2011 UC Berkeley Amgen & Genentech Scholars Summer Research Program

Oral PresentationsSession Two - Thursday, August 4, 2011

Jingxun Chen 9:00 a.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Faculty Lab: Douglas Koshland, Ph.D.

Title: The Roles of Osmolytes in Desiccation Tolerance

Elizabeth Aguilera 9:15 a.m. University of Texas, El Paso

Faculty Lab: Laurent Coscoy, Ph.D.

Title: Visualizing Heparan Sulfate Expression Within Secondary Lymphoid Organs of Mice

Justin Feng 9:30 a.m. University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Lab: Jasper Rine, Ph.D.

Title: Investigation of SIR2 Synthetic Genetic Interactions with the ASF1/RTT109 H3/H4 Acetylation Pathway

Christina Welsh 9:45 a.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Faculty Lab: Abby F. Dernburg, Ph.D.

Title: Lifespan Extension Through Modifications of Histone Methylation in C. elegans

Diana Salazar 10:00 a.m. University of California, Berkeley Genentech

Faculty Lab: Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D.

Title: Activational Effects of Exogenous Sex Hormones on Castrated African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus laevis)

Jonathan D. Hibshman 10:15 a.m. Gettysburg College

Faculty Lab: Liam J. Holt, Ph.D.

Title: Re-Firing Origins of Replication May Cause Adaptive Gene Amplifications

Annie Davis 10:30 a.m. University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Lab: David R. Zusman, Ph.D.

Title: The Role of FrzS in the Production of Exopolysaccharide in Myxococcus xanthus

Sam Sun 12:30 p.m. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Faculty Lab: David Schaffer, Ph.D.

Title: Automated Annotation of Transcription Factor Binding Motifs and Architectural Elements in a HIV-1 Promoter Library Using a Hidden Markov Model Approach

Oscar Carrasco-Zevallos 12:15 p.m. Texas A&M University

Faculty Lab: Steve Conolly, Ph.D.

Title: Design and Optimization of Software and Hardware to Create CT-MPI Images

Colleen Courtney 12:00 p.m. University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Faculty Lab: Kevin E. Healy, Ph.D.

Title: Optimizing Polymer Processing for Patterned Stem Cell Technologies

Georgia Lagoudas 11:45 a.m. Rice University

Faculty Lab: Luke Lee, Ph.D.

Title: Microarray Platform for Lung Cancer Single-Cell Analysis of mRNA and Protein Levels

Jessica Cote 11:30 a.m. Trinity College

Faculty Lab: Mark D’Esposito, M.D.

Title: Differences in Brain Connectivity Reorganization Between Stroke and Tumor Patients

Leeanne Goodrich 11:15 a.m. University of California, Berkeley Genentech

Faculty Lab: Ellen Robey, Ph.D.

Title: Toxoplasma Gondii Chronic Infection: Manipulation of Mouse Innate Fear

Daniella Coker 11:00 a.m. University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Lab: Daniela Kaufer, Ph.D. Title: Exposure to Glucocorticoids Reversibly Increases Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21 and G0/G1 Arrest