| To highlight the work of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s undergraduate students, the department held its first annual undergraduate poster session where the students presented the work they’ve accomplished in their area of research. 20 students representing seven labs within the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology department participated in this poster event. All 20 posters were judged by faculty, postdocs and senior graduate students, and five were chosen as the top 5 posters.
In the adjacent picture, from left to right, the poster award winners are Tanqi (Jimmy) Wei, William Chmely, Alyssa Wolff and Maja Haerle. Ryan Day not pictured. |
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WINNERS:
| William Chmely
Graduate Student Mentor: Justin Kurian Lab PI: Dr. Mavis Agbandje-McKenna Title: Characterization of AAV2 Capsid Stability and Protease Activity |
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| Ryan Day
Graduate Student Mentor: Melissa Hale Lab PI: Dr. Andy Berglund Title: Exploring the role of the inter-domain linker region in the context of synthetic Muscleblind-like 1 Proteins |
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| Maja Haerle
Postdoc Mentor: Dr. Kaalak Reddy Lab PI: Dr. Andy Berglund Title: Engineering Zinc Finger Proteins to Block Transcription of Disease-causing DNA Repeat Expansions |
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| Tianqi (Jimmy) Wei
Graduate Student Mentor: Christopher Fields Lab PI: Dr. Mingyi Xie Title: Dicer Cleavage of Various 5′ Extension of Precursor MicroRNAs |
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| Alyssa Wolff
Graduate Student Mentor: Mam Mboge Lab PI: Dr. Susan Frost Title: The Effect of SLC-149 on Breast Cancer Cell Growth and Viability |
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PARTICIPANTS:
| Dominique Barral
Postdoc Mentor: Drs. Lauren Douma and Ryan Crislip Lab PI: Dr. Michelle Gumz Title: Assessing the Recombination Efficiency of Kidney-Specific Bmal1 Knockout Mice Using Triplex Polymeric Chain Reaction |
Maclean Bassett
Graduate Student Mentor: Yong Shen Lab PI: Dr. Jörg Bungert Title: Identification of a novel enhancer/chromatin opening element associated with high-level gamma-globin gene expression |
| Julie Davila
Graduate Student Mentor: Mam Mboge Lab PI: Dr. Susan Frost |
Meaghan Holzworth
Graduate Student/Postdoc Mentors: Drs. Kristen Solocinski, Lauren Douma and Ryan Crislip Lab PI: Dr. Michelle Gumz Title: Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock: Clock Gene Expression is Altered in Sleep Apnea |
| Taha Huda
Graduate Student Mentor: Christopher Fields Lab PI: Dr. Mingyi Xie Title: Identification of miR-320 targets via CrossLinking And Sequencing of Hybrids (CLASH) |
Precious Ichite
Postdoc Mentors: Drs. Lauren Douma and Ryan Crislip Lab PI: Dr. Michelle Gumz Title: Physiology Understanding (PhUn Week) at Norton Elementary |
| Keyura Katam
Graduate Student Mentor: Ryan Day (undergrad) and Melissa Hale Lab PI: Dr. Andy Berglund Title: Investigating the use of a Drosophila Muscleblind as a synthetic protein |
Daniel Khokhar
Graduate Student Mentor: Mam Mboge Lab PI: Dr. Susan Frost Title: Comparing Protein Expression in Breast Cancer Cell Lines |
| Sarah Masten
Graduate Student/Postdoc Mentors: Drs. Kristen Solocinski, Lauren Douma and Ryan Crislip Lab PI: Dr. Michelle Gumz Title: Inducible Skeletal Muscle-Specific Knockout of Bmal1 Leads to Altered Expression of Critical Kidney Function Genes |
Bret Miller
Postdoc Mentor: Dr. Peike Sheng Lab PI: Dr. Mingyi Xie Title: Infrared Dye Based Method for Northern Blot Analysis |
| Jennifer Moscovitch
Graduate Student Mentor: Dr. Kaalak Reddy Lab PI: Dr. Andy Berglund Title: Applying Small Molecules to Selectively Reduce Expanded CUG Repeats in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 |
Julia Paoli
Graduate Student Mentor: Nikea Pittman Lab PI: Dr. Mavis Agbandje-McKenna Title: Purification of Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype 3B for Antigenic Footprint Mapping |
| Read Quarles
Graduate Student Mentor: Ryan Day (undergrad) and Melissa Hale Lab PI: Dr. Andy Berglund Title: Synthetic proteins in the treatment of myotonic dystrophy |
Paul Wassel
Graduate Student Mentor: Aishwarya Gurumurthy Lab PI: Dr. Jörg Bungert Title: Functional analysis of beta-globin locus control region hypersensitive site 2 (LCR HS2) associated non-coding RNA |
| Alan Carter
Graduate Student Mentor: Mukundan Ragavan Lab PI: Dr. Matt Merritt Title: Analysis of Relative 13C Istopomer Amounts using J-Resolved HSQC |