| BNFO 300 |
Research Proposals (as of 20 Nov 2017) |
Fall 2017
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Listed below are proposals to be presented May 2017. Each proposal is to justify and describe a single experiment aimed at addressing a small part of a large and significan question. The aim is depth, getting to the bottom of an experiment to the extent that the presenter can explain the principles behind all techniques used and how the techniques contribute to the experiment. Each proposer has been mentored by a member of the VCU research community.
You can see general advice that was given regarding how to write a research proposal and how to give a presentation. Each presentation will be about 8 minutes.
If you like, you can see what has been done in previous years by going to VCU Review Panel on Molecular Biology Research for the years
2012,
2013,
2014,
2016, and
Fall 2017
(there was no 2015).
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| PROPOSER | MENTOR | TITLE |
| Shradda Adhikari | Eun Lee | Premature fetal termination and its association with ERAP2(N) |
| Elaf Alaithan | Glen Kellogg | Evaluating and comparing various human sphingosine kinase inhibitors |
| Ashley Arora | Eun Lee | Immune response when ERAP2-N is introduced to Melanoma cell line MRN-1 |
| Ashria Arora | Joyce Lloyd | Measurement of fetal gamma-globin expression due to KLF1 being a negative or positive regulator |
| Sharoon Arshad | Rebecca Martin | Furin deletion in B cells alters ADAM10 prodomain processing and the downstream effects on allergic asthma |
| Ayshah Asmat | Luni Emdad | AEG-1 alters methylation status of IGFBP7 promoter via activation of the Wnt/?-catenin signaling pathway in HCC |
| Amanda Atrash | Javier Gonzalez-Maeso | Disruption of NDEL1 via knockout of DISC1 stunts dendritic spine structure in the hippocampus region of mice |
| Oluchi Chigbu | Jill Bettinger | Do higher levels of EPA in C. elegans affect NPR-1 regulation of AFT? |
| Rebecca Culpepper | Rita Shiang | Discovery of possible connection between cln3 gene and cisd2 gene through notch signaling |
| Samhitha Dhandamudy | Gregorio Gil | Examining the role of diacylglycerol in the protein kinase C pathway in lipid-induced insulin resistance |
| Josh Fung | Sarah Rothschild | Determining if the transcription factor, Tbx5, is necessary within zebrafish myocardial regeneration |
| Shahzeb Hasan | Hamid Akbarali | The role of G-alpha-s and G-beta-gamma in adenylyl cyclase super activation following chronic opioid exposure |
| Shwetha Kochi | Pat Trimmer | Inhibition of prion-like properties in alpha-synuclein using promazine derivatives |
| Angela Michalak | Maria Rivera | How does CagA in H. pylori contribute to apoptosis in gastric cancer cells? |
| Sam Portillo | Glen Kellogg | Comparison of phenylalanine v. tyrosine rotamers with respect to alpha helix structure using 3D modeling software |
| Aarthi Prakash | Jitender Mehla | Mapping the Protein-Protein Interactions of LapA in LPS Assembly |
| Akhil Ramaswamy | Andrew Van der Vaart | 5-HT1B-receptor regulation by p-GSK3B due to acute ethanol exposure on mice |
| Cove Soyars | Jitender Mehla | Role of hydrophobicity in Ser-83 amino acid substitutions of DNA gyrase subunit A encoding gyrA |
| Mouni Talari | Binks Wattenberg | The upregulation of CerS3 to increase production of ultra-long chain (ULC) ceramides in psoriatic epidermal keratinocytes of mice |
| Katie Vishwanath | Jared Prosser | Measurement of protein aggregation levels in mutant scs2 gene of yeast to determine whether the ubiquitination proteasome system of the unfolded protein response can be inhibited |
| Mailat Yonas | Madhu Gowda | Is p53 more likely to trigger apoptosis or cellular senescence as a response to a tumor or DNA damage? |
| Samuel Young | Jeff Elhai | Nostoc punctiforme mutate of hormogonia reacts with pilius begin removed |