2010 research highlights

Anna Berglind, a senior majoring in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry at North Carolina Central University

Validated a set of small molecules that may serve as radio-ligands for PET imaging to report neuronal activity.

Meti Gebregiorgis, a senior at the University of Maryland at College Park majoring in Cellular and Molecular Biology

Showed Interferon response genes are essential for microenvironment-induced metastatic breast cancer and that Tubacin can inhibit this metastatic behavior in vitro.

Sebastian Gomez, a senior at the University of Maryland at College Park majoring in computer science

Developed a general methodology for predicting the effectiveness of cancer treatments based on genomic markers.

Aurian García-González. a junior at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, majoring in Cellular Molecular Biology

Studied patterns of evolution of Sko1 and MSN2/4, downstream regulators of the HOG-1 activated osmotic stress response pathway in eight Ascomycota yeasts.

Peter Cruz-Gordillo, a junior at Duke University majoring in neuroscience and biochemistry

Utilized HDACi and other chromatin modulators to induce expression of drug metabolizing enzyme genes in liver cell lines with the goal in mind of creating a more efficient and cost-effective human liver model for drug toxicity screening.