Swati Acharya, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral fellow, Stanford
"Characterization of the role of p21cip1/WAF1, a downstream target of Gfi1 and Gfi1B in Hematopoeitic Cell Differentiation"
Mentor: Phil Tsichlis

Munya Al-Fulaij, Ph.D.
"Structure-Function Characterization of Human Dopamine Receptors In Vitro and In Vivo"
Mentor: Alan Kopin

Jessica Andersen, Ph.D.
Novelist
"Identification and analysis of pigmentary glaucoma loci on 7q36 and 18q"
Mentor: Janey Wiggs

Stephen Berasi, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist II, Wyeth Research
"Intracellular Reactive Oxygen Species Production and HBP1 Transcriptional Repression Mechanisms"
Mentor: Amy Yee

Allison P. Berg, M.S., Ph.D.*
Postdoctoral Associate, Northwestern University
"Catecholamine Analysis of Pigmented and Albino Tyrosine Hydroxylase Null Embryos"
Mentor: Suzanne Roffler-Tarlov
*Received Ph.D. from UVA

Xi Chen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Study of Candida albicans DRG1 and Chromosome 1 trisomy"
Mentor: Carol Kumamoto

Hailing Cheng, Ph.D.
"Dual Functions of the Essential WD Repeat Protein Swd2 in Transcription"
Mentor: Claire Moore

Nicole Chiavuri (D'Avirro), Ph.D.
Licensing Associate, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"The Role of Homologous Recombination and DNA Repair in Immunoglobin Gene Diversification"
Mentor: Erik Selsing

Jeonghee Cho, Ph.D.
"Regulation of the Tpl2 kinase through phosphorylation"
Mentor: Phil Tsichlis

Elizabeth Egan, Ph.D.
"Chromosome Replication in Vibrio cholerae: A Pathogenic Bacterium with a Divided Genome "
Mentor: Matt Waldor

Michael Fogel, Ph.D.
Medical Student, Tufts University School of Medicine
"A dynamic, mitotic-like mechanism for bacterial chromosome segregation"
Mentor: Matt Waldor

Kerry Garrity, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories
"The Identification of Genetic Modulators of Feeding and Fat Deposition in Drosophila melanogaster"
Mentor: Alan Kopin

Yanfen Guan, M.S.
"The cellular localization of E. coli SSB protein during DNA replication"

Marla Hilderbrand-Chae, M.S.
"Circadian regulation of DCry, a blue-light photoreceptor, and LARK, a clock output protein, in Drosiphila melanogaster"

Alexander Holman, Ph.D.
“Computational analysis of the preferred integration sequence of retroviruses”
Mentor: John Coffin

Francis Hsaio, Ph.D.
Medical Student, Tufts University School of Medicine
"Identification and characterization of signaling pathways that transactivate the HERV-K18 superantigen in B cells"
Mentor: Brigitte Huber

Jennifer Hughes, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
"Human endogenous retroviruses: Implications for human and viral evolution"
Mentor: John Coffin

Lei Jin, Ph.D.
"CD22, A B Cell Specific Inhibitory Co-Receptor"
Mentor: Henry Wortis

Benedict Kemp, Ph.D.
"Non-Exchange Segregatoin, a Partial Fulfillement of Meiotic Homologous Chromosome Processing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Mentor: Dean Dawson

Yelena Kleyner, M.S.
Mentor: Rob Jackson

Tara Love, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
"Understanding Polyomavirus Large T Antigen Regulation of the Host Cell"
Mentor: Brian Schaffhausen

Ray Mankoski, Ph.D.
Medical Student, Tufts University School of Medicine
"Etiologies of Autism, a Complex Disorder"
Mentor: Susan Folstein

Irene Min, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Joslin Diabetes Center
"Antibody Class Switch Recombination and DNA Repair"
Mentor: Erik Selsing

Ellen Moriarty (Miller), M.S.
Science Teacher, Classical High School, Lynn, MA
"Fetal Cell Microchimerism in a Mouse Model"
Mentor: Diana Bianchi

Karen Muller-Smith, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, Child Study Center
"Genetic Analysis of Dopaminergic and Norandrenergic Genes in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder"
Mentor: Brad Navia

Jeff Phillips, Ph.D.
"The Molecular Genetics of Rieger Syndrome"
Mentor: Janey Wiggs

Sarah Ratsch (Boyer), Ph.D.
"Analysis of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 E7 Induced Immortalization of Mammary Epithelial Cells"
Mentor: Vimla Band

Sohela Shah, Ph.D.
"Understanding the Genetic and Immunological Basis of Resistance to Babesia microti"
Mentor: Henry Wortis

Susan Sloan (Schonhoff), Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories
Assistant Professor, UMASS Medical School
"The role of neurogenin 3 and peptide YY expression in gastrointestinal endocrine cell precursors"
Mentor: Andy Leiter

Chi Wang, M.S.
"Further Characterization of the Ral Exchange Factor RalGDS"

Yang Wang, Ph.D.
"Regulation of Gastrointestinal Endocrine Cell Growth and Differentiation by Wnt and RB pathways"
Mentor: Andy Leiter

Kerry Whalen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
"Genetic Analysis of the polyoma J domain and discovery of middle T antigen as a regulator of the metastisis gene, osteopontin"
Mentor: Brian Schaffhausen