Undergraduate Research Scholars Alumni |
Kelly Chisholm |
Double Major: Chemistry
and French
Research Mentor: John Bulkowski, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Organic Synthesis of Coordination Compounds Binding Dioxygen Current Position:
She is currently attending the L. Jeffrey Selznick School for Film
Preservation
at the George Eastman House where she is a recipient of the 2002 Kodak
Fellowship
in Film Preservation. (more)
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Daniel R. Dries |
Major: Biochemistry
Minor: Russian
Research Mentor: Melinda Duncan, Department of Biological Sciences Project Title: Analysis of a Novel Marker of Vascular Smooth Muscle Differentiation Honors and Awards: Class of 2000 Alexander J. Taylor, Sr. Award for the outstanding man in the graduating class, Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies, Elizabeth Dyer Award for excellence to a senior in chemistry or biochemistry, Honors Degree Distinguihed Fellow. Fall 2000: University of California at San Diego. Ph.D. Program in Pharmacology and supported by the Molecular Biophysics Training Program. Recipient of a Phi Kappa Phi National Graduate Fellowship. |
John Dueber |
Major: Biochemistry Minor: Psychology Research Mentor: Anne Skaja Robinson, Department of Chemical Engineering Thesis Project Title: Expression, Purification, and Refolding of Tailspike Protein Aggregates. Honors and Awards: President, American Chemical Society Student Affiliates; Departmental Merck Index Award. Honorable Mention, 2001 NSF Fellowship at UCSF Current Position: Biochemistry Ph.D. Program, University of California at San Francisco. John has been very successful at UCSF being a finalist in the 2003 Collegiate Inventors Competition. His graduate research work was recently published in Science: "Reprogramming Control of an Allosteric Signaling Switch Through Modular Recombination" John E. Dueber, Brian J. Yeh, Kayam Chak, and Wendell A. Lim Science Sep 26 2003: 301, 1904-1908. |
Nicole Goodwin |
Major: Chemistry
Research Mentor: Douglass Taber, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Stereo-Controlled Synthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products Presentations: 64th Annual Intercollegiate Student Chemists' Conference, Bloomsburg University, 15 April 2000. 65th Annual Intercollegiate Student Chemists' Conference, Goucher College, 21 April 2001. Honors and Awards: American Chemical Society Delaware Section Scholarship, Quaesita Drake Scholarship, Phi Beta Kappa Fall 2001: California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Program in Organic Chemistry, |
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.
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. Fall 1999: University
of North Carolina, Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry
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Adam Himebauch |
Major/Minor: Biology/Biochemistry
Research Mentor: William Cain, Department of Biological Sciences Project Title: A Mouse Model for Lipoprotein a "Lp(a)"Catabolism . Publications and Presentations: American
Heart Association, Atlanta, GA. 7 -10 November 1999
Fall 2002: MD Program University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
Isaac Hubner |
Major: Biochemistry
Research Mentor: John Koh, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Thyroid Hormone Drug Analogs that Interact with Mutant Receptors Presentations: 64th Annual Intercollegiate Student Chemists' Conference, Bloomsberg University, 15 April 2000 Honors and Awards: Honorable Mention 2001 NSF Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University. Fall 2001: Harvard University, Ph.D. Program in Chemistry supported by an HHMI predoctoral Fellowship in the research group of Professor Eugene Shakhnovich. |
Amy Humfeld |
Major: Biology
Research Mentor: Malcolm Taylor, Department of Biological Sciences Project Title: Reproductive Cycle in Fundulus heteroclitus Honors and Awards: Richard M. Johnson, Jr. Award for the outstanding junior in Biology. Elected to Phi Kappa Phi. Fall 2001: George Washington University, MD Program; Recipient of an Elsie B. Moore, four-year scholarship. Recipient of Alec Horwitz First Year Scholar Award. |
Jessica Jackowsky |
Major: Biotechnology/Women's
Studies
Research Mentor: David Northmore, Department of Psychology Project Title:
Neural Applications of the Superior Colliculus to the Silicon Neuromorph
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Erika Kutsch |
Major: Biology
Research Mentor: Melinda Duncan, Department of Biological Sciences Project Title: Subcellular Location of Bves |
Jacob LaPorte |
Major: Biochemistry
Research Mentor: Junghuei Chen, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Elucidating the Role of DNA Aggegates in the Homologous Recombination Strand Exchange Reaction Honors and Awards: Elected to Mortar Board, Recipient of an NSF Graduate Fellowship to the Scripps Research Institute, 2001 Publications: Zhaoquin Zhang, Dennis Yoon, Jacob R. LaPorte, and Junghuei Chen, Appropriate Initiation of Strand Exchange Reaction Promoted by RecA Protein Requires ATP Hydrolysis. J.Mol. Biol. 309, 29-43 (2001) Fall 2001: Harvard University, Ph.D. Program in Chemistry supoported by an HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship. |
Lynne LaRochelle |
Major: Chemistry
Research Mentor: John Bulkowski, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Thesis Project Title: Investigation
of DiCopper Reaction Centers
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. Fall 1999: University
of Pennsylvania, Ph. D. Program in Chemistry,
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Michelle Denise Lazarus |
Major: Biology Research Mentor: Gary Laverty, Biology Project Title: Ammonia Transport in Avian Proximal Tubules Fall 2001: Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Ph.D. Program in Cell Biology |
Jennifer Leszl |
Major: Biology
Research Mentor: David Usher, Department of Biological Sciences Project Title: Catabolism of Turtle HDL, SAGE Analysis of Gene Expression Fall 2001: Pennsylvania
State University, Interdisciplinary Ph.D.Program in Genetics
studying
the craniofacial effects on a mouse model for Down Syndrome in
laboratory
of Joan
Richtsmeier Department of Anthropology.
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Laura Maliszewski |
Major: Biotechnology
Research Mentor: Allan Shapiro, Department of Plant and Soil Science Project Title: A Screen
for Mutants give Programmed Cell Death in
Abstracts: Worley, C.K., Maliszewski, L.E., Hubner, J.H. and Shapiro, A. D., "Genetic Screen to Identify Arabidopsis Mutants Which Overcome a Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitor Block of the Hypersensitive Response" 11th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, WI, 2000. Worley, C.K., Maliszewski, L.E., Hubner, J.H., Farnworth, B., Yang, H.-Y. and Shapiro, A. D., "hdn (HR Despite NOS inhibitor) Mutants Identify Multiple Controls over Arabidopsis Programmed Cell Death" 12th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, WI, 2001 and at 10th International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Madison, WI, 2001. Fall 2001: Harvard Medical School, Ph.D. Program in Virology working in the laboratory of Judy Lieberman on RNA interference. |
Elizabeth Manning |
Major: Biology
Research Mentor: Robert Hodson, Department of Biological Sciences Project Title: Characterization of Turtle Apolioprotein-A-II Gene Honors and Awards: Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi Fall 2000: Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. Program in Pharmacology |
Elisabeth McCarty |
Major:
Biology/Philosophy
Research Mentor: Patricia DeLeon, Department of Biological Sciences Project Title: Analysis of Hyaluronidase Activity in Rb6.15 Mouse Sperm Fall 2000:
University
of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. Program in Genetic Counseling
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Kathryn O'Reilly |
Major: Biochemistry
and French
Research Mentor: John Koh, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Redirecting Novel Transcription Regulators to New Cellular Targets Presentation: Second Place Biochemistry Division, 64th Annual Intercollegiate Student Chemists' Conference, Bloomsburg University, 15 April 2000. Honors and Awards: Kevin Beale Award for outstanding CHEM/BIOCHEM freshman, Phi Beta Kappa Clift and DeArmond Award for an outstanding freshman, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Pi (French Honor Society), Alpha Lambda Delta, Advanced Honors Certificate, American Chemical Society Award to the outstanding junior in chemistry or biochemistry. Publications: Hai Fen Ye, John T. Koh* and Kathryn E. O'Reilly, A subtype-selective thyromimetic designed to bind a mutant thyroid hormone receptor implicated in resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH)., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 1521-1522. (featured in C&E News) Fall 2001: Cornell Medical School, MD-PhD Program |
Jennifer Paulson |
Major:
Chemistry
Research Mentor: Eugene Mueller, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Thesis Project Title: Characterization of E. coli Pseudouridine Synthase Mutants Publications:
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. Fall 1999: University of California at San Francisco, Cellular Biology Ph.D. Program, Recipient of an NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2001. She is working on cell cycle kinases in the Kevan Shokat's lab. Home page |
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
Honors and Awards: Medical Scholars Program Fall 1999:
Thomas
Jefferson Medical College, MD 2003. Now working in Cognitive
Neuroscience
and Brain Imaging Laboratory
of Joseph I. Tracy in the Department of Neurology.
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Elizabeth Richardson |
Major: Biology
Research Mentor: David Usher, Department of Biological Sciences Project Title: The Distribution of ApoC-III and ApoE in Familial Combined Hyperlipidemic Patients before and after Treatment with Statins. Honors and Awards: Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. Fall 2000: Jeffereson Medical College, MD Program |
Matthew Russell |
Major: Biology/Anthropology
Research Mentor: Gregory Stephens and David Usher, Department of Biological Sciences . Project Title: Structural Conservation of the Turtle (P. scripta) apolipoprotein A-I gene. Presentation: 15th Annual Mid-Atlantic Lipid Symposium in Atlantic City, NJ, March 9-10, 2000. Abstract: Jennifer Rutan, Michael Usher, Matthew Russell, Robin Davis, Shui Quig Ye, Gregory Stephens, Robert Hodson, and David Usher. Conservation of the Apolipoprotein AI-CIII Linkage Group in Reptiles. ASBMB Meetings, Orlando, FL. April 2001. Fall 2001: Harvard Medical School,
Research Associate
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Jennifer Rutan |
Major: Biotechnology/History
Research Mentor: Robert Hodson and David Usher, Department of Biological Sciences Project Title: Characterization of 38kD Apolipoprotein DNA in the Turtle, Pseudemeyes scripta. Honors and Awards: Elected to Mortar Board, Gamma Sigma Sigma National Service Sorority (president), Motar Board, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa Abstract: Jennifer Rutan, Michael Usher, Matthew Russell, Robin Davis, Shui Quig Ye, Gregory Stephens, Robert Hodson, and David Usher. Conservation of the Apolipoprotein AI-CIII Linkage Group in Reptiles. ASBMB Meetings, Orlando, FL. April 2001. Portand Press Honorable Mention Award Fall 2001: University of North Carolina, Ph.D. program in Mircobiology and Immunology |
Michael Scoblete |
Major: Chemistry
and Chemistry Education
Research Mentor: Klaus Theopold, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Iron-Coordinating Complexes that Bind and Cleave Dioxygen Presentations: 64th Annual Intercollegiate Student Chemists’ Conference, 15 April 2000, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. 33rd Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the
American
Chemical Society,
Fall 2001: Teaching academic and advanced chemistry at Mendham High School in West Morris Regional High School District, New Jersey. |
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 Karen L. Hoober, Stacey
L. Sheasley, Hiram F. Gilbert, Colin Thorpe,
Honors and Awards: Elizabeth Dyer Award for Excellence in Chemistry Fall 1999: University of Virginia, MD-Ph.D. Program |
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
Vidya P Prabhu, Amanda
M. Simons, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Dahai Gal, Daniel T. Simmons, and
Junghuei
Chen, p53 Blocks RuvAB Promoted Branch Migration and Modulates
Resolution
of Holliday Junctions by RuvC.
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. Fall 1999: Harvard Medical School, Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, in Jeffrey Parvin's Lab. Recipient of an NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2001. |
Lindette Thornton |
Major: Biochemistry
Research Mentor: Junghuei Chen, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: DNA Recombination Enzymes Fall 2001: Wistar
Institute, Research Technician in Ronen
Marmorstein's lab.
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Laura Tolen |
Major: Biochemistry
Research Mentor: Hal White, Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Induction of Autoimmunity to Riboflavin-Binding Protein in Chickens. Presentations: 65th Annual Intercollegiate Student Chemists Conference, Goucher College, 21 April 2001 Honors and Awards: Quaesita Drake Scholarship, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi Activities: President, American Chemistry Society Student Affiliate Chapter Fall 2001:
University
of Maryland, Ph.D.Program in Pharmacy
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Madhavi Vuthoori |
Major: Biology
Research Mentor: David Usher, Department of Biological Sciences Project Title: Effectiveness of Statin Drug THerapy on Patients with Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia Fall 2000: Internship at NIH, Now with the Biology Group at the Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology. |
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 Honors and Awards: Dean's Scholar, Richard M. Johnson Jr. Memorial Award, Amelia Warner Award as the outstanding woman in the graduating class. Fall 1999: University of Delaware, MS Program |
Richard Yoon |
Major: Biology
Research Mentor: Robert Hodson, Department of Biological Sciences Thesis Project Title: Sequencing Apolipoprotein B Fall 1999: Thomas
Jefferson Medical College, MD Program
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