Name | Mentor | Talk Title | Future Plans |
Brady A. Campbell | Elcock | Understanding the DNA: AA Interface through Molecular Dynamics Simulations | This coming August, I will be traveling to Kenya for 10 months where I will be volunteering with an organization called Hopeful Africa. I will be working closely with middle and high school level students. Once I return home, I plan on going to medical school. |
Alexander J. Hjelmaas | Davies | Investigating the Nature of ANGPTL3 Inactivation of LPL | Medical school at the University of Michigan starting this fall. |
Liam Hovey | Shea | Calcium/Calmodulin Modulation of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels | Matriculating with MSTP (MD/PhD) program at the University of Washington in Seattle. |
Sarah L. Mayer | Weeks | Studies on Smooth Muscle Actin Mutations Linked to Human Disease | After graduation, I will spend a year as an English Teaching Assistant in Columbia with the Fulbright program, then I will attend medical school at Washington University in St. Louis. |
Michael E. Turek | Price | Characterization of an RNA Polymerase II CTD Phosphatase | Attending the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, WI. |
David Wadkins | Elcock | Molecular Simulation Studies of Sequence Dependent Features of DNA and RNA Conformation | After graduation, I will be getting my masters in bio-medical engineering here at the University of Iowa. |
Xin Xu | Brenner | Understanding Site Specificity of Non-enzymatic Protein Acetylation in Mitochondria | After graduation, I will be going to the University of Minnesota to earn my Doctoral of Pharmacy degree. |
Grant H. Young | Wallrath | A Fruit Fly Model of Muscular Dystrophy Reveals Novel Mechanisms of Pathology | I will either be attending medical school here at the University of Iowa in the fall or working for a year in the Wallrath lab. |
Yinjie Zhai | Haim | Structural Modulation of HIV-1 Env by Stability Modifying Agents | |