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SURIP 2005
Our 2005 Interns

 

 Number of Applicants  139
 Number of Interns Accepted  14

 

Our fourteen 2005 interns included 9 women and 5 men, from 11 different institutions, with a mean GPA of 3.76. The students were matched with mentors representing 8 different departments within the College of Medicine.

 

 Intern  College / University  Major  Mentor
 Abbas Alibhoy  Elizabethtown College  Biotechnology / Business Admin.  Dr. Keith Cheng
 Whitney Amato  Dickinson College  Biology  Dr. Lisa Shantz
 Nicholas
 Dalessandro		  Lycoming College  Biology  Dr. Jill Smith
 April Fuller  Winston-Salem State
 University		  Biology  Dr. Henry Donahue
 Mary Harner  Elizabethtown College  Biochemistry  Dr. Harriet Isom
 Janae Heath  Penn State University  Biology / Mathematics  Dr. Rosalyn Irby
 Erin Henninger  Grove City College  Biochemistry  Dr. Leslie Parent
 Shannon Jones  Winston-Salem State
 University		  Molecular Biology / Chemistry
 and Psychology		  Dr. Chris Siedlecki
 Bryn Lipovsky  Moravian College  Biochemistry / Chemistry  Dr. Paul Eslinger
 Douglas Marvel  University of Rochester  Microbiology and Immunology  Dr. Leonard Jefferson
 Jennifer Nyland  Grand Valley State
 University		  Biomedical Sciences and
 Psychology		  Dr. Alistair Barber
 Eric Porsch  Juniata College  Biology  Dr. Channe Gowda
 Kristen Rennoll  Cedar Crest College  Genetic Engineering  Dr. Rebecca Craven
 Pamela
 Thompson		  Winston-Salem State
 University		  Biology  Dr. Joseph Cheung

 
Projects

 

 Intern  Project Title
 Abbas Alibhoy  Establishing Tissue and Cell Image Informatics using
 Hydra magnipapillata
 Whitney Amato  Investigation of Ornithine Decarboxylase Splice Variants in Skin
 Carcinoma Cell Lines
 Nicholas
 Dalessandro		  Inhibition of Gastrin mRNA Alters Growth of Human Pancreatic Cancer
 April Fuller  DFMO Reduces Cell-to-Cell Communication Between Breast Cancer
 Cells and Osteoblastic Cells
 Mary Harner  The Down-Regulation of E-Cadherin and its Effects on the Wnt Signaling
 Pathway
 Janae Heath  Cytotoxic and Genotoxic Effects of 2-Alkylcyclobutanonens, Products
 of the Irradiation of Food
 Erin Henninger  Rous Sarcoma Virus Gag Interactions with Host Cellular Factors and
 Investigation of Differential Gag Protein Structure in Cellular Targeting
 Shannon Jones  Procoagulant State of Platelets Adhered to Textured Polyurethane
 Biomaterials
 Bryn Lipovsky  Functional Brain activity Underlying the Development of Spatial
 Cognition
 Douglas Marvel  Leucine and/or IGF-1 stimulates eIF2BE mRNA translation in
 Rat2 Fibroblasts
 Jennifer Nyland  Investigating Neural Degradation in Diabetic Retinopathy Using
 Laser Capture Microscopy
 Eric Porsch  Downstream Signaling Pathway requirements for Proinflammatory
 Mediator Expression in Macrophages in Response to the
 Glycoslyphosphatidylinositols of Plasmodium falciparum
 Kristen Rennoll  Effects of Mutated Surface Residues on Assembly Behavior of the
 Retroviral Capsid Protein
 Pamela Thompson  Protein-Protein Interactions Between Phospholemman (PLM) and
 Cardiac Na+/Ca2+ Exchanger (NCX1)
Schedule of Events for 2005

 

 Date  Speaker  Topic
 June 2  Sarah Bronson, Ph.D.  SURIP
 Program Introduction
 June 9  Keith Cheng, M.D., Ph.D.  Curiosity, Simple Questions
 and Persistence:
 The creative process in science
 June 16  Robert Bonneau, Ph.D.  Working with Mentors
 June 23  Chris Siedlecki, Ph.D.  Materials in Medicine*
 (in C4702)
 June 30  College of Medicine
 Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. Students		  Round Table
 Discussion
 July 7  Harriet Isom, Ph.D.   
 July 14  Research Affairs  Funding Opportunities for Undergraduate
 July 21  Lisa Shantz, Ph.D.  Working with Transgenic Mice
 July 28  Michael Verderame, Ph.D.
 Robert Levenson, Ph.D.		  Graduate Opportunities
 at the College of Medicine
 Aug. 4  Summer Research Interns  Mini-Symposium*
 (in C3621)
 Aug. 11  Sarah Bronson, Ph.D.  SURIP Interns

 

*Note:  All presentations are in room C1845 unless notes otherwise.