Meet the 2012 International Student Research Fellows
Meet the 2012 International Student Research Fellows
Institution | Student | Adviser | Proposed Research |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University | Nicolas Palacios-Prado Chile |
Feliksas Bukauskas | Modulation of Electrical Synapses by Intracellular Magnesium |
Baylor College of Medicine | Hsing-I Ho Taiwan |
Gad Shaulsky | The protective effect of kin-recognition against cheaters and the evolution of polymorphism in kin-recognition genes |
California Institute of Technology | Nagarajan Nandagopal India |
Michael Elowitz | A bottom-up approach to understanding morphogen-based developmental patterning. |
Columbia University | Emma Dell United Kingdom |
Luis Campos | Directing Stem Cell Fate Through Nanopatterned Cues |
Patrick Kaifosh Canada |
Attila Losonczy, Larry Abbott | Dynamics and memory function of the hippocampal CA1 circuit | |
Oren Litvin Israel |
Dana Pe’er | A systems network approach to targeted therapy | |
Duke University | Yuliya Nikolova Bulgaria |
Ahmad Hariri | Identifying predictive biological markers of vulnerability and resilience to depression |
Harvard University | Ghazaleh Ashrafi Canada |
Thomas Schwarz | Regulation of Mitochondrial Trafficking and Turnover in Neurons |
Guo-Liang Chew Singapore |
Alex Schier | Post-Transcriptional and Translational Regulation of Morphogen Interpretation | |
Mingjie Dai China |
George Church, Peng Yin | Engineering Dynamic Nucleic Acid Nano-Devices for Programmable Therapeutics | |
Sandeep Koshy Canada |
David Mooney | Programming the immune response against tumors using engineered materials | |
Wendy Liu Australia |
Rachel Wilson | Interneuron Diversity in the Drosophila Antennal Lobe | |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Diane Baer Switzerland |
Michael Laub | Regulated changes in chromosome structure during a bacterial cell cycle |
Andres Cubillos-Ruiz Colombia |
Sallie Chisholm | The nature and function of cyclic peptide secondary metabolites produced by marine cyanobacteria. | |
New York University | Elisa Araldi Italy |
Carlos Fernandez-Hernando, Yajaira Suarez | Role of regulatory RNAs in macrophage activation and paracrine communication |
Helene Fradin France |
David Fitch, Fabio Piano | Evolution of parthenogenetic reproductive mode in a new nematode satellite model organism: Diploscapter sp. PS2123 | |
Northwestern University | Liangliang Hao China |
Chad Mirkin | Going Small for Big Advances: Using Spherical Nucleic Acids for Novel Targeted microRNA Therapeutics |
Xinyu Zhao China |
Jianhua Cang | Synaptic inhibition in the development of information integration in the visual cortex | |
Princeton University | Philip Coen United Kingdom |
Mala Murthy | Acoustic Communication Signals in Drosophila: Generation, Perception and Behavior |
Xiaobo Ke China |
Bonnie Bassler | Probing Quorum-Sensing Signal Recognition and Integration | |
Rockefeller University | Xin Jin China |
Cori Bargmann | Exploring the Molecular Mechanism of Food Choice Imprinting in C. elegans |
Tamara Ouspenskaia Canada |
Elaine Fuchs | Crosstalk between cell cycle and cytoskeletal rearrangements during hair follicle morphogenesis | |
Stanford University | Fang-Chieh Chou Taiwan |
Rhiju Das | Towards atomic-accuracy structure modeling of protein-RNA complexes |
Aditya Natarajan Canada |
Daniel Herschlag | Incisive tests of the energetics within an enzyme active site: Toward a fundamental understanding of the interplay of catalytic interactions and the surrounding enzyme environment | |
Anshul Rana India |
Ricardo Dolmetsch | Investigating interactions between bipolar disorder-associated proteins to identify disease-relevant signaling pathways | |
Aysel Selimbeyoglu Turkey |
Karl Deisseroth | Optogenetic dissection of the neural circuitry underlying cognitive control | |
University of California-Berkeley | Hans Christian Herold Germany |
Richard Kramer | Probing Ion Channel Function in Pain Neurons with a Novel Photoswitch Molecule |
Yongjian Huang China |
John Kuriyan | Molecular Mechanism of Membrane Mediated Regulation of EGF Receptor | |
University of California-Davis | Andrea Ferrero Italy |
Ramsey Badawi | High-Resolution PET/CT Imaging for the quantitative assessment of early response to treatment in breast cancer: instrumentation and clinical trial |
Liang-Tien Hsieh Taiwan |
Charan Ranganath | Characterization of the neural mechanisms of temporal memory in the human brain | |
University of California-San Diego | Wei Gao China |
Joseph Wang | Advanced Nanomachines and Their Biomedical Applications |
Eleen Shum Canada |
Miles Wilkinson | RNA Surveillance in Olfaction | |
University of California-San Francisco | Yi-Chang Liu Taiwan |
Danica Galonic Fujimori, Jonathan Weissman | Investigating the mechanism of misfolded protein recognition in endoplasmic reticulum-associated protein degradation |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Tolulope Agunbiade Nigeria |
Barry Pittendrigh | The Application of Genomic Tools in the Study of the Population Genetics of Cowpea Pests in West Africa. |
Junqi Li Singapore |
Martin Burke | Towards the Automated Synthesis of Small Molecules: Developing a Building Block Approach to Asymmetric Synthesis | |
Maxim Prigozhin Russian Federation |
Martin Gruebele | Prion protein folding and transient aggregate formation studied by very fast pressure drops | |
University of Michigan | Ansis Maleckis Latvia |
Melanie Sanford | Fundamental High Oxidation State Palladium Chemistry |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Onur Dagliyan Turkey |
Klaus Hahn, Nikolay Dokholyan | Visualization and manipulation of protein activity in living cells |
Alakananda Das India |
Kevin Slep | Elucidating the mechanism of the Che-12-dependent ciliogenesis through in vivo, biochemical and structural analysis. | |
Mira Pronobis Germany |
Mark Peifer | Regulating Wnt signalling via the tumor suppressor APC: Defining the catalytic cycle of the beta-catenin destruction complex and its interface with the E3-ligase | |
University of Pennsylvania | Cheng Li China |
Felix Wehrli | Direct Detection and Quantification of Myelin with Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
University of Texas at Austin | Siavash Mir arabbaygi (Mirarab) Canada |
Tandy Warnow | Taxon Identification of Metagenomic Reads using Phylogenetic Placement |
Jagannath Swaminathan India |
Edward Marcotte | Single Molecule Sequencing of the Proteome | |
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Xin Cai Canada |
Zhijian Chen | Understanding the mechanistic regulation that governs MAVS’s prion-like switch in mammalian antiviral signaling |
Qian Cong China |
Nick Grishin | Predictive Analysis of The Human Proteome | |
Matthew McFarlane Canada |
Michael Brown | Compensatory Appetite Stimulation in Ghrelin-Deficient Mice | |
University of Washington | Yanping Huang China |
Rajesh Rao | Prior Probability Effects in a POMDP Model of Decision Making |
University of Wisconsin-Madison | Xiaojun Tan China |
Richard Anderson | An Endosomal Phosphatidylinositol4,5-bisphosphate Pathway Regulates LAPTM4B Function in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling, Lysosomal Sorting and Degradation |
Yale University | Sashka Dimitrievska Canada |
Laura Niklason | Glycomimicry on decellularized tissue engineered vascular grafts grafts |
Qinhua Zhou China |
Corey O’Hern, Lynne Regan | The power of simple hard sphere models to predict and redesign protein-protein interactions |