Winners of the INBRE Fellowships

October 31, 2014 News

The Honors College at the University of Maine is pleased to announce the winners of the INBRE awards in functional genomics for 2014-2015. Six students won Honors Thesis Fellowships and three won Junior Year Fellowships to do research.

The winners and their projects are listed below.

 

Honors Thesis Fellowship Winners

Gwen Beacham – Characterization of lysogeny regulation in the Cluster E mycobacteriophage Ukulele

  • Advisor: Sally Molloy
  • Major: Biochemistry

Katrina Harris – Characterization of the Integration Morphology of Mycobacteriophage ChipMunk Including de novo Assembly of the Genome

  • Advisor: Keith Hutchison
  • Major: Microbiology

Hina Hashmi – Is the Ubiquitous Antibacterial Agent Triclosan an Uncoupler of Mammalian Mitochondria?

  • Advisor: Julie Gosse
  • Major: Microbiology

Jay Knowlton – Transplacental Arsenic Exposure Effects on Mouse Hepatic Protein Expression

  • Advisor: Rebecca Van Beneden
  • Major: Biology

Samantha Kwok – Investigating Superoxide Dismutase 2 (SOD2) As a Potential Modifier of ALS in a Zebrafish Model

  • Advisor: Roger Sher
  • Major: Molecular and Cellular Biology

Stephanie Woods – The Role of RhoA in Haptotactic Cellular Migration

  • Advisor: Sharon Ashworth
  • Major: Biology

 

Junior Year Fellowship Winners

Campbell Belisle Haley – A genomic symphony: Close analysis of Ukulele promoters and experimental confirmation of promoters in mycobacteriophage

  • Advisor: Sally Molloy
  • Majors: Biochemistry and Spanish

Margaret Pasquarella – Exploring the Effects of FKRP and NAD+ on Muscular Dystrophies in Zebrafish

  • Advisor: Clarissa Henry
  • Major: Zoology

Emily Whitaker – Identification of Ukulele attP using bioinformatic analysis and transformation of Ukulele integrase expressing Mycobacterium smegmatis

  • Advisor: Sally Molloy
  • Major: Molecular and Cellular Biology

 

INBRE (the Maine IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence) is an NCRR/NIH supported network of 13 Maine institutions. The central goal of the INBRE program is to strengthen Maine’s role in creating competitive biomedical research. More information can be found at http://inbre.maineidea.net.