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Research: Summer Research

On-Campus Summer Research Program

2009 summer research group

This summer, a record 32 undergraduate students are working with 11 faculty members for 10 weeks of full-time summer research. 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.

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Several of our summer research projects result in students becoming co-authors of publications.

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2009 Summer Research Projects

  • scott-cokCarolyn Anderson, Keun Ah Ryu and Ben Klepser: Organic Chemistry: Rearrangement of Propargyloxypyridines to N-Substituted Pyridones

  • Carolyn Anderson, Sarah Tasker and Greg Snapper: Organic Chemistry: Synthesis of N-Alkyl Pyridone Containing β- and γ-Amino Acids

  • Eric Arnoys and Cheri Ackerman: Diffusion and Transport of Galectin-3

  • Eric Arnoys, Eric Nollett and Melody Handali: Watching Proteins in Real Time

  • Dave Benson and Jarrad Utter: Discovering Tyrosine-Cysteine Crosslinks in Hemoglobin

  • Dave Benson and Jeff Christians: Nanoparticle Biosensors: Automated Analysis of Single Nanoparticle Fluoroescence Movies

  • Dave Benson, Mike Lee and Dave Hare: Nanoparticle Biosensors: Single Maltose Biosensor Observation

  • Dave Benson, Andrew DenHartigh and Stacey DeHaan: Nanoparticle Biosensors: Maltose utterBiosensor Validation

  • Roger DeKock and Brandon Burkhart: Sites of Protonation and Ligand Migration in Bimetallic Organometallic Complexes

  • Roger DeKock and Ben Brandsen: Cooperativity in Hydrogen Bonding

  • Larry Louters and Leye Opejin: Effects of Cinnamaldeyde on Glucose Uptake 

  • Larry Louters, Christina Plaisier and Alexandra Cok: Effects of the hypertensive drug, verapamil, on glucose uptake in insulin sensitive cells

  • Darla McCarthy and Luke Zwart: Characterization of Tetrachlorohydroquinon Dehalogenase in Mycobacterium chlorophenolicum

  • Mark Muyskens and Matthew Borr: Fluorescence in Narra Wood 

  • Mark Muyskens and Tim Thielke: Laser photochemistry of fluorinated acetylacetone

  • Kumar Sinniah and Rachel Battershell: A Single Molecule Approach to Studying Human Telomere G-Quadruplex DNA 

  • Kumar Sinniah, Susanna Lynch and Jordan Scott: Insulin and Anti-Cancer Drug Interaction with G-Quadruplex DNA lynch

    Chad Tatko and Craig Rybarz: Biocatalytic Desulfurization of Diesel Fuel

  • Chad Tatko, Lauren Kelley and Laura Hunter: Manipulation of Tyr's pKa Through Noncovalent Interactions

  • Chad Tatko and Caleb Mutschler: Tyr-Cys Crosslinks in Beta-Hairpin Peptides

  • Doug Vander Griend and Alex Wrobel: Heavy Metals and Bacterial Biofilm Formation

  • Doug Vander Griend, Kurt Van Allsburg and Lauren Manck: Nanomolecular Building Projects with Spectrophotometric Characterization via Factor Analysis

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