| Fellow | Fellow’s Institution | Research Mentor | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberely Alexander | Niagara University | Prof. Rick Prum | Mapping plumage iridescence in the avian color space |
| Ife Aworanti | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Prof. Kathryn Miller-Jensen | Validating Antibodies for Intracellular Protein Quantification |
| Max Birger | Yale University | Prof. Simon Mochrie | High Speed Optical Tweezers: A Look at Nucleosome Unwinding |
| Brianna Bourgeois | Louisiana State University | Prof. Farren Isaacs | Generating a library of mutant synthetases to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins |
| Aviva Bulow | Metropolitan State University - Denver | Prof. Corey Wilson | Redesigning E. coli’s Adenylate Kinase for Enhanced Thermostability |
| Isaiah Cochran | Waynesburg University | Prof. Megan King | Programmed Double Strand Break Induction using Fission Yeast |
| Diana Gooding | Transylvania University | Prof. Hui Cao | Developmental Plasticity of Junonia Coenia |
| Krystal Harrison | North Carolina A&T State University | Prof. Zhaoxia Sun | Dissecting the underlying mechanisms involved in brain hemorrhage in cilia mutants |
| Po-Yi Ho | Yale University | Prof. Corey O’Hern | Modeling Intrinsically Disordered Proteins with Molecular Dynamics Simulations |
| Nilsa La Cunza | New Jersey Institute of Technology | Prof. Jay Humphrey | Transglutaminase is responsible for the compaction of fibroblast-populated collagen gels through cross-linking |
| Roberto Leon-Barriera | Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico | Prof. Michael Nitabach | Effect of light stimulus intensity on C. elegans behavioral responses |
| Jovans Lorquet | Barry University | Prof. Thomas Pollard | In vivo characterization of Protein Interactions in S. pombe through confocal microscopy |
| Mike McGraw | Lehigh University | Prof. Lynne Regan | Protein Origami: Building a 2D Protein Structure Using Coiled-Coils |
| Ernest Monahan | University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras | Prof. David McCormick | The Effects of drug ZD 7288 on Entorrhinal Cortex in vitro |
| Karina Nieves Torres | University of Puerto Rico, Cayey | Prof. Enrique De La Cruz | Functional regulation of cofilin as an actin severing protein by phosphorylation |
| Samuel Norcross | Connecticut College | Prof. Valerie Horsley | Mechanics of Differentiation: a Study of the Edge Effect in Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
| Christine Parsons | Bowdoin College | Prof. Frank Slack | Investigating the Role of MiRNAs During Aging in C. elegans and Humans |
2013 REU: Research Training in the Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
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