Nine BB students win Summer 2011 URISC Fellowships
The OSU Research Office has announced the Summer 2011 Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Creativity (URISC) award winners. Nine out of twenty-two awardees are Biochemistry and Biophysics majors. Congratulation to these students, and best wishes for an exciting and productive research experience in OSU laboratories this summer.
Alvarez, Andres [Major: Biochemistry and Biophysics] (Faculty Project Advisor: Jeff Chang, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural Sciences): “Characterization of Alternate Splicing and NMD Regulation”
Alvarez, Andres [Major: Biochemistry and Biophysics] (Faculty Project Advisor: Jeff Chang, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural Sciences): “Characterization of Alternate Splicing and NMD Regulation”
Barkal, Amira [Major: Biochemistry and Biophysics, University Honors College] (Faculty Project Advisor: Gary Merrill, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, College of Science): “Development of an Aldehyde Resin for Removal of Unreacted Dinitrophenyl Hydrazine”
Biel, Justin [Major: Biochemistry and Biophysics, University Honors College] (Faculty Project Advisor: Elisar Barbar, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, College of Science): “Thermodynamics and Kinetics Determinants and Binding Diversity of a Hub Protein”
Coburn, Jacki [Major: Biochemistry and Biophysics] (Faculty Project Advisor: Andrew Buermeyer, Dept. of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, College of Science): “Investigating a Role for DNA Mismatch Repair in Signaling a PAH-Induced DNA Replication Arrest”
Roemeling, Margo [Major: Biochemistry and Biophysics] (Faculty Project Advisor: James Hurst, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, College of Science): “MPO-Generated HOC1: Implications for Phagocyte Function”
Rogers, Natalie [Major: Biochemistry] (Faculty Project Advisor: Anna Jolles, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine): “Measuring the Effects of Intensive Forest Management on Whole Blood Bactericidal Activity as a Measure of Innate Immunity in Wild Deer Mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) in Oregon”
Swanson, Annika [Major: Biochemistry and Biophysics] (Faculty Project Advisor: Robert Tanguay, Dept. of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, College of Agricultural Sciences): “Investigating the Toxicity of Oxygenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (OPAHs) in Developing Zebrafish”
Tolmach, Oresta [Major: Biochemistry and Biophysics, University Honors College] (Faculty Project Advisor: John Hays, Dept. of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, College of Science): “Mismatch Repair’s Response to Damaged DNA”
Zhang, Justin [Major: Biochemistry and Biophysics, University Honors College] (Faculty Project Advisor: Jeffrey Greenwood, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, College of Science): “Calpain 2 Induced Cleavage Activates Akt”