Current Students, Combined MD/PhD Program at the University of Minnesota

NEWS AND EVENTS

EVENTS

Clinical Basic Science Seminar
Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 12-4:30 p.m., 450 CCRB

NEWS

Kudos

Five MD/PhD students are recipients of NIH Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellowships:

• Joan Beckman - 2007-2011 (National Institute on Aging)
  Joan is in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Graduate Program. Her research focuses on vascular inflammation and blood vessel stasis that occurs in patients with sickle cell disease and transgenic sickle mice.

• Christopher DeNucci - 2008-2011 (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) 
  Chris is in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Graduate Program. His research project, "The role of beta1 integrin in modulating gut-homing alpha4beta7 on T cells " focuses on investigating the molecular mechanisms by which T cells acquire and regulate integrin expression.

• Kristin Gehrking - 2006-2011 (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
  Kristin is in the Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics Graduate Program. Her resaerch focus is spinocerebellar ataxia type I (SCA1), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by gait abnormalities, incoordination, and problems with speech, swallowing, and breathing.

• Lisa Jasperson - 2008-2011 (National Institute on Aging)
  Lisa is in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Research Program. Her research focuses on the role of IDO in the age-related increase in severity of graft-versus-host disease.

• Jeannette Zinggler Berg - 2006-2010 (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
  Jeannette is in the Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Graduate Program. She is broadly interested in the mechanisms of carcinogenesis.

John Albin has been awarded the Warwick Fellowship from the Graduate School at the University of Minnesota. This award, which includes a stipend of $27,000, tuition and health insurance, and a research grant of $3,000, can be given to an MD/PhD student in the graduate phase of training. The award is funded by a generous gift from Warren and Henrietta Warwick.  Albin is in the Micbrobiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Graduate Program. His work in the laboratory of Dr. Reuben Harris focuses on outcomes of HIV-1 interactions with host cell restriction factors.

In addition, Michelle Hamline, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics Graduate Program, is the recipient of a two-year fellowship from the American Heart Associaton that provides funds for most of her stipend, $4000 in research project costs, and health insurance. Her proposed research was titled "Dissecting the molecular and epigenetic mechanisms of BCOR repression in cardiovascular development."