Minor in Biomedical Research - Student Publications

Students in the Minor in Biomedical Research work on real research projects that are potentially publishable. We happily congratulate several of our students, listed here, who have published papers in peer-reviewed journals based on their undergraduate thesis research.

Ryan Dosumu-Johnson
Ben Goldenson
Kwanoo Lee
Noemi Lee
Anne Liu
Jason Melehani
Kathy Ngo
Shuo Wang

Publications (student names and journals in bold)

Miller J.E., Spiteri E., Condro M.C., Dosumu-Johnson R., Geschwind D.H., White S.A. (2008). Birdsong decreases protein levels of FoxP2, a molecule required for human speech. J. Neurophysiology 100: 2015-2025.

Avagyan, H., Goldenson, B., Tse, E., Masoumi, A., Porter, V., et al. (2009). Immune blood biomarkers of Alzheimer disease patients. J. Neuroimmunology., 210: 67-72.

Masoumi, A., Goldenson, B., Ghirmai, S., Avagyan, H., Zaghi, J., et al. 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 Interacts with Curcuminoids to Stimulate Amyloid-beta Clearance by Macrophages of Alzheimer's Disease Patients. (2009) J. Alzheimers Disease Epub ahead of print.

Zaghi, J., Goldenson, B., Inayathullah, M., Lossinsky, A.S., Masoumi, A., Avagyan, H., et al. (2008). Alzheimer disease macrophages shuttle amyloid-beta from neurons to vessels, contributing to amyloid angiopathy. Acta Neuropathology, 117: 111-24.

Kumar, R., Lee, K., Macey, P.M., Woo, M.A. and Harper, R.M. (2009). Mamillary body and fornix injury in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome. Pediatric Research Epub ahead of print.

Evans, C.J., Olson, J.M., Ngo, K.T., Kim, E., Lee, N.E., Kuoy, E., Patananan, A.N., Sitz, D., Tran, P.T., Do, M.T., Yackle, K., Cespedes, A., Hartenstein, V., Call, G.B. and Banerjee, U. (2009). G-TRACE:rapid Gal4-based cell lineage analysis in Drosophila. Nature Methods 6:603-605.

Tamae C., Liu A., Kim, K., Sitz, D., Hong, J., Becket, E., Bui, A., Solaimani, P., Tran, K.P., Yang, H. and Miller, J.H. (2008). Determination of Antibiotic Hypersusceptibility Among 4,000 Single Gene Knockout Mutants of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriology 190:5981-8.

Ralston, K.S., Kabututu, Z.P., Melehani, J.H., Oberholzer, M. and Hill, K.L. (2009). The Trypanosoma brucei flagellum: moving parasites in new directions. Ann. Rev. Microbiology 63: 335-362.

Hashimi, S.T., Fulcher, J.A., Chang, M.H., Gov, L., Wang, S. and Lee, B. (2009). MicroRNA profiling identifies miR-34a and miR-21 and their target genes JAG1 and WNT1 in the coordinate regulation of dendritic cell differentiation. Blood 114: 404-414.

Fulcher, J.A., Chang, M.H., Wang, S., Almazan, T., Hashimi, S.T., Eriksson, A.U., Wen, X., Pang, M., Baum, L.G., Singh, R.R. and Lee, B. (2009). Galectin-1 co-clusters CD43/CD45 on dendritic cells and induces cell activation and migration through Syk and PKC signaling. J. Biol. Chem. Epub ahead of print.