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Congratulations to
HHMI Summer Research Fellowship Awardees – 2005

 

Adkison, Christina - Reasons for Variation in the Number of GnRH Neurons in Development (Mentor: Paul Heideman, Biology)

Ashely, Blair - The Effects of Hyperhomocysteinemia in Endothelial Cells and Its Implications in Vascular Health (Mentor: Robin Looft-Wilson, Kinesiology)

Astoria, Mark - Mutant 1115 in C. elegans (Mentor: Diane Shakes, Biology)

Aument, Daniel - Defective sperm centrioles and their effects on polarization in C. elegans (Mentor: Diane Shakes, Biology)

Billig, Janelle - The Effect of Flow on Gene Expression in Cultured Arteries (Mentor: Robin Looft-Wilson, Kinesiology)

Brown, Christopher - Genetic-algorithm driven evolution of ecological food webs (Mentor: Carey Bagdassarian, Chemistry)

Carra, Bradley - Metal-Ligand Coordination as a Model for Protein Misfolding (Mentor: Deborah Bebout, Chemistry)

DeCuir, Jennifer - Quorum-sensing through Autoinducer-2 in Helicobacter pylori (Mentor: Mark Forsyth, Biology)

Eason, Margaret - Effects of Chronic Overload on Neuromuscular Junctions in Aged and Young Soleus Muscles (Mentor: Michael Deschenes, Kinesiology)

Fields, Nathan - Unconditioned Stimulus Preexposure and Timing Specificity: Does Temporal Learning Take Place? (Mentor: Robert Barnet, Psychology)

Hadley, Deana - Investigation of the Energy Transfer Mechanism in an Azobenzene-Functionalized PPV (Mentor: Elizabeth Harbron, Chemistry)

Happel, Maria - Investigations of Collision Energy Effects on the Extended Kinetic Method (Mentor: John Poutsma, Chemistry)

Keeler, Austin - Effects of Pax-5e on Cell Growth (Mentor: Patty Zwollo, Biology)

Lemon, Christopher - The Significance of Gill Rakers for Crossflow Filtration in Tilapia: Additional Effects of Mucosal Hydrosol Filtration on Particle Retention (Mentor: S. Laurie Sanderson, Biology)

Lewis, Steven - Single Molecule Fluoresence Studies of poly(2-methoxy-5-(4-(phenylazo)phenyl-4_-(1,10-dioxydecyl))-1,4-phenylenevinylene) (Mentor: Elizabeth Harbron, Chemistry)

Li, Dandan - Correlation between Neuropeptide Y Neurons and the Regulation of Body Mass in Peromyscus leucopus (Mentor: Paul Heideman, Biology)

Logan, Carol - Further characterization of strange bacterial-like inclusions in digestive epithelial tissue of mussels in the genus Bathymodiolus from chemosynthetic environments (Mentor: Cindy Van Dover, Biology)

Malkus, Kristen - Analysis of Tlx as a Potential Regulator of Glutamatergic Cell Fate (Mentor: Margaret Saha, Biology)

Pecora, Beth - Thermoregulatory Projections for the Anterior Hypothalamus to the Dorsalmedial Hypothalamus (Mentor: John Griffon, Biology)

Schaffer, Bethany - Characterization of Thermoregulatory Inhibitory Neurons in the Preoptic Area (Mentor: John Griffon, Biology)

Seibert, Christopher - RNAi based screening of importin alpha mediated nuclear import pathway: application to the study of thyroid hormone receptor alpha nuclear import (Mentor: Lizabeth Allison, Biology)

Smigel, Ezekiel - Temporal Conditioning in Rats Measured by USV (Mentor: Robert Barnet, Psychology)

Spector, Bethany - Ethanol Exposure in Adolescent Rats: Impairments in Memory Consolidation? (Mentor: Pamela Hunt, Psychology)

Wester, Matthew - The role of the cell cycle in GABAergic and glutamatergic neural fate determination of developing Xenopus laevis embryos (Mentor: Margaret Saha, Biology)

Wiles, Austin - Pedantic X-Ray Diffraction Protocols and Transition Metal Network Catalysis (Mentor: Robert Pike, Chemistry)

 

 

   

 

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