Projects for the 2009 Research Experience for Undergraduates Program

Summer internships were sponsored through the National Science Foundation and the Whitney Lab. For more information, contact Brenda Cannaliato, Whitney education coordinator.

See a photo album of the 2009 REU experiences.

Meet our 2009 summer interns

Greg, a junior from the Salem State College, Salem, MA

Project: Localization of carbonic anhydrase and anion exchangers in larval Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

(Linser lab)

Rachael, a junior from Millersville University, Millersville, PA

Project: Molecular cloning of a serotonin receptor from Cladonema sp. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)

(Greenberg/Nunez lab)

Enrique, a freshman from the Universidad de Puerto Rico

Project: Regulation of opsin levels in Limulus polyphemus photoreceptors

(Battelle lab)

Ann, a junior from Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Project: The complex relationship between the hyroid Lovenella gracilis and the bivalve Donax variabilis

(Greenberg/Nunez lab)

Michael, a junior fromElizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA

Project: Molecular Cloning of a putative chemoreceptor from the cnidarian Physalia physalis

(Anderson lab)

Kim, a junior from the College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Project: Palmitoylation regulates subcellular localization of metastasis suppressor proteins

(Zacharias lab)

Patricia, a junior from Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH

Project: Dopamine signaling pathway in the stomatogastric ganglion of Homarus americanus

(Bucher lab)