Undergraduate Program in
Biology and Medicine

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY at the UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
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Recent Undergraduate Research

Name Title Major Class Sponsor Department
Max Banko Analysis of the inner mitochondrial membrane protein Yhm2p BMG 2005 Elaine Sia Biology
Steven Chan Multiple translocation pathways through the yeast nuclear pore complex BBC 2005 David Goldfarb Biology
Patrick Corey Ethanol induced responses of Drosophila species BEB 2005 Jim Fry Biology
Brandi Davis Creation of cDNA library of Physarum polycephalum and the cloning of H1 BBC 2005 Jeff Hayes Biochemistry and Biophysics
Vanessa Franco Mistakes in communication between brain and muscles BNS 2005 Marc Schieber Neurobiology and Anatomy
Andrew Hart Dopamine receptor activation mediates CaMKII activation in the avian basal ganglia BNS 2005 Kathy Nordeen Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Jason Moore Cross-Spectral channel gap detection in the aging CBA mouse and humans BNS 2005 Jim Ison Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Julie Sullivan Male mate choice in Drosophila innubila BEB 2005 John Jaenike Biology
Kathy Aligene The effects of Th1 cytokine manipulation on the central nervous system: inflammation and demyelination in an animal model of multiple sclerosis BMB 2003 Benjamin Segal Neurology-Neuroimmunology
Andrew Berti Restoring mutated plasmids to produce wild type hRrp6p for use in complementation tests with S. cerevisiae BMB 2003 J. Scott Butler Microbiology and Immunology
James Bradley Cloning of IKKb in pGEM for analysis of in vitro interaction with GSK-3b BMB 2003 Stephen Dewhurst Microbiology and Immunology
Rebecca Burns Generation of P815/prostate-specific antigen (PSA) deletion construct clones for the identification of T cell epitopes BIO 2002 John G. Frelinger Microbiology and Immunology
Healani Calhoun P element based cloning BIO 2002 Willis Li Center for Cancer Biology
Ke Cheng Investigating the potential of c-Jun and MAPK signaling in the regulation of DNA repair BMG 2003 Dirk Bohmann Center for Cancer Biology
Sarah Clock The effects of organic weak acids on the membranes of oral streptococci with consideration of their potential as anticaries agents BMB 2002 Robert Marquis Microbiology and Immunology
Priya Deshpande Serotonergic inputs regulate dopamine release in the primate substantia nigra and the ventral tegmental area BNS 2003 Suzanne Haber Neurobiology & Anatomy
Yasser Elshatory Catechol-O-methyltransferase in Batten Disease BNS 2003 David Pearce Biochemistry and Biophysics
Laramy Enders Daily foraging patterns of a community of birds BEB 2002 John Jaenike Biology
Natalie Feliciano The effect of temperature and of heat shock on male-killing Wolbachia in Drosophila innubila BEB 2002 John Jaenike Biology
Martin Ferris Detecting a correlation between phenotype and phylogeny in bactriophage family Leviviridae BEB 2002 John Huelsenbeck Biology
Eva Fung Preroosting and roosting behavior of American crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos BEB 2003 John Jaenike Biology
Jason Garrity Linkage mapping of speed bump and evidence suggesting that the transcription of other genes is disrupted in the speed bump embryo BIO 2002 Donald Kane Biology
Chrisna Govin Molecular modeling of disease BME 2004 Andrew Brooks Neurology Ctr Aging and Developmental Biology
Eriko Greene Cell cycle regulation BMG 2002 Jiyong Zhao Center for Cancer Biology
Bradley Hartman Reactive oxygen species: their role in hypoxia-induced apoptosis and stabilization of hypoxia-inducible factor-1a BNS 2002 Robert S. Freeman Pharmacology and Physiology
Gavin Hickey Mechanisms of Raf activation BIO 2002 Willis Li Center for Cancer Biology
Julie Hull Demonstration that optimal codon usage increases fitness of T7 phage BIO 2003 John Huelsenbeck Biology
Sonal Kalburgi Regulation of murine tumor necrosis factor-a receptor associated factor (TRAF1) in response to TNF-a and hyperoxia BCD 2002 Gloria Pryhuber Pediatrics, Neonatology
Mark Katz Phospholipase C e translocation to membrane is Ras-mediated BIO 2002 Alan Smrcka Pharmacology and Physiology
Jennifer Kott Mechanisms of neuroimmunomodulation BCS 2004 Jan Moynihan Psychiatry/Psychosoc
Katherine Lander The adaptation of viruses to antibodies BEB 2003 John Huelsenbeck Biology
Nathaniel Liu A novel reverse promoter and presence of antisense transcripts in 3Õ Im BBC 2002 Andrea Bottaro Medicine-Immuno/Rheum unit
David Lyons Gene therapy as a trigger of the innate immune response in the mouse CNS BNS 2002 John Olschowka Neurobiology & Anatomy
Paul J. Maglione Role of ITK in CD4 T cell differentiation BMB 2002 Deborah Fowell Micro Ctr Vac Biol Immunol
Xiao-Yin Mak RNA modification BBC, CHM 2003 Yi-Tao Yu Biochemistry and Biophysics
Bernadette Marino Parabens: an alternative to triclosan BMB 2003 Robert Marquis Microbiology and Immunology
Susanna Mayo Research studies on lung surfactant film behavior CHE 2002 Robert Notter Pediatrics - Neonatology
April Melvin An observational study of the relationship between Wyeomyia smithii, Metriocnemus knabi, and protozoa in the carnivorous plant, Sarracenia purpurea BEB 2003 John Jaenike Biology
David Messenheimer Transfer of GFP retrovirus transfected CD8+ T cells to the lung during an influenza infection BMB 2003 David Topham Micro Ctr Vac Biol Immunol
David Mets In situ imaging of the RC-LH1 complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides by atomic force microscopy and scanning near-field optical microscopy BMG 2002 Robert Knox Physics and Astronomy
Lawrence Milo Development of an Amplicon-based vaccine for AlzheimerÕs Disease BMG 2002 William Bowers Neurology; Center for Aging and Developmental Bio
Alma Muharemagic Effects of stimulation by heat-killed bacteria and LPS on Xenopus B cell proliferation, Ig and gp96 expression BMB 2002 Jacques Robert Microbiology and Immunology
Avishek Nandi The functions of the human Rev1 protein in translesion replication BIO 2002 Christopher Lawrence Biochemistry and Biophysics
Elizabeth Nowak CTLA-4 and immunoregulation BMB, PSY 2002 Deborah Fowell Micro Ctr Vac Biol Immunol
Ensel Oh Characterization of enhancer trap mouse lines with novel reporter expression patterns in the cranial region BMG 2003 Rulang Jiang Biology Ctr Oral Biology
Hetal Patel Activity and dimerization of Rh1R in seudomonas aeruginosa BMB 2003 Barbara Iglewski Microbiology and Immunology
Julie Platt Interaction of thioredoxin with ran binding protein BIO, PSY 2002 Wang Min Ctr Cardiovascular Research
Elizabeth Reisinger Stimulation of integrin expression in CD4+ T cells in response to viral infection BIO 2002 David Topham Micro Ctr Vac Biol Immunol
Stephen Salipante Evaluating the activity and evolutionary potential of a cryptic aminoglycoside acetyltransferase gene from Salmonella typhimurium LT2 BMB 2003 Barry Hall Biology
Jessica Savage The survival of Drosophila innubila infected with male-killing Wolbachia under different environmental conditions BEB 2002 John Jaenike Biology
Matthew Schifano Development of novel microsatellite loci from a repeat-enriched genomic DNA library in Drosophila innubila BIO 2002 John Jaenike Biology
Rahul Seth Steroid effects on neural precursor cells BME 2002 Mark Noble Center for Cancer Biology
Allison Shifflet Heat stress response in neonatal rat choroid plexus and possible enhancement with salicylic acid BNS 2002 Alice Renee Villalobos Environmental Medicine
Brenna Simons TAP antibody production BMB 2003 Shuyuan Yeh Urology
Lukasz Skomial Temperature sensitive alleles of KAR9 BIO 2003 Rita Miller Biology
Jonathan Smith An analysis of OspA central b-sheet mutants BBC 2004 Shohei Koide Biochemistry and Biophysics
Sonia Tandon Comparative analysis of chemiluminescent detection of HHV-7 with standard 32P radioactive hybridization BIO 2003 Caren Hall Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases
Matthew Vaughn The development of RNA editing as a novel treatment for atherosclerosis BBC 2002 Harold C. Smith Biochemistry and Biophysics
Laura Vivier The effect of chronic ethanol consumption on the plasticity of cholinergic neurons in murine models BIO 2002 Hermes Yeh Ctr Aging and Developmental Biology
Annie Wang Proteomics and PSA HLS 2002 Baek Kim Microbiology and Immunology
Laura Wellington Slot blot analysis of Streptococcus mutans grown under fatty acid supplemental conditions and cloning the mar T gene in Streptococcus mutans BIO 2003 Robert Quivey Oral Biology
Jordan Zinn Candidate genes that initiate glycosylation in the fringe pathway BIO 2003 Fred Hagen Biochem and Biophysics, Ctr Oral Biology