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 |