FINAL Schedule of Oral Presentations for M2 MSTP Research Seminar 2006-2007
  Gray Room/Lurie (Chicago) and Tech L363 (Evanston), January 25-26, 2007
   
     
     
  Date/Time M2 Students Preliminary Title of Proposals Faculty Graduate Student Reviewers  M1 Student Readers
  Thursday, January 25, 2007, Searle (2-3 PM) OR Gray (3-6PM), Lurie Bldg. in Chicago AND Tech L363 (3-6PM) in Evanston
  2:00-2:30 pm Maya Srikanth (this is the only session in Searle) "The Role of CD44 in Breast Cancer Stem Cell Tumorigenicity" Dr. Vince Cryns Joe Evans Prajwal Ciryam
  2:30-3:00 pm OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN
  3:00-3:30 pm Hans Arora  Synthesis and visualization of a Ca2+-sensitive magnetic resonance contrast agent that exhibits increased binding to intracellular amyloid-β plaques in vivo Drs. Tom Meade and Amanda Eckermann Preeti Sukerkar Taylor Poor
  3:30-4:00 pm Rebecca Farmer  "Effects of Minozac on neuroinflammation and the MAPK signaling cascade" Dr. Marty Watterson Richard Ahn Saahir Khan
  4:00-4:30 pm Chris Brooks "Estrogen and the Brain:  An Aromatase conditional Knockout" Dr. Serdar Bulun Ramona Bhattacharya Craig Smuda
  4:30-5:00 pm Brian Hitt "Mechanism of BACE1 Elevation in Alzheimer’s Disease" Dr. Bob Vassar Kristy Patterson Jessica Schulte
       
  Friday , January 26, 2007, Gray (2:30-5:30PM) in Chicago AND Tech L363 (3-6 PM) in Evanston  
  2:30-3:00 pm Romie Gibly "Angiogenic Transgene-Expressing Polymer Scaffolds for Extrahepatic Islet Cell Transplant." Dr. Lonnie Shea David Salvay Mike Breen
  3:00-3:30 pm Rebecca Harris "A Forward Genetic Analysis of Genes in Testis Function" Dr. Larry Jameson Max Flynn Jack Graham
  3:30-4:00 pm Alan Lewis "H-channel phosphorylation and binding partners in epilepsy" Dr. Dane Chetkovich Jason Rosenbaum  Luke Sebel
  4:00-4:30 pm Vanderlene Kung "The role of virulence factors encoded by genomic islands in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" Dr. Alan Hauser Sebastian Fernandez-Pol Jessica Queen
  4:30-5:00 PM Sara Kleinschmidt "The Role of the 17 kDa Tau fragment in AD and Other Tauopathies" Dr. Adriana Ferreira Chris Mutch Marisa Jackson
  5:00-5:30 PM Dominic Fullenkamp "Elucidation of the Molecular Mechanisms of   Mussel Adhesion" Dr. Phil Messersmith, Graduate Student Ty Cashen Oneil Bhalala