Jasmina Cerda
MARC Student- Junior

Lab Group:Professor Giacamo Raimondi
Major:Marine Biology

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Paul Chavez
MARC Student- Junior

Lab Group:Professor John Tamkun
Major: Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

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MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Institute. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 22 - August 14, 2009.

Giovanni Diaz
MARC Fellow - Senior

Lab Group:Crews Lab
Major:Chemistry with Biochemistry Emphasis

Research: The Crews lab is working to discover novel chemical structures from tropical marine sponges for therapeutic evaluation against cancer and parasitic diseases. The lab isolates and identifies the bioactive compounds using HPLC and several structural elucidation techniques including mass spectrometry and high field NMR (1H, 13C, HMBC, HMQC, COSY,TOCSY, NOESY, and 1H-15N HMQC). My current project is to utilize the techniques above to elucidate chemical structures from the sponge Diacarnus bismarckensis, which may lead to a possible treatment for African Sleeping sickness, caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei.

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MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Experience. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 22 - August 14, 2009.

MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Institute. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 25 - August 17, 2008.

Deena Hassanein
MARC Fellow- Senior

Lab Group:Professor Camilla Forsberg's Lab
Major: Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

Research: Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) are responsible for supplying your body with all types of blood cells. When something goes wrong with the hematopoietic system, various disorders may occur, including anemia, leukemia, and autoimmune disease. The ultimate goal of the Forsberg lab is to understand molecular determinants of HSC differentiation. One way to do this is to look at the different cell surface markers associated with each cell along the HSC lineage. My goal is to study the location of the cell surface marker CD41 along the lineage, and determine whether or not it is a good marker for differentiation of HSC's. Once we are able to understand the methods of differentiation used by HSC's, we will be able to work towards treating and preventing different disorders associated with the hematopoietic system.

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IDENTIFICATION OF CELL SURFACE MARKERS ON MYELOID AND LYPHOID PROGENITORS, WHICH COULD PROVIDE A SUEFUL TOOK IN LINEAGE TRACING OF HEMATOPOIETIC CELLS. Deena Hassanein, Julia Wong, Stephanie Smith-Berdan, Camilla Forsberg. The University of California, Santa Cruz Undergraduate Research Poster Syposium. June, 2009.

MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Institute. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 25 - August 17, 2008.

Jaime Hernandez
MARC Fellow-Senior
Lab Group:Professor Manel Camps' Lab
Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research: My research focuses on the evolution of ABH2 protein, which is an AlkB Human homolog. Methylated DNA is potent and carcinogen. Methylating agents used in chemotherapy are a great cause of methylation. My project is to evolve ABH2 from alkylating agents and to make it more effective and safer in cancer chemotherapy.

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MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Experience. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 22 - August 14, 2009.

Improved Directed Evolution in Escherichia coli. Jaime Hernandez, Dave Alexander, Dr. Manel Camps. Annual Biomedical Conference for Minority Students. Orlando, Florida. November, 2008.

Dayle Juliano
MARC Student- Senior

Lab Group:Professor Zahler
Major: Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

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MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Experenice. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 22 - August 14, 2009.

Amber Kofman
MARC Fellow- Senior

Lab Group: Professor Karen Ottemann's Lab
Major: Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

Research: I am studying the role of chemotaxis in Helicobacter pylori infection. We are using a wild type SS1 H. pylori strain, which is responsive to its environment and a CheY mutant strain which cannot chemotax, and therefore, cannot respond to its environment. I am staining for CD8+ cells, which will help us see the extent of the infection and quantify the number of cells per area.

MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Institute. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 25 - August 17, 2008.

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IDENTIFICATION OF CD8 POSITIVE CELLS IN HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTED MICE. Amber Kofman, Dr. Karen Ottemann, Annah Roling. Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz. California Alliance for Minority Participation Conference. February 27-March 2, 2009. University of California, Irvine. Poster Presentation.

IDENTIFICATION OF CD8 POSITIVE CELLS IN HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTED MICE. Amber Kofman, Annah Roling, Dr. Karen Ottemann. Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. University of California at Santa Cruz. Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology. The University of California, Santa Cruz Undergraduate Research Poster Syposium. June, 2009.

Bertram LinderKamp
MARC Fellow- Junior

Lab Group: Camilla Forsberg
Major: Bioengineering

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Ivan Milan
MARC Fellow-Senior

Lab Group: Professor Bill Saxton's Lab
Major:Neuroscience

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MARC Summer Research Experenice. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 22 - August 14, 2009.

MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Institute. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 25 - August 17, 2008.

Daniel Quezada
MARC Student- Junior

Lab Group:Professor Pardip Masharak
Major: Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

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MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Institute. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 22 - August 14, 2009.

Angel Resendez
MARC Student- Junior

Lab Group:Professor Bakthan Singaram
Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Institute. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 25 - August 17, 2008.

Chris Robles
MARC Student- Junior

Lab Group:Professor Nader Pourmand
Major: Bioengineering

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MARC Summer Research Experenice. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 22 - August 14, 2009.

Quang Tran
MARC Student-Senior

Lab Group:Professor Ted Holman's Lab
Major:Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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PREPARATION OF PROTECTED (S)-ISOSERINE FOR USE IN THE TOTAL SYNTHESES OF CYCLOCINAMIDES A AND B. Quang Tran, Dr. Joseph P. Konopelski, Jessica M. Garcia. California Alliance for Minority Participation Conference. February 27-March 2, 2009. University of California, Irvine. Poster Presentation.

MARC Summer Research Experenice. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 22 - August 14, 2009.

MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Institute. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 25 - August 17, 2008.

Salvador Vazquez
MARC Student- Junior

Lab Group:Professor Ali Shakouri
Major: Electrical Engineering

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MARC/IMSD/CAMP Summer Research Experenice. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 22 - August 14, 2009.