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Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
2009 Schedule

Week Ten

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Date

Time

Event

Location

Monday, July 27
Tuesday, July 28 3 p.m. Poster Session
Sponsored by HHMI 
MI Social (MI 328) and Conference (MI 348) Rooms
Wednesday, July 29


Thursday, July 30 Final Symposium
9 a.m.
Gathering and Coffee
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
9:10 a.m. Opening Remarks
Dr. John Woolford
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
9:20 a.m.
Jeffrey Dahlen
Analysis of Adult Neurogenesis in the Mouse Main Olfactory Bulb
Advisor: Dr. Nathan Urban
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
9:30 a.m.
Shih-dun Liu
Dendritic Spine Plasticity
Advisor: Dr. Justin Crowley
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
9:50 a.m.
Santosh Bhavani
Automated Learning of Generative Models for Protein Subcellular Locations
Advisor: Dr. Robert Murphy
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
10 a.m.
Alex Ellison
Large-scale Conservation Analysis Among Closely Related Species
Advisor: Dr. Ziv Bar-Joseph
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
10:10 a.m.
Cameron Exner
Examination of cis Regulatory Module Changes in the Sm50 Gene Regulatory Network Allowing Larval Skeleton Formation in Sea Urchins
Advisor: Dr. Veronica Hinman
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
10:20 a.m.
Break
10:40 a.m.
Karen Kormuth
Evolutionary History, Expression and Regulation of polyketide synthase in Echinoderms
Advisor: Dr. Veronica Hinman
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
10:50 a.m.
Rachel Stamateris
The Role of Wnt Signaling Components (Wnt16, Fz and LRP6) in the Polarized Degradation of β-catenin in the Sea Urchin Embryo (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus)
Advisor: Dr. Charles Etternsohn
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
11 a.m.
Joshua Millan
Signaling Pathways to Tissue Morphogenesis
Advisor: Dr. Brooke McCartney
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
11:10 a.m.
Richard Decal
Testing the Hypothesis that Phosphorylation and Salt-Bridges Play a Key Role in the APC2-Armadillo Interaction in vivo
Advisor: Dr. Brooke McCartney
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
11:20 a.m.
Kellie Kravarik
The Effect of Cell Death on APC Mutant Tissue Morphology
Advisor: Dr. Brooke McCartney
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
11:30 a.m.
Kevin Watkins
Gene Function Analysis in Candida albicans Using the UAU1 Cassette
Advisor: Dr. Aaron Mitchell
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
11:40 a.m.
Michelle Peck
Elimination of the Disulfide Bonds in MG13 in Order for it to Function as an Intracellular Biosensor
Advisor: Dr. Peter Berget
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
Noon Student Speaker Lunch MI Social Room (MI 328)
1:30 p.m. Mekail Khan
Expression of AID in Yeast
Advisor: Dr. Gordon Rule
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
1:40 p.m.
Katherine Bonnington
Enhancing Solubility and Exploring the Activity of AID in Vitro
Advisor: Dr. Gordon Rule
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
1:50 p.m.
Lindsay McCullough
Developing Methods for Long Term Observation of Motor Movement
Advisor: Dr. David Hackney
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
2 p.m.
James Hopkins
Formation of Novel Protein Purification Techniques
Advisor: Dr. David Hackney
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
2:10 p.m.
Priyamvada Gupta
A Biophysical-Biochemical Investigation of Recombinant Hemoglobin
Advisor: Dr. Chien Ho
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
2:20 p.m.
Cortlyn Brown
In Vitro Evaluation of Multimodal Nanoemulsions for 19F MRI with Biosensing Properties
Advisor: Dr. Eric Ahrens
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
2:30 p.m.
Break
2:50 p.m.
Molly Evans
Chemo-genetic Analysis of the Hepatitis Delta Virus Ribozyme Chemo-genetic Analysis of the Hepatitis Delta Virus Ribozyme
Advisor: Dr. Subha Das
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
3 p.m.
Charles Miller
Design and Synthesis of PNA for DNA and RNA Targeting
Advisor: Dr. Bruce Armitage
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
3:10 p.m.
Joohyeon (Jane) Lew
DNA Deamination Catalyzed by Adenosine Deaminase That Acts on RNA; and Cloning Overexpression and Purification of a tRNA Editing Enzyme
Advisor: Dr. Mark Macbeth
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
3:20 p.m.
Andre Hersan
Determination of Three Dimensional Structures of ADARs and ADATs using X-Ray Crystallography
Advisor: Dr. Mark Macbeth
MI Conference Room (MI 348)
3:30 p.m.

Amy Wang
A Structural Approach to Determining the Mechanism of Substrate Recognition by adenosine deaminases that act on RNA
Advisor: Dr. Mark Macbeth

MI Conference Room (MI 348)
3:40 p.m.

Sefa Kploanyi
Structure-Function Analysis of ADARs: Crystallization of ADAR-RD bound to a synthesized RNA Substrate
Advisor: Dr. Mark Macbeth

MI Conference Room (MI 348)
3:50 p.m.

Alex Edelman and Jake Mohin
Novel Techniques for Printed Electronics: Organic and Inorganic Components
Advisor: Dr. Tomek Kowalewski

MI Conference Room (MI 348)
4:05 p.m. Concluding Remarks MI Conference Room (MI 348)
Friday, July 31 4 p.m. End of 2009 SURP
Revised 07/29/2009