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Christopher
Hackmeyer
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(speaker at the
Annual Duquesne Research Symposium)
Junior,
Biochemistry, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
Mentor:
Dr. Billy Day, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of
Pittsburgh
Project:: Docking studies of the binding mode of dictyostatin and its
analogues to the taxoid binding site on
a-tubulin
Research Proposal |
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Poster Presentation
Journal Club:
The T-Taxol conformation
Alcaraz et al., J. Med. Chem., 49: 2478-2488 (2006)
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Megan Jeans
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(speaker at the
Annual Duquesne Research Symposium)
Senior,
Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX
Mentor:
Dr. G. Bard Ermentrout, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
Project: Coupling hair
follicle cycles to produce oscillating patterns
Research Proposal |
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Poster Presentation
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Beyond a pacemaker's entrainment limit: phase walk-through
Ermentrout & Riznel, Am. J. Physiol., 246: 102-106 (1984)
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Nicole Kennerly
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(speaker at the
Annual Duquesne Research Symposium)
First-year graduate school,
Biochemistry & Cell Biology,
graduated from
Rice University, Houston, TX
Mentor:
Dr. Shlomo Ta'asan, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon
University
Project: Using stochastic differential equations to model the ups and downs of
patients with bipolar disorder for clinical purposes
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Research Presentation
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Strategies for
containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia
Ferguson et al., Nature, 437: 209-214 (2005)
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Angelo
Kontgas
(e-mail)
Senior,
Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan UT
Mentor:
Dr. Bino John,
Department of Computational
Biology, University of Pittsburgh
Project: Genomic evolution of cancer associated viruses and bacteria
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Identification of
microRNAs of the herpesvirus family
Pfeffer et al., Nature Methods, 2: 269-276 (2005)
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Zofia Koscielniak
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Junior, Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Mentor:
Dr. G. Bard Ermentrout, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
Project: A population firing rate model of reverberatory activity in
neuronal networks
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Research Presentation |
Poster Presentation
Journal Club:
Spiral waves in
disinhibited mammalian neocortex
Huang et al., J. Neurosci., 24:
9897-9902
(2004)
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Ji Lee
(e-mail)
Junior, Bioengineering,
The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA
Mentor:
Dr. Bino John,
Department of Computational
Biology, University of Pittsburgh
Project:
Implementation of K-Factor algorithm and its application to the identification
of miRNA regulatory elements
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Research Presentation |
Poster Presentation
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Using hexamers to
predict cis-regulatory motifs in Drosophila,
Chan & Kibler, BMC Bioinformatics,
6: 262-270 (2005)
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Stephanie Lucas
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Junior, Biology,
University of San
Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Mentor:
Dr. Takis Benos, Department of Computational Biology, University of
Pittsburgh
Project: Sequence analysis of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 genome
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Evolutionary analysis of the well
characterized endo16 promoter reveals substantial variation within functional sites
Balhoff & Wray,
PNAS, 102:
8591-8596 (2005)
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Amanda McCoy
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Junior,
Chemistry & Physcis,
Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
Mentor:
Dr. Daniel Zuckerman,
Department of Computational Biology, University of
Pittsburgh
Project: Weighted-ensemble Brownian dynamics simulation
Research Proposal |
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Research Presentation |
Poster Presentation
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Weighted-ensemble Brownian dynamics simulations for protein associated reactions
Huber & Kim, Biophysical J., 70: 97-110 (1996)
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Jieming (Jenny) Shen
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Senior, Rutgers, the
State University of New Jersey, New Brusnwick, NJ
Mentor:
Dr. Hugh Nicholas, Biomedical Initiative, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Project: A bioinformatics approach to the analysis of the glycogen phosphorylase
protein family
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Research Presentation |
Poster Presentation
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M-Coffee: combining multiple sequence alignment methods with T-Coffee
Wallace et al., Nucleic Acids Res., 34: 1692–1699 (2006)
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Marie
Wilkening
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Senior, Bioinformatics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
Mentor:
Dr.
Joel Stiles, Biomedical Applications Group, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Project: First pass Monte Carlo simulation of basic eukaryotic cell cycle
regulation mechanism
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Research Presentation |
Poster Presentation
Journal Club:
Regulation of the
eukaryotic cell cycle: molecular antagonism, hysteresis, and irreversible
transitions
Tyson & Novak, J. Theor. Biol., 210: 249-263 (2001)
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Chi Zheng
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First-year medical school,
Chemical Engineering, graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Mentor:
Dr.
Michael Sacks, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
Project:
Image
analysis and cytometry in three-dimensional digital reconstruction of porcine
native aortic valve leaflets
Research Proposal |
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Research Presentation |
Poster Presentation
Journal Club:
Defining biomechanical
endpoints for tissue engineered heart valve leaflets from native leaflet
properties
Merryman et al., Prog. Pediatr. Cardiol., 21: 153–160 (2006)
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