June 21, 2015
By: Chris Chang
Like us, most of our cells need “friends” to live happy lives and realize their full potential. In order to stay close to their friends, some cell lines express adhesion molecules that allow them to bind cells expressing suitable ligands....
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By: Jonathan Grego
Oas lab aims to find ways to apply concepts of physical chemistry to biological functions usually involving basic thermodynamics & kinetics. Some biological functions that Oas lab focuses on are protein folding, protein translocation, bacterial infection, ribonucleoprotein assembly and cellular signaling. These...
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By: Christin Hong
The research conducted in the Poss lab is focused on heart regeneration. With zebrafish as the primary animal model, the Poss lab is interested in the mechanisms underlying heart regeneration and how the findings can be utilized in human hearts....
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By: Michael Widmann
Dr. Gong’s lab studies fluorescent proteins and their application in neural imaging. Fluorescent proteins are a type of protein originally discovered in jellyfish that have now been modified to display an array of colors and can be used in many...
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By: Brandon Thio
The lab of Dr. Grill focuses on finding a solution to chronic pain in the legs by using a technique called spinal cord stimulation. In spinal cord stimulation, an electrode is attached to the spinal cord and pulses of electricity...
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By: Justin Sapp
The Phillip Benfey lab aims to address questions about differentiation in cells. Differentiation occurs when stem cells divide into a cell that keeps renewing itself, and another immature cell that will eventually become a functional cell. The lab looks at...
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By: Reena Debray
In many human societies, socioeconomic status is a strong predictor of health, even when controlling for tangible factors such as healthcare, smoking, and nutrition. It has been proposed that the psychological stress of being low-ranking in society could induce health...
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By: Emily Wu
The overarching objective of the lab I work in, the Laboratory of Neurogenetics, is to identify the genetic bases that influence brain mechanisms and ultimately, behavior. The hope is to one day have learned enough to be able to predict...
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By: Marie-Martine Uwera
It's been a thrilling 3 week research experience. My lab is investigating the molecular pathogenesis of fungal infections such as candinda and cryptocococcal infections. It's basic science project is to understand cryptococcal infections using cryptococcus neoformans as a model yeast system to identify molecular targets...
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By: Danielle Dawes
The Truskey lab is a biomolecular and tissue engineering lab that has three groups of research: cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and liver. All of these areas are working towards engineering human tissues that behave similarly to native human tissue in order to...
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By: Mickias Tegegn
Sickle Cell Anemia is a genetic disease that causes many health problems for its hosts. Sickle Cell disease manifests when you inherit two “S” genes from your parents. Having Sickle Cell Anemia, subjects you to a number of symptoms the...
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By: Rachel Yang
Much of the research in my lab focuses on using signal processing techniques and other computational methods to model heart and brain activity. The electrical activation sequence of the heart is most interesting during episodes of abnormal activity, for instance...
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By: Hayden Walcott
In the Haase lab most of the researchers study the cell cycle of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an important model eukaryote. Much of the Haase lab’s efforts center on piecing together a complicated network of cyclically transcribed transcription factors....
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By: Brian Chan
My research project for the summer involves natural production in E. coli. My main focus is trying to engineer the metabolic pathway in E. coli bacteria so that the microbes produce terpenoids (also known as terpenes), and then try to...
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By: Kathy Dai
This summer I'm working closely with Brett Hemric, my graduate student mentor, on a synthetic method that he's been developing in Dr. Wang's lab. The project aims to demonstrate an efficient synthesis of the 1,2-oxyamino functionality and to understand the...
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June 20, 2015
By: Joe Kreitz
Most of the researchers in my lab conduct studies using E. coli or other bacterial model systems. Themes in lab include the study of gene circuits, growth patterns, and bacterial tolerance to antibiotics. My project this summer involves the study...
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June 14, 2015
By: Chris Chang
Although every lab is directed by principle investigator, most lab have a wide variety of graduate students and post graduates. During my time in the Luftig Lab, Joanne Dai, a PhD candidate in the Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM) department,...
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By: Jonathan Grego
Talking with my mentor was a great way to take advantage of life's opportunities. In our one on one conversation, Dr.Oas gave detailed stories about his past and given me advice about the lab and the world. Unlike what most interviewees would do, Dr.Oas...
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