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MBP Class of 2015-2016/17

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Faiza Ali

• BS Biology, University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA
• MBP Research Project: Determination of Potential Interferences in the High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Test (F. Lai)

Lachelle Brooks

• BS Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
• MBP Research Project: Deployment and operation of the activated sludge, biological phosphorus removal (HARS-P) system: A step towards energy neutrality for wastewater treatment facilities (G. Wells)

Yue (Julia) Du

• BS Biotechnology, Sun Yat-Sen University - Guangzhou, Guangdong (China)
• MBP Research Project: Cell-based bioassay development to determine the mechanism of action of RITUXIMAB (J. TerWee)

Connor Feeney

• BS Bioengineering, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) - Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Technology development of Briteseed laparoscopic surgical smart devices (J. Gunn)

Anuja Ganesan

• BTech Industrial Biotechnology, Anna University - Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India)
• MBP Research Project: Optimizing video tracking of Drosophila behavior in 96-well plate (R. Allada)

Alex Gedye

• BS Microbiology, University of Wisconsin (Madison) - Madison, WI
• MBP Research Project: Design and Synthesis of Bacterial Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors (R. Silverman)

Nicolette (Nickie) Gregor

• BS Neuroscience & BS Life Sciences Informatics, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
• MBP Research Project: Effects of infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa after TBI in a mouse model (S. Schwulst)

Jeanne LaVergne

• BA Biological Sciences, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ
• MBP Research Project: Control of Micropollutants: Evaluating the influence of restored stream and riparian habitats on trace organic chemical contaminants’ persistence (K. Gray)

Yu-Chen (Theodore) Lee

• BS Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Taipei Medical University - Xinyi District, Taipei City (Taiwan)
• MBP Research Project: K-Ras acetylation effects on cellular response to selected chemical inhibitors (A. Vassilopoulos)

Chun-Ying (Catheryne) Lin

• BS Public Health, Taipei Medical University - Xinyi District, Taipei City (Taiwan)
• MBP Research Project: Racial disparities in health, healthcare accessibility and utilization (L. Liu)

Mingjun Liu

• BE Bioengineering, Chongqing University - Shapingba, Chongqing (China)
• MBP Research Project: The Effect of Chemotherapeutic Chemical Doxorubicin on Uterine Function (T. Woodruff)
• Current Position: PhD Candidate, Cellular and Molecular Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - Pittburgh, PA (2017 - )
  

Sana Ma

• BS Chemical Engineering & BM Piano Performance, Northwestern University - Evanston, IL
• MBP Research Project: Dimerization Inhibitors of nNOS (R. Silverman)
• Current Position: PhD Candidate, University of Copenhagen - Copenhagen, Denmark

Sejal Mistry

• BS Human Biology, University of California (Merced) - Merced, CA
• MBP Research Project: Screening of oligonucleotide sequences for greater TLR9 response in SNA format (D. Giljohann)

Kenan Moss

• BS Biological Engineering, Utah State University - Logan, UT
• MBP ResearchProject: The Effect of Nanoparticle Conjugation on Transferrin Uptake in Cancer Cells (G. Woloschak)

Justin Newton

• BS Biology, Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA
• MBP Research Project: Understanding the utilization of lignin compounds as carbon substrates in Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 (K. Tyo)

Brian Ouyang

• BS Chemistry, University of California (San Diego) - San Diego, CA
• MBP Research Project: Nanomaterial Biodistribution and Uptake by Immune Cells in Mice (E. Scott)

Rhitwika Sensharmaa

• BS Chemical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Blacksburg, VA
• MBP Research Project: Estradiol-Regulated Protein Expression in the Human Ectocervical Epithelium (T. Woodruff)
• Current Position: MD Candidate, University of Vermont

Sneha Shankar

• BE Biotechnology, BMS College of Engineering - Bengaluru, Karnataka (India)
• MBP Research Project: TBA (H. Jamil, Fresenius Kabi)

Nadim Shereef

• MT Biochemical Engineering & BTech Biochemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) - Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (India)
• MBP Research Project: Scale up of cardiomyocyte differentiation in bioreactor using chemically defined CDM3 media (P. Burridge)

Saudamini Shevade

• MS Biology, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research - Mumbai, Maharashtra (India)
• BS Life Sciences & BS Biochemistry, St. Xavier's College - Mumbai, Maharashtra (India)
• MBP Research Project: Scale up of cardiomyocyte differentiation in bioreactor using chemically defined CDM3 media (F. Lai, Ohmx Corporation)

Xuehan Shi

• BS Biology, Shandong University - Jinan, Shandong (China)
• MBP Research Project: Creation of unique reagents for determination of mechanism of action of biosimilar drugs using biological and immunological methods (J. TerWee, Hospira)

Megan Spies

• BS Biochemistry & BS Cellular Biology, University of California (San Diego) - San Diego, CA
• MBP Research Project: Validation of miR-K10 Targets (E. Gottwein)

Jake Vitrofsky

• BS Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts (Amherst) - Amherst, MA
• MBP Research Project: New Wave Alzheimer’s theranostics (W. Klein)

He (Justin) Wang

• BS Biochemistry, University of British Columbia - Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)
• MBP Research Project: Development of cell-free protein synthesis system for Streptomyces lividans (M. Jewett)

Kenneth Wang

• BA Chemistry & BA Biology, New College of Florida - Sarasota, FL
• MBP Research Project: Functional partners of JMJD3, a histone demethylase involved in T-ALL progression (P. Ntziachristos)

Chao Wei

• BS Biology, Baylor University - Waco, TX
• BS Biological Sciences, Sichuan University - Chengdu, Sichuan (China)
• MBP Research Project: Higher order temperature neurons in drosophila (W. Klein)
• Current Position: PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA

Stephanie Wiegel

• BS Biology, Black Hills State University - Spearfish, SD
• MBP Research Project: Microfluidic Particle Sorting For Liquid Based Cytology Sample Preparation (H. Subramanian)

Yaqi Wu

• BS Pharmacy, Nankai University - Nankai, Tianjin (China)
• MBP Research Project: The role of HSF2 in human malignancies (M. Mendillo)

Bettina Wunderlich

• BAS Molecular and Cellular Biology, Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD
• MBP Research Project: Combined phototoxicity of n-Ag and n-TiO2 (K. Gray)

Yaqi Zhang

• BS Pharmacy, Peking University - Haidian, Beijing (China)
• MBP Research Project: Development of mouse models to investigate protein degradation, muscle cell autophagy and muscle regeneration (T. Woodruff)
• Current Position: PhD Candidate, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine - Chicago, IL (2017 - )

Xiaotian Zhao

• BS Biotechnology, Tongji University - Yangpu, Shanghai (China)
• MBP Research Project: The role of HSF2 in human malignancies (G. Wells)
• Current Position: PhD Candidate, Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN (2018 - )

Xiang Zhou

• BE Polymeric Material and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University - Guangzhou, Guangdong (China)
• MBP Research Project: Systemic study of transition of the cellular nanoarchitecture in live cells during fixation process using partial wave spectroscopy (V. Backman)