UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH HOME
June 22
Paul Wang (Cardiovascular Medicine)
How to Form Your Career Around Medical Device Innovation
Wolf Frommer (Biology)
Interfering with a Major Threat: Plant Pathogens
Melanie Hayden-Gephart (Neurosurgery)
Malignant Brain Tumor Surgery and Science [SUNet login required]
June 29
Liqun Luo (Biology)
How do neurons connect with each other?
Sean Mackey (Anesthesiology, Perioperative, & Pain Medicine)
The strain in pain lies mainly in the brain: Lessons learned from neuroimaging of pain
Zhen Cheng (Radiology - Nuclear Medicine)
Lighting up diseases with dark materials
July 6
Michael Snyder (Genetics)
Precision medicine: Managing health and disease using genomics and big data
E.J. Chichilnisky (Neurosurgery and Ophthalmology)
Electrical stimulation of the retina for design of retinal prosthesis
Tom Clandinin (Neurobiology)
Dissecting motion processing pathways in fruit flies
July 13
Thomas Südhof (Molecular & Cellular Physiology and Neurosurgery)
Joseph Lipsick (Pathology and Genetics)
Using Drosophila to understand cancer: The DREAM complex [SUNet login required]
July 20
Paul Khavari (Dermatology)
Stem cell differentiation and cancer
Jonathan Pollack (Pathology)
Ameloblastoma: Oncogenesis recapitulates odontogenesis [SUNet login required]
Lei Stanley Qi (Bioengineering and Chemical & Systems Biology)
CRISPR genome engineering for therapeutics [SUNet login required]
July 27
Tony Wyss-Coray (Neurology & Neurological Sciences)
John Oghalai (Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery)
Justin Gardner (Psychology)
August 3
Noah Rosenberg (Biology)
Theory of gene trees and species trees
H. Craig Heller (Biology)
Roles of sleep and circadian rhythms in learning and memory
Erin Mordecai (Biology)
Effect of temperature on Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika transmission
August 10
William Talbot (Developmental Biology)
Using the zebrafish to investigate the vertebrate nervous system
Manu Prakash (Bioengineering)
Simple science: Toys and Toy systems in biology, global health and science education [SUNet login required]
Eric Gross (Anesthesiology, Perioperative, & Pain Medicine)
Peptide modulators to break specific calcineurin protein-protein interactions
August 17
John Boothroyd (Microbiology & Immunology)
What makes Toxoplasma such a successful parasite/commensal? [SUNet login required]
Kathleen Sakamoto (Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology)
Targeting CREB for leukemia therapy [SUNet login required]
David Relman (Medicine - Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology)
Better living through microbes
August 24
Anthony Ricci (Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery)
Michelle Monje-Deisseroth (Neurology & Neurological Sciences)
Myelin plasticity in health and disease