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Undergraduate Research Publications, Yale College Class of 2006

For selected recent publications, please see Undergraduate Research Publications Home Page

Publications by other Yale College classes: Class of '04, Class of '05, Class of '07, Class of '08, Classes of '09-11

Beckman Scholars Eleanor Marshall '06 and Chewie Lin '06 at the annual Beckman Scholars Symposium in Irvine, California.


 

Christina Agapakis '06, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, with advisors David Austin of Chemistry and Craig Crews of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.

 

Videlock, Chung, Hall, Hines, Agapakis and Austin (2005) Identification of a molecular recognition role for the activation loop phosphotyrosine of the Src tyrosine kinase. Journal of the American Chemical Society 127: 1600-1601.

Hines, Roy, Cheng, Agapakis, Taylor and Crews (2006) Myriaporone 3/4 structure-activity relationship studies define a pharmacophore targeting eukaryotic protein synthesis. Molecular Biosystems 2: 371-379.


Tereece Banks '06, Chemistry, with advisor Alanna Schepartz of Chemistry.

  Guarracino, Chiang, Banks, Lear, Hodsdon and Schepartz (2006) Relationship between salt-bridge identity and 14-helix stability of beta(3)-peptides in aqueous buffer. Organic Letters 8: 807-810.

Jennifer Barnes '06, Psychology, and Neha Mahajan '06, Psychology, with advisor Laurie Santos of Psychology.

 

Santos, Mahajan and Barnes (2005) How prosimian primates represent tools: Experiments with two lemur species (Eulemur fulvus and Lemur catta). Journal of Comparative Psychology 119: 394-403.

Santos, Barnes and Mahajan (2005) Expectations about numerical events in four lemur species Eulemur fulvus, Eulemur mongoz, Lemur catta and Varecia rubra). Animal Cognition 8: 253-262.


Santanov Chaudhuri '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Nigel Grindley of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.

  DeLucia, Chaudhuri, Potapova, Grindley and Joyce (2006) The properties of steric gate mutants reveal different constraints within the active sites of Y-family and A-family DNA polymerases. Journal of Biological Chemistry 281: 27286-27291.

Ming Cheah '06, Biology, with advisor Ronald Breaker of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.

 

Wickiser, Cheah, Breaker and Crothers (2005) The kinetics of ligand binding by an adenine-sensing riboswitch. Biochemistry 44: 13404-13414.

Cheah, Wachter, Sudarsan and Breaker (2007) Control of alternative RNA splicing and gene expression by eukaryotic riboswitches. Nature 447: 497-500.


Theodore Christakis '06, Chemistry, with advisor William Jorgensen of Chemistry.

  Thomas, Christakis and Jorgensen (2006) Conformation of Alkanes in the Gas Phase and Pure Liquids. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110: 21198-21204.

Swati Deshmukh '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Jason Kim of Internal Medicine.

  Park, Cho, Finck, Kim, Higashimori, Hong, Lee, Danton, Deshmukh, Cline, Wu, Bennett, Rothermel, Kalinowsk, Russell, Kim, Kelly and Kim (2005) Cardiac-specific overexpression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha causes insulin resistance in heart and liver. Diabetes 54: 2514-2524.

Vicky Doan-Nguyen '06, Chemistry, with advisor Patrick Loria of Chemistry.

  Doan-Nguyen and Loria (2007) The effects of cosolutes on protein dynamics: The reversal of denaturant-induced protein fluctuations by trimethylamine N-oxide. Protein Science 16: 20-29.

Kathleen Fear '06, Physics, with advisor Peter Parker of Physics.

 

Lewis, Caggiano, Parikh, Deibel, Visser, Fear, Parker and Hix (2005) Al-26(g,m)+p resonances studied via proton decays of Si-27. Nuclear Physics A 758: 84C-85C.


Elizavetta Freinkman '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Mark Gerstein of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.

  Balasubramanian, Xia, Freinkman and Gerstein (2005) Sequence variation in G-protein-coupled receptors: analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms. Nucleic Acids Research 33: 1710-1721.

Dipa Joshi '06, Psychology, with advisor Gordon Shepherd of Neurobiology.

 

Laska, Joshi and Shepherd (2006) Olfactory sensitivity for aliphatic aldehydes in CD-1 mice. Behavioural Brain Research 167: 349-354.

Joshi,ÊVolkl, Shepherd andÊLaska (2006) Olfactory sensitivity for enantiomers and their racemic mixtures - A comparative study in CD-1 mice and spider monkeys. Chemical Senses 31: 655-664.


Julia Lauper '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Joann Sweasy of Therapeutic Radiology.

  Sweasy, Lauper and Eckert (2006) DNA polymerases and human diseases. Radiation Research 166: 693-714.

Janet Lee '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Joseph Madri of Pathology.

  Esparza, Kruse, Lee, Michaud and Madri (2004) MMP-2 null mice exhibit an early onset and severe experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis due to an increase in MMP-9 expression and activity. FASEB Journal 18: 1682-1691.

Chewie Lin '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Susan Baserga of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.

 

Granneman, Lin, Champion, Nandineni, Zorca and Baserga (2006) The nucleolar protein Esf2 interacts directly with the DExD/H box RNA helicase, Dbp8, to stimulate ATP hydrolysis. Nucleic Acids Research 34: 3189-3199.


Eleanor Marshall '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Joan Steitz of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.

  Conrad, Mili, Marshall, Shu and Steitz (2006) Identification of a rapid mammalian deadenylation-dependent decay pathway and its inhibition by a viral RNA element. Molecular Cell 24: 943-953.

David Moore '06, Physics, with advisor George Fleming of Physics.

 

Moore and Fleming (2006) Angular momentum on the lattice: The case of nonzero linear momentum. Physical Review D 73: 014504.

Moore and Fleming (2006) Multiparticle states and the hadron spectrum on the lattice. Physical Review D 74: 054504.


Katherine Nguyen '06, Biology, with advisors Wei Chen of Neurobiology and Kenneth Nelson of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.

 

Willhite, Nguyen, Masurkar, Greer, Shepherd and Chen (2006) Viral tracing identifies distributed columnar organization in the olfactory bulb. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103: 12592-12597.

Yu, Nguyen, Royce, Qian, Nelson, Snyder and Gerstein (2007) Positional artifacts in microarrays: experimental verification and construction of COP, an automated detection tool. Nucleic Acids Research. 35: E8.


Ann Ran '06, Biology, with advisor Nicholas Ornston of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.

  Gore, Ran and Ornston (2006) Deletion mutations caused by DNA strand slippage in Acinetobacter baylyi. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 72: 5239-5245.

Alpana Ranade '06, Chemical Engineering, with advisor Lisa Pfefferle of Chemical Engineering.

 

Lim, Ranade, Du, Pfefferle and Haller (2006) Pseudomorphic synthesis of large-particle Co-MCM-41. Chemistry of Materials 18: 5584-5590.


Robert Samstein '06, Biomedical Engineering, with advisor Mark Saltzman of Biomedical Engineering.

 

Fahmy, Samstein, Harness and Saltzman (2005) Surface modification of biodegradable polyesters with fatty acid conjugates for improved drug targeting. Biomaterials 26: 5727-5736.


Laura Schewel '06, Environmental Engineering, with advisor Thomas Graedel of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

 

The contemporary anthropogenic chromium cycle (2006) Environmental Science & Technology 40: 7060-7069.


Elaine Shum '06, Biology, with advisor Archibald Perkins of Pathology.

 

Jackson-Fisher, Bellinger, Shum, Duong, Perkins, Gassmann, Muller, Lloyd and Stern (2006) Formation of Neu/ErbB2-induced mammary tumors is unaffected by loss of ErbB4. Oncogene 25: 5664-5672.


Jason van Batavia '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Sandra Wolin of Cell Biology.

 

Chen, Wurtmann, Van Batavia, Zybailov, Washburn and Wolin (2007) An orthologue of the Ro autoantigen functions in 23S rRNA maturation in D. radiodurans. Genes and Development 21: 1328-1339.


Rachel Webman '06, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Taritree Wongjirad '06, Physics, Ann Ran '06 and Ming Cheah '06, Biology, with advisor Alanna Schepartz of Chemistry.

  Kritzer, Zutshi, Cheah, Ran, Webman, Wongjirad and Schepartz (2006) Miniature protein inhibitors of the p53-hDM2 interaction. Chembiochem 7: 29-31.

Elizabeth Williams '06, Physics, with advisors Volker Werner and Richard Casten of Physics.

 

Andgren, Ashley, Regan, McCutchan, Zamfir, Amon, Cakirli, Casten, Clark, Gurdal, Keyes, Meyer, Erduran, Papenberg, Pietralla, Plettner, Rainovski, Ribas, Thomas, Vinson, Warner, Werner and Williams (2005) RDM lifetime measurements in Cd-107. Journal of Physics G-Nuclear & Particle Physics 31: S1563-S1568.

Plettner, Ai, Beausang, Bernstein, Ahle, Amro, Babilon, Burke, Caggiano, Casten, Church, Cooper, Crider, Gurdal, Heinz, McCutchan, Moody, Punyon, Qian, Ressler, Schiller, Williams and Younes (2005) Measuring reaction probability ratios to simulate neutron-induced cross-sections of short-lived nuclei. Journal of Physics G-Nuclear & Particle Physics 31: S1573-S1576.

Ressler, Beausang, Casten, Zamfir, Ai, Amro, Babilon, Cakirli, Caggiano, Gurdal, Heinz, Hughes, Langdown, McCutchan, Meyer, Plettner, Qian, Regan, Sciacchitano, Thomas, Williams and Yamamoto (2005) Isomers and seniority in the trans-Pb nuclei. Journal of Physics G-Nuclear & Particle Physics 31: S1605-S1610.

Wolf, Berant, Zamfir, Brenner, McCutchan, Ai, Casten, Dusling, Heinz, Meyer, Millman, Pietralla, Plettner, Qian, Regan, Swanson, Vinson, Williams and Winkler (2005) g factor of the 2(1)(+) state of Er-160. Physical Review C-Nuclear Physics 7202: 7301.

Williams, Plettner, McCutchan, Levine, Zamfir, Cakirli, Casten, Ai, Beausang, Gurdal, Heinz, Qian, Meyer, Pietralla and Werner (2006) Revisiting anomalous B(E2;4(1)(+)-> 2(1)(+))/B(E2;2(1)(+)-> 0(1)(+)) values in Ru-98 and Pt-180. Physical Review C-Nuclear Physics 7402: 4302.


Shari Wiseman '06, Biology, with advisor Jane Taylor of Psychiatry.

  Tronson, Wiseman, Olausson and Taylor (2006) Bidirectional behavioral plasticity of memory reconsolidation depends on amygdalar protein kinase A. Nature Neuroscience 9: 167-169.

Anthony Xu '06, Biology, with advisor Stephen Dellaporta of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.

  Dellaporta, Xu, Sagasser, Jakob, Moreno, Buss and Schierwater (2006) Mitochondrial genome of Trichoplax adhaerens supports Placozoa as the basal lower metazoan phylum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 8751-8756.

Mary Elizabeth Young '06, Biology, with advisor Carlos Stocco of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

  Cai, Kwintkiewicz, Young, Stocco (2007) Prostaglandin E2 increases cyp19 expression in rat granulosa cells: Implication of GATA-4. Molecular & Cellular Endocrinology 263: 181-189.


modified 12/30/07