UNIQUE Research Experiences of MARC Students: Summer 2007

Jessica Aguilar: UA BRAVO program; University of Bergen, Norway; Arve Egil Asbjørnsen,

Tara Archuleta: Vanderbilt University Summer Science Academy; Dr. Anne Kenworthy

Adam Bastidas: MIT Summer Research Program; Dr. Bob Sauer

Nina Castro: UA BRAVO program; research study at Universidad Peruana Cayatano Heredia, Lima, Peru; Dr. Robert Gilman from Johns Hopkins

Ryan Delgado: Washington University St. Louis Summer Research Program; Dr. Wojciech A. Swat

Elyse Paluscio: Cornell University Summer Research Program; Dr. Esther Angert

Stephanie Schnell: Duke University Summer Research Program; Dr. Marcy Speer

Special Invited Opportunities

Nina Castro, Elyse Paluscio: Berkeley Edge Program, November

Meetings attended:

Ryan Delgado: Amer Assoc for Cancer Research, Los Angeles, April

Nicholas Harrell, Bee Vu: Amer Assoc for Advancement of Science, San Francisco, March

Jessica Aguilar, Tara Archuleta, Luis Barraza, Adam Bastidas, Ryan Delgado, Jason Espinoza, Zeke Gebrekidane, Alysia Lozano, Marwan Mustafa, Elyse Paluscio, Stephanie Schnell, Erika Starks, Danyel Wynn: Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Austin, TX, November

Nina Castro: Annual Meeting of American Society for Tropic Medicine and Hygiene, November

Awards received:

Stephanie Schnell, Jason Espinoza: Outstanding Poster awards at the ABRCMS meeting

Danyel Wynn: first place in Biological Sciences posters at UA Student Showcase – November

Other activities:

Alysia Lozano, McNair trainee