Project Title Year Team Leaders Graduate Students Undergraduate Students
PROTAC agents that bind to bacterial toxins as a potentially novel antimicrobial strategy 2019 Wonpil Im, Marcos Pires Ryan Seth, Joseph Kelly
Development of an in vitro co-culture model for Cryptosporidium spp. infectivity 2019 Sabrina Jedlicka, Kristen Jellison Shady Younan, Sophia Kuipa
Uncovering the Mechanisms of Vesicle Transport and Bacterial Communication in Biofilms 2019 Angela Brown, Kelly Schultz Angel Matos, Kyle Bartek
Development of Potent and Selective Photochemotherapeutic Agents 2019 Damien Thevenin, Elizabeth Young Jackson Coyne, Brianna Maslonka
Biochemical exploration of lynx2 binding to nicotinic receptors: implications for emotional regulation and anxiety disorders. 2018 Julie Miwa, Ph.D. - Biological Sciences, Frank Zhang, Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Wenpeng Cao Gehar Bitar , Natalee Castillo , Ariel Pawlo , Brooke Dubyna
Tailoring supramolecular glycosaminoglycan-based hydrogels to guide cell behavior 2018 Lesley Chow, Ph.D. - Materials Science & Engineering, Sabrina Jedlicka, Ph.D. - Materials Science & Engineering Swetha Chandrasekar, Hafiz (Dammy) Busari Matthew Green, Ashlinn Sweeney , Xinmeng Qiao , Claire Ternes
Cloning the Human Creativity Gene and Understanding its Role in Behavior in a Mouse Model 2018 Katie Hoffman, Ph.D. - Biological Science, Julie Miwa, Ph.D. - Biological Sciences, Murray Itzkowitz, Ph. D. - Biological Sciences Jinbu Wang Ce Luo , Christian Tirrito, Amanda Boyer , Mariel Weigel , Lixuan Qiu
Specific Labeling of Bacterial Vesicle-Associated Peptidoglycan to Enable Immunological Analyses 2018 Angela Brown, Ph.D. - Chemical Engineering, Marcos Pires, Ph.D. - Chemistry Noel Ferraro , Shannon Collins Guanwei Zhou , Matthew Grapel , Angela Sinani , Audra Smires
Identification of Drug-like Allosteric PTP1B Inhibitors through Synergistic Computational and Experimental Approaches 2018 Wonpil Im, Ph.D. - Biological Sciences, Damien Thevenin, Ph.D. - Chemistry Seonghoon Kim, Eden Sikorski Amer Iftikar , Journey Lopez , Chris Sohn, Anthony Varshavskiy
Probing receptor binding capabilities of mutant lynx modulators for better cognition and emotional processing. 2017 Julie Miwa, Ph.D. - Biological Sciences, Wonpil Im, Ph.D. - Biological Sciences, Frank Zhang, Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Kyung Min, Sang-jun Park, Jessica Willis Ryan Armbruster, Mark Crenshaw, Meaghan Gavey, Brooke Lichak, Megan Polak, Rachel Swope