Our Carolina Summer Fellowship Students gave their final research presentations July 25. Congratulations to all!
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We congratulate our Carolina Summer Fellowship students on completing the program and giving their final research presentations!
Title of their talks are as follows:
- Shaeloren Deering (Nicholas Lab) Spelman College (2021), “Characterizing the AcnB-Q371K mutation found in resistance strains of gonorrhea.”
- Nikole Fendler (Cox Lab) Davidson College (2019), “Evaluating Farnesyl Transferase Inhibitors in HRAS-Mutant Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma”
- Dajhnae Gambrell-Sanders (Cox Lab) Clark Atlanta University (2021), “Evaluating ERK inhibitor sensitivity in HRAS mutant head and neck squamous cell carcinoma”
- Karson Guthrie (Der Lab) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2020), “Characterizing an unconventional RHOAL57V mutation found in diffuse gastric cancer”
- Sara Hudson (Graves Lab) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019), “Investigating ERK8 Regulation – Testing Upstream Activators and Developing Tools to Discover Inhibitiors”
- Larshe Moore (Schisler Lab) Clark Atlanta University (2021), “Identifying CXCL5-dependent signaling pathways that regulate cholesterol metabolism”
- Dylan Schuler (Nicholas Lab) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2020), “Regulation of Essential Penicillin-Binding Protein Expression by Peptidoglycan Hydrolases in N. gonorrhoeae”
- Alex Tribo (Roth Lab) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019), “Non-canonical G protein couplings at Serotonin 5-HT2A Receptors”
Photo upper right: Back Row (L to R): Joseph Fonseca, Dr. Lee Graves, Dr. Jonathan Schisler, Dr. Rob Nicholas, Dylan Schuler, Shaeloren Deering and Geovani Ayala. Middle Row (L to R): Nicole Arnold, Dr. Rahmelle Thompson, Nika Fendler, Sara Hudson, Karson Guthrie, Dajhnae Gambrell-Sanders and Larshe Moore. Front Row (L to R): Natalie Hewitt, Raquel Martinez-Chacin, and Lucas Aponte-Collazo. Not pictured: Alex Tribo.