Second Annual CBC Scholars Scientific Exchange
The CBC Scholars met at the NU Chicago Campus to present and discuss their dissertation research on April 7, 2011, during the Second Annual CBC Scholars Scientific Exchange. Each Scholar gave a short talk that was designed to focus on the “Big Picture” aspect of their thesis. The participating Scholars and the research they presented were:
Matt Curtis (UIC; PI Brenda Russell, Microscale Heterogeneity in 3D Alters the Mechanics of Cardiac Myocyte Contraction
Sam Nalle (UChicago; PI Jerry Turner), Intestinal damage and barrier dysfunction are critical to graft-versus-host disease
Jackie Shepard (NU; PI Lonnie Shea), Gene delivery from hydrogels for nerve regeneration
Erin White (UChicago; PI Michael Glotzer), Structural Transitions in Centralspindlin Required for Microtubule Bundling During Cytokinesis
Lou Dore (NU; PI John Crispino), Transcriptional regulation of blood cell development
Bryan Singer (UChicago; PI Paul Vezina), Isolating Drug-Induced Neuroadaptations Underlying Associative and Non-Associative Plasticity
Sevim Arslan (UIC; PI Howard Lipton), Theiler’s virus-induced cell death during CNS persistance
Adam Pah (NU; PI Luis Amaral), Debugging Biology: Detecting evolutionary changes in metabolic networks
Fei Sun (UChicago; PI Chuan He), Chemistry in Staphylococcus aureus — Molecular Mechanisms of Virulence Regulation in Staphylococcus aureus
Lila Gollogly (UIC; PI Gail Hecht), Enteropathogenic E. coli effectors EspG1/2 prevent tight junction recovery by disrupting microtubule networks
Nico Pelaez Restrepo (NU; PI Luis Amaral and Richard Carthew), Mechanisms for Robustness in a network switch controlling fly eye
Qiyan Mao (UChiago; PI Robert Ho), Coordinated directional cell motility driving vertebrate limb bud morphogenesis
PHOTOS: Presentation by CBC Scholar Qiyan Mao (UChiago; PI Robert Ho), Coordinated directional cell motility driving vertebrate limb bud morphogenesis (left). Scientific Exchange participants. (Photos: CBC)