Undergraduate Lata Symposium

Every spring, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology holds the Lata Symposium. This symposium celebrates the research accomplishments of Biochemistry undergraduates and provides graduating seniors an opportunity to present their research results to the Department and interested members of the public.

Dr. Gene F. Lata was a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from 1950 to 1992. Dr. Lata organized the first undergraduate biochemistry curriculum in 1971, and served as the Director of the Biochemistry Undergraduate Majors Program until his retirement in 1992. In recognition of Dr. Lata's dedication to undergraduate education in biochemistry, his family, friends and the Department have established a fund in his honor. This fund supports the annual Lata Symposium, a celebration of the research accomplishments of our talented students who have completed a substantial research project during their undergraduate years.

Dr. Lata began his career with a BS in chemistry from the City College of New York. During World War II, he served in France with the U.S. Army Medical Corps. After the war, he received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Illinois and joined the faculty at Iowa in 1950. In addition to his research on steroid hormones, Dr. Lata was a dedicated teacher, counselor and mentor to students. As the Director of the Biochemistry Undergraduate Majors Program, he personally advised hundreds of undergraduate biochemistry majors, many of whom have gone on to highly successful careers in science, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, education, law, business and other professions. He and Dr. Robert Dryer wrote an undergraduate textbook entitled Experimental Biochemistry, based on the course that Dr. Lata developed and that biochemistry majors are still required to take. Dr. Lata passed away at age 80 on December 1, 2002.

Previous Presenters

2020-present

Year	Name	Mentor	Talk Title	Future Plans
2024	Brenna Powers	Lori Wallrath	Identifying Candidate Drugs to Treat Rare Types of Muscular Dystrophy	She will attend graduate school at Iowa in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program.
2024	Rivers Maw	Sheila Baker	Methodological Analysis of AHA Incorporation into Retinal Proteins	He is attending medical school at Iowa.
2024	Jack E.B. Miller	Pamela Geyer	The Role of the Centrosome in Loss of Germline Stem Cell Homeostasis in the Emerin Mutant Drosophila Ovary	He will attend graduate school at Iowa in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics.
2024	Hasya Joshi	Long-Sheng Song	Nuclear Translocation of Junctophilin-1	He plans to attend medical school.
2024	Josiah Power	Eric Nuxoll	Thermal Susceptibility of Single-Species and Polymicrobial Biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa	He is attending graduate school at Johns Hopkins University to pursue a PhD in Chemical Engineering.
2023	Delaney Catania	Ernesto Fuentes	Characterizing the Cache Sensor Domain of SrrB Histidine Kinase in S. aureus	She will take a gap year to continue working on research in the Fuentes lab before applying to graduate schools in Medical Lab Science.
2023	Maunika Gandhamaneni	Daniel Weeks	Protein Features That Direct Nucleolar Compartmentalization	She will be working at the UIHC while applying to medical school.
2023	Emily Herum	Madeline Shea	Target-Specific Dysfunctions of Mutants of Calmodulin	She will be completing a post-bac program in a lab at the UI.
2023	Alexandria Jimenez	Rainbo Hultman	Biophysical Characterization of Mouse-Model Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide	She will attend graduate school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
2023	Abigail Morrison	Miles Pufall	Functional Interactions of the Glucocorticoid Receptor in Leukemia Cell Death	She will attend the UI Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program.
2023	Caridad Naanep	Kris DeMali	Investigation of FMNL2 and its Role in Junctional Actin Assembly in Response to Force	She will apply for veterinary school while doing research with Dr. Alex Claussen in Otolaryngology at the UI.
2023	Nikhil Patel	Adrian Elcock	Towards Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Escherichia Coli Inner Membrane	He plans to apply to medical school, volunteer at the hospital, and shadow doctors.
2022	Spenser Johnson	Douglas Spitz	The Inhibition of Thioredoxin Reductase in a Mouse Xenograft Model with Auranofin	Attending Yale to do brain cancer research for two years after graduation and applying to MD/PhD programs in that time.
2022	Lanchi Nguyen	Donna Hammond	Isolation and Analysis of Functional Mitochondria in Mice Models	Will be taking a gap year and applying to med school in summer 2023.
2022	Isabella Perales	Pamela Geyer	Structural changes in centrosomes correlate with activation of a checkpoint that triggers germline stem cell loss	Will be taking a gap year from classes to work in the field and decide what path best suits me and my goals.
2022	Cade Rahlf	Madeline Shea	Defining an Interaction Between A-type Fibroblast Growth Factor Homologous Factors and Calmodulin	Continue education onto a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology.
2021	Geoffrey Collins	David Price	A multifaceted approach to understanding the role of the 7SK snRNP in transcription regulation
2021	Daniel Conway	Adrian Elcock	Using protein structure predictions to identify new integral membrane proteins in E. coli	Attend CCOM in Fall 2021.
2021	Mikayla Eppert	Sarit Smolikove	Study of Long-Range Resection in Meiotic Homologous Recombination	Attend UT Southwestern in Dallas to pursue a PhD in biomedical sciences
2021	Benjamin Grimm	Ronald Weigel	AP-2α Drives Melanoma Metastasis	Attend CCOM in Fall 2021.
2021	Renato Jensen	E. Dale Abel	Metabolic Phenotyping of Mice with Skeletal Muscle-specific DRP1 Deficiency	Medical school/MSTP program.
2021	Dariya Kozlova	Brandon Davies	Analysis of Human ANGPTL3 Mutants: EL and LPL Inhibition	Attend medical school in Fall 2021.
2021	Guowei Qi	Mike Schnieders	Protein Structure Prediction Using a Maximum Likelihood Formulation of a Neural Network	Conduct research at the University of Cambridge's Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.
2021	Sydney Walker	Lori Wallrath	Modeling laminopathies in Drosophila: Muscle and adipose dysregulation	Biochemistry PhD Program in Fall 2021.
2021	Emma Sailor	Sheila Baker	Investigating retinal metabolism in KCNV2 retinopathy	Studying bioinformatics.
2020	Olumayokun (Mayo) Akinbo	Scott Lieberman	Implications of Tyrosine Kinase 2 in Lacrimal Gland Disease in a Mouse Model of Sjögren's Syndrome
2020	Angela Benton	Robert Cornell	Investigating the neural crest gene regulatory network: identification of an enhancer nearby tfap2a	Working as a medical scribe while applying to medical school.
2020	Brianna Lupo	Catherine Musselman	The molecular basis of multivalent DNA-binding by the BRM AT-hook and bromodomain	Spend a year scribing before attending medical school.
2020	Angela Mahoney	Sheila Baker	Development of a Cell Based Assay to Investigate KCNV2 Retinopathy	Applying to medical schools this summer and working as a temporary research assistant with Arlene Drack, MD.
2020	Emeleeta Paintsil	Maria Spies	The mechanism of Stalled DNA Replication Forks Protection by the RAD52 DNA Repair Protein	Attending the Medical College of Wisconsin to pursue a PhD in their Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences (IDP).
2020	Francesca Spencer	Daniel Weeks	How protein aggregation may establish nucleolar domain formation and function	Completing an MS in Geology at the University of Utah doing forensic stable isotope research with Dr. Gabriel Bowen.

2010-2019

Year	Name	Mentor	Talk Title	Future Plans
2019	Sophia Vogeler	Charles Brenner	Evaluating the Efficacy of NAD Precursors in Treating Hyperphagia	Take the patent bar exam and attend law school at the University of Minnesota.
2019	Samuel Kitzman	Pamela Geyer	Modeling a premature aging syndrome by a mutant form of Barrier-to-Autointegration Factor (BAF) in Drosophila	Continue working in the Geyer lab over the summer and attend medical school in fall 2020.
2019	Andrew Henry	Andrew Norris	Influence of CFTR on Linoleic Acid Metabolism	Look for employmnet while preparing to apply for medical school.
2019	Lucas Maakestad	Todd Washington	Overexpression and Purification of the Fork-Remodeling Enzyme Rad5	Attend medical school at the UI CCOM.
2019	Samantha Mackin	Kris DeMali	Identifying Mechanisms Coupling Cell Metabolism to Force Transmission	Work as a research assistant in the Perlman lab.
2019	Jesse Cochran	E. Dale Abel	Sex Differences in the Response of C57BL/6 Mice to Ketogenic Diets	Apply for MD/PhD programs for the 2020-21 cycle.
2019	Derek Metzger	Brandon Davies	Functional Analysis of Human ANGPTL3 Mutants	Remain in Iowa City for a gap year while applying to medical schools.
2019	Ashley Segura-Roman	Brandon Davies	Endothelial Lipase Regulation by ANGPTL3	Start PhD program at UC-Berkeley in the Molecular and Cell Biology graduate program.
2019	Ian McElree	Chun-Fang Wu	Exploration of the rosA Oscillatory ERG Phenotype in Drosophila	Attend a Master's program in Medical Physiology this fall.
2019	Ariel Kopel	Sheila Baker	The Role of Synaptic Calcium Channels in Cone Photoreceptors	Take a 1-2 gap year to work in a research lab and apply to a Biochemistry PhD program.
2019	Irini Petros	Daniel Weeks	Protein Aggregates in Different Subnucleolar Compartments in Xenopus laevis	Continue in the Weeks lab for a post-bac program and apply for medical school.
2018	Lance Heady	Andrew Pieper	A Neuron and it's Survival: A Tale of Drug Discovery	Will be pursuing his PhD in Neuroscience at UT Southwestern this fall.
2018	Tien Thuy Nguyen	Marc Wold	Diverse Interactions of the Multifunctional, Regulatory Domain of Replication Protein A	Working full time as a medical scribe at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. Plans to attend medical school in 1-2 years.
2018	Laura Fischer	Marc Wold	A Potential Role of Alternative Replication Protein A in Huntington's Disease Progression	PhD program in Developmental, Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.
2018	Preston Anderson	John Engelhardt	Submucosal Gland Myoepithelial Cells Are Reserve Stem Cells That Can Regenerate Mouse Tracheal Epithelium	Attending Duke University Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP).
2018	Devin Reusch	Todd Washington	Polymerase Switching During Translesion Synthesis: A Tale of the Tail	Graduate student, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa.
2018	Steven Huang	Ernesto Fuentes	The Structural Characterization and Ligand Identification of the SrrB Cache Domain	Completing a research fellowship at the National Institute of Health (NIH) before applying to medical school.
2018	Titus Hou	Ernesto Fuentes	A Newly Identified Sub-Pocket That Plays a Unique Role in Scribble PDZ1 - SGEF iPBM Interaction	Medical school at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford.
2018	Benjamin Spector	David Price	Association of the Pol II CTD Phosphatase Ssu72 with Transcription Complexes	Continuing doing research while deciding between graduate or medical school.
2018	Alexandra Bess	Jennifer Fiegel	Protein Effects of BALF on Various Polystyrene Nanoparticles	Seeking employment immediately post-graduation and intend on getting a higher degree within a few years of graduating.
2018	Gabriel Fortunato	Amnon Kohen	Uncovering the Evolutionary Mechanism of Enzyme Catalysis	Take a gap year at Kohen Research Group then go to medical school.
2017	Emily Britt	Brandon Davies	Investigating the Interactions Between ANGPTL3, ANGPTL8, and Lipoprotein Lipase	Attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison to pursue a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry
2017	Sarah Gardner	Sheila Baker	Post-Synaptic Development of the First Visual Synapse	Attend graduate school at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, College of Molecular and Cellular Biology
2017	Maria Núñez Hernandez	Madeline Shea	Calcium-Dependent Regulation of Calcineurin Activity	Attend graduate school at the University of Iowa, Biochemistry
2017	Nicholas McCarty	E. Dale Abel	Exploring Mechanisms by which the Insulin Responsive Glucose Transporter GLUT4 is Regulated in High-Fat Fed Hearts	Doing a one-year MRes in Systems and Synthetic Biology, followed by a PhD in Biological Engineering at a U.S. institution. I'd like to design and produce cardiovascular therapeutics en masse, using cheap starting materials, such as sugar.
2017	Nicholas Mullen	David Price	Oxidative Stress Reveals Mechanistic Insight into Human 5' mRNA Capping	Begin the MD/PhD program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Plans to pursue cancer research for his PhD and hopes to one day be an oncologist and run his own research lab.
2017	Maureen O'Connor	Lori Wallrath	Lamin Localization and Genome Integrity in Rare Types of Muscular Dystrophy	Applying to graduate school for Fall 2018
2017	Sarah Van Dorin	Ronald Weigel	Role of TFAP2A in Transcriptional Regulation of Melanoma	Attend Carver College of Medicine in Fall 2017
2017	Zachary Wehrspan	Ronald Weigel	TFAP2C Orchestrates pH Regulation in Breast Tumors, and its Loss Leads to EMT, Facilitating the Warburg Effect	Pursue a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Iowa
2016	Jiadi An	Adrian Elcock	Osmotic Pressure Simulations Facilitate Protein Force Field Parameterization: GROMOS 54A7	Attend San Diego State University for graduate study in Biometry
2016	Mohammed Ismail	Maria Spies	Phosphorylation by C-Abl Kinase on RAD51	Will be applying to medical schools this summer
2016	Hannah Miller	Todd Washington	Polymerase Interactions with PCNA	Continue in Fast Track PhD program
2016	Devon Moose	Bridget Lear	Developmental vs. Adult Requirements of the Narrow Abdomen Ion Channel Expression in Drosophila	Obtain Masters in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Iowa
2016	Jianlan Ren	Adrian Elcock	Osmotic Pressure Simulations Facilitate Protein Force Field Parameterization: CHARMM36	Work in the chemistry or biochemistry industry for a few years then attend graduate school
2016	Alexander Wolff	Daniel Weeks	Designing and Building a Probe to Examine Endogenous Amyloids in Early Xenopus Development	Earn a research job in industry or academia and indefinitely figure out what type of career I want to pursue as it relates to healthcare
2016	Hang Yin	Adrian Elcock	Improvement of Sugar-Sugar Interactions in Molecular Dynamics Simulations Using Osmotic Pressure Measurements
2015	Brady A. Campbell	Elcock	Understanding the DNA: AA Interface through Molecular Dynamics Simulations	This coming August, I will be traveling to Kenya for 10 months where I will be volunteering with an organization called Hopeful Africa. I will be working closely with middle and high school level students. Once I return home, I plan on going to medical school.
2015	Alexander J. Hjelmaas	Davies	Investigating the Nature of ANGPTL3 Inactivation of LPL	Medical school at the University of Michigan starting this fall.
2015	Liam Hovey	Shea	Calcium/Calmodulin Modulation of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels	Matriculating with MSTP (MD/PhD) program at the University of Washington in Seattle.
2015	Sarah L. Mayer	Weeks	Studies on Smooth Muscle Actin Mutations Linked to Human Disease	After graduation, I will spend a year as an English Teaching Assistant in Columbia with the Fulbright program, then I will attend medical school at Washington University in St. Louis.
2015	Michael E. Turek	Price	Characterization of an RNA Polymerase II CTD Phosphatase	Attending the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, WI.
2015	David Wadkins	Elcock	Molecular Simulation Studies of Sequence Dependent Features of DNA and RNA Conformation	After graduation, I will be getting my masters in bio-medical engineering here at the University of Iowa.
2015	Xin Xu	Brenner	Understanding Site Specificity of Non-enzymatic Protein Acetylation in Mitochondria	After graduation, I will be going to the University of Minnesota to earn my Doctoral of Pharmacy degree.
2015	Grant H. Young	Wallrath	A Fruit Fly Model of Muscular Dystrophy Reveals Novel Mechanisms of Pathology	I will either be attending medical school here at the University of Iowa in the fall or working for a year in the Wallrath lab.
2015	Yinjie Zhai	Haim	Structural Modulation of HIV-1 Env by Stability Modifying Agents
2014	Gabriel Baccam	Wallrath	Modeling Skin Blistering Disease in Drosophila	Continue doing research for another year or so and then apply for medical school
2014	Reid Brown	Elcock	Investigation of Nucleoside Nucleoside Interactions Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation	Enroll in a one year science master’s program and then medical school
2014	Zac Builta	Weeks	Purification and assay of enzymatic activity of phage ΦC31 integrase protein using a protein splicing system: Isolation of an enzyme to make transgenic frogs	Begin a one to two year research assistant position at the University of Iowa Molecular Otalaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories. I will be applying for medical school, graduate school, and MSTP during this time.
2014	Sophia Chen	DeMali	Vinculin-actin interactions in cell migration	Attend the College of Dentistry at the University of Iowa this upcoming fall
2014	Lisa Golden	Fuentes	Exploring the Specificities, Thermodynamics, and Structures of Tiam2 PDZ Mutants	I will be going to graduate school after graduation
2014	Frances Hindt	Fuentes	Characterizing the Tiam1-Talin Complex	Next year I'm attending medical school at Creighton University College of Medicine
2014	Kyle Klingbeil	Brenner	Use of nicotinamide riboside to oppose the development of alcoholic fatty liver in the mouse	Attend Medical School at the University of Miami
2014	Dagan Marx	Shea	Recognition of Human Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels by Calmodulin	Post-graduation I will be getting my PhD at Johns Hopkins University in the Program for Molecular Biophysics
2014	Ebosetale Okoruwa	Wold	High Throughput Assay for RPA-Protein Interactions	I will be attending the dentistry school here at the University of Iowa
2014	Oluwatoni Olayiwola	Elcock	Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Conformational Behavior of Tripeptides in Aqueous Solution	The current plan is to spend a year teaching English in a French secondary school before returning to apply to graduate school in the biological sciences
2014	Michael Schrodt	Elcock	Conformational Flexibility of Short Single-Stranded DNA and RNA Systems Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation	I plan on working in the chemistry or pharmaceutical industry for a few years, then go to medical school and become an Army doctor.
2014	Dylan Thiemann	Elcock	GPU accelerated computing and its role in Brownian Dynamic simulations	This summer I have a software development internship at Cerner Corporation in Kansas City, MO. After graduation I plan to go into software development.
2013	Atish Dey	Soll (Biology)	Identification of genes involved in candida albicans biofilm synthesis under the control of BCR1	Planning to attend medical school in Nevada
2013	Johnathan Fagg	Rubenstein	Molecular effects of two Baraitser Winter causing mutations	Hopes to attend medical schools
2013	Bhavatharini Kasinathan	Smolikove (Biology)	The relationship between proteolysis and the akirin pathway in synaptonemal complex disassembly during C. elegans meiosis	Pursuing an MD/PhD at the University of Washington's Medical Scientist Training Program
2013	Irtaza Khalid	Price	Deregulation of P-TEFb through microsatellite instability-induced mutations in LARP7 as a potential cause of cancer	Gaining work experience before applying to medical school
2013	Ryan Marling	Weeks	The role of cardiac NK2 genes in early heart development of Xenopus laevis	Medical school
213	Allyson Mayer	Brenner	Computational and experimental determination of protein acetylation as a function of nutrition	PhD program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
2013	Clayton Oakley	Davison (Internal Medicine)	The validation of several candidate genes predicted to have gained microRNA binding sites through transposable elements	Medical School
2013	Stephen Siemonsma	Elcock	Course-grained BD simulations of type III secretion system needle in salmonella	Veterinary School
2013	David Simoens	Wallrath	Adrosophila model for lamin-associated heart disease	Master's of Public Health in epidemiology
2013	Kyle Strouse	Weeks	Expression of the MiR183 cluster: is there a differential expression of these micro-RNAs in early development?
2013	Johanna Uribe	DeMali	Vinculin phosphorylation regulates epithelial phenotypes	Master's of Science in pathology
2012	Ashley Angell	DeMali	Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Vinculin Regulates Cell-Matrix Adhesion	PhD Program in Neurobiology & Behavior at the University of Washington
2012	Chelsea Khaw	DeMali	The Role of the B3 Integrin in Melanoma Resistance to Chemotherapy	Continue research and apply to medical school
2012	James Min	Zabner (Pulmonary)	Organ-specific Expression of a Transgenic Human Lactonase in Drosophila melanogaster	Hopes to attend medical school at the University of Iowa
2012	Emma Nash	Monick (Internal Medicine)	Smoking Alters Dicer Expression in Human Alveoler Macrophages	Medical School, University of Illinois - Chicago
2012	Luke Prest	Weeks	Separating Functional Domains of Cardiac Transcription Factors by Construction of Chimeric Proteins	Medical school, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2012	Hyun Soo (Lisa) Ryu	Khademi	Mechanisms of Urea Conduction in Urea Channel	Applying to dental school
2012	Austin Stark	Elcock	Molecular Simulations of Weak Protein-protein Interactions	Applying to medical school
Year	Name	Mentor	Talk Title	Current Position
2011	Andrew (Drew) Jones	Elcock	Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the DnaK Chaperone	Applying to Medical Schools, both M.D. and D.O.
2011	Aditi Khanna	Plapp	Characterization of an Alcohol Dehydrogenase from a "Fitter" Yeast	Research Assistant, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Iowa
2011	Peter Kim	Elcock	Molecular Modeling of the Yeast Mitochondrial Matrix	Graduate Student, University of Iowa College of Public Health
2011	Melissa Palma	DeMali	Examining the Effects of Vinculin Activating Peptide	Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2011	Michael Zhang	Monick (Internal Medicine)	Influenza A Induces the ER Stress Response	Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD) at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2010	Anthony Peter Berger	Rubenstein	Aneurysm-causing Smooth Muscle Actin Mutants in Yeast	Graduate Student (MS), Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
2010	Edward Cho	Washington	The Role of the J Loop of PCNA in a Translesion Synthesis Pathway	Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2010	Rebecca Anne Coe	Washington	Studies of C-terminal Domain of DNA Polymerase pol eta	Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2010	John Robert Froehlig	Shea	Effects of Potassium Chloride on Calmodulin Mutants Defective in Ion Channel Regulation	Graduate Student, Program in Molecular Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University
2010	Ying-Kai Fu	Elcock	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Ribosome-Nascent Chain Dynamics
2010	Alex Alyce Lagneaux	Washington	Analysis of Rev1 Yeast Domain Fragments	Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2010	Cort Daniel Lawton	DeMali	The Role of Vinculin in Actin Dynamics	Medical Student, University of Chicago
2010	Shu Yu (Aaron) Liao	Geyer	Identification of Mutations that Disrupt the Germline Functions of the Suppressor of Hairy-Wing Insulator Protein	Graduate Student, Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry
2010	Nicholas Basil Loudas	Price	Purification of Factors Controlling the Elongation Phase of Transcription by RNA Polymerase II	Plans to attend Medical School
2010	Kevin Lu Lu	Price	HEXIM1 and Establishment of HIV Latency	Plans to attend Medical School
2010	Martin Alexander Whitman	Shea	Interactions of Calmodulin with the IQ Motif of the Voltage-Dependent Sodium Channel NaV1.2	Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

2000-2009

Year	Name	Mentor	Talk Title	Current Position
2009	Tze Fei Gan	Wold	DNA Binding Affinity of RPA Variants
2009	Brandon Menke	Norris	PPAR-gamma: Activation and Role in Insulin Sensitivity	Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2009	Amy Elizabeth Rohlfing	DeMali	The Role of Vinculin Phosphorylation in Focal Adhesion Disassembly	Graduate Student, Harvard University
2008	Samuel Dvorak	Washington	Inhibition of Translesion Synthesis of DNA Polymerase Eta	Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2008	Sean Gu	Khademi	Mechanism of Acid Acclimation	MD/PhD Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2008	Kyle Harpole	Khademi	Progress toward Structural and Functional Studies of the Ammonia Channel AmtB	Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2008	Mohammad Taajwar Khan	Fuentes	Kinetic and Structural Studies of Human VHR
2008	Tu Fei Li	Elcock	Molecular Simulation of the Pyruvate Dehydrogenase E2 Catalytic Core
2008	Stephanie Perkins	Washington	Ubiquination of Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen through a Glycine Linker
2008	Matt Restko	Price	BRD4 and c-Myc: Activators of P-TEFb?
2008	Jason Rogers	Price	Transcription Elongation Control in Drosophila Melanogaster	Dental School, University of Iowa
2008	Garth Strohbehn	Elcock	Development of a Structural and Dynamic Model of Transcription	Medical Student, Yale University Medical School
2008	Brad Willenbring	Wold	UV Crosslinking and Tandem MALDI-TOF of Human Replication Protein A 70kDa Subunit and DNA Heteroconjugate	Medical Student, Des Moines University
2008	Shameika Wilmington	Geyer	LEMme Tell You Something: How BAF Binding Proteins Contribute to Drosophila Development	Graduate Student, Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, Northwestern University
2007	Emily Alden	Ramaswamy	Bacterial Avoidance of Host Immune Response	2008 recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship; Master of Philosophy student, Cambridge University
2007	Christine Cho	Ramaswamy	Study of Sialic Acid Binding Protein in Vibrio Cholerae	HHMI Fellow and Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2007	Andrew William Folkmann	DeMali	A Novel Approach to Elucidate Integrin Mediated Adhesion	Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
2007	Majd S. Haddad	Kohen	The Study of Flavin-Dependent Thymidylate Synthase	Dental School, University of Iowa
2007	Aaron (Guy) Hobbs	Ramaswamy	Interacting Together, Tao and Src	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
2007	Scott Robert Nichols	Gioannini	Using gale Escherichia coli to Study Effects of LPS-carbohydrate Chain Length on Interactions of LPS with Host Binding Proteins	Graduate Student, Program in Molecular Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University
2007	Jennifer Nzegwu	Elcock	Effects of Temperature on Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
2007	Andrew Jay Petersen	Wallrath	Characterization of the Hinge Region of Heterochromatin Protein 1	Graduate Student, Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology Graduate Training Program, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2007	Jason Dean Prantner	Stellwagen, N.	Study of DNA Interactions with Isoelectric Good Buffers	Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
2006	David Steven Gogerty	Plapp	Kinetics of the E267H Variant of Horse Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase	Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology, Iowa State University
2006	Gary Francis Hammen	Washington	Synthesizing Mono-Ubiquitinated yPCNA Analogues for Use in Studies of the Replication of Damaged DNA	MD/PhD Student, Program in Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis
2006	Adam James Iliff	Paulson	Enhancing RNAi: Silencing of Multiple Targets Using a miRNA-based Delivery Construct	Graduate Student, University of Michigan, Department of Neuroscience
2006	Andrew Norbert Laczniak	Wold	Examining the Functional Domains of Replication Protein A Using Monoclonal Antibodies	Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2006	Ngoc Tran Huy Nguyen	Weeks	Integration of ANF Promoter into Xenopus laevis Using PhiC31 Integrase	Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2006	Aditya Bhaskar Pulikal	Rubenstein	Using Point Mutations to Elucidate Critical Residues for Actin Polymerization	Medical Student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2006	Daniel Nicholas Villageliu	Quinn	Synthesis and Evaluation of Inhibitors of Acetylcholine Esterase as Anti-Alzheimer's Agents	Medical Student, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford
2006	Travis John Witt	Shea	Allosteric Modulation of Calcium Binding to the N-Domain Sites of Calmodulin	3rd Year Resident, La Crosse-Mayo Family Medicine Residency
2005	Robert Davis	Wallrath	Expressing a Rod-Domain Mutation in Drosophila Lamin Dm0
2005	Marc Frank Doobay	Davisson	Antioxidant Tempol Increases Survival and Preserves Cardiac Performance following Myocardial Infarction by Attenuating MMP-9 Induction and Apoptosis in Mice	Graduate Student, Master of Physician Assistant Studies, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2005	Melehia Frauenholtz	Weeks	The Spatial Regulation of Protein Turnover	Student, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy
2005	Jill Haenfler	Elcock	Rapid Computational Prediction of the Substrates of cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase	Graduate Student, Department of Cellular & Molecular Biology, University of Michigan
2005	Andrew Houk	Shea	Calcium-dependent Interactions between Calmodulin and Calmodulin-dependent Kinase II	Graduate Student, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco
2005	Caitrin McDonough	Wallrath	I Am a Man1 Seeking Interacting Partners	Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Pharmacogenomics, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, University of Florida
2005	Katherine Murphy	Weeks	Study of Spliced Isoforms of Eya1 in Xenopus Development	Graduate Student, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology/Genetics Program, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2005	Zachary Nollin	Gioannini	Chemical Cross-linking of Endotoxin to Form "Locked" Aggregates: How Does Endotoxin Presentation Affect Activity of the Innate Immune Response?
2005	Jennifer Paulsen	Cornell	Mutations in TRPM7 Associated with Defects in Skeletogenesis, Touch Response, and Reduced Melanophore Survival	Resident, University of Michigan Health System, Department of Internal Medicine
2005	Erik Petersen	Wallrath & Klingelhutz	The Role of Retroviral Insertion in Immortalization of Human Cells by Telomerase	Graduate Student, Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2005	Sara L. Sloat	Wallrath	The Role of HP1Hsalpha in Breast Cancer Metastasis	MD/PhD Student, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2005	Scott Michael Tharp	Kohen	Direct Probe of the Rule of Geometrical Mean: A New Test for Primary and Secondary Hydrogen Coupling in the Dihydrofolate Reductase Catalyzed Reaction	Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Fellow, Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)