HHMI 
 Undergraduate Research Scholars 
 Summer 2010
 
         
The following 25 students were selected to be HHMI Research Scholars for the Summer 2010.


Donald Allen, Biochemistry
Timothy Gilpatrick, Biochemistry
Catherine Nguyen, Biology
Nicholas Audette, Biochemistry
Jessica Gryga,  Chemical Engineering
Ryan Penn,  Medical Technology
Erin Bange, Biology
Sepehr Highighat,  Biology
Frank Shen,  Math & Economics
Erica Boetefuer, Biology
Zariel Johnson, Quantitative Biology
Wuroh Timbo, Biology
Cory Bovenzi, Biology Brendan LoGiurato, Biochemistry Devan Turner, Chemistry
Brandon Boyer, Biology
Dylan Lowe,  Biology
Matthew White,  Biochemistry
Michael Brister, Biochemistry
Nicholas Marze,  Chem Engineering Wayne Wilke,  Biology
Amy Chevalier, Chemical Engineering
Suranjit Mukherjee, Biology
Alex D'Angelo,  Biology
Ricardo Nieves, Neuroscience


Sophomore, junior, and senior HHMI Scholars who are having their first research summer research experience at the University of Delaware are expected to attend the weekly Enrichment Program.




Donny Allen
Biochemistry 2011


Research Mentor:  Tatyana Polenova,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Project Title: Structural Studies of Microtubule Assemblies: Dynein and Dynactin

Honors, Awards, and Activities: 2009 HHMI Summer Research Scholar,  Elizabeth Dyer Award for Excellence in Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Presentations: 2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2011: pursuing an M.D. at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.


 

Nicholas Audette
Biochemistry 2012

Research Mentor: Tatyana Polenova,  Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project Title:  Solid State NMR Analysis of Cytoskeleton-Associated Proteins

Honors, Awards, and Activities:

Presentations:  2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symosium, 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011,

Fall 2012: Graduate School  in Biology at Carnegie Mellon University




Erin Bange
Biological Sciences 2012


Research Mentor: Patricia DeLeon, Biological Sciences

Project Title:  Charaterization of Hyaluronidase3 in Human Sperm

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Women of Promise 2010, Phi Kappa Phi graduate fellowship,

Presentations:
2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2012: Thomas Jefferson Medical School







Erica Boetefuer
Biological Sciences 2012

Research Mentor: Erica Selva, Biological Sciences

Project Title: The role of endocytosis in signal transduction pathways during Drosophila development

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Women of Promise 2010, First Place UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011
Presentations: 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,  UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2010 ASBMB Poster Competition Experimental Biology 2011, UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011, Thomas Jefferson University Chapter of Sigma Xi Student Research Day 2012, ASBMB Poster Competition Experimental Biology 2012, 

Fall 2012: Ph.D. program in Biology at the University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. program in Biology at the University of Pennsylvania



Cory Bovenzi
Biology 2011



Research Mentor: Deni Galileo, Department of Biological Sciences

Project Title: The Role of Bcl-2 in neuronal survival and migration in developing chick midbrain

Honors, Awards, and Activities: 2009 HHMI Summer Research Scholar, 2009 General Honors Award,
Presentations: 2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,
2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition Experimental Biology Meetings 2011, <>Internship in neuroscience at Imperial College summer 2011 through the UD exchange program

Fall 2011: .Plans to enter allopathic medical school in 2012.





Brandon Boyer
Biology 2012

Research Mentor: Wenlan Wang, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children

Project Title: Embryonic stem cell-differentiated motor neurons as a model for Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Honors, Awards, and Activities: 

Presentation: 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2012: Applying to Medical School






Michael Brister
Biochemistry 2012

Research Mentor: Neal Zondlo, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Project Title: Conformational Effects of Glycosylation on Tau Protein Structure


      Honors, Awards,
and Activities: American Chemical Society Student Affilate member,
National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Biochemistry PBL tutor, and
Vice President (2010-2011)
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
Undergraduate Affiliate,
      Second
Prize UMBC
Undergraduate Research Symposium, First
Prize in
Proteins and Enzymes Division ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition
Expreimental Biology Meetings 2011, First
Prize UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011, First
Prize ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition 2012.

Presentations:
2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium,  ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition Experimental Biology Meetings 2011, ASBMB Poster Competition Experimental Biology 2012,

Fall 2012: Applying to Medical School

        



Amy Chevalier
Chemical Engineering 2011

Research Mentor:  Anne Robinson, Department of Chemical Engineering

Project Title: Effect of Genetic Mutations on G-Protein Coupled Receptors

Honors, Awards, and Activities: 2009 General Honors Award,

Presentation:  2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2009 AIChE Annual Meeting, 2009 Delaware Membrane Protein Symposium, 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,
UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2011: Graduate School in Chemical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania with an NSF graduiate Fellowship.



Alex D'Angelo
Biology 2012


Research Mentor:  Anje Nohe, Department of Biological Sciences

Project Title: Radiation and Osteoblast Differentiation

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Undergraduate Writing Fellow, Delaware Sängerbund German 106 Award, 

Presentations: 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2011 Center for Biomedical Engineering Research Symposium, UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011, ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition 2012-San Diego.

Fall 2012: University of Pittsburgh Medical School





Timothy Gilpatrick
Biochemistry 2012



Research Mentor:  Brian Bahnson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Project Title: Examining the Binding of Platelet-Activating Factor Acetylhydrolase with Biotinylation

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Deltones, Kevin Scott Beall Memorial Award, Wallace H. Carothers Scholarship, ASBMB Undergraduate Affiliate, Qigong and Taoist Studies Club, 2011 UD Goldwater Scholar,  ASBMB Summer Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Chi Omega Lambda national Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Honor Society,  Barry Goldwater Scholarship,

Presentations:  2010 Undergraduate Research Symposium, UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium
75th Intercollegiate Chemists Conference at West Chester University 2011, UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011,


Fall 2012:  NIH Post-baccalaureate Program in immumnology NIAID




Jessica Gryga
Chemical Engineering 2012
Research Mentor:  Christopher Roberts, Department of Chemical Engineering

Project Title: Protein Aggregation

Honors, Awards, and Activities:


Presentation:
2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2012: Process Engineer Air Products and Chemicals



Sepehr Sedigh Highighat
Biology 2011


Research Mentor:  Bruce Bowman, Department of Biological Sciences

Project Title:  Study of microRNA expression in normal colonic epithelium and colon cancers

Honors, Awards, and Activities:

Presentations: 2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, American Association for Cancer Research-Washington DC April 2010,
2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2011: attending Medical School



Zariel Johnson
Quantitative Biology 2011


Research Mentor:  John Pelesko, Department of Marthematical Sciences and
                                    Christopher Williams
, Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology

Project Title: Effect of Density Dependent Feedback Across Latitudes

Honors, Awards, and Activities: UD Messenger article,


Presentation:  2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2011: PhD Program in Systems Biology at Thomas Jefferson University






Brendan LoGiurato
Biochemistry 2011



Research Mentor:  Neal Zondlo, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Project Title:    Using 4-fluoroprolines to investigate cis/trans isomerization in tau peptides

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Alpha Lambda Delta National First Year Honor Society, 2009 HHMI Summer Research Scholar, 2009 Gereral Honors Award,  Biochemistry PBL Tutor,  Merck Index Award.

Presentations:
2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2011:  Stony Brook University School of Medicine, plans to pursue an MD with Distinction in Research




Dylan Lowe
Biology 2011



Research Mentor: Catherine Kirn-Safran, Department of Biological Sciences

Project Title:  Study of the importance of unfolded protein response in cellular mechanisms underlying cartilage defects in perlecan mutant mice

Honors, Awards, and Activities: First Place UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011

Presentation:
2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition Experimental Biology Meetings 2011, UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011,

Fall 2011:  MS program in Biology University of Delaware





Nicholas Marze
Chemical Engineering 2011
Research Mentor: Maciek Antoniewicz, Department of Chemical  Engineering

Project Title: Elucidating the Role of Mitochondrial Transporters in Regulating Lipogenesis in Adipocytes

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Mr, & Mrs. James F. Kearns Scholarship in Chemical Engineering 2009,  2009 HHMI Summer Research Scholar2009 General Honors Award, Caldwell's 2nd Fife and Drum Corps, 2011 Second Prize Edward Rosenberry Undergraduate Writing Award.

Presentations:
2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2011:   PhD program, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
, Johns Hopkins University


Suranjit Mukherjee
Biology 2011

Research Mentor:  Anja Nohe, Department of Biological Science

Project Title:
Examining the Distribution of Silver Nanoparticles in an Animal Model

Honors, Awards, and Activities: 2009 HHMI Summer Research Scholar, 2009 General Honors Award,

Presentations:
2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2011: Ph.D in pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College



Ricardo Nieves
Neuroscience 2012


Research Mentor: Brian Bahnson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Project Title: Enzymatic Response of Platelet-activating Factor Acetylhydrolase-II Under Oxidative Stress

Honors, Awards, and Activities: UD Men's Crew,

Presentations: 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

  Fall 2012:
University of Pittsburgh Medical School





Catherine Nguyen
Biological Sciences
University of Guam




Research Mentor:  Melinda Duncan, Department of Biological Sciences

Project Title: Characterization of the Lens in Bin3 Knockout Mice

Honors, Awards, and Activities: 

Presentation: 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,





Ryan Penn
Medical Technology Interest 2012



Research Mentor: Mary Ann McLane, Department of Medical Technology

Project Title: Integrin Expression of Melanoma Cells in 2D and 3D Environments

Honors, Awards, and Activities: 

Presentation: 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2012: Transfusion Services Laboratory at Christiana Care Hospital



Frank Shen
Mathematics 2012


Research Mentor: Prasad Dhurjati, Chemical Engineering

Project Title:  Algorithmic Deconvolution of Gut Microbial Fatty Acid Signatures

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications' Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2010 Carl J. Rees and Eleanor K. Rees Scholarship,

Presentation: 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2012: PhD program in Statistics, Pennsylvania State University




Wuroh Timbo
Biology 2011

Research Mentor: David Edwards, Department of Health, Nutrition, and Excercise Sciences

Project Title: Oxidative Stress and Microvascular Function in Chronic Kidney Disease

Honors, Awards, and Activities: HHMI 2009 Summer Scholar, 2009 Ronald E. McNair Scholar of Promise,  NUCLEUS, Secretary of  Making Doctors2009 General Honors Award, African American Student of Distinction, Alpha Phi Alpha's Distinguished Collegian award, Membership Vice President of Making Doctors,

Presentations:
2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2009 UMBC Undergraduate Symposium, 2009 ABRCMS in Phoenix, 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2011: MD program, University of Maryland School of Medicine




Devan Turner
Chemistry 2011


Research Mentor: Isiah Warner, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Louisiana State University

Project Title:

Honors, Awards, and Activities:  African-American Student of Distinction, HHMI 2009 Summer Scholar, Alpha Lambda Delta National First Year Honor Society, Ronald E. McNair Scholar, HHMI EXROP Scholar 2010, NUCLEUS, Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) Phoenix,

Presentations:
2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2009 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students meeting Arizona, 2009 National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers Meeting-Boston MA., UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium

Fall 2011: PhD program in Chemistry, University of Pennsylvannia




Matthew White
Biochemistry 2013


Research Mentor:  Sharon Rozovsky, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Project Title:  Examining the Effects of Selenium Incorporation into GB1

Honors, Awards, and Activities: 2010 Secretary American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Bioloogy Undergraduate Affiliate, 

Presentation: 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,



 

Wayne Wilke
Biology 2012
Research Mentors:  Sharon Rozovsky, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Project Title: Develping a protocol for maximum selenium incorporation for 77Se NMR

Honors, Awards, and Activities:

Presentation: 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Fall 2012: Applying for MD-PhD programs


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