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CURRENT PROJECTS

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DEPT.

PROJECT TITLE

Michelle Ahn

Barbara Conradt

BIOL

Identification of a New Gene Required for the Programmed Death of the NSM Sister Cells

Ashley Arnal

James Leiter

PHYSIOL/
DMS

Exploring the Neuropharmacology of The Thermal Prolongation of the Hering-Breüer Reflex

Kunal Arya

Eugene Nelson

CF MED/DMS

Analysis of Population Cardiovascular Health Status

Elizabeth Ballantyne

Mathieu Lupien

BIOL

Epigenomics of Transcriptional Regulation in Breast Cancer

Jennifer Bares

Elise Temple

EDUC

The Brain Mechanisms Involved in Mathematical Processing

Sharang Biswas

Solomon Diamond

ENGS

EEG and ECG Analysis of Concentration

Brian Bosche

William Kelley

PSYCH

Neural Correlates of Memory

Perry Bradford

James Leiter

PHYSIOL/
DMS

Dopamine Release in the Striatum during High Frequency Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus in Parkinsonian and Non-parkinsonian Rats

Jad Bsat

Catherine Norris

PSYCH

Identifying Physiological Responses to Stimuli in Individuals with Varying Levels of Neuroticism

Gregory Certo

Dean Wilcox

CHEM

Synthesis of Arsenic-Biotin Conjugate for Studies of Arsenic-Binding Proteins with Surface Plasma Resonance (SPR) Spectroscopy

Stephanie Chan

Craig Tomlinson

MED/DMS

The Fetal Basis of Adult-Onset Disease

Natalie Colaneri

Alan Green

PSYCH/DMS

The Effect of Elevated Levels of Kynurenic Acid on Alcohol Consumption As An Animal Model of Co-occurring Alcoholism and Schizophrenia

Jonathan Dalton

Kevin Peterson

BIOL

Arthropod Terrestrialization

Sage Dalton

Donna Coch

EDUC

Investigating the Neurological Basis of Reading Processes in College Students and Children

Jessica Dong

Sarah Freemantle

PHARMTOX/
DMS

Wnt Signaling in Lung Carcinogenesis

Jocelyn Drexinger

Allan Gulledge

PHYSIOL/
DMS

Cholinergic Signaling in the Cortical Neurons

Paige Franklin

Valerie Galton

PHYSIOL/
DMS

The Action of Thyroid Hormones at the Molecular Level

Michelle Hernandez

Donald Bartlett

PHYSIOL/
DMS

Gestational Nicotine Exposure and Hyperthermic Enhancement of Laryngeal Chemoreflex in Rat Pups

Hannah Iaccarino

David Bucci

PSYCH

Involvement of Retrosplenial Cortex in Learning and Memory through Corticohippocampal Connections

Megan Johnson

Gordon Gribble

CHEM

Synthesis and Antitumor Activity of Novel DNA Bis-intercalative Agents

Caitlin Keenan

Ryan Calsbeek

BIOL

A Study of the Reproductive Costs of Island Lizards

Nora Kim

Jason Moore

GEN/DMS

Exploratory Visual Analysis of Gene-toxin Interaction Results in Bladder Cancer

Akshay Kirtikar

Leslie Henderson

BIOL

The Role of Androgens During Development in Establishing the Neural Circuits that Regulate the Expression of Masculine Reproductive Characteristics in Adulthood

Lisa Koenig

Todd Heatherton

PSYCH

The Neural Basis of Human Self-Regulatory Failure

Jennifer Liu

James DiRenzo

PHARMTOX/
DMS

Genetic Control of Self-renewal in a Progenitor Cell Population During Mammary Gland Differentiation

Christina Mai

Jimmy Wu

CHEM

Asymmetric Synthesis of Amines from Chiral Hantzsch Esters and NADH Mimics

Eleni Marmarelis

Michael Whitfield

BIOL

Comparison of the Response of Normal and Scleroderma Fibroblasts to Irradiation

Rachel Moncton

Thalia Wheatley

PSYCH

Neural Correlates of the Uncanny Valley

Shashank Nayak

Dale Mierke

CHEM

Optimization of Inhibitors of the Binding of the JC Virus with Host Cells, a Novel Therapy for PML.

Akikazu Onda

Ronald Taylor

MICRO/DMS

Monoclonal Antibody Studies of Functional Domains of Vibrio cholerae Colonization Factor, TcpF

Lauren Pace

Ann Duhaime

PED/DMS

Pediatric Neurotrauma

Shu Pang

Yolanda Sanchez

PHARMTOX/
DMS

Decoding Pathways Involved in Neurofibromatosis via Budding Yeast

Bishnu Panigrahi

Jack Hoopes

SURG/DMS

The Pathogenesis and Sparing of Radiation Fibrosis in Cancer Therapy

Elizabeth Parker

Ryan Calsbeek

BIOL

How Investment in Reproduction Affects Survival in Anolis sagrei

Alannah Phelan

Leslie Henderson

PHYS/DMS

GABA Mediated Regulation of Gonadatropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Neurons with Respect to the Epsilon Subunit of the GABA Protein

Michael Randall

Roger Sloboda

BIOL

Arginine Methylation in Primary Cilia Resorption

Jihan Ryu

Mardi Crane-Godreau

MICRO/DMS

The Effect of Cigarette Smoke Exposure on Immune Cell Populations in the Spleen and Mucosal Organs

Katherine Sanders

Timothy Lahey

MED/DMS

Does Semen Alter HIV Infection in Target Cells?

Sourav Sinha

William Rigby

MED/DMS

Novel mRNA Decay Mechanisms

Marietta Smith

Mark Spaller

PHARMTOX/
DMS

Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of PDZ Domain Peptides Targeting Pancreatic Cancer

Pratyaksh Srivastava

Nicholas Shworak

MED/DMS

Identifying HS3ST1 Mutations Associated with Coronary Artery Disease 

Sarah Streeter

Jason Moore

GEN/DMS

Using Genetic Structure to Improve Genetic Association of Bladder Cancer

Jie Sun

Ta Chang

BIOCHEM/
DMS

Structure-function Analyses of ACAT (Cholesterol Acyl-transferase)

Ronald Sutton

Roger Sloboda

BIOL

Protein Methylation in Intraflagellar Transport 

Sarah Tanaka

Mark Spaller

PHARMTOX/
DMS

Developing PDZ Domains for Use as Protein Therapeutic Agents

Elizabeth Trandel

Elise Temple

EDUC

The Development of Brain Mechanisms of Number Sense

Aravind Viswanathan

Brian Pogue

ENGS

Noninvasive Detection of Murine Glioma using Aminolevulinic Acid-induced Protoporphyrin IX Fluorescence

Benjamin Waller

Roger Sloboda

BIOL

Localizing Highly Methylated Proteins in Chlamydomonas Flagella

Nathan Wong

Yolanda Sanchez

PHARMTOX/
DMS

Checkpoint Pathways as Therapeutic Targets for Pancreatic Cancer

Tianchi Xu

Mark Spaller

PHARMTOX/
DMS

Discovery of Peptide Ligands to Modulate Synaptic Proteins Using T7 Bacteriophage Display

Victoria Yu

Mark Spaller

PHARMTOX/
DMS

The Discovery of Novel Peptides for Therapeutic Use against nNOS-related Excitotoxicity in Neurons

Muhammad Zain-ul-Abideen

Ruth Connor

MICRO/DMS

Effects of Protein-calorie Supplementation on HIV Disease in Breastfeeding Women and Women with Tuberculosis 

Jingna Zhao

Samuel Velez

BIOL

The Effect of Epicatechin on Transmitter Release at Crayfish Neuromuscular Junctions

Billy Zou

Sergei Tevosian

GEN/DMS

Gene Expression in the Canonical Wnt Pathway during Valve Development


Contacts

Prof. Roger Sloboda
Program Director
Biological Sciences
306 Gilman
603-646-2377

Dean Margaret Funnell
Assistant Dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate Research
Parker House
603-646-1632

Nancy Serrell
Director of Outreach
339 Blunt
603-646-9756




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