MCDB 495 (Intensive Research)

Student’s Name	Project Title	Faculty Adviser
Jason Arroyo	The role of Sox4 and Fim4 in acute myeloid leukemia	Archibald Perkins (Pathology)
Jonathan Beslow	Research on isolated familial growth deficiency type II	Priscilla Dannies (Pharmacology)
Daniel Chu	Characterization of a Kunitz-type serine protease inhibitor secreted by the hookworm Ancylostoma ceylanicum	Michael Cappello (Pediatrics)
Muriel Cleary	Isolation and characterization of transcriptional regulatory regions from the EphA6 gene to drive regional cortex-specific expression In Vivo	Maria Vellecca (Neurobiology)
Lesley Colgan	Neural mechanisms underlying stress-induced PFC dysfunction in young aged rats	Amy Arnsten (Neurobiology)
Ilana DeLuca	Role of RBccNHL domain proteins in C. elegans	Frank Slack (MCDB)
Allen Dodson	Characterization of RNase P mutants by complementation testing	Sidney Altman (MCDB)
Nathaniel Echols	Comparative eukaryotic genomics	Mark Gerstein (MB&B)
Jeffrey Gordon	Two-component regulatory networks controlling cell cycle progression and differentiation in a-proteobaceria	Christine Jacobs (MCDB)
Daniel Hernandez	BDNF/Trk B role in the activity dependent development of motor neuron dendrites	Robert Kalb (Neurology)
Julia Iyasere	The role of JNK3 in stress-induced cell apoptosis	Richard Flavell (Immunobiology)
Brian Kim	Analyses of conditional null mutant mice for FGFR1 using the Otx-tFGFRl system	Flora Vaccarino (Child Study Center)
Eric Kim	The effect of stress on the activity of place cells in the hippocampus	Jeansok Kim (Psychology)
Christina Lu	Embryo - endometrical interaction	Hugh Taylor (OB-GYN)
Syrena McKenzie	Auto-regulation of Hoxa10 gene: A key factor in female fertility	Hugh Taylor (OB-GYN)
Julia Park	Assessment of autonomic responses to acupuncture and mental effort in patients with diabetes and/or hypertension	David Silverman (Anesthesiology)
Mary Payne	Aging-related changes in the morphology and distribution of parvalbumin-immunoreactive neurons in rat perirhinal cortex	Thomas Brown (Psychology)
Tonguc Pinar	An activator of Ab1 family kinases	Anthony Koleske (MB&B)
Nestor Rodriguez	Sexual differentiation of genitalia as influenced by steroid hormones	Frederick Naftolin (OB-GYN)
Leah Sartorius	Activity of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex neurons in the Macaque during problem solving tasks	Patricia Goldman-Rakic (Neurobiology)
Edward Teng	Engineering the kinetic interconversions in proton-sensitive ribozyme switches	Ronald Breaker (MCDB)

MCDB 475 (Research)

Student’s Name

Project Title

Faculty Adviser

Brett Anderson	In Vitro viability of Ancylostoma ceylanicum	Michael Cappello (Pediatrics)
Ayshe Beesen	Cloning the Hox c8 gene in Ascidians	Frank Ruddle (MCDB)
Jessica Bertout	Study of the importance of neutrophils in the regression of the corpus luteum	Harold Behrman (OB-GYN)
Douglas Cameron	The search for aldehyde dehydrogenases affecting vanillin degradation in Acinetobacter	L. Nicholas Ornston (MCDB)
Linda Chang	Regulation of neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation by the notch signaling pathway	Pasko Rakic (Neurobiology)
Antonia Chen	The characterization of STAT family member-PECAM-1 (CD31) interactions	Joseph Madri (Pathology)
Teresa Chen	The human Reelin gene and its association with autism	Fred Volkmar (Child Study Center)
Sophie Chheang	Translational study of survivin differential expression in human prostate cancer cells	Lucia Languino (Pathology)
Claiborne Childs	B cells and T cells and their relationships with human and rat MOG in mice	Nancy Ruddle (Epid/Public Health)
Melissa Chung	Differentiation of vesicular and nonvesicular GABA	Robin de Graaf (Diagnostic Rad)
Kathryn Cleaver	The interaction between specific transcription factors and genomic yeast DNA	Kenneth Nelson (MCDB)
Justin Cohen	Characterizatin of the MYD88 orthologue in malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae	Liangbiao Zheng (Epid/Public Health)
Emily Collier	Mechanisms of TNF-a induced insulin resistance in mice	Gerald Shulman (Internal Medicine)
Michael Core	Effect of ginkgo biloba on EMT6 cell growth and radiation response	Sara Rockwell (Ther Radiology)
Linda Doan	Studying the protein-protein interactin of zebra an associated proteins	George Miller (Pediatrics)
Anne Drewry	The role of Rab5 in the endocytic pathway of plasmodium falciparum	Keith Joiner (Internal Medicine)
Tiberio Frisoli	N gene in tobacco plant and tobacco mosiac virus host-viral pathogen interaction	S.P. Dinesh-Kumar (MCDB)
Ernesto Gonzalez	Examination of possible interactions between b-catenin and Stat3 in tumorigenesis	Xin-Yuan Fu (Pathology)
Katrina Harpe	The role of CD4+CD8a+ T cells in inflammatory bowel disease	Charles Janeway (Immunobiology)
Ramon Herrera	Flower development in the Opium poppy	Vivian Irish (MCDB)
Jonas Heymann	Regulation of Apoptosis through specific cleavage of a-fodrin- at its Calmodulin binding domain	Jon Morrow (Pathology)
Thomas Hocker	Continued efforts toward the total synthesis of Diazonamide A, a protential anti-cancer agent	John Wood (Chemistry)
Charleen Hsuan	Construction of an immuno-modulatory and oncotropic MVM vector co-expressing gp19K	Peter Tattersall (Lab Medicine)
Cindy Im	Determining relative stabilities of HIV and HCV genomic RNA in blood remaining in used syringes	Robert Heimer (Epid/Public Health)
Soo Kim	Proteomic profiles in mouse mammary tumors	Jose Costa (Pathology)
Krystal Kim	DNA polymorphisms in human populations	Kenneth Kidd (Genetics)
Jennie Kim	I-91 study: Assessing HIV risk among IdU's	Robert Heimer (Epid/Public Health)
Joshua Klein	Flagellar regeneration experiment in Chlamydomanos	Joel Rosenbaum (MCDB)
Chryssanthi Kournioti	Degradation signal in Drosophila cell cycle gene fizzy (fzy)	Iain Dawson (MCDB)
Adam Lipworth	Immunology of implantation	Gil Mor (OB-GYN)
Ann Yu Liu	Is the heterochromatin protein HP1 redistributed in response to histone hyperacetylation?	Stewart Frankel (Pediatrics)
Marko Lujic	Methods to improve islet transplantation in humans and protection of islet cell tissue from injury and in-vitro growth of endonin cells	Giacomo Basadonna (Surg Transplant)
Anuj Malhotra	Effects of nicotine on an animal model of depression	Marina Picciotto (Psychiatry)
Sarah Masters	Myosin Va mediated microtubule-actin interaction	Mark Mooseker (MCDB)
Camille McDonald	Determining the localization sites in HeLa cells of Rpp20, a protein subunit of human ribonuclease P	Sidney Altman (MCDB)
Elizabeth Morrison	Engineering a universal RNA switch which recognizes oligonucleotide	Ronald Breaker (MCDB)
Nina Nuangchamnong	The role of N-WASP in vesicle propulsion during pre-synaptic endocytosis	Vincent Pieribone (Physiology)
Ellice Osborn	Identifying molecules involved in pseudomonas interactions with host cells: do they trigger type III secretion?	Barbara Kazmierczak (Internal Medicine)
Aakanksha Pande	Fitness of polymorphic HIV sequences isolated from pediatric LTNP's	Louis Alexander (Epid/Public Health)
Sumitra Paul	Localization of annexin isoforms in airway smooth muscle	Steven Segal (Physiology)
Amber Pincavage	DNA-protein crosslink repair of chromium exposed human bronchial cells	John Wise (Epid/Public Health)
Albert Quashie	The role of Hif-alpha in up-regulation of Stra-13 upon antibody stimulation	Richard Flavell (Immunobiology)
Ruma Rajbhandari	Identifying key amino acids in the 73NTM2 part of the motor domain of a Class V myosin, Myo2p, in budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Mark Mooseker (MCDB)
Alicia Rapson	WNK4 kinase assays and the investigation of the biochemical pathway	Richard Lifton (Genetics)
Heather Richmond	Metabolic and physiologic differences between insulin resistant and non-insulin resistant individuals within three separate populations	Loretta DiPietro (Epid/Public Health)
Noemi Rigol	Expression of BEN and TFII-I transcription factors during mouse embryonic development	Frank Ruddle (MCDB)
Ashley Saint-Fleur	Intramolecular and intermolecular interactions of the SH3-GUK domains of hCASK	James Anderson (Internal Medicine)
Justin Santarelli	Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in the developing tissue	Anthony Vandenpol (Neurosurgery)
Jonathan Schoenfeld	PECAM-1 b-catenin interaction - Analysis of binding domains	Joseph Madri (Pathology)
Jason Sell	Time course of Cr (VI) induced apoptosis	John Wise (Epid/Public Health)
Grace So	Molecular and biochemical characterization of Legionella pneumophila Sec7 homologue	Craig Roy (Micro Pathogenesis)
Lucia Somberg	Protocatechuate toxicity and the quinate genes in Acinetobacter	L. Nicholas Ornston (MCDB)
Michael Sy	Suppressing hsl1∆ phenotype in low glucose conditions	Michael Snyder (MCDB)
Erin Tennyson	Dendrite development in motor neurons	Robert Kalb (Neurology)
Sara Thierman	Verification and identification of putative Evi-1 target genes obtained from microarray analysis	Archibald Perkins (Pathology)
Leung Tong	Optimized cobalt-dependent RNA switcher	Ronald Breaker (MCDB)
Susan Tuddenham	Characterizing P53 - recognizing hammerhead ribozyme clones	Ronald Breaker (MCDB)
David Wing	Sodium pyrithione activates a calcium pathway in Aplysia californica	Leonard Kaczmarek (Pharmacology)
Joshua Wolf	Measuring morphological features of dendritic spines in relation to presence or absence of Abl protein during development	Anthony Koleske (MB&B)
Karen Wong	Gene expression in mice during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis	Michael Carrithers (Immunobiology)