Student Research Projects

BBMB SENIOR RESEARCH PROJECTS 2008-09

Reid Bennett
Bacteriophage Infection of Stationary Phase E coli by Bacteriophages CEV1, CEV2, & CBA120
Phage Lab, Evergreen State College
(Advisors: Elizabeth Kutter & Kendra Golden)

Etasha Bhatt
Control of Orienting Head Movements in the Mouse: Projections from the Motor Cortex to Brainstem Neck Premotor Areas
BBMB and Biology, Whitman College
(Advisor: Tom Knight)

Jessica Bruhn
Creating a Chimera: Studying Multiple Sclerosis Through a Myelin Basic Protein-Actin Fusion Protein
BBMB and Physics, Whitman College

(Advisors: Doug Juers & Jim Russo)

Calvin Davis
An Orbital Analysis of Metallized DNA
BBMB and Physics, Whitman College
(Advisor: Dayle Smith)

Josiah Hanson
Living Lean: The Effects of Glia Deprivation & Cholesterol on Cultured Rat Hippocampal Neurons
BBMB and Biology, Whitman College
(Advisor: Ginger Withers)

Sam Moulton
The Ketogenic Diet & Epilepsy: Does the diet affect insulin receptor expression in the brain?
BBMB and Biology, Whitman College
(Advisor: Leena Knight)

Ysbrand Nusse
Wnt Signaling and Retinal Regeneration
Dept. of Surgery, Stanford University
(Advisors: Jill Helms & Leena Knight)

Simon Quay
Photostimulation Using Channelrhodopsin-2 Sheds Light on Neural Circuitry
Watson School of Biological Sciences
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
(Advisors: Tony Zador & Leena Knight)

Andrew Richards
Ex vivo Tumor Platform: Targeted Therapy for Medulloblastoma
Clinical Research Divison, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
(Advisors: Jim Olson & Jim Russo)

Brigitte Woods
GFP-e2F1 PIP3A Effects on Endoreplication in Drosophila Salivary Glands
Basic Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
(Advisors: Bruce Edgar & Dan Vernon)

Jillian Varonin
Comparative qRT-PCR Gene Expression Analysis of Glucocorticoid Receptor Induced & Repressed
Genes in WT & GRdim Mice
Gladstone Institute, U. California- San Francisco
(Advisors: R Farese, C Harris, & J Russo)

Kellie Wutzke
Use of Lytic T4 Bacteriophage in Prevention of E. Coli Infections in Manduca Sexta Larvae
BBMB and Biology, Whitman College
(Advisor:Kendra Golden)

 

BBMB Senior Research Projects 2007-08

Lauren Adrian
Fluorescence-Detection Size Exclusion Chromatography as a Precrystallization Screening for Bcr-Abl.
Oregon Cancer Institute
Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland

Garth Brandal
Fmr1 transcript isoforms:  association with polyribosomes and expression in developing brain and neural stem cells.
Dept. of Biochemistry
University of Washington, Seattle

Rachel Carroll
Thy-1 and PTEN regulation of -smooth muscle actin expression in fibroblasts.
Div. of Pediatric Pulmonology
University of Alabama-Birmingham

Rhea Edelman
The Perfect Storm: Implementing School Nutrition Policies to Respond to Childhood Obesity.
BBMB Program (J. Russo)
Whitman College

Rob Jefferson
Cloning and Expression of Myelin Basic Protein - Calmodulin Fusion Proteins for Structural Studies.
BBMB Program (D. Juers)
Whitman College

Kalani Halemano
Molecular Modelling of Drug Targets for PDK1/PI3K Protein Kinases.
BBMB Program (D. Smith)
Whitman College

Sarith Keo
Hepatitis C Virus NS5A: Functional Analysis through Mutagenesis.
Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California-Berkeley
 
Ellen McCleery
Behaviorally-Induced Immediate-Early Gene Expression Across Hippocampal Subfields and Neocortex.
BBMB Program (C. Wallace)
Whitman College

Thu Nguyen
Computational analysis of Thalidomide-DNA interactions.
BBMB Program (D. Smith)
Whitman College

Tracey Park
Investigating the depletion effect in polyethylene glycol-induced protein crystallization.
BBMB Program (D. Juers)
Whitman College

Mike Patterson
A Proteomics Approach to Study Human Burn Tissues.
Dept . of Anesthesiology/Shriners Children's Hospital
University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston

Linda Phan
Using Multiple Biopsies to Detect HIV Drug-Resistant Variants in the Female Genital Tract.
Div of Pediatric Infectious Disease
University of Washington, Seattle

Kathryn Roston
Protein Trafficking in Mammalian Neurons.
Dept. of BIological Sciences
Simon Fraser University. Burnaby, BC

Loren Schmidt
Pathways of cell death and inflammation in lung injury.
Div. of Pulmonary Medicine
University of Washington, Seattle

Allison Spencer
Bioremediation at the Hanford Site.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

Shana Straub
Genetic Screens for Genes that Promote Flowering in Response to Shade in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Dept of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin- Madison

Claudia Yeung
Murine Cytomegalovirus (MCMV) Immune Evasion Gene Function in Neonatal Mice.
Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland

Matt Zekan
Molecular mechanisms of noradrenergic dysregulation in PTSD.
VA Medical Center, Seattle, WA