Honor, Awards, and Activities: UD Honors Program, Club Tennis. Blue Hen Ambassador, mentor for the Each One Reach One program. This is my second summer receiving the summer scholars award. Tri-Beta Biological Honors Society.

Fall 2014: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine  

Project Title:  Characterization of Celf1 in Human and Mouse Lens Cell Lines

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Second Place Biological Sciences at the 2012 UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium

Presentations:  2012 UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium, Poster presentation at 2013 Experimental Biology Meetings in Boston, Poster presentation at 2014 Experimental Biology Meetings in San Diego.

Fall 2014: Jefferson Medical College, hematology/oncology

Project Title: Quantification of APC in the Colonic Crypt

Honors, Awards, and Activities: General Chemistry Workshop Leader, Christiana Care College Volunteer, Twice Selected as an HHMI Summer Scholar, Dean's List, Joy Chisena Memorial Presidential Achievement Scholarship, Golden Key International Honour Society.

Project Title:  Examining Stability Systems in HIV

Project Title: Determining the Existence of a Multivalent Interaction between NOD2 and MDP

Project Title: Molecular Simulation and Analysis of Peptide Permeation across a Cellular Lipid Bilayer

Project Title: Construction and analysis of electrode surfaces for use in carbon dioxide electrolysis

Project Title: Synthesis of Muramic Acid Derivatives to Investigate the Activation of the Nod2

Project Title:   Dual Stress Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana through microRNA analysis

Project Title:  Biochemical evidence for the prion-like propagation of tau

Presentations:  UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011, University of Delaware
Research Fund Annual Meeting 2011, 2012 ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition San Diego, First Place Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2012 UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium, Honorable Mention Award in ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition at EB2013 in Boston.

Publication: Morozova, O.A., March, Z.M., Robinson, A.S., and Colby, D.W. (2013). 
Conformational features of tau fibrils from Alzheimer's disease brain 
are faithfully propagated by unmodified recombinant protein. Biochemistry 52(40), pp 6960-6967. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bi400866w

Fall 2014: Ph.D. program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Project Title: Structural Determination of the Wg-Wls Complex in Drosophila

Project Title:  Modelling Tear Film Evaporation with Corneal Epethilial Metabolism and Ion Transport

Project Title:  Modelling Tear Film Evaporation with Corneal Epethilial Metabolism and Ion Transport

Project Title:   Regulation of the Stress Tolerance Response in the Halophile Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Honors, Awards, and Activities: Vice President of Tri-Beta Biological Sciences Honor Society, Alpha 
Lambda Delta Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa member, recipient of the Richard M. Johnson Award and the Adair B. Gould Memorial Awards in biology, graduating with an honors degree with distinction in biology, avid pianist and member of select women's choral ensemble, University Singers.

Presentations:  Leadership Alliance National Symposium (Summer 2011), SRIP at University of Virginia, Poster presentation at 2013 Experimental Biology Meetings in Boston, 

Fall 2014: Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences, Vanderbilt University

Project Title:  Development of a Fluorescent Bar-Coding System for Cell Based Proteomic Libraries

Project Title: Use of BIAcore in order to define the rate laws of different receptor-ligand reactions

Project Title:  Optimization of a Blood-brain Barrier Model using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Project Title:  Junctional Adhesion Molecule 1 (JAM-A): Expression in the Murine Epididymal Tract and Accessory Organs