Project Title: Effects of  TGF-b on PC cell adhesion to HBME cells. Poster
           
Honors, Awards, and Activities: President, International Students' Association. 
Resident Advisor, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Lincoln Uni. 
Presidential Scholar. LU Honors' Society.

Project Title: Grafting extracellular loops of NK1R onto a BR scaffold. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities:  Vice president 2003-4 and President 2004-5 of the UD Society of Women Engineers , Delaware Biotechnology Undergraduate Research Scholar Summer 2003, HHMI Scholar Summer 2004, member of Omega Chi Epsilon.

Fall 2005 Plans: Materials research engineer with Kimberly-Clark corporation in Neenah, Wisconsin

Project Title: Cellular Stress During Recombinant Protein Expression. Talk

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Lambda Delta, Summer 2003 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Secretary, Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society, Amerada Hess Corporation Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Junior Award. Women's Studies Award of Special Merit.

Fall 2005 Plans: Work for a year before entering graduate school

Publication: D. Raden, , S. Hildebrandt, P. Xu, Elizabeth Bell, Frank J. Doyle, III and Anne S. Robinson (2005) Analysis of cellular response to protein over-expression, IEE Proc Syst Biol 152(4): 285-9.

Project Title: The Effects of Hyperphosphorylation in Tau Protein. Poster

Honors and Awards: Alpha Lambda Delta. Dean's Special Scholars Award Summer 2004. Quaesita Drake Scholarship 2005.

Publication: Agata A. Bielska and Neal J. Zondlo (2006) "Hyperphosphorylation of Tau Induces Local Polyproline II Helix." Biochemistry, 45, 5527-5537.

Project Title: Effects of Chemokine Treatment on Cancer Cell Behavior. Poster

Honor, Awards, and Activities: Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Tingle Scholar, STAR Research Grant

Fall 2006 Plans: Work in Industry for a few years then graduate school.

Project Title: Amino Acids of the Active Site of Adenylosuccinate Lyase.

Awards, Honors, and Acivities: Alpha Lambda Delta, Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority, HHMI Summer Scholar 2004, Phi Kappa Phi, University Research Opportunities Program-Imperial College London Summer 2005.

Project Title: An Investigation of 4-Thiouridine Modification in tRNA by E. coli.Poster

Awards, Honors, and Activities: HHMI-sponsored PLTL Workshop Leader

Presentations: 2004 Summer Research Symposium, ASBMB UNdergraduate Poster Competition Experimental Biology Meetings San Diego 2005.

Fall 2006: M.S. in Marine Studies with a concentration in Marine Biology/Biochemisty, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE.

Project Title: Microrheology of Beta-Hairpin Hydrogels. Poster

Activities: Member of the University of Delaware Varsity Tennis Team.

Project Title: Contribution of Metal Ions in Sulfhydryl Oxidase Activity. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Acitivities: HHMI-sponsored PBL tutor facilitator, AAUW Award (Newark Branch), Merck Index Award. Oral presentation at Intercollegiate Student Chemists' Conference, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, April 2005.

Publication: Jennifer Jaje, Holly N. Wolcott, Olajumoke Fadugba, Diane D. Cripps, A. J. Yang, Ian H. Mather, Colin Thorpe (2007) A Flavin-Dependent Sulfhydryl Oxidase in Bovine Milk. Biochemistry 46: In press Oct 18

Fall 2005 Plans: MD Program Vanderbilt University

Project Title: Transplantation of ES Cell-derived Radial Glia into the Developing Brain

Honors and Awards: Latino Student of Distinction and Coed Intramural Soccer Champion

Presentations: 2nd place award in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Category at the 2005 UMBC 8th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium,  ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition, San Francisco, CA April 2006.

Fall 2006: MD program Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.

Project Title: Object Oriented Changes in Infant Coordination: Learning to Reach. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities: National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Beta Beta Beta (Biology Honor Society), Vice President of Physical Therapy Interest Club (2004-2005), Phi Beta Kappa.

Fall 2006: Graduate Program in Physical therapy, University of Delaware

Project Title: Human NAD-dependent Isocitrate Dehydrogenase. Poster

Publication: Sambanthamurthy Soundar, Molly O'Hagan, Kenneth S. Fomulu, and Roberta   F. Colman (2006) Identification of Mn²⁺-binding aspartates from alpha , beta  and gamma  subunits of human NAD-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase, J. Biol. Chem.  281, 21073-21081.

Project Title: Role of Secreted NgCAM in Glioma Invasiveness, Talk

Honors and Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Lambda Delta, Summer 2003 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar.  Biological SciencesAcademic Excellence Award. Presented poster at: American Association for Cancer Research Meeting, Anaheim, CA. April 2005.

Cretu, A., Fotos, J.S., Little, B.W., and Galileo, D.S.  (2005).  Human and rat glioma growth, invasion, and vascularization in a novel chick embryo brain tumor model.  Clin Exper Metas 22: 225-236.

Project Title: The Viscoelastic Properties of Hairpin Hydrogels

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Summer 2004 HHMI Scholar, Summer 2006 HHMI Scholar, Chemical Engineering Alumni Laboratory Award, Sigma Xi Undergraduate Thesis Award 2006.

Project Title:  Protection of dopaminergic neurons from MPTP neurotoxicity. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Phi Beta Kapa, Phi Kappa Phi,Alpha Lambda Delta,  George and Margaret Collins Steitz Award, Summer 2003 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar, Intramural softball and Soccer.  Richard M. Johnson Jr. Memorial Award in Biology.

Fall 2005 Plans: MD Program Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, MO.

Project Title: Modeling Cancer Metastasis to Bone Using Hindlimb Unloading. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Presentations: Alpha Lambda Delta, Poster presentation at Experimental Biology Meetings in San Diego, CA, April 2005.

Project Title:  Breast Cancer Cell Targeting to Brain in a New In Vivo Model.

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Alpha Lamda Delta, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, UD Scholar Award Recipient, Governor's Award Recipient. Summer 2004 HHMI Scholar.

Presentations: Summer 2004 Symposium, Summer 2005 Symposium, ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition, San Francisco, CA April 2006.

Project Title: Heparanase Knockdown in ATDC5 cells

Honors and Awards: Alpha Lambda Delta, Summer 2004 HHMI Scholar, Summer 2005 HHMI Scholar, Sigma Xi Undergraduate Thesis Award 2006.

Presentations: Summer 2004 Symposium,  Summer 2005 Symposium.

Publication: Gomes, R.R., Joshi, S.S., Farach-Carson, M.C. (2006) Ribozyme-Mediated Perlecan Knockdown Impairs Chondrogenic Differentiation of C3H10T1/2 Fibroblasts. Differentiation, 74(1):53-63.

Fall 2006: PhD. program in the Integrated Graduate Program at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Project Title: Extracellular Calcium Inhibition of Adipocyte Differentiation. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Phi Beta Kapa, Alpha Lambda Delta, Summer 2003 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar, Womens Cross Country and Track teams,  Colonial Athletic Association Academic Honor Roll. Poster presentation at Experimental Biology Meetings in San Diego, CA, April 2005. Service project in South Africa.

Fall 2005 Plans: Work for a year or two before entering graduate school

Project Title:  The Role of PDI on Cellular Stress during Protein Expression. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Merck Engineering and Technology Scholar 2005.

Fall 2006 Plans: Working for Merck

Project Title: Study of Transmembrane Helices Four and Five in the Adenosine A2a Receptor

Project Title: Large-Scale Genomic Monitoring of Ecosystems Using a DNA-based Memory. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Hypercube Scholar Award 2006. HHMI Summer Analytical Chemistry Program

Fall 2006 Plans:

Project Title: Surface Analysis at the Nanoscale Level. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities: National Society of Black Engineers, ACS student affiliate, Lincoln university scholar award.

Fall 2006 Plans: Graduate Program in Chemistry at the University of Delaware,

Project Title: Examination of Hyalp1, a Murine Reproductive Hyaluronidase. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities: HHMI-sponsored PBL tutor facilitator, HHMI Summer  Research Scholar 2004, Phi Beta Kappa, 2003 Woman of Promise, Beta Beta Beta (Biological Sciences honors society), Delta Phi Alpha (German honor society), president - Deutscher Klub (02F-pres), 2004-2005 Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship (B207/208), Named a "Woman of Promise."  Poster: "A Role for Hyalp1 in Murine Fertilization"  Kimberly A. Miller, Hong Zhang, and Patricia A. Martin-DeLeon, Experimental Biology Meetings, San Diego, CA April 2005.

Publication: Zhang H, Shertok, S, Miller, K., Taylor L., Martin-DeLeon, P. A. (2005) Sperm Dysfunction in the Rb(6.16)- and Rb(6.15)-bearing mice revisited: Involvement of Hyalp1 and Hyal5. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 72, 404-410.

Fall 2005:  Graduate School in Conservation Biology in New Zealand

Research Mentor: Mary E. Miele, Department of Medical Technology

Project Title: Search for Metastasis Suppressor Genes in Malignant Melanoma

Project Title: Downward Regulating Genes concerning Pre- Adipocytes. Poster

Honors and Awards: McNair Scholar
 

Project Title: Assembly of the DNA Unwinding Complex on the SV40 Origin. Poster

Project Title: "The role of JAM-A in Breast Cancer Tumor Growth and Metastasis."

Awards: Kevin Scott Beall Memorial Award, Summer 2003 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar, Alpha Lambda Delta. Dean's Special Scholars Award Summer 2004. Recipient of 2005 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 2006 Marshall Scholarship, Elizabeth Dyer Award for Excellence in Chemistry and Biochemistry 2006, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi., Sigma Xi Undergraduate Thesis Award 2006.

Presentations: "Developmental Expression Pattern of Junctional Adhesion Molecule-1 (JAM-1): Expression during Early Organogenesis" J. J. Parris, P. B. Kelley, M. K. Duncan, U. P. Naik at the American Society for Cell Biology Meetings, San Francisco, December 12-17, 2003. Summer 2004 Symposium,  Summer 2005 Symposium. Second Place in Biochemical Sciences Division 2004 UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Publication:  James J Parris, Vesselina G Cooke, Willian C Skarnes, Melinda K Dunan, Ulhas P Naik (2005) "JAM-A Expression during Embryonic Development", Developmental Dynamics 233, 1517-1524.

Project Title: Tumor cell migration on brain slices. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Alpha Lambda Delta, Psychology Junior Award,  McNair Scholar, HHMI Summer Analytical Chemistry Program, AAUP Undergraduate Student Award 2006, and Paynter Memorial Prize 2006, Historian/Webmaster for the Making Doctors (M.D.s) Student Organization, Alpha Lambda Delta, Psychology Junior Award,  McNair Scholar of Promise Award

Presentations: 2003 Summer Research Symposium, Summer 2004 Symposium,  Summer 2005 Symposium, Poster at Experimental Biology Meetings-San Francisco April 2006.National McNair Scholars Research Conference in 2004 and 2005. 5th and 6th Annual McNair Scholars Summer Research Symposium.

Publications: Fotos, J.S., Patel, V.P., Karin, N.J., Temburni, M.K., Koh, J.T., and Galileo, D.S. (2006) Automated time-lapse microscopy and high-resolution tracking of cell migration. Cytotechnology  51(1): 7-19.

Jing Tian, , Carrie A. Paquette-Straub, E.H. Sage, S.E. Funk, Vivek Patel, Deni S. Galileo, and Mary Ann McLane (2007). Inhibition of melanoma cell motility by the snake venom disintegrin eristostatin, Toxicon, 49(7), 899-908.

Muhua Yang, Shalini Adla, Murali K. Temburni, Vivek P. Patel, Errin L. Lagow, Owen A. Brady, Jing Tian, Magdy I. Boulos, and Deni S. Galileo (2009) Stimulation of glioma cell motility by expression, proteolysis, and release of the L1 neural cell recognition molecule. Cancer Cell International, Oct 29;9:27.

Fall 2006: MD-PhD Program, University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon University School of Medicine.

Project Title: Cholesterol Efflux and Adipocyte Differentiation. Talk

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Lambda Delta, Summer 2003 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar, Frank W. Collins Undergraduate Award in Biochemistry 2005, Elizabeth Dyer Award for Excellence in Chemistry and Biochemistry 2005, Edward H. Rosenberry Undergraduate Writing Award 2005, HHMI-sponsored PBL tutor-facilitator,. Recieient of a Sigma Xi Honors Thesis Award 2005.

Presentation: First prize winner in Undergraduate poster competition American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meetings, Boston, June 2004. Poster presentation at Experimental Biology Meetings in San Diego, CA, April 2005.

Fall 2005 Plans: Ph.D. Program in Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Project Title: The Expression of Hyal 3 in the Murine Testicular Cells

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Alpha Lambda Delta, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Phi Kappa Phi, Club Field Hockey, Delaware Repertoire Dance Company. Summer 2004 HHMI Scholar

Presentations: "The Characterization of Hyal3 in Murine Testicular Cells", poster at the Experimental Biology Meetings, San Diego, April 2005, Summer 2004 Symposium, Summer 2005 Symposium. ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition, San Francisco, CA April 2006.

Fall 2006: Medical School

Project Title: Helix-Helix Interactions Between Transmembrane Peptides of Adenosine A2a Receptor. Talk

Honors and Awards: Alpha Lambda Delta, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Summer 2003 HHMI
Undergraduate Research Scholar, HHMI-sponsored PBL tutor facilitator. Sigma Xi prize for the best oral presentation
at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, August 2004.  First place Biochemistry Division at the
Intercollegiate Student Chemists' Conference, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, April 2005. Recieient of a
Sigma Xi Honors Thesis Award 2005.

Publications: Thevenin, D., Lazarova, T., Roberts, M. F., Robinson C. R, (2005) Oligomerization of the fifth transmembrane domain  from the adenosine A2A receptor. Protein Science 14, 2177-2186.

Fall 2005 Plans: Doctoral program in Molecular Biology and Biophysics at Yale University.

Project Title: Targeting SH3 Domains with Electron-Poor Aromatic Residues. Poster

Project Title: Probes for Molecular Presentation in Neuron Guidance. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Chemistry and Biochemistry Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Sophomore Rep), HHMI-sponsored PLTL Workshop Leader, Ballroom/Latin Dance Instructor for University of Delaware's Ballroom Dance Team

Project Title: Testicular Expression of Hyal5. Poster

Honors and Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Beta Beta (Biology), Summer 2003 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar.

Presentation: Expression of a Seventh Hyaluronidase Gene, Hyal 5, in the Mouse,  S. Shertok, H. Zhang, M. Eaton, P.A. Martin-DeLeon, American Society of Andrology, Baltimore, MD, April 2004.

Publication: Zhang H, Shertok, S, Miller, K., Taylor L., Martin-DeLeon, P. A. (2005) Sperm Dysfunction in the Rb(6.16)- and Rb(6.15)-bearing mice revisited: Involvement of Hyalp1 and Hyal5. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 72, 404-410.

Project Title: The mapping and cloning of 8J16. Poster

Honors and Awards: Phi Beta Kappa

Project Title: Targetted mutagenesis in Eristostatin. Poster

Honors and Awards: Summer 2003 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar.

Project Title: IEC-6 cells' cAMP response to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. Poster

Awards: First Place Lincoln LASER Program Annual Poster Competition, October 3,  2003, Beta Beta Beta (Biology Honor Society), Summer 2003 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar.

Research Mentor: Anne Robinson, Chemical Engineering

Project Title: In Vitro Characterization of GPCRs

Honors, Awards, and Activities:  2004 HHMI Summer Scholar

Project Title: Optimization of GPCR Expression in Yeast. Poster

Awards and Honors: Chemical Engineering Class of 1950 Scholarship, Phi Kappa Phi, 2004 Honors degree in Chemical Engineering with distinction,  HHMI Summer Research Awards 2002, 2003, and 2004, NSF Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Award. Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Undergraduate Research Award.
Presentations: Poster Summer 2002, Poster Summer 2003, Poster: "Optimizing Expression of GPCRs in Yeast", Alison Wedekind and Anne Skaja Robinson. American Chemical Society Meetings, Anaheim, CA. March 2004.

Fall 2005 Plans: Ph.D. Program in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota

Publication: Alison Wedekind, Michelle A. O’Malley, Ronald T. Niebauer, and Anne S. Robinson,Optimization of the Human Adenosine A2a Receptor Yields in Saccharomyces cerevesiae, Biotechnology Progress  22(5): 1249-55.

Project Title: Replication of SV40 DNA using the Bipolymerase System. Poster

Awards and Honors: Summer 2003 and Winter 2004 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar. Recieient of a Sigma Xi Honors Thesis Award 2005.

Fall 2005 Plans: Ph.D. Program in Molecular Medicine and Systems Biology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

Project Title: The Molecular Basis of Metastasis Inhibition. Poster

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Alpha Lambda Delta, Health and Nursing Sciences Alumni Honors Day Book Award, Writing Fellow for the University's Honors Program, Private Tutor for Organic Chemistry and General Physiology, Delaware State Student Representative for the American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science, MBNA Delaware Scholar, American Red Cross Volunteer, Woman of Promise Award recipient, Alumni Enrichment Award recipient, Medical Technology Alumni Award recipient, Summer 2003 HHMI Undergraduate Research Scholar, Peter G. Anderson Scholarship, W. Robert Bailey Memorial Award for academic achievment in allied health. Recipient of 4.0 index award at graduation.