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MBP Class of 2018-2019/20

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Giancarlo Balangue

• BS Life Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University - Manila, Philippines
• MBP Research Project: Investigation of bispecific spherical nucleic acids for treatment of inflammatory skin pathologies (D. Giljohann)

Wenhao Cao

• BS Biochemical Engineering, University of Leuven (KU Leuven) - Leuven, Belgium
• MBP Research Project: Screening and characterization of novel modulators of mHtt-induced behavioral arhythmicity (R. Allada)

Mary Cassidy

• BS Engineering Mechanics (Biomechanics), University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Enzyme responsive progelator biomaterials as therapeutic scaffolds for negative left ventricle remodeling post myocardial infarction (N. Gianneschi)

Laura Cook

• Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
• MBP Research Project: Development of a safe compartment-forming strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT₂ (D. Tullman-Ercek)

John Docter

• BS Zoology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI
• MBP Research Project: Mainstream shortcut biological phosphorous and nitrogen removal (G. Wells)

Tim Earl

• BS Biological (Biomedical) Sciences, Arizona State University - Phoenix, AZ
• MBP Research Project: Sleep and circadian rhythms in fragile X mutant Drosophila (R. Allada)

Connor Forsyth

• BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Intracellular trafficking of structurally distinct immunostimulatory spherical nucleic acids (C. Mirkin)

Pan Gao

• BS Biological Science, University of California - Irvine, CA
• MBP Research Project: Tracing of glutamatergic afferents and efferents of dorsal hippocampus and retrosplenial cortex (J. Radulovic)

Yue Gao

• BS Food Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University, United International College - Zhuhai, China
• MBP Research Project: Bioinformatics methods for analysis of RNA-seq (transcriptome) data (R. Davuluri)

Weijian Huang

• BS Biological Engineering, Hunan Agricultural University - Changsha, China
• MBP Research Project: The investigation on the promising membrane surface protein receptor Na/K ATPase alpha 3 that triggers a "signaling cascade" with its ligand --- ABO (W. Klein)

Yu-Hsin (Anita) Huang

• BS Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
• MBP Research Project: Molecular genetic characterization of beta-tubulin function in benzimidazole drug resistance (E. Andersen)

Hannah Klaeser

• BA Biology, Whitman College - Walla Walla, WA
• MBP Research Project: Investigating the effect that stepwise changes in the oligonucleotide chemistry and sequence have on the efficacy of RNase H mediated SNA compounds (D. Giljohann)

Aderonke Koya

• BA Anatomy, Babcock University - Ilishan Remo, Nigeria
• MBP Research Project: Role of polypropylene sulphide (PPS) nanoparticles as redox scavengers (E. Scott)

Yuyao Kuang

• BS Engineering, Bioengineering, East China University of Science and Technology - Shanghai, China
• MBP Research Project: Synthesis and functionalization of "theranostic" magnetic nanostructures for MRI contrast enhancement (V. Dravid)

Keyin Li

• BS Biological Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University - Guangzhou, China
• MBP Research Project: RNAi screening for traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Drosophila (R. Allada)

Zongru Li

• BS Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester - Rochester, NY
• MBP Research Project: Design and synthesis of new types of nano-vehicles for MRI imaging (E. Scott)

Ryan Mayers

• BA Biology, University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
• MBP Research Project: ALS-related NEK₁ loss of function disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport via the microtubule cytoskeleton (E. Kiskinis)

Hannah McDowell

• BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Studying the immunogenicity of HLA-DQ in solid organ transplantation (A. Tambur)

Kamron Mehrayin

• MS Business, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, IL
• BS Chemistry, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Patient safety and economic implications of underrepresentation in clinical trials (A. Felse)

Chinmay Menon

• BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Economics, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA
• BA Economics, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA
• MBP Research Project: Magnetic nanostructures for therapeutic and diagnostic action (V. Dravid)

Krista Meuli

• BA Neuroscience, Lake Forest College - Lake Forest, IL
• MBP Research Project: Oligonucleotide synthesis time optimization (D. Giljohann)

William Minor

• BS Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
• MBP Research Project: Elucidating the AβO- NKAα3 initiation complex: a path to new Alzheimer’s Disease therapeutics (W. Klein)

Luke O'Donnell

• BS Biomedical Engineering (Biomechanics), Marquette University - Milwaukee, WI
• MBP Research Project: Quantifying chaos in cancer clinical trials (A. Felse)

Yuting Pan

• BS Medicine, Capital Medical University - Beijing, China
• MBP Research Project: Detection of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 3 (MAP₂K₃) immunoreactivity in the human cerebral cortex (C. Geula)

Nathaniel Polley

• BS Bioinformatics, computer science, and biology, Loyola University - Chicago, IL
• MBP Research Project: Development of metabolic ensemble modeling software for enzymatic pathway kinetics (K. Tyo)

Sanjana Prakash Rao

• BS Engineering (Biotechnology), NMAM Institute of Technology - Nitte, India
• MBP Research Project: Creating a safe strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to be used for type III secretion studies (D. Tullman-Ercek)

Ruojia Shi

• BS Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA
• MBP Research Project: Inhibitors of nNOS design for neurodegenerative disorder (R. Silverman)

Taeyil Son

• BS Biology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA
• MBP Research Project: Differentiation and characterization of specific endothelial cell types from human pluripotent stem cell (J. Wertheim)

Nanjia Song

• BS Life Science, Central South University - Changsha, China
• MBP Research Project: Identification of novel circadian genes using a luciferase enhancer trap screen (R. Allada)

Yanfang Song

• BS Medical Inspection Technology, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine - Wuhan City, China
• MBP Research Project: VEGF secreting PMC (D. Joester)

Michael Stec

• BS Biology, Loyola University - Chicago, IL
• MBP Research Project: The utilization of inspection citations as an indicator of recall events (A. Felse)

Yueyang Wang

• BS Biology, Wake Forest University - Wake Forest, NC
• MBP Research Project: Efficacy of antisense SNAs in STAT₃ splicing modulation (D. Giljohann)

Meng Wang

• BS Biotechnology, Anhui University - Hefei, China
• MBP Research Project: Discovery of receptor proteins for the autophagic clearance of toxic amyloids (C. He)

Sara Wixon

• BS Microbiology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities - Minneapolis, MN
• MBP Research Project: Prospecting thiamine diphosphate-dependent carboligases and characterizing their promiscuity to create novel metabolic pathways from primary metabolites (K. Tyo)

Yongzhan Zhang

• BS Aquaculture Science, Hunan Agricultural University - Changsha, China
• MBP Research Project: Distinct genomic features in mucosal, acral and vulvar melanomas (L. Zou)

Zhongyao Zhang

• BS Biological Sciences, Xiamen University - Xiamen, China
• MBP Research Project: Characterization of novel lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus vectors expressing HIV-1 antigens (P. Penaloza)

Yibo Zhu

• BS Chemical Engineering, University of California - Davis, CA
• MBP Research Project: Protein kinetics in nanofiber matrices of peptide amphiphiles (S. Stupp)