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. |