Name | Mentor | Talk Title | Future Plans |
Atish Dey | Soll (Biology) | Identification of genes involved in candida albicans biofilm synthesis under the control of BCR1 | Planning to attend medical school in Nevada |
Johnathan Fagg | Rubenstein | Molecular effects of two Baraitser Winter causing mutations | Hopes to attend medical schools |
Bhavatharini Kasinathan | Smolikove (Biology) | The relationship between proteolysis and the akirin pathway in synaptonemal complex disassembly during C. elegans meiosis | Pursuing an MD/PhD at the University of Washington's Medical Scientist Training Program |
Irtaza Khalid | Price | Deregulation of P-TEFb through microsatellite instability-induced mutations in LARP7 as a potential cause of cancer | Gaining work experience before applying to medical school |
Ryan Marling | Weeks | The role of cardiac NK2 genes in early heart development of Xenopus laevis | Medical school |
Allyson Mayer | Brenner | Computational and experimental determination of protein acetylation as a function of nutrition | PhD program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis |
Clayton Oakley | Davison (Internal Medicine) | The validation of several candidate genes predicted to have gained microRNA binding sites through transposable elements | Medical School |
Stephen Siemonsma | Elcock | Course-grained BD simulations of type III secretion system needle in salmonella | Veterinary School |
David Simoens | Wallrath | Adrosophila model for lamin-associated heart disease | Master's of Public Health in epidemiology |
Kyle Strouse | Weeks | Expression of the MiR183 cluster: is there a differential expression of these micro-RNAs in early development? | |
Johanna Uribe | DeMali | Vinculin phosphorylation regulates epithelial phenotypes | Master's of Science in pathology |