Inside Look: Course Work 2008
Journal Club
During the Tutorial and Journal club meetings INBT graduate (pre-doctoral) students teach each other fundamentals in engineering, physics, and biology. The following presentations and publications were discussed by the students in the IGERT and NBMed programs:
First year students
- Laura Ensign, Garrett Jenkinson, Craig Schneider
Cellular Uptake of Particles and Intracellular Trafficking (PPT)
- Alfredo Celedon, Stephen Diegelmann, Janice Lin
Electrical and mechanical properties of biological elements (PPT)
- Tania Chan, Jacob Koskimaki, Patrick Stahl
Engineering Cell Interactions with Nanomaterials: Synthetic and Bio-Inspired Ligands for Cell receptors (PDF)
- Laura Beasman, Mustapha Jamal, Lindsey Smith
Stem Cell Basics, Differentiation and Applications (ODP*)
* = Open Office document, http://www.openoffice.org/
Second year students
- Tommy Tong
- Catch Strip Assay for the Relative Assessment of Two-Dimensional Protein Association Kinetics.
- Micropatterned surfaces for controlling cell adhesion and rolling under flow.
- Tovah Honor
- Ca2+ indicators based on computationally redesigned calmodulin-peptide pairs.
- Mg2+ deprivation elicits rapid Ca2+ uptake and activates Ca2+/calcineurin signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
- Matt Keuss
- Postsynaptic Decoding of Neural Activity: eEF2 as a Biochemical Sensor Coupling Miniature Synaptic Transmission to Local Protein Synthesis.
- A brain-specific microRNA regulates dendritic spine development.