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Summer 2008: SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM
SURF Students Welcome Picnic Held at Swan Creek Metro Park
As part of orientation week, the summer undergraduate research fellowship (SURF) students participating in summer research projects with faculty in the 4 tracks of the Biomedical Sciences graduate program enjoyed a picnic with faculty members and a group of graduate students selected from the tracks at the picnic shelter in Swan Creek metro park at 5:00 PM. After a foggy and rainy start to the day, Marianne Pohlman managed to arrange a couple of hours of sunshine just in time.
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Graduate students: Rudel Saunders (CVMD track), Cynthia Kenmuir (NND track), |
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August: SURF Program students present the results of their summer research
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Summer undergraduate research fellows and other undergraduates who spent their summer doing research in labs on the Health
Science Campus presented the results of their work in a day long session. Those who spent their summer working with faculty
in the CVMD track included: We wish you the best for the coming year and hope you had a rewarding and educational experience at UT. The SURF program is directed by Bob Crissman, PhD. |
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CVMD SURF student Shane Jeffers and CVMD faculty Sandrine Pierre have a discussion with Sophia Torbay (SURF student inthe
IIT track) during the lunch break
From left to right: SURF students Ryan Michel (Heidelberg College), Bijan Salari (Columbia University), Saumitra Thakur (Amherst
College), Il-Gyo Cho (Colorado State University) and Alex Fitzhum (University of Toledo) relax during the lunch break
CVMD SURF students Leah Maxwell from Westminster College (left), who investigated the Effects of the anti-diabetic drug rosiglitazone
on the differentiation of bone mesenchymal stem cells into adipocytes and osteoblasts under guidance of Beata Lecka-Czernik, PhD, and Leigh Wells (right) reflect on their summer experiences with SURF director Bob Crissman.
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Sophia Torbay from Oberlin University carried out her project entitled The use of Start PCR to observe XRCC1 expression in bronchial oncogenic cell lines with advisor James Willey, MD |
CVMD graduate student Sam Shepard and lab-mate SURF student Tiara Heisey from Messiah College, PA discuss the use of bioinformatics to Identify missing targets within snoRNA gene cluster HBII85 responsible for Prader-Willi syndrome. When necessary they are advised by Alexei Fedorov, PhD |
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| Shane Jeffers from Case Western University studied the Impact of CEACAM on appetite in mice under the guidance of Sonia Najjar, PhD director of the Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research |
Soundouss El Moubaraki from the University of Poitiers in France studied the effects of extracts from the plant Desmodium adscendens on LLC-PK1 cells with CVMD faculty Sandrine Pierre, PhD |
