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2008 Summer Program Dates: May 25 - August 1

Application Deadline: March 3rd, 2008

Our program starts you off with a week-long hands-on introduction to molecular biology techniques and then a ten-week mentored research internship in laboratories.  The research is aimed at fundamental questions in Biology that cut across the disciplines of Anthropology, Biology, Computer Science, Materials Physics and Materials Chemistry.  Students will be engaged in interdisciplinary ideas through discussions with participating faculty about their on-going research, scientific career options and ethics.

Considering that we are located within our nation's capital, students will also have many opportunities to enjoy the rich variety of Washington D.C.’s cultural and scientific venues.  Students who aspire to pursue research careers in the life, computational, and physical sciences will be selected for this eleven week program.

The projects for the Summer of 2008 are:

1. Aging in Great Apes: Variations in Hormone related Genes (Bernstein, Church, Anthropology, Biology)
2. What are Neurotransmitters doing in Preneural Animal Embryos? (Brown, Biology)
3. Craniofacial development using the zebrafish model system (Hernandez, Biology)
4. Signalling Pathways in the Mammalian Kidney (Packer, Biology)
5. Rescuing DNA from Museum Specimens (Burns, Biology)
6. The Genetic Basis for Species Divergence in Sunflowers (Church, Florea, Biology, Computer Science)
7. Immunological Information in the Sea Urching genome (Smith, Florea, Biology, Computer Science)
8. Analyzing Mass-Spectometric Data from Oxidized Peroxisomal Proteins (Donaldson, Simha, Biology, Computer Science)
9. The Bioinformatics of Alternative Splicing (Florea, Computer Science)
10. Computational (in silico) modeling of Protein Folding and Docking (Zeng, Physics)
11. Nanostructures in Biological Systems (Gillmor, Chemistry)
12. Nanoscale Probes for Proteomics (Reeves, Vertes, Physics, Chemistry)
13. Laser desorption ionization from nanostructures (Vertes, Reeves, Chemistry, Physics)
14. Order and Chaos in Electrosprays: The Electrified Dripping Faucet (Vertes, Chemistry)
15. Genomes to Mendel and back: Identifying genes in the Drosophila genome sequence (Johnson, Genetics)
16. High-Resolution Imaging of Amylin Aggregation and Signaling in the Pancreas (Jeremic, Biology)

(View the Research Project's Abstracts)

2008 Student Stipend Amounts:

• Stipends = $5,000
  Additional related costs may be subsidized.

Bonnie Yiu Ho, program coordinator
hhmigw@gwu.edu   or   202-994-4039