2006 INBRE Summer Research Fellows

Talented undergraduates are invited to participate in summer research programs of established scientists in a network-wide competitive program. Selection of students is based on a combination of prior academic success, letters of recommendation and research interests. Below are our 2006 undergraduate student research fellows, their institutional affiliation, project title and mentor.

Michelle Buckley, University of Maine – Machias
    "Behavioral mechanisms for osmoregulation in Killifish"
     Mentor: Dr. George Kidder, MDI Biological Laboratory

Benjamin Burpee, University of Maine – Orono
    "Developmental Expression of SIFamide in Homarus americanus"
     Mentor: Dr. Andrew Christie, MDIBL and the Univ of Washington

Tobin Carson, University of Maine – Farmington
    "Interactions of small molecules with DNA: how some small molecules cause cancer
     whereas others act as anti-cancer drugs"
     Mentor: Dr. Julie Millard, Colby College

Jared Cassin, Bates College
    "The biogeography of Homarus americanus: Physiological and biochemical factors
     that determine thermal tolerance"
     Mentor: Dr. Mary Kate Worden, MDIBL and the University of Virginia

     Anne Cuttler, Colby College
         "Crustacean neuroendocrinology"
         Mentor: Dr. Andrea Tilden, Colby College

     Zinaida Dedeic,
     College of the Atlantic
         "Breast Cancer Stem Cells"
          Mentor: Dr. MiMi DeVries,
                     The Jackson Laboratory

Tamlyn Frederick, Bowdoin College
    "Development of an Experimental System to Evaluate the Kinetic Parameters           of Picornavirus 3C Protease-Catalyzed Reactions"
     Mentor: Dr. Glen Lawson, Bates College

Katherine Gassman, University of Maine – Farmington
    "Does cryopreservation decapacitate C57BL/6J sperm?"
     Mentor: Dr. Chuck Ostemeier, The Jackson Laboratory

Nathaniel Jillette, University of
                                Maine – Machias
    "Neuroendocrine regulation of carbonic
     anhydrase gene expression in the gills of the
     euryhaline green crab, Carcinus maenus"
     Mentor: Dr. Raymond Henry, MDIBL and
                                Auburn University

Charles Johnson  Bowdoin College
    "Role of Wall Associated Kinase 4 in Arabidopsis Cell Expansion"
     Mentor: Dr. Bruce Kohorn, Bowdoin College

Laura Lalemand, University of Maine – Farmington
    "Response to increased Phosphorus levels in elasmobranchs and teleosts"
     Mentor: Dr. Franklin Epstein, MDIBL and Beth Israel Medical Center

Elizabeth Mitchell, University
                                 of New England
    "Behavioral and neural mechanisms for
     predator evasion in crustacean zooplankton"
     Mentor: Dr. Petra Lenz, MDIBL and the
                University of Hawaii, Manoa

Teagan O’Toole, U of Maine – Orono
    "Developing Marine Cell Lines and Stem Cells"
     Mentor: Dr. Rebecca Van Beneden, The University of Maine

Peter Pavicevic, College of the Atlantic           
    "The Interaction of ATNT/AHR in the Soft-Shell Clam, Mya arenaria"
     Mentor: Dr. David Barnes, MDI Biological Laboratory

Elizabeth Petit, Colby College 
    "Osmoregulation and stress responses in the
     euryhaline fish, Fundulus"
     Mentor: Dr. Robert Preston, MDIBL and
                Illinois State University

Gregory Sousa, Bates College 
    "Immunohistochemical Survey of Peptide
     Transmitters in Copepods"
     Mentor: Dr. Andrew Christie, MDIBL and the                 University of Washington

Rebecca Wood, University of New England          
    "Functional genomics of acid/base relevant ion transporters in the branchial
     epithelium of agnathans"
     Mentor: Dr. Susan Edwards, MDIBL and James Cook University

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