UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH HOME
June 27
Rajat Rohatgi (Biochemistry and Medicine – Oncology)
Cell-cell communication in development and disease
Seung Kim (Developmental Biology)
Systems for discovering molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying diabetes
Scott Dixon (Biology)
Understanding the effects of metabolism on tumor cell growth and death
July 11
Ash Alizadeh (Medicine – Oncology)
Transcriptome deconvolution for inference of tissue composition
Euan Ashley (Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine)
Paging Dr iPhone
Melanie Hayden Gephart (Neurosurgery)
Brain tumor surgery and science
July 18
Thomas Südhof (Molecular & Cellular Physiology)
The cell biology of synapse formation
Jamshid Ghajar (Neurosurgery)
Eye tracking detection of attention: concussion and beyond
Tony Wyss-Coray (Neurology & Neurological Sciences)
Circulatory factors as regulators of brain aging and function
July 25
Stefanie Jeffrey (Surgery)
Liquid Biopsy in Cancer
Steven Boxer (Chemistry)
Viral fusion using surrogate receptors
August 1
Jonathan Pollack (Pathology)
Carolyn Bertozzi (Chemistry)
From patient to bench: rare genetic diseases as windows into human biology
Shirit Einav (Medicine – Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology)
A Host-targeted approach for combating emerging viral infection
August 8
Eric Appel (Materials Science & Engineering)
Supramolecular Biomaterials: From fundamentals to advanced healthcare solutions
Helen Blau (Microbiology & Immunology)
Muscle Regeneration: No Pain, No Gain!
Paul Wang (Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine)
Innovation and the Future of Heart Rhythm Therapy
August 15
Ravindra Majeti (Medicine – Hematology)
Stem Cells in Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Peter Santa Maria (Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery)
The translational journey of tympanic membrane regeneration
Anson Lee (Cardiothoracic Surgery)
Multidisciplinary Approach to Atrial Fibrillation
August 22
Lisa Giocomo (Neurobiology)
Identifying the algorithms for calculating a neural map of space
Dennis Wall (Pediatrics – Systems Medicine and Biomedical Data Science)
Opportunities and challenges of AI in healthcare
Craig Heller (Biology)
Reversing the Learning Disability of Down Syndrome
August 29
Theo Palmer (Neurosurgery)
Is the Y chromosome a risk factor in autism?
Paul George (Neurology & Neurological Sciences)
Engineering the Optimal Environment for Neural Recovery
Michael Lin (Neurobiology and Bioengineering)
Designing proteins for optical reading and writing of biology