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Undergraduate Research Publications, Yale College Class of 2008

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 '06, Class of '07, Classes of '09-11

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Marshall Scholarship winner Cassie Stoddard '08 with mentor Richard Prum of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.


 
Joshua Au '08, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Enrique De La Cruz of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.
  Au, Olivares, Henn, Cao, Safer and De La Cruz (2008) Widely distributed residues in thymosin beta4 are critical for actin binding. Biochemistry 47: 4181-4188.

Elizabeth Broomfield '08 and Daniel Turner-Evans '08, Electrical Engineering, with advisor Mark Reed of Electrical Engineering.

 

Stern, Cheng, Cimpoiasu, Klie, Guthrie, Klemic, Kretzschmar, Steinlauf, Turner-Evans, Broomfield, Hyland, Koudelka, Boone, Young, Sanders, Munden, Lee, Routenberg and Reed (2005) Electrical characterization of single GaN nanowires. Nanotechnology 16: 2941-2953.

Stern, Cheng, Klemic, Broomfield, Turner-Evans, Li, Zhou and Reed (2006) Methods for fabricating Ohmic contacts to nanowires and nanotubes. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B. 24: 231-236.

Stern, Cheng, Guthrie, Turner-Evans, Broomfield, Lei, Li, Zhang, Zhou and Reed (2006) Comparison of laser-ablation and hot-wall chemical vapour deposition techniques for nanowire fabrication. Nanotechnology. 17: S246-S252.


Geoff Calkins '08, Biomedical Engineering, with advisor Laura Niklason of Biomedical Engineering.

  Gong, Calkins, Cheng, Krause and Niklason (2009) Influence of culture medium on smooth muscle cell differentiation from human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells. Tissue Engineering 15: 319-330.

Jessica Dobbins '08, Biology, with advisor Paula Kavathas of Laboratory Medicine.

  Devine, Thakral, Nag, Dobbins, Hodsdon and Kavathas (2006) Mapping the binding site on CD8 beta for MHC class I reveals mutants with enhanced binding. Journal of Immunology 177: 3930-3938.

Laura Edwards '08, Biology, with advisor Lynne Regan of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.

  Valverde, Edwards and Regan (2008) Structure and function of KH domains.   FEBS Journal 275: 2712-2726.

Lark Greenwald '08, Biology, with advisor Joe Craft of Immunobiology.

  Odegard, DiPlacido, Greenwald, Kashgarian, Kono, Dong, Flavell and Craft (2009) ICOS controls effector function but not trafficking receptor expression of kidney-infiltrating effector T Cells in murine lupus. Journal of Immunology 182: 4076-4084.

Philip Isola '08, Computer Science, with advisor Brian Scholl of Psychology.

  Turk-Browne, Isola, Scholl and Treat (2008) Multidimensional visual statistical learning.   Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 34: 399-407.

Bennett Lane '08, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Susan Baserga, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.

  Champion, Lane, Jackrel, Regan and Baserga (2008) A direct interaction between the Utp6 half-a-tetratricopeptide repeat domain and a specific peptide in Utp21 is essential for efficient pre-rRNA processing. Molecular and Cellular Biology 28: 6547-6556.

Ryan Moy '08, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Ronald Breaker of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.

  Regulski, Moy, Weinberg, Barrick, Yao, Ruzzo and Breaker (2008) A widespread riboswitch candidate that controls bacterial genes involved in molybdenum cofactor and tungsten cofactor metabolism. Molecular Microbiology 68: 918-932.

Aaron Ring '08, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, with advisor Richard Lifton of Genetics.

 

Kahle, Rinehart, Ring, Gimenez, Gamba, Hebert and Lifton (2006) WNK protein kinases modulate cellular Cl- flux by altering the phosphorylation state of the Na-K-Cl and K-Cl cotransporters. Review of Medical Physiology 21: 326-335.

Ring, Cheng, Leng, Kahle, Rinehart, Lalioti, Volkman, Wilson, Hebert and Lifton (2007) WNK4 regulates activity of the epithelial Na+ channel in vitro and in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104: 4020-4024.

Ring, Leng, Rinehart, Wilson, Kahle, Hebert and Lifton (2007) An SGK1 site in WNK4 regulates Na+ channel and K+ channel activity and has implications for aldosterone signaling and K+ homeostasis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104: 4025-4029.


Jonathan Schwank '08, Biology, with advisor Serap Aksoy of Epidemiology and Public Health.

 

Weiss, Wu, Schwank, Tolwinski and Aksoy (2008) An insect symbiosis is influenced by bacterium-specific polymorphisms in outer-membrane protein A. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105: 15088-15093.


Cassie Stoddard '08, Biology, and advisor Richard Prum of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

 

Stoddard and Prum (2008) Evolution of avian plumage color in a tetrahedral color space: a phylogenetic analysis of new world buntings. The American Naturalist 171: 755-776.


Daniel Turner-Evans '08, Electrical Engineering, with advisor Mark Reed of Electrical Engineering.

 

Cheng, Stern, Turner-Evans and Reed (2005) Electronic properties of InN nanowires. Applied Physics Letters 87: 53103

Stern, Jay, Bertram, Boese, Kretzschmar, Turner-Evans, Dietz, LaVan, Malinski, Fahmy and Reed (2006) Electropolymerization on Microelectrodes: Functionalization Technique for Selective Protein and DNA Conjugation. Analytical Chemistry 78: 6340-6346.

Stern, Klemic, Routenberg, Wyrembak, Turner-Evans, Hamilton, LaVan, Fahmy and Reed (2007) Label-free immunodetection with CMOS-compatible semiconducting nanowires. Nature 445: 519-522.


Andrew Yu '08, Biology, with advisor Vikki Abrahams of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

 

de la Torre, Mulla, Yu, Lee, Kavathas and Abrahams (2009) Chlamydia trachomatis Infection Modulates Trophoblast Cytokine/Chemokine Production. Journal of Immunology 182: 3735-3745.



modified 6/10/09