2019 REU: Research Training in the Biomedical Sciences and Engineering

Fellow Fellow’s Institution Research Mentor Project Title
Hope Anderson Wellesley College Prof. Thierry Emonet Evaluating the efficiency and accuracy of a Drosophila olfactory navigation mode
Katherine Barrs Georgia Southern University Prof. Julien Berro A new method to measure exocytosis and endocytosis rates through styryl dye fluorescence in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Alison Farinas Amherst College Prof. Hesper Rego Fluorescent labelling in the Mycobacterial periplasm
Gabriel Melendez-Corres University of Puerto Rico, Humacao Prof. Corey O’Hern Analyzing structural changes caused by disease-causing protein core mutations
Jeffery Thomas Moss University of the Incarnate Word Prof. Megan King Leveraging intrinsic microtubule dynamics to probe chromosome mechanics in Fission Yeast
Megan Quimby Yale University Prof. Farren Isaacs Analyzing aminoacylation to progress towards protein synthesis with D-amino acids
Andrew Rodriguez Miami University (of Ohio) Prof. Nikhil Malvankar Bacterial nanowires: a systematic investigation of filament expression in Geobacter sulfurreducens
Jack West University of Arkansas Prof. Kathryn Miller-Jensen In vitro characterization of fibroblast secretion profile induced by melanoma cells
Blake Norwick Yale University Prof. Corey O’Hern A self-propelled particle model of active Brownian motion
*Hairol Breton University of the Virgin Islands Prof. Corey O’Hern Computational predictions of protein structure in response to single amino acid mutations

* = NSF REU affiliate