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Welcome to 2008 MOCB Retreat at CBMG - University of Maryland

2008 MOCB Retreat Participants

Morning presentations

Mathangi Srinivasan: “Reciprocal regulation of NFAT 1 and 2 cellular localization in CD8+ anergic cells”

Jessica Miller: “The role of NuoG in preventing apoptosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infected macrophages”

Abbi Rajagopal: “Heme homeostasis is regulated by concerted and conserved functions of HRG-1 proteins”

Buvna Narayanan: “Structural and functional studies of Dimethylmalate lyase, a PEP mutase/isocitrate lyase superfamily member”

Niya Todonova: “Enzyme kinetics for purine nucleoside phosphorylase using calorimetry”

Robert Berkey: “Functional Origin of RPW8 Mediated Resistance”

Poster presentations
Paul Clavijo Omar Memon Varnika Roy
Vonetta Edwards Habi Mojidi Vandana Sekhar
Laura Ellestad Nellie Moshkovich Zhen Shi
Alison Heffer Malini Mukherjee Nuttinee Teerakulkittipong
Jae Kwang Jeong Jyoti Narayana Cristel Thomas
Caroline Li Sangeetha Raghavan Yizhou Yin 

Afternoon presentations

Courtney Busch: “Mismatch repair in the halophilic archaeon Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1”

Rui Gao: “The XRCC1 R399Q polymorphism is associated with response to radiotherapy in prostate cancer”

Wayne Cabral: “Greater than 1% of Contemporary West Africans are Carriers of a Founder Mutation for Severe Recessive Type VIII OI, Which Was Presumably Brought to America with the Colonial Slave Trade and Also Occurs in African-Americans”

Siqian Feng: “Loss of polyhomeotic function causes autonomous cell death and non-autonomous cell over-proliferation in Drosophila”