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Fall 2021 Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Student<\/th>Research Proposal<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Whitney Brown<\/td>Characterizing the role of FOXP3 in ccRCC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ziche Chen<\/td>Intereations between LANA and Super-enhancers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anna Eberwein<\/td>Synaptic Dysfunction in the Drosophila Niemann Pick Type C Disease Model<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ivy Han<\/td>Investigating tension in epithelial wound healing\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cassidy Johnson<\/td>Elucidating Genes Involved in hoe-1-dependent UPRmt activation via a Forward Genetic Approach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grace Lee<\/td>Microtubule dynamics regulates gap junction trafficking and placement in the motor circuit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shuyang Lin<\/td>PGE2-G mediated P2Y6 signaling pathway <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert McCarthy<\/td>Survivability of E. Coli Rho and H-NS mutants in various pH ranges. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sharath Narayan<\/td>Identifying suppressor mutations in RNA polymerase to rescue replication-transcription conflicts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dev Patel<\/td>Effects of CSK inhibition on Atrial Fibrillation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jacque Pinon<\/td>The role of macrophages in obesity and metabolic disease<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brittany Polevikov<\/td>Defining the pathogenic cascade of P. aeruginosa in UTIs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eddie Qian<\/td>Exosome treatment of ischemic kidney injury<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bennett Schneier<\/td>Copper Homeostasis in UPEC Bacteria <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elena Solopova<\/td>Correlation of White Matter MRI Hyperintensities with Expression of Lysyl Oxidase in Patients with Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carly Stewart<\/td>The Impact of Infection on Fecundity in Insects<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liraz Stilman<\/td>Telomeres and telomerase in yeast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Navya Thakkar<\/td>Rhythm and Grammar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katherine Zhong<\/td>Negative Regulators of the Immune System<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Previous Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Student<\/th>Research Proposal<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Dhivyaa Anandan<\/td>Identifying mechanisms of tumor dormancy in the bone marrow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patrick Bray<\/td>Stress effects of restricgted feeding in mice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ivy Chen<\/td>The effect of domestication on cultural transmission of birdsong <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dara Craig<\/td>Camera trapping in Ecology <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jacob Edwards<\/td>Studies on GPBP within the extracellular matrix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elise Erman<\/td>Development of assay to monitor error fre repair in non-homologous end joining <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David Fei-Zhang<\/td>Characterization of BVES degrons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jacob Gussert<\/td>Studying the nature of circadian rhythms in bacteria isolated from the natural environment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexis Gutierrez<\/td>Extracellular RNA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexander Kuraj<\/td>Examining the effect of photoperiod on the Trek-1 channel in serotonin neurons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emily Layton<\/td>\"Paternal Grandmother Age Affects the Strength of Wolbachia-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Drosophila melanogaster.\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zelong Liu<\/td>Overexpression of xCT in noralized lung epithelial cells<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abby Perry<\/td>Effect of co-infection on the immune response of tribolium flour beetles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carter Powers<\/td>The Effects of Temperature and Age on Immune Gene Expression in Anopheles gambiae<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anish Raman<\/td>Intersection of HSPG expression at the drosophilia neuromuscular junction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saba Rehman<\/td>Characterization of neuregulin (NRG) trafficking<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sabeen Rehman<\/td>Positional cloning of a novel gene regulating craniofacial development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zhan (Jack) Rong<\/td>The role of Rif1 in controlling DNA damage and structure during replication<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Faith Rovenolt<\/td>Characterizing and modeling co-infection in Tribolium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicholas Ruppe<\/td>Mechanisms that regulate do novo telomere addition at a double-strand break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chloe Stallion<\/td>Comparison of genetic and liguistic character of Creolization in the Caribbean<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emily Struttmann<\/td>Effects of high-salt conditions on H. pylori<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amanda Sun<\/td>Determining the function of Rm62 in resolving R-loops<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raymar Turangan<\/td>Immune priming in mosquitoes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Claire Weinstein <\/td>The characerization of acinetobacter baumannii sensitivity to novel bacteriophages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matthew Xin<\/td>Characterizing the relationship between p73 and cigarette smoke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roger Yu<\/td>Protein trafficking and membrane biogenesis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eric Zhang<\/td>CK1 in DNA repair and Hhp1 as a model protein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Danzhu Zhao<\/td>Quantifying the impact of ACK1 inhibition on the interferon gamma response in melanoma cells<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Junqin Zhu<\/td>Examining the role of ten elleven translocation enzymes in RNA 5-hydroxymethylcytosine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

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