2009 SURP Poster Symposium

Poster Session 2009

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Bulent Arman Aksoy--Research: Aligning Pathways: Towards an Integrated Map of Cellular Processes
School: Bogazici Universitesi
Mentor: Chris Sander

Emily Casey--Research: Characterizing the Cytotoxic Effects of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
School: Cornell University
Mentor: David Scheinberg

Adolfo Cuesta--Research: Probing the Temporal Regulation of the Initiation of Meiotic Recombination
School: Haverford College
Mentor: Scott Keeney

Erik Gravel--Research: Characterization of the AdnAB Gene, a DSB-Resecting Enzyme Essential to Homologous Recombination, in a Mycobacterium Smegmatis Model
School: Providence College
Mentor: Michael Glickman

Andrea Hartzell (right) with mentors Alexandra Joyner and Grant Orvis--Research: A Dynamic Role for Engrailed in Fissure Formation and Patterning of the Developing Murine Cerebellum
School: University of Arizona

Chioma Ihekweazu--Research: Role of Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 Expressed in Breast Cancer Cells During Lung Metastasis
School: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Mentor: Joan Massague

Dorina Imami--Research: Effect of Circulating MCP-1 on Monocyte Emigration from the Bone Marrow
School: New York University
Mentor: Eric Pamer

Jenny Karo--Research: Understanding the Mechanisms that Cause Resistance to BCL2 Family Inhibition
School: Tufts University
Mentor: Harold Varmus

Dierdre Kelly--Research: The Role of CtIP in Microhomology-Mediated End Joining in Class Switch Recombination
School: Franklin & Marshall College
Mentor: Jayanta Chaudhuri

Jemila Kester--Research: Investigating the Role of Heparanase-1 in Metastasis of Human Breast Cancer Cells to the Brain
School: CUNY City College
Mentor: Johanna Joyce

Emily Lim with first-year PhD student Lei Wei--Research: Development of a Systematic Synthesis Toward Spiroaminals
School: University of Texas, Austin
Mentor: Derek Tan

Gregory Mazo--Research: Characterization of Gag Perinuclear Clusters with Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching
School: Cornell University
Mentor: Marilyn Resh

Benjamin Naab--Research: Efforts Toward the Total Synthesis of Aconotine Alkaloids
School: Montana State University, Bozeman
Mentor: David Gin

Summer student Benjamin Sarro and third-year PhD student Moriah Heller--Research: Determining Components of the Loner Mediated Pathway during Drosophila Myoblast Fusion
School: Haverford College
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Caitlin Sengelaub--Research: Profiling Methyltransferase Targets with Engineered EuHMTase1
School: Yale University
Mentor: Minkui Luo

Artem Serganov--Research: The Crystallization of Insensitive: A Vital Regulatory Protein in the Development of Drosophila Melanogaster
School: SUNY Stony Brook
Mentor: Dinshaw Patel

Guangnan Tian and faculy member Chris Sander--Research: Construction and Validation of Canonical Wnt Signaling Reporters for High-Resolution Live Imaging and Fate Mapping in Embryonic Stem (ES) Cells and Mice
School: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mentor: Kat Hadjantonakis

Myrdich Toribio--Research: Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Daphniglaucin B: Exploring the Diastereoselectivity of a Au(I)-Catalyzed Carbocyclization
School: Florida International University
Mentor: David Gin

Matthew Wieder--Research: Cooperation of the MAPK and PI3K Pathways on Growth and Viability of Thyroid Cancer Cell Lines
School: The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art
Mentor: James Fagin

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