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Research
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Christoph Hengartner, PhD: (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Assistant Professor, 2006-present, focuses on the pseudorabies virus (PRV), a veterinary herpesvirus related to human herpes viruses such as the viruses causing chicken pox or cold sores. |
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Xiaotang Hu, PhD: (Hunan Medical University, China) Assistant Professor, 2003-present, studies the function of nonmuscle myosin II and the RhoGTPase pathway in leg and wing morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Dr Hu mentors Tina Franklin. |
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Peter Lin, PhD: (Johns Hopkins University), Professor, 1993-present, studies the modulation of gonadotropin subunit MRNA expressions by sex steroids and gonadal peptides. His research is funded by the MBRS SCORE, and NSF grants. Dr. Lin has mentored undergraduate students including RISE (Gesulla Toussaint), (IACUC approved, May 20, 1998). |
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Laura Mudd, PhD:
(University of Florida), Professor, 1993-present, is determining the effects of β-amyloid, a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, on cholinergic neurons of the septal nucleus cells which are involved in memory and are particularly susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease. This project is funded by MBRS SCORE. Dr. Mudd has mentored undergraduate and graduate students including Odaine Gordon , Christophe Arteaga and Cindy Cuello (IACUC approved, February 2, 1998). |
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Gerhild Packert, PhD: (University of South Florida)Professor, 1997-present, researches molecular evaluation of the tuh-1 gene in Drosophila melanogaster, and cloning of the polycomb gene in Zebra fish. Dr. Packert's other areas of interest include histology, virology, and embryology. She has mentored undergraduate and undergraduate students including Diana Rua, Mallory Jorif, Maria Pineda and graduate students. Her current funding includes MBRS SCORE, NSF and BU Research Scholarship Award. |
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Leticia Vega, PhD: (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Assistant Professor, 2005-present, studies a yeast protein, Pif1p, which inhibits telomere formation by affecting telomerase.Telomeres, have been implicated in the development of cancers and in aging. Dr Vega mentors RISE and MARC students including Lina Arencibia and Mallory Jorif . |
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Brenda Schoffstall, PhD: (Florida State University). Dr. Schoffstall’s doctoral dissertation topic was “Modulators of myosin activity and actomyosin interaction: potential for deoxy-ATP as a positive inotrope in cardiac muscle”. She comes to Barry with post-doctoral experience at FSU in electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee. |
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Teresa Petrino, PhD: (University of Tucuman, Argentina), Associate Professor, 1993-present, collaborates with Dr Lin on the actions of inhibin/activin on the ovarian follicle using a teloest model. She received NSF funding to equip the core biology laboratory. She has mentored 29 undergraduates. |
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John Boulos, PhD:
(The City College of New York) Associate Professor, 2002-present, studies synthesis of muscarinic agonists for the symptomatic treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. |
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George Fisher, PhD: (University of Miami) Professor, 1988-present, studies altered amino acids (racemized D-form) in dysfunctional proteins and their relation to diseases such as Alzheimer’s and osteoarthritis. The research is funded by MBRS SCORE.Dr. Fisher has mentored undergraduate and graduate students include Kevin Peterson. |
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Irina Struganova, PhD: (Moscow State University) Associate Professor, 1998-present, investigates the nature of unique optical properties of cyanine dyes molecular aggregates, computer simulations of autocatalytic chemical reactions and application of fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy for detection of temperature induced structural changes of proteins. Dr. Struganova has mentored undergraduate students including Ileana Pazos. |
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Tony Wallner, PhD: (Case Western Reserve University). Dr Wallner’s research interests include:
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