URP Alumni 2016

 

Student	Undergraduate institution	CSHL URP lab	Research project title
Toby Aicher	Middlebury College	M. Hammell Laboratory	Investigating drug resistance in melanoma using single-cell RNA-sequencing
Daniel Barabasi	University of Notre Dame	Churchland Laboratory	Extracting more, and more accurate, data from 2-photon calcium imaging
Julia Bassell	Emory University	Krainer Laboratory	5’ splice site selection in GT vs. GC splice sites
Sara Blagburn	Brown University	Albeanu Laboratory	Developing a psychometric curve for odor intensity via a novel two-alternative forced choice protocol in head-fixed mice
Alissa Castleberry	Furman University	Gingeras Laboratory	Processing of Y5 RNA by cancer cell exosomes
Debotri Chatterjee	Cornell University	Jackson Laboratory	Understanding the role of the G-protein ß subunit in plant cell death
Erin DeNardo	Washington University in St. Louis	Ware Laboratory	Interpretation of gene structure changes in Oryza sativa from a single gene to a population
Zhiwei Ding	Grinnell College	Huang Laboratory	Mapping the distribution of a genetically-specified subpopulation of pyramidal neurons projecting to ventromedial striatum in mice
Chris Giuliano	Stony Brook University	Egeblad Laboratory	An anti-metastatic role of lysyl oxidases through matrix metalloprotease inhibition in pancreatic cancer
Benjamin Harris	Colgate University	Atwal Laboratory	Pan cancer analysis of ectopic germline gene expression
Daniel Hawkins	Georgia Institute of Technology	McCombie Laboratory	Long read sequencing and copy number analysis
Isaiah Holloway Jr.	Amherst College	Vakoc Laboratory	Is the CERS4 gene necessary for JAK2 mutated AML cell proliferation?
Ashley Kyalwazi	University of Notre Dame	Shea Laboratory	Parvalbumin network and neuroplasticity in the auditory cortex
Jingyi (Jenny) Ma	University of Alberta	dos Santos Laboratory	Using CRISPR-CAS9 to investigate the epigenetic regulation of mammary stem cells
Ajay Nadig	Northwestern University	Kepecs Laboratory	Signatures of prediction error in cortical VIP interneurons
Timothy Nolan	University of Connecticut	Koulakov Laboratory	Optimization of the short-time fourier transform spectrogram for machine learning objectives
Sevahn Vorperian	Columbia University	Stillman Laboratory	Using CRISPR screening to identify domain dependencies of ORC1 and CDC6 in diploid and cancerous cells
Katelyn Wilensky	University of Michigan	Tollkuhn Laboratory	Using sex differences to study the relationship between genes and behavior
Kaitlin Williams	Carroll University	Tuveson Laboratory	Inhibition of Myc slows the proliferation of KRAS-driven pancreatic cancer organoids
Lorna Wills	University of Cambridge	Trotman Laboratory	The effect of targeting Phlpp2 on cell proliferation and pAkt and Myc signaling pathways