Tess Baker
Mentor: Ernesto Bernal Mizrachi, Ph.D.
Project: Molecular Mechanisms of Intermittent Hypoxia on Pancreatic β-cell Function and its association with mTORC1 Signaling
Cynthia Blanco
Mentor: Kerry Burstein, Ph.D.
Project Title: Project title: BUB1B as a therapeutic vulnerability in castration resistant prostate cancer.
Marielise Torres
Mentor: Courtney Dumont, Ph.D.
Alexandra Chirino
Mentor: Marcelo Kazanietz, Ph.D.
Bruno Colon
Mentor: Daniel Isom, Ph.D.
Project: The Role of NDR1/2 Kinases in the Cell Stress Response
Agustina De Rosa
Mentor: Mariana Cooke, M.D., Ph.D., and Justin Taylor, M.D.
Roxana Diaz
Mentor: Joana Almaca, Ph.D.
Laura Doyle
Mentor: Fulvia Verde, Ph.D.
Project: TBD
Corey Fehlberg
Mentor: Jae Lee, Ph.D.
Project: Cross-species Profile of Fibrosis after Spinal Cord Injury
Joan C. Glenny-Pescov
Mentor: Stephan Schurer, Ph.D.
Project: TBD
Jun Gu
Mentor: Fulvia Verde Ph.D. /Co-mentor Fangliang Zhang, Ph.D.
Project: The Role of NDR1/2 Kinases in the Cell Stress Response
Taylor Henry
Mentor: Vladlen Slepak, Ph.D.
Project Title: A Functional Study of OR51E1, an Ectopically Expressed Olfactory GPCR, in Prostate Cancer.
Veronika Jurczuk
Mentor: Ivan Jozic, Ph.D.
Project: Determining proteomic biomarkers of wound healing utilizing discarded wound dressings
Zoe Kaegi
Mentor: Dr. Kerry Burnstein
Project: TBD
Ali Kamiar
Mentor: Marjana Tomic-Canic, Ph.D.
Kara Lamb
Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, M.D.
Project title: "EZH2-dependent reprogramming of select amygdalar GABAergic neurons in Alcohol Use Disorder"
Kyutae Lee
Mentor: Daniel Isom, Ph. D.C
Project: Identifying superdark GPCRs
Clarence Locklear
Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, MD
Project: Slow-Wave Sleep as a Mediator of DNA Damage and Repair Mechanisms in Mice
Sean Meehan
Mentor: Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Ph.D.
Marvin Mendoza
Mentor: Alice Tomei, Ph.D.
Project Title: "Mechanobiology of Tolerogenic Fibroblastic Reticular Cells in Autoimmunity and T1D"
Ina Niroula
Mentor: Kiran Kurmi, Ph.D.
Corin O'Shea
Mentor: Fangliang Zhang, Ph.D.
Project: Understanding and extending the N-degron
Jacinda Pujols
Mentor: Daniel Isom, Ph.D.
Project: "CIDER: CRISPR Integrated Directed Evolution of Receptors"
Jennyfer Robayo
Mentor: Mariana Cooke, M.D., Ph.D.
Monica Rasmussen
Mentor: Mark Yeager, Ph.D.
Preyasha Shrestha
Mentor: Kiran Kurmi, Ph.D.
Jennifer Suon
Mentor: Robert Starke, Ph.D.
Matthew Tolerico
Mentor: Alessia Fornoni, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: SMPDL3b as a regulator of the cGAS-STING pathway in diabetic kidney disease
Fatemeh Vatankhah
Mentor: Lina Shehadeh, Ph.D.
Lea Wilson
Mentor:Daphne Avgousti, Ph.D.
