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Seminars--MOCB Retreat 2008

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Annual Molecular and Cell Biology Program Retreat
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Morning presentations

Mathangi Srinivasan: “Reciprocal regulation of NFAT 1 and 2 cellular localization in CD8+ anergic cells”

Jessica Miller: “The role of NuoG in preventing apoptosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infected macrophages”

Abbi Rajagopal: “Heme homeostasis is regulated by concerted and conserved functions of HRG-1 proteins”

Buvna Narayanan: “Structural and functional studies of Dimethylmalate lyase, a PEP mutase/isocitrate lyase superfamily member”

Niya Todonova: “Enzyme kinetics for purine nucleoside phosphorylase using calorimetry”

Robert Berkey: “Functional Origin of RPW8 Mediated Resistance”

Poster presentations

  • Paul Clavijo
  • Vonetta Edwards
  • Laura Ellestad
  • Alison Heffer
  • Jae Kwang Jeong
  • Caroline Li
  • Omar Memon
  • Habi Mojidi
  • Nellie Moshkovich
  • Malini Mukherjee
  • Jyoti Narayana
  • Sangeetha Raghavan
  • Varnika Roy
  • Vandana Sekhar
  • Zhen Shi
  • Nuttinee Teerakulkittipong
  • Cristel Thomas
  • Yizhou Yin

Afternoon presentations

Courtney Busch: “Mismatch repair in the halophilic archaeon Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1”

Rui Gao: “The XRCC1 R399Q polymorphism is associated with response to radiotherapy in prostate cancer”

Wayne Cabral: “Greater than 1% of Contemporary West Africans are Carriers of a Founder Mutation for Severe Recessive Type VIII OI, Which Was Presumably Brought to America with the Colonial Slave Trade and Also Occurs in African-Americans”

Siqian Feng: “Loss of polyhomeotic function causes autonomous cell death and non-autonomous cell over-proliferation in Drosophila”

   


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