Name | Mentor | Talk Title | Future Plans |
Sophia Vogeler | Charles Brenner |
Evaluating the Efficacy of NAD Precursors in Treating Hyperphagia |
Take the patent bar exam and attend law school at the University of Minnesota |
Samuel Kitzman | Pamela Geyer | Modeling a premature aging syndrome by a mutant form of Barrier-to-Autointegration Factor (BAF) in Drosophila | Continue working in the Geyer lab over the summer and attend medical school in fall 2020 |
Andrew Henry | Andrew Norris | Influence of CFTR on Linoleic Acid Metabolism | Look for employmnet while preparing to apply for medical school |
Lucas Maakestad | Todd Washington | Overexpression and Purification of the Fork-Remodeling Enzyme Rad5 | Attend medical school at the UI CCOM |
Samantha Mackin | Kris DeMali | Identifying Mechanisms Coupling Cell Metabolism to Force Transmission | Work as a research assistant in the Perlman lab |
Jesse Cochran | E. Dale Abel | Sex Differences in the Response of C57BL/6 Mice to Ketogenic Diets | Apply for MD/PhD programs for the 2020-21 cycle |
Derek Metzger | Brandon Davies | Functional Analysis of Human ANGPTL3 Mutants | Remain in Iowa City for a gap year while applying to medical schools |
Ashley Segura-Roman | Brandon Davies | Endothelial Lipase Regulation by ANGPTL3 | Start PhD program at UC-Berkeley in the Molecular and Cell Biology graduate program |
Ian McElree | Chun-Fang Wu | Exploration of the rosA Oscillatory ERG Phenotype in Drosophila | Attend a Master's program in Medical Physiology this fall |
Ariel Kopel | Sheila Baker | The Role of Synaptic Calcium Channels in Cone Photoreceptors | Take a 1-2 gap year to work in a research lab and apply to a Biochemistry PhD program |
Irini Petros | Daniel Weeks | Protein Aggregates in Different Subnucleolar Compartments in Xenopus laevis | Continue in the Weeks lab for a post-bac program and apply for medical school |