Presenters 2013

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