2012 Research Groups

The groups below are accepting students for the summer 2010 undergraduate research program. Groups marked with an (H) are eligible for HHMI funding.

Biology

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  • Healy Group (H): Secondary metabolite biosynthesis in Streptomycetes
  • Johnson Group (H): Physiological and ecological mechanisms of lizard behavior lizards
  • King Group (H): Epithelial cell junctions
  • Livingstone group (H): Determination of protein evolution rate variation in the context of metabolic networks
  • Lyons Group: Invasion, Native Species Persistence and Ecosystem Functioning
  • Murphy Group (H): Behavioral dominance, and hormonal (testosterone) regulation of social behavior of titmice (birds) in Texas Hill country, and goldfinches in Canada
  • Ribble Group (H): Adaptation of social and mating systems in deer mice (Peromyscus) in North America and sengis or elephant-shrews in Africa
  • Roberts Group (H):     Hormones and oxidative stress in the brain
  • Shinkle Group (H): Plant responses to ultraviolet radiation
  • Williams Group (H):  Regulation of autophagy in the central nervous system

Chemistry

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  • Bushey Group:  (H) 1.  Fundamental Studies of Novel Stationary Phases for Capillary Electrochromatography and 2.  the Application of Analytical Chemistry to the Analysis of Objects of Artistic or Archeological Interest
  • Hollenbeck Group (H): Designed Ankyrin Repeat Proteins as Scaffolds for Multivalent Recognition
  • Hunsicker-Wang Group: Functional studies of metalloproteins from Thermus thermophilus
  • Lambert group (H):  nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, organosilicon chemistry, botanical materials
  • Mills Group: Potentially antiaromatic dications and dianions
  • Urbach Group: Molecular Recognition of Proteins and DNA with Designed Molecules

Computer Science

  • Lewis Group: Numerical Planetary Dynamics
  • Pitts Group

Engineering Science

  • Leifer Group: Monitoring the motion of animals and humans using videogrammetry (H); Mitigation of transmitted vibration to human operators of hand-held power tools (H); Damage assessment and force reconstruction of vehicular impacts using photogrammetry

Geosciences

  • Bleamaster Group: Geologic Mapping of Planetary Bodies
  • Kroeger Group

Mathematics

  • Elaydi Group (H): Chemostat Propagation of mixed bacteriophage Lambda-Escherichia coli K12 populations as a model system of predator-prey co-evolution
  • Olofsson Group (H): Branching Processes

Physics & Astronomy

  • Cheng Group (H):  Simulations of Alzheimer's protein interactions with neuronal membrane domains
  • Mehta Group:  Born-Oppenheimer approximation for cold atoms
  • Steele Group (H):  Surface plasmon enhanced Förster resonance energy transfer in fluorescent molecules using metal wire gratings
  • Ugolini Group:  Charge buildup and mitigation in Advanced LIGO suspensions

Psychology & Neuroscience

  • Becker Group (H): Sorority Body Image Program
  • Childers Group (H): The Children’s Research Laboratory
  • Hertel/McIntyre Group (H): Consistent Individual Differences in Cognitive and Social Processes
  • Phillips Group (H): Neuroanatomical asymmetries and skilled motor actions in capuchin monkeys
  • Roberts Group (H): Hormones and oxidative stress in the brain