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Perveen Chattha (pchat001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Sarjeet Gill, Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Proposed Research: to identify and characterize the gene(s) that result(s) in reproductive complications in Drosophila melandogaster (fruit fly) upon treatment with natural pesticide azadirachtin . |
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AJ Checa (achec001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Gary Scott, Chemistry
Proposed Research: to synthsize polyacene photodimer crystals and to determine their crystal structure. |
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Katherine Hawkins (khawk002@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Mike Marsella, Chemistry
Proposed Research: to synthesis enediynes for application in anti-tumor therapies. |
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Julie Huss (jhuss001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Mike Coffey, Plant Pathology
Proposed Research: to generate a forensic database format that will provide an easy resource for retrieving the genotypic and phenotypic data of the plant pathogen Phytophthora. |
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Shiv Kalaria (skala001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Seung-Chul Kim, Botany
Proposed Research: to conduct a molecular evolution study of Woody Sow-Thistle alliance in the Canary Islands. |
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Sandy Kim (skim045@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Chris Bardeen, Chemistry
Proposed Research: to image the dynamics of a single DNA molecule. |
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Gloria Lai (glai001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Prue Talbot, Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Proposed Project: to provide evidence that the three known chemicals in cigarette smoke (3-ethylpyridine, pyrazine and phenol) inhibit growth of the fetus and placenta in mammals. |
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Wilson Lau (wlau003@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Eugene Nothnagel, Botany
Proposed Project: to test spinach phytoglycolipids for their emulsifying activity. |
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Travis Lee (tlee012@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Carol Lovatt, Botany
Proposed Research: to determine if argenine, rather than proline is produced in response to carbohydrate deficits plants. |
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Adam Navas (enava004@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Undeclared Math
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Dan Jeske, Statistics
Proposed Research: to understand Markov analysis and its application to reliability. |
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Samir Patel (spate017@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Nancy Beckage, Entomology
Proposed Research: to analyze Aedes aegypti mosquito midgut proteins. |
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Ryan Pedigo (rpedi001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences/Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Francisco Zaera, Chemistry
Proposed Research: to generate hydrogen fuel from the reformation of natural gases such as methane via thermal activation and catalysis. |
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Roberto Rivas (rriva001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Zhuang-dan Guan, Mathematics
Proposed Research: to understand the applications of diiferential equations. |
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Linda Truong (ltruo004@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Guy Bertrand, Chemistry
Proposed Research: to synthesize ligands for use in palladium complexes in the alpha-arylation of acetophenone. |
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Stephanie Vu (svu003@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Connie Nugent, Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Proposed Research: to determine if the deletion of the last five origins of replication before the telomere on an artificial chromosome has any effect on the rate of chromosome loss observed in the stn1 mutant strains in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiaie. |
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