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Dean's Fellowship Summer Internship 2006
 
Front Row: Chris Villanueva, Thomas Lau, Katie Hawkins, Chad Catbagan, Ryan Pedigo, Melodie Miranda, Wilson Lau, Eddie Park; Back Row: Steve Angle (Dean), Kirk Fisher, Melanie Chang, Amy Herzberger, Michelle Chen, Marissa Oshige, Teraneh Zarififar
 
 

Chad Catbagan (ccatb001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Yinsheng Wang , Chemistry
Proposed Research: Formation of Cross-Link Products and Biological Impacts

     
 

Melanie Chang (melanie.chang@email.ucr.edu)
Major: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Tom Morton, Chemistry
Proposed Research: Determining water solubilities and studying pyrolysis using photoionization mass spectrometry of tert-Alkyl Ethers

     
  Michelle Chen (mchen001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Applied Mathematics/Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Len Mueller, Chemistry
Proposed Research: Developing logic gates for quantum information processing with solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance
     
 

Kirk Fisher (kfish001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Vlad Parpura, Cell Biology/Neuroscience
Proposed Research: Trafficking and exocytosis of astrocity vesicles: a study of temporal dependence using Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 2

     
  Katherine Hawkins (khawk001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Mike Marsella,Chemistry
Proposed Research: to study the design, synthesis and applications in regard to helical thiophenes, thiophene-based structures and molecular muscles.
     
  Amy Herzberger (aherz001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Gary Scott , Chemistry
Proposed Research: to study the spectroscopy and photchemistry of Isomeric Ditetracenes
     
 

Thomas Lau (tlau002@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Physics
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Jeanie Lau, Physics
Proposed Research: Optimization of carbon nanotube growth through chemical vapor deposition

     
  Wilson Lau (wlau003@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Science
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Eugene Nothnagel, Botany and Plant Sciences
Proposed Research: to study the emulsifier activity of phytoglycolipids
     
  Ada Liu (aliu010@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Hailing Jin , Plant Pathology
Proposed Research: to isolate homozygote lines of t-DNA insertion mutants in Arabidopsis
     
  Melodie Miranda (mmira004@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biology/Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Connie Nugent, Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Proposed Research: to study effects at the genome level when Stn1 function is compromised
     
 

Marissa Oshige (moshi001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Guy Bertrand, Chemistry
Proposed Reseach: to synthesize a linear isomer of cyclopropenylidene

     
  Eddie Park(epark007@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Mathematics/Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Ernest Martinez , Biochemistry
Proposed Research: to map the major p300 acetylated sites in Max (a transcription factor with a basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper DNA-binding/dimerization domain) in vitro.
     
 

Ryan Pedigo (rpedi001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Francisco Zaera, Chemistry
Proposed Research: Catalytic reformation of hydrocarbons to produce hydrogen fuel

     
  Chris Villanueva (cvill002@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Daphne Fairbairn, Biology
Proposed Research: Adaptive significance of sexual size dimorphism of Aquarius remigis: Testes size varying with overall body size
     
  Teraneh Zrififar (tzari001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Isgouhi Kaloshian , Nematology
Proposed Research: to study the role of ethylene in the Mi-1 Mediated defense Response of Tomato Plants
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