Undergraduate Research Scholars
Winter 1999
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Undergraduate Research Scholars Winter 1999 |
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Scholar: John Dueber
Major: Biochemistry Research Mentor: Anne Skaja Robinson, Department of Chemical Engineering Thesis Project Title: Expression, Purification, and Refolding of Tailspike Protein Aggregates. Current Position: Biochemistry Ph.D. Program, University of California at San Francisco Publications: Honors and Awards: President, American Chemical Society Student Affiliates; Departmental Merck Index Award. Honorable Mention, 2001 NSF Fellowship at UCSF |
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Scholar: Brooke Heidenfelder
Major: Biochemistry Research Mentor: Don Dennis, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Thesis Project Title: Sequence of the Catalytic Site of HIV-1RT Using Photo Affinity Labeling with 3'-AZTP. Current Position: Ph.D. Program, University of North Carolina Publications: Honors and Awards: Imperial College/University of Delaware Undergraduate Research Exchange Program, Recipient of a book award at the 1998 Undergraduate Poster Session of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Washington, DC. |
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Scholar: Lynne LaRochelle
Major: Chemistry Research Mentor: John Bulkowski, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Thesis Project Title: Investigation of DiCopper Reaction Centers Current Position: Ph. D. Program in Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania Publications: Honors and Awards: Second Place in the Inorganic Chemistry Division at the 63rd Intercollegiate Chemists' Conference at Gettysburg College, April 10, 1999; Departmental Inorganic Chemistry Award 1999. |
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Scholar: Jennifer Paulson
Major: Chemistry Research Mentor: Eugene Mueller, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Thesis Project Title: Characterization of E. coli Pseudouridine Synthase Mutants Current Position: Cellular Biology Ph.D. Program, University of California at San Francisco Publications: Vidhyashankar Ramamurthy, Steven L. Swann, Jennifer L. Paulson, Christopher J. Spedaliere, and Eugene G. Mueller, Critical Aspartic Acid Residues in Pseudouridine Synthases, Journal of Biological Chemistry 1999, 274, 22225-22230. Eugene G.Mueller, Christopher
J. Buck, Peter M. Palenchar, Lora J. Barnhart, and Jennifer L.
Paulson,
Honors and Awards: Barry
M. Goldwater Scharlarship; Elizabeth Dyer Award for Excellence
in Chemistry, Second Place Biochemistry Division, 63rd Intercollegiate
Student Chemists' Conference, Gettysburg College, April 10, 1999.
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Scholar: Ayis Theseas Pyrros
Major: Biology Research Mentor: Roger Wagner, Department of Biological Sciences Thesis Project Title: The Localizatioon of Phosphodiesterase in Vertebrate Outer Rod Segments Current Position: MD Program, Thomas Jefferson Medical College Publications: Honors and Awards: Medical Scholars Program |
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Scholar: Stacey Sheasley
Major: Biochemistry Research Mentor: Colin Thorpe, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Thesis Project Title: Exploring the Catalytic Versitility of Chicken Egg White Sulfhydryl Oxidase Current Position: MD-Ph.D. Program, University of Virginia Publications: Karen L. Hoober, Stacey L. Sheasley, Hiram F. Gilbert, Colin Thorpe, Sulfhydryl oxidase from egg white. A facile catalyst for disulfide bondformation in proteins and peptides. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1999, 274(32):22147-22150. Honors and Awards: Elizabeth Dyer Award for Excellence in Chemistry, |
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Scholar: Amanda Simons
Major: Biochemistry Research Mentor: Junghui Chen, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Thesis Project Title: The Role of Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 in Branch Migration Current Position: Biochemistry Ph.D. Program, Harvard Medical School Publications: Zhaoqin Zhang, Amanda M. Simons, Vidhya P. Prabhu, Junghuei Chen, Strand exchange protein 1 (Sep1) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae does not promote branch migration in vitro. Journal of Biolological Chemistry, 1998, 273(9):4950-4956. Honors and Awards: Imperial
College/University of Delaware Undergraduate Research Exchange Program,
Recipient of a book award at the 1999 Undergraduate Poster Session of the
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, San Francisco;
Honors Degree Distinguished Fellow.
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Scholar: Katherine "Kaia" Wong
Major: Neuroscience Research Mentor: Malcolm Taylor, Department of Biological Sciences Thesis Project Title: Variations in Lipid Deposition over the Reproductive Cycle of Female Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) Current Position: Ph.D. Program, University of Delaware Publications: Honors and Awards: Dean's Scholar, Richard M. Johnson Jr. Memorial Award, Amelia Warner Award as the outstanding woman in the graduating class. |
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Scholar: Richard Yoon
Major: Biology Research Mentor: Robert Hodson, Department of Biological Sciences Thesis Project Title: Sequencing Apolipoprotein B Current Position: MD Program, Thomas Jefferson Medical College Publications: Honors and Awards: |