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URP Alumni 2006

University Affiliation, CSHL Advisor, and Title of Research Project

Katherine Amodeo
Marist College
Dr. Vivek Mittal
Role of tumor growth factor VEGF in bone marrow-dependent angiogenesis-mediated tumor growth

Lenore Barhak
The Cooper Union
Dr. Leemor Joshua-Tor
A Molecular View of Transcrptional Repression

Silivia Caballero
Hunter College
Dr. Alea Mills
Gene targeting of a novel tumor suppressor gene chd5 in mouse embryonic stem cells

Joseph Calarco
University of Toronto
Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy
The relationship between Erb-B2, the Par polarity complex and apoptosis

Angelica Contero
Swarthmore College
Dr. Hollis Cline
The Effect of Visual Stimulation on GABA Expression Patterns in the Optic Tectum of Xenoplus laevis Tadpoles

Ryan Devenyi
Bowdoin College
Dr. Wolfgang Lukowitz
Investigations in the Yoda MAP Kinase Pathway in Arabidopsis

Oleg Dmytrenko
International University of Bremen
Dr. David Jackson
Analysis of gat2- Mutants with Reduced Plasmodesmata Size Exclusion Limit (Arabidopsis thaliana)

Nandita Garud
Cornell University
Dr. Doreen Ware
Weeding for phenotypes and motifs in a weed, in the field, and within genomes

Julie Granka
Cornell University
Dr. Michael Zhang
Characterizing the Binding Specificity of CTCF

Paloma Guzzardo
University of Puerto Rico
Dr. Adrian Krainer
Characterization of a New S6 Kinase 1 Isoform

Lilian Ho
Vassar College
Dr. Cordula Schultz
Novel protein Lucky Luke and Cellular Integrity

William Kruesi
Carleton College
Dr. Marja Timmermans
The AS1/AS2 and ta-siRNA pathways regulate MIR166 gene expression in Arabidopsis

Caroline Leeds
Amherst College
Dr. Patrick Paddison
Knock-downs and neurons: Using RNAi to specify cell fate in mouse embryonic stem cells

Wenke Li
Stevens Institute of Technology
Dr. Ravi Sachidanadam
How old are Introns?

Adam Lowe
Salisbury University
Dr. Bill Tansey
The role of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene Sc11 in proteasome mediated transcriptional pathways.

Christopher Quinn
Cornell University
Dr. Alex Koulakov
An Improved Neural Spike Clustering Approach

Bryan Schmidt
Indiana University, Bloomington
Dr. Greg Hannon
Developing a Direct Biochemical Method to Identify the Targets of microRNAs

Kathryn Schmidt
Yale University
Dr. Linda Van Aelst
The Role of the X-Linked Mental Retardation Protein Oligophernin-1 in Glutamate Receptor Signaling

Tal Shamia
Tel Aviv University
Dr. Rob Martienssen
RNAi & Gene silencing effects on Arabidopsis development

Joshua Siegle
Brown University
Dr. Partha Mitra
Oacillatory Brain Dynamics of Working Memory: A Simultaneous MEG and EEG Study

Lincoln Smith
Wabash College
Dr. Dick McCombie
Bgl II Fragment Selection in the Human Genome using Different Hybridization-Based Selections

Britni Sternard
Bethel College
Dr. Yi Zhong
Construction of RNAi for Neurofibromatosis Type 1

Kipp Weiskopf
Amherst College
Dr. Bruce Stillman
The Role of Orc2 in Mitotic Checkpoint Assembly

Vicky Zhou
University of California, Irvine
Dr. Lincoln Stein
Visualization of C. elegans Gene Expression Data in Wormbase