"Metabolism in the News": Links to Biochemistry 462b Honors projects. Students' reports explore contemporary discoveries in the biochemistry of metabolism.

Year	Student Author	Project Title
	...More to come!	Hot topics in metabolism - 2008!
2008	Jimmy Chhun	Hexosamine's Influence in Diabetes
2008	Mark Lee	Living the High Life Is :N=O Problem for Tibetans
2008	Joshua Makhoul	Fatigued? It's Not Lactic Acid
2008	Ritika Mohan	How Human ACP synthase works
2008	Natalie Pace	How IF1 and Polyphenols inhibit F1-ATPase
2008	Erik Shipley	Osteocalcin and Energy Metabolism
2008	Jessie Zepeda	Inhibiting Purine Salvage to Treat a Parasite Infection
2007	Marc Bingaman	Solving Gaucher's Disease
2007	Wendy Ingram	Regulation of nitrogen Metabolism by Plant PII Protein
2007	Helen Mashalidis	Novel Therapuetic Strategies for African Sleeping Sickness
2007	Marwan Mustafa	Regulation of Prokaryotic Ammonia Uptake by Amt and GlnK
2007	Katy Ruiz	Hydrogen Peroxide Inactivates Isopropylmalate Isomerase
2007	Griffin Santarelli	Brain Glucose and its Role in Secretion of VLDL
2007	Kimberly Shipp	A Novel Enzymatic Decarboxylation MechanismKimberly Shipp
2007	Lauren Tabis	Pyruvate Cycling, Isocitrate Dehydrogenase, and Regulation of Insulin Secretion
2006	Kevin Chandler	Insulating Your Energy Supplier: Phospholipids in the C Ring
2006	Lauren Congdon	:NO Mitochondrial Respiration?How NO Inhibits Mitochondrial Respiration
2006	Bryan Cooper	Pesticide Be-Gone: 3-chloroacrylate dehalogenase and a Persistent Pesticide
2006	Thomas Gaj	Monocarboxylate Transporters as Immunosuppressive Targets
2006	Jennfer Lowe	Alcohol, Acetaldehyde and You
2006	Alok Pakti	Managing Photosynthesis and Nitrogen Fixation in Synechoccus
2006	Giao Quach	Progress in Designing Custom Enzymes
2006	Sara Warzecka	Listening to Leptin:The Leptin Blockade
2004	Xuemei Cai	Grapefruit Juice and the Potential for Drug Interactions
2004	Jiyeun Kim	A new Catabolic Pathway for the Plant Hormone, ABA
2004	Payam Morgan	Sugar Metabolism Just Got Hotter
2004	Zaneta Navratilova	Oxidative Damage and Parkinson's Disease
2004	Lenka Stankova	Synthetic Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibitor and Obesity
2004	Gustaf Van Acker	A Revised Model for Electron Flow in the Cytochrome bc1 Complex
2004	Robert Ziegler	The Role of XET and Galactose in Plant Growth
2003	Cambel Berk	Caffeine: A New Dawn in Cancer Research
2003	Nicole Hajicek	A New Role for Copper in Carbon Fixation
2003	Sarah Knuth	Can Nicotine Promote Cancer?
2003	Katie Maish	Are You What You Eat? Digesting Trypanosomes' Evolutionary Error
2003	Steve Tilley	Novel Drug Synthesis: Yeast as Steroid Factories
2002	Mark Anderson	Anthrax and the Lethal Toxin
2002	Pablo Bernardson	Newly Resolved Structure of ClC Chloride Channels
2002	Katie Clark	Leptin: A New Pathway for a Familiar Hormone
2002	Annie Dahlgran	Anthrax Toxin:Edema Factor
2002	Amary Wagner	TNF-Mediated Cell Death and the Glyoxalase System
2001	Anthony Beas	Triclosan: A New Anti-malarial Drug
2001	Anna Bieging	Nicotine Metabolism and Carcinogenesis
2001	Nathalie Gebara	Protein Kinase Inhibitors: A New Class of Anticancer Drugs
2001	Douglas Hartz	Resistin: New Hormone Links Obesity and Type II Diabetes
2001	Amanda Redig	Human P-glycoprotein
2001	Darshan Roy	Cytochromes Binding Old molecules in New Ways
2001	Robert Schmitz	Auxin Biosynthesis: The Road Less Traveled
2001	Rupesh Amin	Seeking Recognition
2000	Jennifer Brenneman	SDH Could Save Lives
2000	Margo Kaplan	Beta-Carotene to the Rescue
2000	Nicole Jarrett	Enzyme Alchemy
2000	Jennifer Woo	Enzyme Reactors Making Methanol from CO2
1999	Carolyn S.Bentley	Telomerase, Aging and Cancer
1999	Michael S. Evans	Getting More Vitamin E
1999	Frederic T. Fell	Molecular Fusion - ATPsynthase
1999	Jared B. Petty	Low Lactose Milk
1999	Oscar K.Serrano	Parasitic Chemotherapy with Herbicides
1999	Jonnie Shackman	Leflunomide for Rheumatoid Arthritis
1999	John R. Talley	Estrogen Therapy for Heart Disease
1999	Bryan A. Yurek	Hydrogen from Hydrogenase

To comment or inquire about participating in these courses, contact dbourque@u.arizona.edu

More University of Arizona Biochemistry/Biology Student Web Projects are found at:

Biochemistry 462a Honors Projects (1999-2006; to be linked)

Biology 181Student Projects 1996-2006

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