{"id":2465,"date":"2011-06-29T02:43:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T02:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2019-05-03T02:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T02:54:38","slug":"summer-interns-join-ps-oc-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/summer-interns-join-ps-oc-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer interns join PS-OC labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ip-content\">\n<p>Each summer, Johns Hopkins Institute for Nanobiotechnology (INBT) hosts several summer research interns, five of who will conduct research as part of Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Heim, from University of Florida, will be testing the effects of cell geometry and chemotaxis on cell polarity in the Denis Wirtz lab (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering). \u201cThe goal is to find which of the two is more important to polarity when working against each other,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the Wirtz lab, Nick Trenton is developing an agarose-based microfluidics chamber that can be used to establish a chemotaxis gradient in 3D cell culture. \u201cWe\u2019ll be testing various cell knockdowns in 3D in the presence of a chemokine gradient,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Louie from Johns Hopkins, works in the Peter Searson lab (Materials Science and Engineering). She is characterizing the properties of human umbilical vein endothelial cells cultured under different conditions. \u201cWe\u2019re testing to see how the amount of growth factors in cell culture medium will affect transendothelial electrical resistance values,\u201d Louie said.<\/p>\n<p>Thea Roper from North Carolina State University works in the Sharon Gerecht lab (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering). Roper said she will analyze how human embryonic stem cells mature into smooth muscle cells. \u201cTo do this, I must determine the\u00a0pathway by using techniques such as immunofluorescence, RT-PCR,\u00a0and Western Blot to examine Myocardin, a transcriptional co-activator, Elk-1, a ternary complex factor, PDGF-R, platelet-derived growth factor receptors, and SRF, serum response factors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Quinton Smith also works in the Gerecht lab. This is his second year interning at Hopkins. Smith, from University of New Mexico, is fabricating a microfluidic device that recreates hypoxic (low oxygen) conditions. \u201cI\u2019ll study how adult and embryonic stem cells respond to this dynamic environment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about INBT\u2019s summer interns at the following link: <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p1sSPo-VT\">http:\/\/wp.me\/p1sSPo-VT<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Story by: INBT<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each summer, Johns Hopkins Institute for Nanobiotechnology (INBT) hosts several summer research interns, five of who will conduct research as part of Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center. Erin Heim, from University of Florida, will be testing the effects of cell geometry and chemotaxis on cell polarity in the Denis&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}