Undergraduate Student Bridges Alumni
Stem Cell Internship Research Topic, Mentor and Year of Internship
2014
Matthew Christensen
Expansion and characterization of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Mentors: Karen Aboody, M.D.; Margarita Gutova, M.D., City of Hope
Julio Sanchez
TALEN-mediated GFP gene insertion into the HB9 locus
Mentor: Jiing-Kuan Yee, Ph.D., City of Hope
Angela Beal
Depletion of POT1a promotes Thymic Cell Lymphoma formation in mice
Mentor: Eros Lazzerini Denchi Ph.D., Scripps
Erick Ramirez
Cloning and large scale production of lentiviral vectors for HIV gene therapy
Mentors: John Rossi, Ph.D.; Ulrike Jung, Ph.D., City of Hope
Gloria Hernandez
Small molecule screen in zebrafish and mouse chondrocytes for new regulators of endochondral ossification
Mentor: Gage DeKoeyor Crump, Ph.D., USC
Tri Dang
DNA repair and DNA demethylation
Mentor: Timothy O'Connor, Ph.D., City of Hope
Ethan Chen
The search for the true identity of breast cancer stem cells
Mentor: Peter Lee, M.D., City of Hope
2013
George Freedman
Elucidating the gene regulatory network underlying T-cell commitment
Mentor: Ellen Rothenberg, Ph.D., Cal Tech
Greg Varuzhanyan
Using the muscle stem cell marker PAX7 to measure mitochondrial domains in skeletal muscle
Mentor: David Chan, Ph.D., CalTech
Ha Vu
Investigation of FGFs signals within the Drosophila germline stem cells' niche
Mentor: Angelike Stathopoulos, Ph.D., CalTech
Victoria Bendersky
Validation of shRNA Knockdown of Genes Related to Microcephaly
Mentor: Ulrich Mueller, Ph.D., Scripps
Michaela Lizhar
Assembly of SOX17 targeting TALE proteins to influence gene expression in human pluripotent cells
Mentor: Arthur D. Riggs, Ph.D, City of Hope
Hani Sapili
In vitro platelet differentiation from human embryonic stem cells
Mentor: Jiing-Kuan Yee, Ph.D., City of Hope
Brenda Wilson
Development of T Cells with a HER2 directed chimeric antigen receptor for the treatment of brain tumors
Mentor: Christine E. Brown, Ph.D., City of Hope
2012
Giselle Blanco
Optimizing the Differentiation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells from hESC
Mentor: Doug Ethell, Ph.D., Western University of Health Sciences
Elizabeth Hovhannessian
Dual-targeting small interfering RNAs as potent inhibitors for HIV-1 replication
Mentor: John Rossi, Ph.D., City of Hope
Jihyun Irizarry
Fibroblast Growth Factor Signaling during Drosophila Ovarian Morphogenesis
Mentor: Angelike Stathopoulos, Ph.D., CalTech
John Sanchez
IKKα is a Potential Regulator of MeCP2 Activity
Mentor: Paul Patterson, Ph.D., Caltech
Danilo Aurelio
Understanding why hESC undergo cell death following enzymatic dissociation to single cells in an effort to develop improved systems for single cell passaging hESC
Mentor: Mentor: Victoria Fox, PhD., USC
Arash Houshmast
Developing a Strategy for Direct Conversion of Differentiated Adult Cells to Multipotent Neural Crest Cells
Mentor: Gage Crump, Ph.D., USC
2011
Lindsay Peltz
Permanent epigenetic changes in HSCs after maternal immune activation
Mentor: Paul Patterson, Ph.D., Caltech
Victor Liao
Using the mRNA Transfection Method to reprogram human skin fibroblasts to hematopoietic multilineage blood progenitors that are capable of differentiating into mature erythrocytes
Mentor: Jing-Kuan Yee, Ph.D., City of Hope
Yu-Huey Lin
Mutations of Serine/Threonine phosphorylation sites on Twist1 Comprise Cellular Invasiveness in Breast Cancer Cells
Mentor: Carlotta Glackin, Ph.D., City of Hope
Eui Joon Park
End-Capping by Telomerase May Confer Genomic Stability to Stem Cells
Mentor: Adam Bailis, Ph.D., City of Hope
Yuan Han Teh
Mutations of highly conserved Serine and Threonine residues in Twist1 regulate its functions
Mentor: Carlotta Glackin, Ph.D., City of Hope
Su-Ting Huang
In situ hybridization to determine candidate genes expression patterns in Drosophila Melanogaster early embryos
Mentor: Angelike Stathopoulos, Ph.D., Caltech
2010
Nadine Morgan
Ephrin-Bs & regulation of glioma neural SC growth
Mentor: Qiang Lu, Ph.D., City of Hope
Matthew Parkhurst
Protective effects of inducible p53 suppression in hematopoietic SCs during chemotherapy
Mentor: John Rossi, Ph.D., City of Hope
Kanomi Sasaki-Capela
Standardization of human pluripotent SC culture: A system for grading hESC colonies
Mentor: Victoria Fox, PhD., USC
Revathiswari Tirughana
Twist inhibition as a potential therapy to decrease invasiveness of glioma cells
Mentor: Carlotta Glackin, Ph.D., City of Hope