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Jessica
Amenta
New York University
Neurobiology, particularly synapse formation and molecular
genetics |
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Michael
Angelo
University of Mississippi
PhD department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mentor: April Brown
Reactions of hemoglobin and nitric oxide producing compounds,
including, but not limited to, nitric oxide and nitrite
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Christina
Behrend
Dartmouth College
Neuroelectrophysiology, neuroengineering, motor disorders
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Allision
Betof
Cornell University
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Salvatore Pizzo, Mark Dewhirst
Development of phosphatase inhibitors for cancer pharmacotherapy
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Alexandra
Bey
University of North Carolina
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Charlene
Blake
University of Kansas; Fisk University
PhD department: Genetics & Genomics Program
Mentor: Bruce Sullenger
A reversible drug to treat stroke, heart attacks, and
pulmonary elbolism—made of RNA (called an aptamer)
and binds to and inhibit antiplasmin, a protein which is
the endogenous inhibitor of plasmin |
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Edith
Bowers
The College of William and Mary
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Salvatore Pizzo
Receptor-mediated antigen delivery by alpha2-macroglobulin:
Effect on cytotoxic T lymphocyte immunity and implications
for vaccine development
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Joshua
Brandstadter
Wesleyan University; Oxford University MSc
Cancer genetics, epigenetics, and immunology |
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Marisa Buchakjian
Case Western Reserve University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Sally Kornbluth
Gene expression signature changes with Ras deregulation.
Metabolic
effects of oncogenes
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Evan
Calabrese
Emory University |
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Young
May Cha
Amherst College
PhD department: Neurobiology, Wakeman Fellow
Mentor: Anne West
Changes in neuronal gene regulation during development |
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Bryan
Choi
Harvard University
PhD department: Pathology |
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Gustaaf
de Ridder
University of South Carolina
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Salvatore Pizzo
Understanding the role of cell-surface GRP78 in cancer
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Ashish
Doshi
Case Western Reserve University
PhD department: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Salim Idriss
Methods for determining cardiac electrical stability
and susceptibility to sudden arrhythmic death |
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Christie
Eyler
Duke University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jeremy Rich
Glioma stem-like cell biology
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Michael Forrester
Northwestern University
PhD department: Biochemistry
Mentor: Jonathan Stamler
S-Nitrosylation of protein cysteine thiols; nitric oxide
biochemistry; mass spectrometry of proteins/peptides |
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Stephan Frangakis
Rutgers University
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Sarah
Frazier
Washington University in Saint Louis
Reproductive biology and women's health, particularly
placental development and dysfunction |
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Srishti
Bhagat Garvey
Georgia Institute of Technology
Basic science research making use of good molecular
biology techniques to solve basic problems, especially in
the areas of genetics, neuroscience, and immunology |
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Sidney
Gospe
Stanford University
PhD department: Pharmacology
Mentor: Vadim Arshavsky
Hypothesis that the rhodopsin C-terminus is sufficient
to rescue outer segment morphogenesis in rhodopsin knockout
mice and that the rest of the rhodopsin molecule is at least
partly dispensable for this process |
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Vikas
Gupta
Pennsylvania State University
Cancer Biology |
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Stephen
Harward
Duke University
PhD department: Neurobiology, Wakeman Fellow
Neuroscience |
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Jane
Healy
Trinity University, San Antonio
PhD department: Biochemistry
Mentor: Vann Bennett
Interaction between Ankyrin B, a membrane associated
protein implicated in diabetes and cardiac arrhythmias,
and the sodium potassium atpase
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Melissa
Hector
Mount Holyoke College |
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Jeffrey
Helgager
University of California, Berkeley
PhD department: Neurobiology, Wakeman Fellow
Neuroscience
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Taylor
Herbert
Davidson College
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Philip Febbo
The role of the endoplasmic reticulum in the regulation
of translation and antigen presentation |
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Gabriel
Howles-Banerji
Stanford University
PhD department: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Allan Johnson
Exploring the use of Manganese as a functional neuronal
contrast agent. Development of a in vivo luminometry system
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Richard Hwang
University of California, Berkeley
PhD department: Neurobiology
Mentor: Dan Tracey
Multidendritic signaling affects hemocyte localization
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Melodi
Javid
University Of Maryland
Molecular Virology and also immunology, specifically in
relation to HIV |
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Carrie Johnson
Duke University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Sally Kornbluth
Investigation of cytochrome c-mediated apoptosis in
brain tumors |
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Matthew
Kan
Harvard University
Immunology |
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Erik Knelson
Davidson College
Broadly interested in cancer biology and molecular signally
pathways involved in carcinogenesis |
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Jordan
Komisarow
Duke University
PhD
department: Neurobiology
Mentor: Michael Ehlers
Neurobiology
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Christian Kunder
University of Pennsylvania
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: SN Abraham
The role of mast cells in bacterial infections |
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Rebecca Stein Kunder
University of Chicago
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Donald McDonnell
The role of the nuclear receptor Estrogen Receptor-related
Receptor alpha in cancer
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Joshua
Lacsina
Harvard University
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Chris Nicchitta
Factors promoting the in vitro invasion of 1LN prostate
cancer cells |
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Benjamin
Lampson
Duke University
PhD department: Pharmacology
Mentor: Chris Counter
Investigating mRNA-mediated regulation of KRAS expression;
investigating signaling pathways downstream of eNOS in RAS-driven
cancers |
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Jason Lee
Yale University
PhD department: Pharmacology
Mentor: Gerard Blobe
The TGF-beta signaling pathway |
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Arwen Long
Brandeis University; University of Cambridge
PhD department: Neurobiology
Mentor: Michael Platt
Neurophysiology and neurochemistry of decision-making
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Giselle Lopez
University of Maryland
PhD
department: Pathology
Mentor: Hai Yan
Genetics of brain cancer |
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Gray Lyons
Davidson College
PhD department: Cell Biology
Mentor: Chay Kuo
Mechanisms of signal transduction and targets
for pharmacotherapy |
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Emily
Ferguson
Mason
Harvard University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jeff Rathmell
Interactions between signaling pathways mediated by
glucose metabolism and p53 signaling
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Eric
Mastria
University of Michigan
Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology |
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John Mavropoulos
University of Chicago
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Salvatore Pizzo
Effects of carbohydrate deprivation on cancer cell signaling
and development |
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John
McManigle
Pennsylvania State University
PhD department: NIH Graduate Partnership Program/Oxford |
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Jeffrey
Mito
Princeton University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: David G Kirsch |
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Everett
Moding
Colorado College |
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Yvonne
Mowery
University of Virginia
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Salvatore Pizzo, Mark Dewhirst
The role of hypoxia in vascular proliferation in cancer
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Shannon
O'Connor
Johns Hopkins University
Biomedical engineering, tissue regeneration |
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Nicole Pershing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD department: Cell Biology
Mentor: Chay Kuo
Cell and molecular biology |
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Thomas Petersen
Princeton University
PhD department: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Laura Niklason
The functional performance of endothelial progenitor
cell-derived endothelial cells as compared to native endothelial
cells with regard to their ability to integrate into a tissue
engineered vessel |
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Michael Raisch
University of California, Santa Barbara
Signalling mechanisms that regulate cell differentiation,
dedifferentiation, and cancer |
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Zachary
Reitman
Pennsylvania State University
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Hai Yan
Neuroscience, pathology |
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Timothy Robinson
University of Virginia
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Mariano Garcia-Blanco and Mark Dewhirst
Alternative mRNA processing in epithelial-mesenchymal
transition and cancer
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Veronica Rotemberg
Harvard University
PhD department: Biomedical Engineering
High-frequency ultrasound |
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Carolyn
Sangokoya
Stanford University
PhD department: Genetics & Genomics Program
Mentor: Ashley Chi
Microarray analysis and functional roles of microRNA
in erythrocytes and anemic disorders |
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Ilya
Shadrin
California Institute of Technology
Neural stem cells, molecular cancer research |
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Ashley
Sobel
Duke University
Infectious disease ecology, viral evolution and vaccine
development |
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Timothy
Sweeney
University of Chicago
PhD department: Pathology
Mentor: Claude Piantadosi
Splicer AV – a novel, experimentally validated
program that analyzes standard microarray data for evidence
of alternative mRNA processing |
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Michael TeKippe
Iowa State University
PhD department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Mentor: Alejandro Aballay
Using the nematode, C. elegans, as a model of host-pathogen
with the fungal pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans
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Alok
Tewari
Duke University
PhD department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Phillip Febbo |
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Happy
Thakkar
Northwestern University |
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Qian
(Eric) Wei
Columbia University
Biomedical engineering |
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Erin Wilfong
Ohio State University
PhD department: Chemistry
Mentor: Eric Toone
The molecular basis of affinity in aqueous solution |
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Minsi
Zhang
Johns Hopkins University
Molecular cancer biology |
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