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1999-2000 Academic Year Research

Ferleine Bautista
Mentor: Philip Mirkes
Dept.: Pediatric Medicine
Research Project: Genetic approaches to elucidating the role of Heat Shock Factor-1 (HSF-1) in thermotolerance of mouse embryos

Jason Boyd
Mentor: Rodney Ho
Dept.: Pharmaceutics
Research Project: Targeting an anti-HIV drug to lymphoid tissue by association with liposomes

Liezl Casanova
Mentor: Jean Buskin and Stephen Hauschka
Dept.: Biochemistry
Research Project: Studying gene regulation in muscle by characterizing a protein binding site in a muscle-specific gene

Cheryl "Diff" Diffenderfer
Mentor: Cecilia Giachelli
Dept.: Bioengineering
Research Project: The role of osteopontin in bioprosthetic heart valves

Nicole Franklin
Mentor: F. Elaine Thompson
Dept.: Psychosocial and Community Health
Research Project: Longitudinal study of inhalant use among high-risk youth

Janice Kim
Mentor: Henk Roelink
Dept.: Biological Structure
Research Project: Signaling molecules in neural crest cell fate determination

Joan Maza
Mentor: Jean Buskin and Stephen Hauschka
Dept.: Biochemistry
Research Project: Studying gene regulation in muscle by characterizing a protein binding site in a muscle specific gene

Onyinyechi Okoro
Mentor: Robin Wright
Dept.: Zoology
Research Project: Genetic approaches to membrane biogenesis

Faina Pulvermakher
Mentor: Paul de Figueiredo
Dept.: Microbiology
Research Project: Directed evolution of Agrobacterium tumafaciens for infectivity of agricultural crops

Tibebu Tsegga
Mentor: Warren Ladiges
Dept.: Comparative Medicine
Research Project: Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay

Yael Varnado-Rhodes*
Mentor: Charles Chavkin
Dept.: Pharmacology
Research Project: Mu Opioid Analgesia and Analgesic Tolerance in Two Different Mouse Strains: C57BL/6 and 129/SvJ Mice

Tina Wang
Mentor: Beth Traxler
Dept.: Microbiology
Research Project: Maltose transport complex of E. Coli

*Merck Scholar