Fall 2016

Presentations

• Kelvin Li, 3rd Year CSS Student
  “Crystallization of the Soluble Domain of IncA”
  Mentor:Prof Linda Columbus, UVa Biochemistry; Topic Area: Biochemistry Samantha;
  Topic Area: Immunometabolism
• Samantha Heitsch, 4rd Year CSS Student
  “Town Bee and Country Bee: A Tale of Colony Growth and Land Use Change”
  Mentor: Prof. T’ai Roulston, UVa Environmental Science and Blandy Experimental Farm;
  Topic Area: Ecology
• Daniel Inyoung Lee, 3rd Year CSS Student
  "Characterizing the role of CREM as a tumor suppressor in pancreatic cancer”
  Mentor: Prof. Mazhar Adli, UVa Medical Center Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics;
  Topic Area:Epigenomics
• Tomoya Kanno, 2nd Year CSS Student
  “De novo assembly of potential lncRNA samples relevant in Prostate Cancer cell lines and patients”
  Mentor: Prof. Anindya Dutta, UVA Medical Center Department of Biochemistry;
  Topic Area: Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
• Richard Doty, 2nd Year CSS Student
  "Assorted Analytical Methods in MATLAB Including Spectroscopy, Image Processing, and TCSPC”
  Mentor: Prof. James Demas, UVa Chemistry;
  Topic Area: Physical Chemistry
• Hamzah Shariff, 2nd Year CSS Student
  “The potential for tRNA-derived RNA fragments (tRFs) to regulate genes and their presence in human embryonic kidney (HEK293T) cells”
  Mentor: Prof. Anindya Dutta, UVa Medical Center Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry;
  Topic Area: MicroRNAs
• John Costello, 2nd Year CSS Student
  “Research methods for studying OXTR methylation in behavioral epigenetics”
  Mentor: Prof. Jessica Connelly, UVa Psychology;
  Topic Area: Epigenetics
• Drake Dixon, 3nd Year CSS Student
  “Utilizing Oxygen Sensing Boron Nanoparticles to Develop a Novel Immunometabolism Assay”
  Mentor:Prof. Rebecca Pompano, UVa Chemistry;
  Topic Area: Immunometabolism