UROP Grant Recipients Spring 2005
Elizabeth G. Ames, Biology
Is Myotonic Dystrophy in Quarter Horses Due to an Untranslated Expansion of Nucleotides?
Faculty Sponsor: John Day, Neurology
Ernesto F. Arita, GCD
Structural Analysis of Dimeric Intradiol Dioxygenases
Faculty Sponsor: Doug Ohlendorf, BMBB
Mark D. Arneson, Biochemistry
Phenotypic Analyses of Arabidopsis Mutants Containing a Defective Ankyrin-Containing
Protein Kinase Gene Caused by T-DNA
Faculty Sponsor: Wen-Ping Chen, Horticultural Science
Mariah K. Babcock, Biology
Historical Relationship of Red-Winged and Tricolored Blackbirds
Faculty Sponsor: Scott Lanyon, EEB
Anthony D. Bertagnolli, Biochemistry
Structural Characerization of Direct DNA Adducts from Reactions with Pentachlorophenol
Metabolites
Faculty Sponsor: Shana Sturla, Medicinal Chemistry
Sarah A. Bradley, GCD
Overexpression Screen for Novel Genes in the TOR Signaling Pathway
Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Neufeld, GCD
Aaron T. Charlson, Microbiology
Identification of NOM1 Interacting Proteins
Faculty Sponsor: Kathleen Conklin, GCD
Justin T. Deans, Neuroscience
Role of Mast Cells in the Dorsal Root Ganglia
Faculty Sponsor: Alice Larson, Vet Pathobiology
Kenneth W. Dodd, Neuroscience
Effects of cis-acting Regulatory Elements on Gene Expression and Transposition
Using the Plasmid-based Sleeping Beauty Transposon System
Faculty Sponsor: Scott McIvor, Lab Med & Pathology
Susan A. Godbout, GCD
How Do Sleeping Beauty Transposons Most Often Induce Mutation?
Faculty Sponsor: David Largaespada, GCD
Saik Kia Goh, GCD
Isolation and Characterization of Cardiac Stem Cells From Adult Heart Tissue
Faculty Sponsor: Doris Taylor, Physiology
Keegan D. Hasselmann, Biology
Bt Toxin Exposure in Ground Beetles
Faculty Sponsor: David Andow, Entomology
David A. Hildebrandt, Biochemistry
Mechanical Studies of Cardiomyopathy Mutations in Muscle Fibers
Faculty Sponsor: Osha Roopnarine, BMBB
Catie A. Hill, Microbiology
The RIM101 Pathway Dependence on Vacuolar Function in Candida albicans
Faculty Sponsor: Dana Davis, Microbiology
Tuere A. Hughes, Biochemistry
The Correlation Between the Variation of Phenyl Substituents and Fungal Activity
of Tetrahydrocarbazoles
Faculty Sponsor: Wayland Noland, Chemistry
Mackenzie Jones, Biology
Validation of the Minnesota Easy Culture System II, an On-Farm Culture System
Faculty Sponsor: Sandra Godden, Clinical & Population Science
Alexander Koukhtaroff, GCD
Analysis of Suppressor Mutation Function in the Quad Mutant Lactose Permease
of E. coli
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Brooker, GCD
Mary E. Larson, GCD
Characterizing Sugar Response Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana
Faculty Sponsor: Susan Gibson, Plant Biology
Zachary J. Lechner, Biology
Phylogenetic Relationships of Madtom Catfishes (Ictaluraidae: Noturus)
Using the S7 Nuclear Gene
Faculty Sponsor: Andrew Simons, Fisheries & Wildlife
Susan C. Lee, Biology
Chemical-Mechanical Polishing of Ceramics
Faculty Sponsor: C. Barry Carter, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Daniel M. Lercher, GCD
The Role of Heparan Sulfate Chains in Dally Function During Drosophila Development
Faculty Sponsor: Scott Selleck, GCD
Matt B. McCarra, GCD
Disease Causing PTPN11 Mutations Have Gain-of-Function Effects During Frog
Embryogenesis
Faculty Sponsor: Jamie Lohr, Pediatrics
Carrie F. Olson, GCD
Illuminating Species Identity With Molecular Data: The Case of the Goldenrod
Gall Fly
Faculty Sponsor: Susan Weller, Entomology
Matthew S. Painschab, GCD
Blood and Leukemic Development Using a Lentiviral Model in Human Embryonic
Stem Cells
Faculty Sponsor: Dan Kaufman, Medicine
Zhi Pan, Biology
Effects of Losartan on Kidney Inflammation Caused by Alport Syndrome
Faculty Sponsor: Yoav Segal, Medicine
Sean P. Polster, GCD
Characerizing the Role of Sprouty 1 in the Heart
Faculty Sponsor: Jennifer Hall, Medicine
Luke Robinson, Biochemistry
Transcriptional Regulation of the Carbohydrate Response Element Binding Protein
(ChREBP) Promoter
Faculty Sponsor: Howard Towle, BMBB
Kathryn V. Smith, EEB
Effects of Shrub Competition on Photosynthetic Physiology of Six Temperate
Tree Species
Faculty Sponsor: Rebecca Montgomery, Forest Resources
Chee Hyun Sohn, Biochemistry
Identification of p38 MAP Kinase Substrates by Yeast Two Hybrid
Faculty Sponsor: Kim Mansky, Diagnostic/Surgical Sciences
Goodwin J. Sonstegard, Biology
Male Fathead Minnow, Pimephales promelas, Biased Alloparental Care
in the Field
Faculty Sponsor: Brian Wisenden, Lake Itasca Biological Station
Christopher D. Steevens, Biology
NK-1 Expressing Neurons and Hyperalgesia
Faculty Sponsor: Donald Simone, Oral Sciences
Kenichiro Taniguchi, GCD
Regulation of Mammalian Axis Formation
Faculty Sponsor: William Shawlot, GCD
Charlie G. Willis, EEB
Phylogenetic Community Structure of Two Long-term Experimental MN Prairie-Savanna
Communities
Faculty Sponsor: Jeannine Cavender-Bares, EEB
Ryan E. Wolff, GCD
The Role of DM Domain Proteins in Sexual Differentiation in Caenorhabditis
elegans
Faculty Sponsor: David Zarkower, GCD