2023-2025
Mia Hansen
2023-2025
Major: Physiological Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Correa
Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology and Physiology
Project: Hypothalamic Estrogen Receptor Gene Expression Across Pregnancy
Elliot Sungwook Kang
2023-2025
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lili Yang
Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Project: Allogeneic HSC-iNKT Cell Therapy to Deplete Tumor-Associated Macrophages In Vivo
Cecilia (Lei) Lei
2023-2025
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Hilary Coller
Faculty Mentor Department: Biological Chemistry
Project: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Macrophages in Melanoma
Ananya Amala Ravikumar
2023-2025
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Lowry
Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Project: Investigating the role of MECP2 in DNA damage via its interaction with DNA damage proteins in Rett Syndrome models
Jesus V Velazquez
2023-2025
Major: Pre Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dean Buonomano
Faculty Mentor Department: Neurobiology
Project: Histological and Functional analysis of excitation and inhibition across the neo-cortex
2022-2024
Nika Gladkov
2022-2024
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Todd Yeates
Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project: Characterizing steric-trap-driven disassembly of EGFR-operated protein cages
Melody Haratian
2022-2024
Major: Psychobiology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lindsay De Biase
Faculty Mentor Department: Physiology
Project: The impact of lysosome enhancement on microglial functions and responses to aging
Cindy Ly
2022-2024
Major: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elissa Hallem
Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Project: Nictation Behavior in Skin-Penetrating Nematodes
Jeff (Songrong) Qu
2022-2024
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jose Rodriguez
Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project: The Development of a Neural Network that Predicts Amyloid Propensity
Alexander Wu
2022-2024
Major: Design/Media Arts
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sotirios Masmanidis
Faculty Mentor Department: Neurobiology
Project: Neurophysiological Studies of Gait in Mice Using Behavioral Tracking and Electrophysiology
2021-2023
Fadi Albanaa
2021-2023
Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elie Besserer-Offroy
Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Project: Synthesis of a Cell Penetrant Peptide-Based Theranostic Probe Derived from the p16INK4A Protein
Esha Chawla
2021-2023
Major: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gal Bitan
Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology
Project: The Effects of CLR12 on Tau Seeding in the P301S-Tauopathy Mouse Model
Ariel Fernandez
2021-2023
Major: Physiological Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephanie White
Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology and Physiology
Project: Identification & characterization of cerebellar circuits involved in song learning in zebra finch
Sarah Gorbatov
2021-2023
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Catherine Clarke
Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project: Identification of Genes involved in CoQ Transport
Tracie Luu
2021-2023
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Gelbart
Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project: Characterization of the Delivery of Self-Amplifying microRNA
Anthony Tanzillo
2021-2023
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Catherine Cahill
Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
Project: Abuse Deterrent Opioid Prodrugs with Low Addiction Potential
2020-2022
Colleen Le
2020-2022
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gerald Lipshutz
Faculty Mentor Department: Surgery
Project: Developing an Improved Understanding of the Neurophenotype of SLC6A8 Deficiency
Sung Gyung Lee
2020-2022
Major: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Junyoung Park
Faculty Mentor Department: Chemical Engineering
Project: Identifying and Targeting Gluconeogenic Enzymes to Inhibit Cancer Cell Growth
Shally (Jiaxin) Li
2020-2022
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Goldberg
Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Project: Gene Regulatory Networks in the Development of a Soybean Seed
Connor Razma
2020-2022
Major: Computational and Systems Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard Ahn
Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Project: Seroconversion and Seroprotection rates due to HLA genotype
William Sander
2020-2022
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Albert Courey
Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project: Small Ubiquitin-Like Modifiers and their Role in the Ras/MAPK Pathway
Shannon Zhuang
2020-2022
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Juli Feigon
Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project: Structural Characterization of Tetrahymena Telomere Binding Proteins
2019-2021
Srbui Azarapetian
2019-2021
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tom Carmichael
Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology
Project: iPS Glial Therapy for White Matter Stroke and Vascular Dementia
Mei Blundell
2019-2021
Major: Computational and Systems Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Donlea
Faculty Mentor Department: Neurobiology
Project: Brain-Wide Changes in Synaptic Strength due to Sleep-Deprivation
Ivan Chavez
2019-2021
Major: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elissa Hallem
Faculty Mentor Department: Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics
Project: Interactions Between Strongyloides ratti and Bacteria
Laila Khorasani
2019-2021
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Neil Harris
Faculty Mentor Department: Neurosurgery
Project: Constraint Induced Movement Therapy as an intervention to improve limb function after brain injury.
Esther Peluso
2019-2021
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Steven Clarke
Faculty Mentor Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project: Novel Protein PCMTD1 May Provide a Mechanism for Aged Protein Degradation
Kyle Sheu
2019-2021
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Graeber
Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
Project: Genome-scale CRISPRa screen to identify novel genes driving chromosomal instability in cancer.
2018-2020
Jacob Alderete
2018-2020
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Catherine Cahill
Faculty Mentor Department: Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Project: Investigating the Role of Mu-Expressing Neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens in Mediating Opioid-Based reward in Chronic Pain States
Johnny Diaz
2018-2020
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Goldstein
Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Project: Metabolic characterization of prostate cancer cells with features of small cell carcinomas versus Adenocarcinomas
Nathan Mallipeddi
2018-2020
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Siavash Kurdistani
Faculty Mentor Department: Biological Chemistry
Project: Investigating the Role of the Histone Protein in the Provision of Copper for Iron Homeostasis
Shreya Mantri
2018-2020
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Utpal Banerjee
Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology
Project: Characterizing the stages of differentiation of progenitor cells in the Drosophila melanogaster lymph gland
Rachelle Stark
2018-2020
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rachelle Crosbie-Watson
Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology and Physiology
Project: Does Sarcospan Require Galgt2 to Ameliorate Dystrophic Pathology in the mdx Murine Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy?
2017-2019
Maggie Bui
2017-2019
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Edward de Robertis
Faculty Mentor Department: Biological Chemistry
Project: Canonical Wnt Signaling and Wnt-Mediated Endocytosis Are Modified by Arginine Methylation and One-carbon Metabolism
Gunvant Chaudhari
2017-2019
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carlos Portera-Cailliau
Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology
Project: Pupil dynamics show hyperarousal in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome during a visual discrimination task
Karina Keus
2017-2019
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gina Poe
Faculty Mentor Department: Integrative Biology and Physiology
Project: The role of OLM interneurons in REM-dependent memory consolidation
Juka Soohyang Kim
2017-2019
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gal Bitan
Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology
Project: A Novel Medium-throughput Screening Method for Oligomerization Inhibitors in Proteinopathies
Tiffany Lu
2017-2019
Major: Biophysics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alvaro Sagasti
Faculty Mentor Department: Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology
Project: Tight junctions regulate morphogenesis of actin-based microridges
Deanna Necula
2017-2019
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alcino Silva
Faculty Mentor Department: Neurology
Project: CCR5 closes with window for contextual memory lnking by regulating neuronal ensemble overlap