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Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Minority Student Summer Research Opportunity Program

Samples of Previous Projects

Involvement of autophagic processes in anthrax letal toxin-mediated cell killing

MBP and SDF-Ia alter tight junction proteins and MMP production in cells of the human blood brain barrier: a possible rols in MS

Are there insulators downstream of hte IgH locus?

The expression of Thx1 in the mouse brain and its possible relationship to VCS

Exploring the binding interface of cofilin and actin

Changes in the formation of autophagy vacuoles in chaperone-mediated autophagy blocked cells

Behavorial phenotyping in a knock-in mouse model of Huntington's disease

Hypothalamic dysfunction and reproductive senescence

TGF13 signaling in the developing mouse inner ear: a role for Smad

STAT3 as a potential target gene of BCL-6

The mechanics of the Ay-Globin gene to gene switch

Analysis of gene regulation using GFP reporter genes in transgenic zebrafish

An analysis of lipopolysaccharide-induced depressive-like behavior, and nuerocrine and neuroimmune activation in Wistar rats

A transgenic animal model for chaperone-mediated autophagy

Microglial secreted enzyme B-hexoaminidase is secreted with M6P moieties that mediates its uptake via glycol receptors
in neuronal cells, suggesting microglial use in the therapeutic treatment of neuronal storage disorders

Temporal arteritis: Inflammatory or not?

The effect of exercise on ACRP30 (adipocyte complement-related protein of 30 kilo Daltons)

Identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes

Investigation of NSAIDs for the treatment of IFNalpha-induced depressive-like behavior

Regulation of inner ear development of mice by Smads

Retroviruses as a tool to study cancer, genomics and evolution

The anti-proliferating actions of destabilizing drugs at low concentrations

Mycobacterium tuberculosis dihydrofolate reductase is an alternate target for isoniazid

Cx36 gap junctions control ATP secretion in a mouse insulinoma cell line

In vitro and in vivo assays for Mycobacterium tuberculosis NirA function

Detecting protein interactions using GFP-fragment reassembly

Biofilm formation of Candida species

The design, expression and purification of KMCys334-222

Strategies to address obesity, development of recreational pamphlets

Homogentisic acid (HGA): a precursor of melanogenesis in Cryptococcus neoformans

Re-exression of transcriptionally silenced genes in head and neck cancer

Mapping of the Histoplama catsulatum M antigen