Division of Life Sciences – New Brunswick Student Exhibits

research of Genetics students

The Division of Life Sciences (DLS) in the School of Arts and Sciences encourages and fosters research and education to understand and advance life science research within the context of human health and disease. Our fellowship program provides summer undergraduate research fellowship opportunities for our advanced undergraduate students with previous research experience. We thank our generous supporters, acknowledged below, for their continued support of our extraordinary students and our research mission.

DLS Fellowship Program Committee Members

Dr. Anne Carr-Schmid – Biological Sciences
Dr. Bonnie Firestein- Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Dr. Kim McKim- Genetics
Dr. Drew Vershon – Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

SAS Honors Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (HLS-SURF)

This fellowship is intended for SAS Honors Program undergraduates who are Division of Life Sciences majors pursuing novel, independent life science based research under the supervision of a Rutgers-NB faculty member from outside of the Division of Life Sciences. This fellowship is generously funded by the SAS Honors Program.

Fellows for Summer 2021: (Click the project title to see the presentation)

This fellowship is intended for undergraduate DLS majors pursuing novel, independent research under the supervision of a DLS faculty member. This fellowship is funded by the Division of Life Sciences and by a generous endowment from Duncan and Nancy MacMillan.

First name	Last Name	Project Title
Cynthia	Daut	Comparing Morphological Effects of a Point Mutation and Conditional Knockout in Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons
Allen	Fu	Co-immunoprecipitation of NOS1AP with the nNOS-PSD-95 Complex
Pranya	Gaddipati	Role of the BMP/TGF-β Signaling Pathway in Alzheimer’s Disease
Ahri	Han	Mapping Jub LIM-domains Required for Drosophila Wing-size Control
Cade	Hindley	The Role of PTB1 in Regulating the Activation of Jurkat Cell Lines
Aditya	Jain	Glymphatic Influx Is Impaired In TWIST1 CKO Mouse Models Of Craniosynostosis
Manav	Jain	Assessing the Influence of Twist1 In Regulating Pial Basement Membrane Integrity and Projection Neuron Migration
Catherine	Kratka	Decreased Next Generation Sequencing PGT-A Content Results in Increased Noise
Siddhant	Kumarapuram Ganapath	The Effects of Extracellular Stiffness on Neuronal Mitochondria
Po-Lun	Kung	TNF-alpha cytokine signaling regulates ZIKV-induced neurological gene expression
Hannah	Lake	Physiological Role of Bacterial Filamentation During Antimicrobial Stress in Escherichia coli
Leya	Mahal	The Role of SPC105R in Drosophila Female Oocytes
Jil	Modi	Effects of Loss of RME-8 on SNCA(A53T) in Neurons of C. elegans
Archita	Padmanabhan	High-throughput Whole-genome RNAi Screen Approach to Dissect Mechanisms of Neuronal Trash Management in C. elegans
Nicholas	Panzera	RIPK3 regulates neurotransmitter receptor internalization and transport following Zika virus infection
Hiral	Patel	Characterization of Potential Fertilization Mutant 9AA3 in C. elegans
Nazir	Qureshi	Signal Transduction by the Dachsous (ds) Cytoplasmic Domain (ICD)
Stephen	Ratner	Impact of circadian rhythms on the outcome of traumatic injury in Drosophila melanogaster
Anusha	Shanabag	The Functional Roles of HOX13 in the Evolution of Digits
Sahana	Shekhar	Exploring the Role of Phospholipid Translocases in Exophergenesis
Monica	Tschang	Investigating Mimetics of a Peptide Derived from the Effector Domain of MARCKS as Possible Therapeutics for Spinal Cord Injury
Maxim	Yacun	Mutant Huntingtin Aggregate Formation: Effects of Cold Shock and Microtubule Integrity
Richard	Yang	The Role of KAT2A and KAT2B in Interferon-Stimulated Gene Regulation in the Mouse Intestinal Epithelium
Ashley	Yang	Using Antibody Phage Display to Find Tumor Associated Antigens

This fellowship is intended for Honors College Women who are DLS majors pursuing novel, independent life science based research under the supervision of a Rutgers-NB faculty member. This fellowship is generously funded by the Rutgers Honors College in conjunction with the Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D program.

First name	Last Name	Project Title
Meha	Aggarwal	Role of mTORC1 in the autophagic clearance of DAT following cocaine administration
Arianna	Horgan	Effect of Seston on Gut Transit Time in 𝘊. 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢
Anjali	Patel	Effects of Antibiotics and GUSi on the Expression of Estrogen Receptors in Mouse Hepatic Tissue
Deepti	Rao	E-Cadherin/HMR-1 polarity requires vesicle transport powered by WAVE-dependent branched actin
Anushka	Subrahmanian	The Effect of Azithromycin on the Expression of UGT1A1 and UGT1A9 in Mouse Livers
Deeksha	Misri	Identifying differentially regulated reactions in stony coral Montipora capitata under thermal stress

This fellowship is intended for Genetics majors who are pursuing novel, independent cancer genetics/genomics research under the supervision of a Rutgers-NB faculty member. This fellowship is generously funded by the Human Genetics Institute and a generous endowment from Duncan and Nancy MacMillan.

First name	Last Name	Project Title
Sneha	Gandhi	Reprogramming of mesenchymal signals in B-catenin driven tissue transformation of the intestine
Manisha	Persaud	Investigating the Mechanisms of Chromosomal Segregation Errors and its Implications in Reproductive Health Through Kinetochore Protein Microtubule Interactions
Julie	Pfeffer	Interferon-Stimulated Gene Upregulation in the Absence of Intestinal KAT2A and KAT2B
Joanatta	Shapiro	The Role of ROD in Regulating Kinetochore-Microtubule Attachments in Female Drosophila Meiosis

First name	Last Name	Project Title
Leda	Wang	Tracing lineages of Shh-responsive cells in the developing CNS