On-Campus Summer Research Program
This summer, 29 undergraduate students are w
orking alongside 11 faculty members for 10 weeks of full-time summer research. Students participate in a wide variety of projects including splicing variants from zebrafish, applying laser techniques to the study of several possible chemical systems and characterizing nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery to cancer cells in-vitro.
At the completion of their project, each student will submit a report and present a poster at the Science Division Poster session this fall during Parent’s Weekend. The projects are funded by a variety of grants and fellowships, as well as Calvin matching funds.
Take a closer look at each of our 22 summer research projects with a detailed description »
2011 Summer Research Projects
Carolyn Anderson and Nathan Romero: Organic Chemistry: Gold-catalyzed Rearrangement of N-Propargyloxypyridines
Carolyn Anderson and
Nick Vryhof: Organic Chemistry: Mechanism of Benzyloxypyridines to N-Benzyl Pyridone Rearrangement
Carolyn Anderson, Stephen Carnegis and
Mitchell Groenenboom: Organic Chemistry: Synthesis of N-Alkyl Pyridone Containing β- and γ- Amino Acids
Eric Arnoys and Eric Prins: Characterization of Splice Variants from Zebrafish
Eric Arnoys and Kevin Harris:Ligand Binding of Mutant Proteins
Eric Arnoys and Jacob Artz: Watching Membrane Proteins in Real Time
Dave Benson, Anand Divakaran, Brandon Burkhart, and Elizabeth Porter: Expanding the scope of tyrosine-cysteine crosslinked proteins in biology
Dave Benson and Ryan Martinie: Identifying Oxidizable Tyrosines
Roger DeKock and Ryan Martinie: Formation of Tyrosine-Cysteine Crosslinks
Roger DeKock and John Strikwerda: Cooperativity in Hydrogen Bonding
Herb Fynewever, Isaac Bokma and Luke Breems: Understanding the Motives and Barriers to Two-Way Faculty/Student Feedback in Science, Math, and Engineering
Larry Louters and Jared Scripture: Activation of Glucose Uptake by Cell Stress in Muscle and Fat Cells
Larry Louters and David Kuipers: Effects of Berberine on Glucose Uptake
Larry Louters and Daniel Oram: Effects of Membrane Cholesterol on the Transport Activity of GluT1
Darla McCarthy and Anna Casto: Cloning PCP Monooxygenase from Mycobacterium Chlorophenolicum
Mark Muyskens, Benjamin Markosky and Eric Yu: Lasers in Chemistry
Kumar Sinniah and Christine Timmer: Characterizing the Binding Interaction of Insulin with G-Quadruplex DNA: From Single Molecule to Bulk Measurements
Kumar Sinniah and Amanda Witte: Characterizing Riboflavin Conjugated Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapy
Chad Tatko, Ian Robertson and Gillian Morris: Studies Into the Role of Noncovalent Interactions on Redox Potential and Aggregation
Chad Tatko and Alexandra Batt: NMR Investigations Into the Nature of Tyr-Cys Crosslinks
Chad Tatko and Rachael Machiele: Exploring the Genetic/Protein Diversity in Brackish and Estuary Flows
Doug Vander Griend, Emily Golz, Shelby Lofthus and Liz Vincent: Nanomolecular Building Projects
