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Congratulations to
HHMI Summer Research Fellowship Awardees – 2004

Alford, Wendy - Functional Behavior System Analysis of Neural Plasticity: What Time Can Tell Us, (Mentor: Robert Barnet, Psychology)

Atkins, Benjamin - Is There A Link Between Defective Sperm Centrosomes and Polarity Defects in C. Elegans Embryos?, (Mentor: Diane Shakes, Biology)

Broughton, Robert - Effects of Particle Density on Crossflow Filtration in Filter-Feeding Fish, (Mentor: S. Laurie Sanderson, Biology)

Cabral, Diana - Repair of Peroxynitrite-damaged Tubulin by the Thioredoxin and Reductase Systems, (Mentor: Lisa Landino, Chemistry)

Dertinger, Jennifer - Study of Multidentate Ligands and their interaction with heavy metal ions., (Mentor: Deborah Bebout, Chemistry)

Dondeti, Krishna - Sequencing a non-pathogenic strain of Helicobacter pylori, (Mentor: Mark Forsyth, Biology)

Evans, Megan - Identification and characterization of a pathogenic parasite in the seep mussel Bathymodiolus heckerae, (Mentor: Cindy VanDover, Biology)

Dow, Lindsay - The Effects of Nicotine on Attentional Deficits Caused by MK-801 (Mentor: Josh Burk, Psychology)

Fisher, Katherine - Determination of the vertebrate neural phenotype in early development, (Mentor: Margaret Saha, Biology)

Giller, Carl - Polarity versus Hydrogen Bonding Effects in the Fluorescence of the Molecular Sensor in PRODAN Derivatives, (Mentor: Chris Abelt, Chemistry)

Greenblatt, Ethan - Characterizing the Hydrolytic Degradation and Recombination of the Amide Bond in Acidic Carbon Dioxide Generated Environments, (Mentor: David Kranbuehl, Chemistry)

Grimm, Eleanor - The Role of Second Messengers in CGRP-Dependent Activation of Hypothalamic Thermoregualtory Neurons, (Mentor: John Griffin, Biology)

Hack, Laura - The Effects of Leptin on Thermosensitive and Temperature Insensitive Cells In the Hypothalamus, (Mentor: John Griffin, Biology)

Happel, Maria - Potassium Ion Affinities of Amino Acids using Cooks Kinetic Method, (Mentor: John Poutsma, Chemistry)

Hastings, Courtney - The Role of Electronic Effects in Aromatic Stacking Interactions, (Mentor: Elizabeth Harbron, Chemistry)

Hosen, Jacob - Isomerization Kinetics of the Conjugated Polymer MPA-10-PPV through Single Molecule Fluorimetry, (Mentor: Elizabeth Harbron, Chemistry)

Kondrad, Robyn - Effects of Lesions to the Hippocampus and the Prefrontal Cortex on a Serial Reversal Attention Task, (Mentor: Joshua Burk, Psychology)

Lynch, Jennifer - Development of "Optoporation" Using Xenopus A6 Kidney Cells, (Mentor: Eric Bradley, Biology)

Muir, Christopher - Chill-coma Recovery of Larval and Adult Drosophila subobscura, (Mentor: George Gilchrist, Biology)

Reese, David - Biomimetic Copper Catalysts for Multicopper Enzymes, (Mentor: Deborah Bebout, Chemistry)

Roskowski, Jennifer - Fundamental Studies of Entropy Effects in the Extended Kinetic Method, (Mentor: John Poutsma, Chemistry)

Schulz, Meghan - Radiation Shielding Capabilities of Polyarlene Ether and Polyimide Materials, (Mentor: Robert Orwoll, Chemistry)

Shea, Meghan - Trace and Long Delay Conditioning: Effects of a Cholinergic Agonist on Learning, (Mentor: Pamela Hunt, Psychology (Neuroscience))

Terry, Courtney - Comparative Genomics of cag-PAI Postitive and cag-PAI Negative Helicobacter pylori Isolates: Identification of Novel Markers for cag-PAI Positive strains, (Mentor: Mark Forsyth, Biology)

Tenny, Kelly - Synaptic Adaptations to Chronic Overload in Aged and Young Muscle, (Mentor: Michael Deschenes, Kinesiology)

Weston, Michael - A Possible Role for Leptin in Reproductive Inhibition, (Mentor: Eric Bradley, Biology)

Wiseman, Heather - The uptake of pollutants in lichens from

   

 

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