2006 Research Highlights
Charisma Garcia, a University of Texas-Pan American senior
Validated the characteristic gene expression “signatures,” which distinguish the various developmental choices that can be made by embryonic stem cells.
Whitney Green, a Princeton University senior
characterized the proteins present on the surfaces of immune system cells from HapMap cell lines.
Stephanie Hughes, a Jackson State University senior
Explored how evolution might shape introns — short pieces of DNA that are removed from genes before they are read into proteins.
Renaldo Webb, a freshman at MIT
Developed an improved annotation system that will help to maximize the gene expression data from Affymetrix gene-chips.
