2008 Merck-AAAS

POMONA COLLEGE Merck-AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program

Pomona College is one of fifteen colleges and universities across the country that has been selected to receive a 2008 award for a Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program (USRP). Each award provides up to $60,0000/3 years for joint use by the biology and chemistry departments. Eligible institutions in the US and Puerto Rico included all those with an ACS-approved program in chemistry. The four research projects described below are interdisciplinary in nature and involve the following faculty members: Andre Cavalcanti, Cris Cheney, Laura Hoopes, Len Seligman, Jonathan Wright (Biology) Tina Negritto (Molecular Biology) and E.J. Crane, Roberto Garza-López, Mal Johal and Cynthia Selassie (Chemistry). For more detailed information on the projects, please contact the appropriate faculty.

Understanding Ligand-Biomacromolecule Interactions at the Biophysical and Molecular Levels

FACULTY AND TITLE OF PROJECTS

PROJECT 1: Discovery and Characterization of Novel Extremeophilic Homing Endonucleases. (Seligman, Crane).

PROJECT 2: Polyphenolic Damage and Repair in Yeast and Mammalian DNA. (Cavalcanti, Hoopes, Johal, Negritto & Selassie).

PROJECT 3: Interaction between Rab GDP Dissociation Inhibitor (GDI) and a PUG-UBX Protein, Gint3. (Cheney, Johal).

PROJECT 4: Modeling Diffusion-Limited Components of Insect Gas Exchange. (Garza-López, Wright).

DESCRIPTION OF PROJECTS (key access)

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