2010

2010 Alumni

High School: Cienega High School
City: Vail
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leif Abrell
Research Project: Evaluating Carbamazepine and Bisphenol-A Affinity for Dissolved Organiz Matter via Dialysis Experiments

High School: Cactus High School
City: Glendale
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Linda Restifo
Research Project: Complementation Analysis of New Lethal Mutations in Drosophila melanogaster

High School: Desert Mountain-Scottsdale
City: Scottsdale
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Barton
Research Project: Optical coherence tomography and two-photon microscopy of normal ovaries in a mouse model

High School: Tucson Magnet High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ravi Palanivelu
Research Project: Reduced pollen germination and tube growth in fem137

High School: Pueblo Magnet High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nathan Cherrington
Research Project: Glycosylation status and internalization of ABCC2 in non-aloholic fatty liver disease

High School: BASIS Tucson North
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Serrine Lau
Research Project: In vitro Studies of Mitochondrial Targeted Pordrugs 3-(E)-(1-methyl-1H-imidazol-2-ylthio)prop-2-enoic and 3-(1-methyl-1H-imidazol-2-ylthio)propanoic acids against Reactive Oxygen Species

High School: Catalina Foothills High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard Vaillancourt
Research Project: C-Reactive Proteins Role in Arsenic Induced Insulin Resistance

High School: Pueblo Magnet High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Patricia Hoyer
Research Project: The role of GDNF in VCD-induced ovotoxicity

High School: Buena High School
City: Sierra Vista
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Patricia Stock
Research Project: Fluctuations of nematode population diversity over a year on Mt. Lemmon

High School: Pueblo Magnet High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carol Barnes
Research Project: Hippocampal place fields during forward and backward movement

High School: Catalina Foothills High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kirsten Limesand
Research Project: IGF1 Enhances p63 Expression in Parotid Salivary Glands

High School: Catalina Foothills High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Heddwen Brooks
Research Project: Menopause and Diabetes Alter Inflammation Pathways in the Liver

High School: Canyon Del Oro High School (CDO)
City: Oro Valley
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jay Gandolfi
Research Project: The Expression and Response of p53 to Arsenic-Induced DNA Damage in Human Bladder Epithelium Cells

High School: Cibola High School
City: Yuma
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Donna Zhang
Research Project: High-throughput screening of chemical compounds targeting Nrf2

High School: Dobson High School
City: Mesa
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Xiaoyi Wu
Research Project: Autoclaving the silk-elastin-like-proteins scaffold to strengthen the fiber

High School: Catalina Foothills High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Terrence Monks
Research Project: The role of Ecstasy (MDMA) Metabolites in MDMA-Induced Neurotoxicity

High School: Amerischools College Prep
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rod Wing
Research Project: Conservation and evolution of a transcribed centromere gene in rice

High School: Catalina Foothills High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Walter Klimecki
Research Project: Determining arsenic-sensitive and resistant lymphoblastoid cell lines to identify potential gene expression markers of resistance

High School: Tucson Magnet High School
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lisa Nagy
Research Project: Effects of the genes caudal and brachyury on the development of the posterior in Ilyanassa

High School: Mountain View High School
City: Marana
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Emmanuelle Meuillet
Research Project: Drug discovery of a novel chemical scaffold targeting the pH domain of ect2

High School: University High School (UHS)
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marek Romanowski
Research Project: Light-induced release from carboxylated gold - coated liposomes conjugated onto a amine plate

High School: Cibola High School
City: Yuma
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Georg Wondrak
Research Project: Skin chromophores tested for activity as genotoxic photosensitizers

High School: University High School (UHS)
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ali Bilgin
Research Project: Characterization of a Magnetic Resonance Elastography Driver for Cancer Diagnosis Based on Changes in Tissue Elasticity

High School: Sonoran Science Academy-Tucson
City: Tucson
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Frans Tax
Research Project: Locating the mutations causing dwarf phenotypes in Brassia oleraceae

High School: Rio Rico
City: Rio Rico
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tracy Brooks
Research Project: The role of MYC in chemoresponsive breast cancer

High School: Coconino High School
City: Flagstaff
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Pak Kin Wong
Research Project: Plasma Surface Modification and Cell Viability Analysis