BCMB Students: 2017 Entering Class

Undergraduate University: CUNY- Queens College

Publications:

• Mechanisms of differential desensitization of metabotropic glutamate receptors

• Optogenetic Techniques for Manipulating and Sensing G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling

• Structural basis for KCTD-mediated rapid desensitization of GABA B signalling

• Kinesin-3 Responds to Local Microtubule Dynamics to Target Synaptic Cargo Delivery to the Presynapse

Undergraduate University: SUNY- GENESO

Publications:

• Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Modulates NKG2D Receptor Expression and Memory Phenotype of Human Gamma/Delta T Cells Upon Interaction With Tumor Cells

• APOBEC3-dependent kataegis and TREX1-driven chromothripsis during telomere crisis

• The APOBEC3A deaminase drives episodic mutagenesis in cancer cells

Undergraduate University: Cornell University

Undergraduate University: Syracuse University

Publications:

• Pluripotent stem cell-derived epithelium misidentified as brain microvascular endothelium requires ETS factors to acquire vascular fate

• NPTX1 regulates neural lineage specification from human pluripotent stem cells

Undergraduate University: University of Hawaii- Manoa

Undergraduate University: University of Pennsylvania

Undergraduate University: Tufts University

Undergraduate University: University of Michigan- Ann Arbor

Publications:

• REC114 partner ANKRD31 controls number, timing, and location of meiotic DNA breaks. Molecular cell

• Activation of the unfolded protein response via inhibition of protein disulfide isomerase decreases the capacity for DNA repair to sensitize glioblastoma to radiotherapy

• TGFBR2 mediated phosphorylation of BUB1 at Ser-318 is required for transforming growth factor-β signaling

Undergraduate University: Franklin and Marshall College

Publications

• aYAP modRNA reduces cardiac inflammation and hypertrophy in a murine Ischemia-reperfusion model
• Acetylation of VGLL4 Regulates Hippo-YAP Signaling and Postnatal Cardiac Growth
• Development of a multi-sugar LC-MS/MS assay using simple chemical derivatization with acetic anhydride
• Experimental Evidence of a Cyclopropylcarbinyl Conjugative Electronic Effect

• Thermal isomerizations of cis,anti,cis-tricyclo[7.4.0.0(2,8)]tridec-10-ene