UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH HOME
June 15
Fan Yang (Orthopaedic Surgery)
Engineering biomaterials for directing stem cell differentiation and tissue regeneration
Matthew Scott (Developmental Biology)
Genetic Control of Development & Disease
Theo Palmer (Neurosurgery)
New neurons in learning, memory and forgetting
June 22
Gavin Sherlock (Genetics)
Watching yeast change: Using genomics to understand the adaptive landscape
Hanlee Ji (Medicine - Oncology)
Next generation human disease genetics through digital genome analysis
Carlos Bustamante (Genetics)
Genomic insights into the great human diasporas [SUNet login required]
June 29
Alan Cheng (Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery)
Development and function of the mammalian cochlea
James Chen (Chemical and Systems Biology)
Zebrafish models of regeneration [SUNet login required]
Serafim Batzoglou (Computer Science)
When will everyone be sequenced?
Aaron Straight (Biochemistry)
Organizing and segregating the genome
July 6
Russell Fernald (Biology)
How does behavior change the brain? [SUNet login required]
Daniel Rubin (Radiology and Medicine)
Imaging informatics: from pixels to biomedical meaning
Richard Zare (Chemistry)
Vijay Pande (Chemistry)
Folding@home: Pushing the limits of molecular simulation
July 13
Calvin Kuo (Medicine - Hematology)
Gastrointestinal tissue engineering [SUNet login required]
Chaitan Khosla (Chemical Engineering)
Biological Chemistry or Chemical Biology?
Ron Levy (Medicine - Oncology)
Using the immune system to treat cancer
Jill Helms (Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery)
Modeling the salamander: using developmental signals to enhance tissue regeneration
July 20
Raphael Guzman (Neurosurgery)
Intravascular stem cell therapy for experimental neonatal hypoxia
Hongjie Dai (Chemistry)
Nanomaterials for detection, imaging and therapy
Paul Khavari (Dermatology)
How cancers arise [SUNet login required]
Antonio Hardan (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
Pivotal response group treatment studies for parents of young children with autism
July 27
Carla Shatz (Biology and Neurobiology)
Releasing the brake on neural plasticity [SUNet login required]
Julie Theriot (Biochemistry and Microbiology and Immunology)
Mechanics and dynamics of cell motility [SUNet login required]
Christina Smolke (Bioengineering)
Programming cellular behavior with RNA controllers [SUNet login required]
Peter Maxim (Radiation Oncology)
Motion management in radiotherapy
August 3
Marius Wernig (Pathology)
Direct induction of neuronal cells from fibroblasts
Julien Sage (Pediatrics and Genetics)
The RB gene family in stem cells and cancer initiation
Bruce MacIver (Anesthesiology)
Using EEG to measure loss of consciousness in fighter jet pilots
Kalanit Grill-Spector (Psychology)
Neural basis of face, body and object recognition in the human brain
August 10
Yanmin Yang (Neurology and Neurological Sciences)
BPAG1n4: a sensory neuron's sustainer [SUNet login required]
Ben Barres (Neurobiology)
Mary Teruel (Chemical and Systems Biology)
Understanding PI3K signaling and variation in the control of fat cell function
Sam Gambhir (Radiology)
Imaging cancer using molecular spies
August 17
Steven Block (Applied Physics)
Single molecule biophysics [SUNet login required]
Joe Wu (Medicine and Radiology)
Clinical hurdles of pluripotent stem cell therapy
Scott Delp (Bioengineering)
Judith Frydman (Bioengineering)
Molecular origami: protein folding and misfolding in the cell