowires Through a CVD System
Brandon Yang (mentor Jaeyun Moon) - Designing a Near IR-Sensitive Nanoparticlefor Drug Delivery
Caitlyn Lim, Madeleine Grossman, Adah Almutairi - Isolating Metabolites
Callie Blumenfeld, Catherine Lundy, Ranmali Perera, Dr. Kit Pogliano - Refolding the Smallest Active Fragment of Human Thrombomodulin Expressed in E. coli
Cooper L. Wedge, Lindsey D. Handley, and Elizabeth A. Komives Ph.D. - Determining the Amino Acid Composition of Sierra Lake Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM)
Frances Bentley and Lihini I. Aluwihare - NFκB translocation in macrophages after innate immune activation
Jasmine L. Dibazar, Kristyn E. Feldman, Brooks E. Taylor, Alexander Hoffman Ph.D. Elizabeth A. Komives Ph.D. - Functionalized Polymers and Conjugation Efficiency
Karla Mendoza, Clare LeGuyader, Nathan Gianneschi - How Does Inflammation in the Adipose Tissue Contribute to Diabetes?
Kiana Khosravian, Jan Heinrichsdorff - Growth and Purification of a Designed Zn(II) Binding Metalloprotein
Kyle Cutright, Jonathan Parnell, Akif Tezcan - Oct4-dependent lincRNA Expression in Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Lauren Gulland, Sarah Kinnings, John Whitaker, and Wei Wang - HCI Scattering on Ice Surfaces
Marc Matossian - Utilizing Polymerase Chain Reaction and DNA Extraction to Genotype High and Low Fat Diet Mice
Marisha Kazi, Andrew Johnson - 16s rRNA Phylogeny of Moorea Bouillonii
Megan Rooney and Lena Gerwick - Inhibiting the Ethylene Pathway using a Receptor Antagonist
Minh Tran, Steven Nim, Christian Cole, Jun Yang, Neal Devaraj - Pre-Crosslinked MOF creation using linked BDC ligands
Corinne Allen, Ryan Gulland, and Seth M. Cohen - Determining the Foldedness of IκBα P261F and IκBα E282W
Stephanie Barrera, Holly Dembinski, Lilia M Iakoucheva, Elizabeth A. Komives Ph.D. - Rpt6 phosphorylation: A Novel mechanism to control proteasome function and its implications in synaptic plasticity and disease
Vivian Phillips, Esther Marquez-Lona, Dr. Gentry Patrick
2011 Summer Session
- Activating Water with an Artificial Metalloprotein
Jacqueline J. Browning, Robert J. Radford, F. Akif Tezcan - Discovering Behaviors and Interactions Between Soil Bacteria
Selina Terrazas - Imaging-guided Extraction and Separation of Molecules Produced byS.Coelicolor
Chandni Patel, Jessica Karr, Dr. Pieter Dorrestein - Investigation of Lymphocyte Development
Alexandria Barnum - Role of KNL-1 in C.Elegans Kinetochore Assembly
Nicolas Pogliano, Mark Moyle, Julian Espeut, Karen Oegema and Arshad Desai - Studies into Phosphopantothenoyl Cysteine Synthetase
Amie Patel and Dr. Michael Burkart - Synthesizing and Post-Synthetically Modifying Metal-Organic Frameworks
Anna Robert, Kristine Tanabe, Corinne Allen and Seth Cohen - The Effects of the NF-kB Transcription Factor on IKK Knockouts
Christopher Mann - The First Ever Refolding of Bovine Thrombin!
Jett Paulk, Brian Fuglestad, and Elizabeth A. Komives - The Importance of YscD in the Type III Secretion System
Allison Celeste Pineda, Alicia Gamez, Partho Ghosh - The Role of Histone Modification Patterns in Transcription Factor Binding and Gene Expression
Jason Young, Wei Wang - The Structural Characteristics of PKA
Ryan Velasco