Division of Life Sciences (DLS) Summer Fellowship Program

DLS SURF meeting 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

Fellows for Summer 2020: (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
Nikpreet	Boparai	A Structural Comparison of Wild-Type and S42Y Mutant Alpha-Synuclein Fibrils
Kishan	Bulsara	Studying the Function of Ten-Eleven Translocation (Tet) in Drosophila Using GSEA
Debbie	Cerda	In Silico Analyses of Small Proteins in Escherichia Coli
Kush	Desai	Evaluating the Role of Twist1 in Basement Membrane Integrity and Cortical Neuron Migration
Abigail	Dupre	The Coregulatory Function of Hnf4 and Esrra in Metabolism
Sneha	Gandhi	Tumor Suppressor, Cdx2 Partially Suppresses Wnt-driven Tumorigenesis in the Small Intestine and Colon
Alexander	Kane	Reverse Genetic Approaches for Finding Fertility Genes in C. Elegans
Rohit	Kumar	The Role of NRG1 and YAP/TAZ in the Progression of Colorectal Oncogenesis
Po-Lun	Kung	Bioinformatics Analysis of Zika Virus-Induced Genes Associated With Neurodevelopmental Illnesses and Neurological Pathways
Raj	Malhotra	CASZ1 as a Potential Partner of HNF4 in Regulating Brush Border Development
Rushabh	Mehta	SOX4 and SMARCA4 as Cell Cycle Regulators of Triple Negative Breast Cancer
My	Nguyen	Alcohol Consumption Affects the Coupling between Brain State and Prefrontal Cortical Activity
Shivani	Patel	Investigating Tex15’s Role in Regulating Chromatin Structure in Olfactory Sensory Neurons
Ratchell	Sadovnik	Effects Of Αklotho On Dendritic Branching Of Cultured Hippocampal Neurons
Swetha	Sriramoju	Modelling Interaction for Neuroregenerative PSA Mimetics with Monoclonal Antibody 735
Winnie	Wong	Elucidating Zika Virus and Host Mitochondria-Interacting Protein Interaction Networks Using Amino Acid-Based Algorithms
Anna	Zhang	Identifying Tet Target Proteins in Drosophila Melanogaster

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
Emma	Cordover	The Influence of Signaling Pathways in Cancer Treatment
Maria	Gajic	pUG RNAs and Their Role in Transgenerational Silencing
Joanatta	Shapiro	ROD’s Role in Regulating Microtubule-Kinetochore Attachments in Female Drosophila Meiosis
Anna	Shi	Morphological Analysis of Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons in a Mouse Model of Tourette Syndrome
Hannah	Sturm	The Role of CENP-C in Chromosome Segregation and Cohesion
Janet	Wei	The Function of Gli3 in the Pectoral Girdle Evolution from Fish to Tetrapods

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
Rohit	Aita	Cataloging VDR Target Genes in the Proximal and Distal Segments of the Intestines
Manisha	Bandari	Investigating the Role of SMAD4 in Serrated Colorectal Cancer Using an Inducible Organoid System
Jillian	Carrick	Investigating Mechanisms for Invasion Associated with Upregulated cMET Using Tumor Organoids
Evan	Cohen	Gene Analyses Use in Vitamin D Receptor
Katherine	Haro	Determining How MSI Impacts Progression And Invasiveness Of BRAF-Driven Serrated Colon Cancer
Rushabh	Mehta	SOX4 and SMARCA4 as Cell Cycle Regulators of Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Helen	Nguyen	Exploring C(2)M’s Ability to Facilitate the Assembly of the Synaptonemal Complex