Summer Student Researchers 2010

Thymur Chaudhry

Mentor:  Dr. Preston Aldrich
Major: BMB

Research: Systems biology and DNA linguistics

Eraj Din

Mentor: Dr. Robin Rylaarsdam
Major:  Biology

Research: Finding intragenic suppressors  of the McCune-Albright Mutation

Elizabeth Earl

Mentor: Dr. Cheryl Heinz
Major:  Biology

Research:Caterpillar-plant interactions concerning Black Swallowtail larvae with Golden Alexanders and Painted Lady larvae with thistle

Michael Fralaide

Mentor: Dr. Andrew Wig
Major: Physics

Research: The modification of optical tweezers in order to study the motility strength of E. Coli under different environmental conditions

Daniel Furnari

Mentor: Dr. Kari L. Stone
Major:  Chemistry

Research:  Synthesis of transition metal complexes with redox-active ligands

Marla Hady

Mentor: Dr. Robin Rylaarsdam
Major: BMB

Research: Purification of Gs alpha isoforms for in vitro biochemical assays

Jennifer Haick

Mentor: Dr. Robin Rylaarsdam
Major: Biology

Research: Purification of Gs alpha isoforms for in vitro biochemical assays

Andreana Holowatyj

Mentor: Dr.  Timothy Comar
Major: Medical Humanities

Research: Planar isotopy in hextile knot mosaics

Daniella Janevska

Mentor: Dr. Robin Rylaaarsdam
Major:  BMB

Research:  Finding intragenic suppressors  of the McCune-Albright Mutation

David Kamber

Mentor:  Dr. Kari L. Stone
Major:  BMB

Research: The modification of optical tweezers in order to study the motility strength of E. Coli under different environmental conditions

Kevin Koszola

Mentor: Dr. Cheryl Heinz
Major: Biology

Research: Caterpillar-plant interactions concerning Black Swallowtail larvae with Golden Alexanders and Painted Lady larvae with thistle

Tina Nguyen

Mentor:  Dr. Manmohan Kaur
Major: Mathematics

Research: Introduction to cryptology and implementation of elliptic curves cryptography in maple

Sabrina Sanchez

Mentor: Dr. Peter H. Nelson
Major:  BMB

Research:  Modeling conduction through potassium ion channels

Alexander Seymour

Mentor: Dr. Andrew Wig
Major:  Physics

Research: The modification of optical tweezers in order to study the motility strength of E. Coli under different environmental conditions

Alexis Wadowski

Mentor:  Dr. Peter H. Nelson
Major: Physics

Research: Modeling conduction through potassium ion channels

Najim Ward

Mentor: Dr. Preston Aldrich
Major:  Biology

Research: Systems biology and DNA linguistics

Michael Whitley

Mentor: Dr. Jeremy Nadolski
Major: Mathematics/Actuarial  Science

Research: Detecting multivariate outliers when presented with a singular covariance matrix

Kayla Zeiss

Mentor: Dr. LeeAnn Smith
Major:  Health Science/Psychology

Research: Evaluation of microarray datasets using BRB arraytools and Tigr Suite software