Name | Mentor | Talk Title | Future Plans |
Gabriel Baccam | Wallrath | Modeling Skin Blistering Disease in Drosophila | Continue doing research for another year or so and then apply for medical school |
Reid Brown | Elcock | Investigation of Nucleoside Nucleoside Interactions Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Enroll in a one year science master’s program and then medical school |
Zac Builta | Weeks | Purification and assay of enzymatic activity of phage ΦC31 integrase protein using a protein splicing system: Isolation of an enzyme to make transgenic frogs | Begin a one to two year research assistant position at the University of Iowa Molecular Otalaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories. I will be applying for medical school, graduate school, and MSTP during this time. |
Sophia Chen | DeMali | Vinculin-actin interactions in cell migration | Attend the College of Dentistry at the University of Iowa this upcoming fall |
Lisa Golden | Fuentes | Exploring the Specificities, Thermodynamics, and Structures of Tiam2 PDZ Mutants | I will be going to graduate school after graduation |
Frances Hindt | Fuentes | Characterizing the Tiam1-Talin Complex | Next year I'm attending medical school at Creighton University College of Medicine |
Kyle Klingbeil | Brenner | Use of nicotinamide riboside to oppose the development of alcoholic fatty liver in the mouse | Attend Medical School at the University of Miami |
Dagan Marx | Shea | Recognition of Human Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels by Calmodulin | Post-graduation I will be getting my PhD at Johns Hopkins University in the Program for Molecular Biophysics |
Ebosetale Okoruwa | Wold | High Throughput Assay for RPA-Protein Interactions | I will be attending the dentistry school here at the University of Iowa |
Oluwatoni Olayiwola | Elcock | Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Conformational Behavior of Tripeptides in Aqueous Solution | The current plan is to spend a year teaching English in a French secondary school before returning to apply to graduate school in the biological sciences |
Michael Schrodt | Elcock | Conformational Flexibility of Short Single-Stranded DNA and RNA Systems Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation | I plan on working in the chemistry or pharmaceutical industry for a few years, then go to medical school and become an Army doctor. |
Dylan Thiemann | Elcock | GPU accelerated computing and its role in Brownian Dynamic simulations | This summer I have a software development internship at Cerner Corporation in Kansas City, MO. After graduation I plan to go into software development. |