Undergraduate Research Students

Van Trihn 2004-06: Project Description - Dual Ca2+-release pathways in the ER that activate capain and a subsequent apoptosis in cultured cells.

Shea Hilger 2005-06: Project Description - Proteolytic cleavage of the mitochondrial apoptotic regulator OPA-1 during ER stress.

Shannon Griswold - 2002-04: Project Description - Activation of ER stress through abnormal phosphlipid biosynthesis. *2004 - Ph.D. student, Baylor School of Medicine

Justin Gettings - 2003-04: Project Description - Analysis of mitochondrial cytochrome c release following ER stress. *2004 - Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health *2005 - M.D. student - George Washington Medical School

Katherine Niederer – 2001-03: Project Description - Molecular analysis of ER stress-induced pathways.*2003 - M.D. student, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Dan Morrow - 2002-03: Project Description -Molecular analysis of ER stress-induced pathways. 2003 - M.D. student, Loma Linda Medical School

Molly Irick (Beloit College) – 2002
Project Description – An examination of the role of calcineurin in ER stress signaling 2004 - Ph.D. student - University of Oregon

Mark Boyajian – 2002
Project Description – Development of an assay for protein glycosylation activity in cultured cells. *2004 - M.D. Student - Ross University School of Medicine

Suraj Kapa (Drew Univ.) –2001
Project Description: Analysis of apoptosis activation in tsBN7 cells via a calcineurin-based signal. *2003 - M.D. student, New Jersey Medical College

Vanessa Runner – 1999-02
Project description: a genetic screen for stress-response genes.
*2002 – Ph.D Student, Harvard University, School of Medicine.

Kristina Buchholtz - 2000
Project Description: Inducible overexpression of Dad1 in murine fibroblasts.
*2001- Fulbright Fellow, Bayreuth Germany
*2002 – M.D. Student, University of North Dakota

Hillary Crandall - 2000; Project description: Inducible overexpression of Dad1 in murine fibroblasts. *2000 - M.D./Ph.D student - University of Utah, School of Medicine

Alexander Krawieki (Emory Univ.) -2000
Project Description: Analysis of apoptosis induction in fibroblasts carrying a temperature-sensitive mutation in Dad1.
*2002- M.D./Ph.D. Student, Emory University.

LaTeisha Bowman (Central Michigan University) – 1999
Project description: Dad1 gene expression in apoptotic prostate cancer cells.
*2000– M.D. Student, Howard University.

Elaine Youngman – 1998
Project description: analysis of programmed cell death in mammalian fibroblasts.
*2000– Ph.D. Student, Johns Hopkins Univ.

Matthew Kurumada - 1998; Project Description: In situ PCR analysis of gene expression. 1999 - Master of Public Health student, Emory University.

Kristen Thornton (Providence College) – 1998
Project description: analysis of age-dependent changes in gene expression.