Graduate Students

FIRST PLACE - Diana A. Alvarez Arias (Mentor:  Dr. Stephen C. Peiper, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown Cancer Center), Functional expression of ccr5 in saccharomyces cerevisiae:  the-x-pro-motif in tm2 is critical to maintaining active conformation in mutants with enhanced signaling.

SECOND PLACE - Denise Clark (Mentor:  Dr. W. Glenn McGregor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology), Strategies To Reduce Carcinogen-Induced Mutagenesis: Ribozyme-Mediated Cleavage Of Revil mRNA.

HONORABLE MENTION - Daniel Read (Mentor:  Dr. Ronald Gregg, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology), Absence of l-type voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels in photoreceptors results  in decreased outer plexiform layer thickness and abnormal synaptic morphology in mice.

HONORABLE MENTION - Xiaoyan Li (Mentor:  Dr. Paul Epstein, Dept. of Pediatrics), Metallothionein overexpression prolongs grafts survival in the early phase of pancreatic islet transplantation.