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REU Students Present Final Reports
On Friday July 29 our 16 student participants in the summer research experience for undergraduates (REU) program on “Sensing and Signaling” are scheduled to give their final summaries of their work. The presentations from the students are 15 minutes in length and will cover the research goals and accomplishments from their summer. The schedule for presentations is:
9:00-9:15 Apryl Anderson from Serpersu Lab
"The Isolation and Purification of an End-Product for an Aminoglycoside Acteyltransferase-III Reaction”
9:20-9:35 Jourdan Andersson from Bruce Lab
"The Influence of Transit Peptide Phosphorylation on Chloroplast Targeting”
9:40-9:55 Joshua Barrios from Labrador Lab
"The Role of Chromatin Insulators in Nuclear Organization: The Secret Lives of Insulator Proteins"
10:00-10:15 Jeffery Black from Goodchild Lab
"Investigating the Function of LULL1"
10:20-10:35 Jeremy Dobbs from Shen lab
"Free Energy Profile of IgA Hinge Gycosylation Sites"
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00-11:15 Aaron Dwan from Alexandre Lab
"Characterizing the Six Protein Brain"
11:20-11:35 Chinyere Ezikpe from Howell Lab
“Directed Evolution of a Primitive Enzyme"
11:40-11:55 Milton Herrold from Nebenfuehr lab
"Golgi Movements and Phosphorylation in Arabidopsis"
12:00 - 1:15 Lunch
1:20-1:35 Isaac Maison from Peterson Lab
"Identifying the residues responsible for PAI-1 binding to immobilized metals"
1:40-1:55 Elizabeth Miller from Ganguly Lab
"An analysis of the Cyp6a8 gene promoter inducibility by piperonyl butoxide in Drosophila melanogaster"
2:00-2:15 Ishan Parikh from Binder Lab
"The effect of salt stress on Arabidopsis seed germination"
2:20-2:35 William Putzbach from von Arnim Lab
"The Function of Ethylene in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803"
2:40-2:55 Jalissa Wynder from Binder Lab
"The Function of Ethylene in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803"
3:00 - 3:20 Break
3:20-3:35 Clark Sealy from Shpak Lab
"Characterization of Mutant 1945 by Positional Cloning"
3:40-3:55 Grant Seiler from Fernandez Lab
"Heterologous overexpression, purification, and characterization of full length thyroid hormone receptor"
4:00-415 Cheong Suh from Park Lab
"Stress responses regulated by neuropeptides"
All faculty and students in BCMB are encouraged to attend. The presentations will be held in the NIMBioS classroom at 1534 White Avenue.