February 3, 2020

2020 Summer Biomedical Research Program (SBRP) at BSOM

Apply today for the Summer Biomedical Research Program (SBRP), a Brody School of Medicine program at East Carolina University.

The SBRP is an intensive two-month research program that allows undergraduate students to conduct basic or clinical research in various laboratory at the Brody School of Medicine or the main campus. The program goal is to prepare the students to be competitive in a global multicultural world whether their aspiration is to join basic research or clinical fields. Therefore, in addition to performing cutting-edge research, the students participate in various career development workshops. The culmination of the program is a poster session where the students present the result of the research they conducted under the supervision of their very dedicated mentors.

 

Although mentors and projects change every year, here is the list of the posters that were presented last year:

  1. Gavin Black from North Carolina State University presented his work “Discovery of Human Glucose Transporter (GLUT) Specific Inhibitors” performed within the group of Dr. Jun-Yong Choe from the Department of Chemistry and the East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, East Carolina University.
  2. April Brown from Pitt Community College presented her work “Relative Quantification of Neurotransmitters in Spinal Cord Tissue Using MALDI-TOF/MALDI-IMS” performed within the group of Dr. Kimberly Kew from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.
  3. George Cherry from Pitt Community College presented his work “The Role of Self- Efficacy in Mental Health Differences Between Adolescents and Young Adults with Epilepsy” performed within the group of Dr. Aimee W. Smith from the Department of Psychology, East Carolina University.
  4. Audrey A Cooke from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill presented her work “PUF-8 and CYB-2 repress dedifferentiation-mediated tumorigenesis in C. elegans spermatogenic germline” performed within the group of Dr. Myon Hee Lee from the Department of Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.
  5. Cassidy Cox from North Carolina State University presented her work “Knockdown of Cardiac TLR4 Attenuates Angiotensin II-induced Hypertension and Cardiac Hypertrophy” performed within the group of Dr. Srinivas Sriramula from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.
  6. Heather Davis from Fayetteville State University presented her work “Transcriptional Corepressor SMRTER Potential Connection to Ecdysone Signaling in Escort Cells” performed within the group of Dr. Elizabeth Ablesfrom the Department of Biology, East Carolina University.
  7. Juan Fabian from Elizabeth City State University presented his work “Characterizing the regulatory role of the PEBP1 Protein in Human 15-LOX-2 Enzyme Catalysis Linked to Ferroptosis” performed within the group of Dr. Adam R. Offenbacher from the Department of Chemistry, East Carolina University.
  8. Sydney Goertzen from Catawba University presented her work “Characterizating Actin Regulation of Excitatory Synaptogenesis” performed within the group of Dr. Karen A. Litwa from the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina Diabetes
  9. Eulim Kang from Fayetteville State University presented her work “GPR4 regulates endothelial cell migration and paracellular gap formation in response to the acidic microenvironment” performed within the group ofDr. Li Yang from the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.
  10. Ashlynn Lee from Bennett College presented her work “Expression of Constitutively Active CaMKKα in all Skeletal Muscles does not Alter Body Composition or Systemic Glucose Homeostasis in Mice” performed within the group of Dr. Carol A. Witczak from  the departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kinesiology and Physiology, East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, East Carolina University.
  11. Sidney Stamey from Pfeiffer University presented her work “Synthesis of DHBA-Sulfa Drug Conjugate and its Interaction with Periplasmic FatB from Brucella spp” performed within the group of Dr. Sambuddha Banerjee from the department of Chemistry, East Carolina University.

Website: http://bit.ly/ECU-SBRP

Direct Application Link: https://ecu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2to7s6WZvKsFUFf

If you have any questions, contact Dr. Jacques Robidoux at robidouxj@ecu.edu or 252-744-5606, or Whitney D. Wilson at wilsonw14@ecu.edu.