Student Research at Duke

The 2007 Research Fellows have been matched with faculty in eleven different departments. Joining with the faculty mentors are multiple postdoctoral fellows and advanced graduate students who demonstrate to the Fellows how to do the minipreps and Northern blots and PCR and all the other techniques that the students mention in their blogs. Techniques are important, but there is more to come as students see the result of their experiments. But I digress. The true point of this post is to recognize the faculty mentors and to thank their colleagues who are helping our students discover science at the bench rather than at the textbook. Namely:

Student * Faculty Mentor * Department

Priyanka Amin * Fan Wang * Cell Biology
Tessa Carducci * John Simon * Chemistry
Jason Chen * Sri Raghavachari * Neurobiology
Yishan Cheng * Tannishtha Reya * Pharmacology/Cancer Biology
Monica Hamilton * Anne West * Neurobiology
Catherine Hartman * Robin Wharton * Neurobiology
Vanessa Kennedy * Jennifer Groh * Neurobiolog
Priya Khatri * Nina Sherwood * Biology and IGSP
Kristin Knouse * Xiao-Fan Wang * Pharmacology/Cancer Biology
Sidney Kuo * Fred Dietrich * Mol Genetics & Microbiology
Sara Leiman * Mehta Keune * Biochemistry
Fei Lian * Pei Zhou * Biochemistry
Wendy Liu * H.F. Nijhout * Biology
Rebecca Liu * Sharon Endow * Cell Biology
Andrew Lyu * Fan Wang * Cell Biology
Upom Malik * Homme Hellinga * Biochemistry
Sarah Nam * Chris Raetz * Biochemistry
Yongho Park * Thomas McIntosh * Cell Biology
Samantha Pearlman * Anne Yoder * Biology
Matthew Pease * William Wetsel * Psychiatry/Behav Sci
Jose Pena * John York * Pharmacology/Cancer Biology
Alaina Pleatman * Mark Dewhirst * BME
Lulit Price * Tom Ortell * Pathology
Racquel Quarless * George Truskey * BME
Kalen Riley * Ryohei Yasuda * Neurobiology
Trisha Saha * Margaret Kirby * Cell Biology
Jessica Shuen * Nicole Calakos * Neurobiology
Jacquelyn Sink * Sally York * Pharmacology/Cancer Biology
Julie Sogani * Gerald Blobe * Cell Biology
Sarah Steele * Alejandro Abbalay * Mol Genetics & Microbiology
Julie Stevenson * Victoria Seewaldt * Medicine

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides important financial support for the Research Fellows Program, but the program would not be possible without the generosity of the 30 faculty scientists and others in their research groups who are mentoring our undergraduates this summer. Over the 17 years of our program, more than 150 faculty have been mentors; every science and biomedical department at Duke has hosted multiple Research Fellows. Faculty also present their own research to students, are good natured when interviewed by the students and welcome the students into group journal clubs and social functions in the labs. We thank all the associates and colleagues of our faculty mentors for the time and resources they commit to the Research Fellows.