Masters Basic-Science Student Division

First Place: Jay Stallons, DNA Polymerase eta is the Preferred Translesion DNA Polymerase and may be Error-free or Error-prone: Evidence from Mutation Spectra.  Mentor:  Glenn McGregor, M.D., Pharmacology and Toxicology

Second Place: Kristine Holthouser, The Role of SF-1 and COUP-TFI in Andrenal Steroidogenesis.  Mentor:  Seyed Khundmiri, Ph.D., Medicine

Doctoral Basic-Science Student Division 

First Place:  Jean Manirarora, Restoration of the Ability of NOD APC to Activate CD4+CD25+ Treg Cells Correlates with Diabetes Prevention in NOD Mice. Mentor:  Pascale Alard, Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology

Second Place: Timothy Cummins, Quantitative Comparison of Renal Tubular Proteomes in OVE26 Diabetic and Control Mice by Liquid Chromatography Coupled Mass Spectrometry.  Mentor:  David Powell, Ph.D., Medicine 

Third Place:  Krista Riggs, Identification of COUP-TFII Interacting Proteins in Tamoxifen-Sensitive MCF-7 Human Breast Cancer Cells.  Mentor:  Carolyn Klinge, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Student/Faculty Bioengineering Collaboration

First Place: Eric Van Bogaert with Manuel Casanova, M.D., Ayman El Baz, Ph.D., Andrew Switala,  A New Image Analysis Approach For Automatic Classification of Dyslexic Brains.

Second Place:  Santosh Pabba with Brigitte Fasciotto, Mehdi Yazdanapanah, Vladimir Dobrokhotov, Robert           Cohn, Self-Assembly of Nanostructured Air-Bridges by Initiated Polymerization of  Biological Proteins.