Research Internship Program :: Past Topics

Biochemistry

• PKA-induced phosphorylation of p65 is necessary for NF-kB activation in Schwann cells
• Crystallization of the cyanobacteria circadian clock protein
• Inhibition and Analysis of COX-1 and COX-2A in Zebrafish

Biological Sciences

• MonoUbiqitin mediated Drs2p sorting into the MVB pathway
• Role of G-proteins in Dictyostelium discoideum slug phototaxis
• The development of primers to detect sewage pollution in recreational water
• Investigating the roles of Apelin in zebrafish development by using the Gal4/UAS system

Biomedical Engineering

• Surface modification of HTR to increase porosity and cell adhesion

Cancer Biology

• RGS2 Protein Expression in Myeloid Cells in Response to Cell Stress

Cell and Developmental Biology

• Determining the cytoarchitecture of the left lateral plate mesoderm in Xenopus laevis
• Genetic analysis of UNC-4 suppressor mutants
• Diet modulates egg production in dFOXO-independent manner
• Notch signaling pathway's role in hepatogenesis
• Phosphorylation interactions of clp1

Center for Human Genetic Research

• Determining the effects of citrulline on the regulation of urea cycle enzymes and nitric oxide cycle synthases
• Potential role for PYY in appetite suppression associated with UCD patients
• Evidence for oxidant injury from hyperoxia during cardiac surgery

Chemical Engineering

• Polyurethane-mineralized bone powder composites

Chemistry

• Assessing the capabilities of fragment-independent encoding of drug-like molecules using radial distribution functions and artificial neural networks
• Novel molecular transporter for the delivery of bioactive cargo
• Computational de novo folding of the leucine transporter membrane protein

Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Hydrothermal zircon growth at high pressures and temperatures
• Testing for the provenance differences in aquifer sands from arsenic infected regions of Nepal using rare earth elements and zircon geochronology
  
• The layering of calcium carbonate as it relates to changes in climate

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• Acoustical properties of speech as indicators of depression and suicidal risk
• Validating a perceptual concept of locus

Hearing and Speech Sciences

• Preschoolers’ production of complement clauses in an elicited language task

Mechanical Engineering

• Electro-osmotic pumping flow rate optimization via annealing

Medicine

• The effect of resveratrol on renal sodium excretion in mice fed with high sodium diet
• Effect of Rev M10 on SIV RRE-mediated expression of HIV Gag-Pol
• Effect of Rev M10 on CTE-mediated expression of HIV Gag-Pol
• The role of MTG8 in intestinal and colonic biology
  
• The disruption of embryonic signaling pathways as a result of exposure to small molecule compounds
  
• Developing an fMRI capable neck suction device for carotid sinus stimulation
  
• Chemotherapy agent enhances citrullination in murine fibrotic lung tissue

Microbiology and Immunology

• HIV uncoating perturbed by TRIM5α
• Antimicrobial peptides that inhibit HIV and protect beneficial lactobacilli

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

• Analysis of CaMKII signaling complexes in mouse and rat striatum and hippocampus
• MIP-1α’s role in the inflammatory response to fatty acids
  
• Investigation of the endocytic pathway traversed by cholera toxin using fluorescence microscopy and image analysis

Pathology

• Reactive oxygen species contribute to the tumorigenicity of polyploidy cells
  
• Decrease in CCS from dithiocarbamates results from increase in bioavailability of copper in brain

Pediatrics

• Manganese exposure induces neuronal injury
  
• Gfi-1b interacts with the intracellular domain of Notch

Pharmacology

• Strain-specific postnatal lethality in mutant mice solely expressing the fully-edited isoform of the serotonin 2C receptor
• D1 and D2 dopamine receptor expression in corticostriatal neurons of the rat
• MET protein expression in the cortex of uPAR -/- mice
• Role of dopamine receptors in neuronal development

Physics and Astronomy

• Calibration of an optical tweezer setup
• The process of isotropic to anisotropic transformation from the nanocrystal to the nanospindle
• Germ band retraction and dorsal closure of fruit fly embryo development image analyzing and processing
• Optical properties in arrays of gold trimers