2012 Scholars and Mentors
Michael Butler - Georgia Tech
Bell Scholar
Mentor: Adam Prasanphanich
Project: Characterization of Smad Localization Under Redox Perturbation of TGF Signaling
Frederick Damen - Georgia Tech
Mentor: Behnaz Yousefi
Project: Effects of Nodal and Edge Definitions on Anatomical Brain Networks in Three Primate Species
Kyle Ferguson - Georgia Tech
Mentor: Jonathan Park
Project: Identification of the substrate specificity of nitroreductases, and alteration via protein engineering
Kelsey Gratton - Georgia Tech
Mentor: Megan Cole
Project: Expanding biology: Engineering tRNAs for delivery of unnatural amino acids to the ribosome
Alexandria Harrison - Georgia Tech
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Sharanya Desai
Project: Comparing Stimulation Performance of Microelectrodes to that of Traditional Macroelectrodes used in Deep Brain Stimulation
Susan Hastings - Georgia Tech
Pruitt Scholar
Mentor: Marmar Merabadi
Project: Thrombus Formation in Pediatric ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Circuits
Kathleen Heller - Georgia Tech
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Yu Zhang
Project: Crosstalk between the ability of repetitive DNA sequences GAA/TTC to serve as promoters and their potential to drive genome instability
Jacob Johnson - Georgia Tech
St. Joseph's Translational Research Institute Scholar
Mentor: Arvind Santhanakrishnan
Project: Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Compliance in Fontan Surgical Connections
Taylor Kavanaugh - Georgia Tech
Mentor: Asha Shekaran
Project: A transgenic luciferase mouse model for non-invasive imaging of endogenous osteoprogenitor cell invasion and vascularization into a radial segmental defect
Lu Ling - Georgia Tech
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Melissa Kinney
Project: Analysis of signaling to direct embryonic stem cell differentiation a microfluidic co-culture
Robert Mannino - Georgia Tech
St. Joseph's Translational Research Institute Scholar
Mentor: David Myers
Project: Automated Mobile Phone Telemicroscopy for Sickle Cell Disease Screening
Mohamad Najia - Georgia Tech
Beckman Coulter Scholar
Mentor: Jenna Wilson
Project: Influencing encapsulated stem cell factor secretion through hypoxic conditioning
Marc Powell - Georgia Tech
Bell Scholar
Mentor: Ming-fai Fong
Project: Multi-well optogenetic stimulation system for studying homeostatic synaptic plasticity in cultured cortical networks in vitro
Sydney Rowson - Georgia Tech
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Alana Reed
Project: Investigation of the cytoskeleton and energy-dependent processes as mechanisms of lipid transport across the lymphatic endothelium
Abhinav Sharma - Emory University
St. Joseph's Translational Research Institute Scholar
Mentor: Brad Kairdolf
Project: Characterization of Biomarkers in Breast Cancer Cells with Quantum Dots and Detection of Brain Tumor Cells using SpectroPen
Andrew St. James - Georgia Tech
Bell Scholar
Mentor: Brande Jones
Project: Deconstruction of the RIbosome In vitro and In vivo
Patrick Strane - Georgia Tech
Mentor: Vincent Fiore
Project: Measuring the magnitude and frequency of cell-mediated forces applied to native ECM
Anirudh Sundararaghavan - Georgia Tech
Mentor: Renee Cottle
Project: Application of Nanotechnology to the Study of G-protein Signaling Within a Live Cell
Alexandra Wagner - Agnes Scott College
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Natalie Saini
Project: Determining the importance of post-translational modifications of Rvb1 and Rvb2 in DNA secondary structure metabolism
