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

Biological Sciences

• MonoUbiqitin mediated Drs2p sorting into the MVB pathway
• Role of G-proteins in Dictyostelium discoideum slug phototaxis

Biomedical Engineering

• Surface modification of HTR to increase porosity and cell adhesion

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

Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Hydrothermal zircon growth at high pressures and temperatures

Electrical Engineering

• Acoustical properties of speech as indicators of depression and suicidal risk

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

Microbiology and Immunology

• HIV uncoating perturbed by TRIM5α

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

• Analysis of CaMKII signaling complexes in mouse and rat striatum and hippocampus

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

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