2011 Undergraduate Scholars Program Participants

BREEANA BAKER, Senior Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA) Major: Biological Sciences Hometown: Baton Rouge, LA	T. ANTHONY MALTBIA, Sophomore Washington University (St. Louis, MO) Major: Biology Hometown: Champaign, IL
DANIEL CABRERA, Senior Columbia University (New York, NY) Major: Biology Hometown: Miami, FL	GIOVANNY MARTINEZ COLON, Senior University of Puerto Rico (Ponce, PR) Major: Biomedical Sciences Hometown: Santa Isabel, PR
EDGAR CAMPBELL, Senior California State University - Stanislaus (Turlock, CA) Major: Biology Hometown: Turlock, CA	TANESIA PATTERSON, Junior Dillard University (New Orleans, LA) Major: Biology Hometown: New Orleans, LA
ANGELICA CLAXTON, Senior University of the Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, USVI) Major: Biology Hometown: Charlotte Amalie, USVI	DIANA PEREZ AFANADOR, Senior University of Puerto Rico (Mayaguez, PR) Major: Industrial Biotechnology Hometown: San Sebastian, PR
HAROLD HAMANN, Junior Duke University (Durham, NC) Major: Biology Hometown: Orlando, FL	KENNY REGIS, Junior Ft Valley State University (Ft Valley, GA) Major: Biology Hometown: Douglasville, GA
JUSTIN KING, Senior Westminster College (Fulton, MO) Major: Biology Hometown: St. Louis, MO	PAOLA ZAYAS BORGES, Senior University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras, PR) Major: Cell-Molecular Biology Hometown: San Lorenzo, PR

Previous Years

• 2010 Program Participants
• 2009 Program Participants
• 2008 Program Participants
• 2007 Program Participants

Mentor Profiles

• Jianxin Bao, PhD - keywords: aging; Alzheimer’s disease; epigenetics; neurobiology; neurodegeneration; stem cells. Mentoring Diana Perez Afanador.
• Michael Bruchas, PhD - keywords: behavior; G protein coupled receptors; neurobiology; pain; psychiatry; signal transduction. Mentoring Tanesia Patterson.
• Douglas L. Chalker, PhD - keywords: chromatin structure; development; DNA; genome rearrangements; RNA interference; transcription. Mentoring Paola Zayas Borges.
• Cristina de Guzman Strong, PhD - keywords: epigenomics; genetics; genomics; skin; transcriptional regulation; translational research. Mentoring Breeana Baker.
• Stephen Kornfeld, MD, PhD - keywords: cancer; cell fate; development; metals; signal transduction. Mentoring Daniel Cabrera.
• Dan Link, MD - keywords: hematopoiesis, stem cells, leukemia. Mentoring Kenny Regis.
• Jason Mills, MD, PhD - keywords: developmental, molecular, & cellular biology of gastric epithelial stem cells. Mentoring T. Anthony Maltbia.
• Lee Ratner, MD, PhD - keywords: lymphocytes, virology, AIDS, leukemia, HIV. Mentoring Angelica Claxton.
• Sheila A. Stewart, PhD - keywords: aging; cancer; microenvironment; RNAi; senescence; telomere. Mentoring Giovanny Martinez Colon.
• Gina Story, PhD - keywords: molecular & genetic basis of thermosensation. Mentoring Justin King.
• Matthew Walter, MD - keywords: Myelodysplastic syndromes, Acute myeloid leukemia, functional genomics, tumor biology, Hematopoiesis. Mentoring Edgar Campbell.
• Brad Warner, MD - keywords: molecular mechanisms governing resection induced intestinal adaptation and its effect on enterocyte and smooth muscle. Mentoring Harold Hamann.