Summer Undergraduate Research Programs: Past Projects

SURP projects of summer 2009
• Initial characterization of Soluble, Deglycosylated BACE1 Isoforms
• The Design of Road and Bridge Surface Sensors for Ice and Moisture Detection Using Time Domain Reflectometry
• Novel Small molecule MCT-1 Inhibitors as Anticancer Agents
• Development of Double-stable Cell Lines for the Overexpression of Colorectal Cancer Candidate Genes Using the Tet-On Gene Expression System
• Development of a Time Domain Reflectometry System for the Determination of Ice Formation on Road and Bridge Surfaces
• Determining the Transition Temperature of Complex Lipid Mixtures Using the Carboxyfluorescein Release Assay
• Investigation of Structural Characteristics of Azurin Copper Binding Sites Modeled after Peptidyl alpha-Hydroxylating Monooxygenase Using Crystallography
• Inhibition of GSK3 Stimulates the Production of MCT1 in Rate Brain Endothelial Cells
• BACE2 in the Alzheimer's Disease Pathway
• RNAi Induced Apoptosis in Human Colon Cancer Cells
• Bath Pond BUlk Organic Source Indicators and n-alkane Distributions
• Utilizing a Camphor Derivative as a Chiral Auxiliary in the Synthesis of Optically Active Butanolides
• Synthesis and Investigation of Mixed Valence Metallated Thiadiozole Superhemiphorphrazine
• Lipid Induced Oligomerization of Annexin at the Membrane
• Primer Design and Cloning of BACE2 Isoforms
• The Synthesis of Berberine and Berberine Derivatives and the Inhibiting Effects on Toxoplasma Gondii
• Redox Properties of Polyferrocenyl-Containing Porphyrines
• Characteristics of Dissolved Organic Carbon within the Lake Superior Watershed
• Black Carbon in Lake Superior Dissolved Organic Matter
• Development of New Methods for the Synthesis of Biologically Active Lactones
• Pressure Drop and Temperature Gradients in Supercritical Fluid Chromatography
• Ideal-Gas Thermometry Use in Driven On-Off Lattice Gases
• Impact of Copper Status on Hepcidin Expression
• Exact Probabilities of Driven Lattice Gas Representations

For more information on this year's SURP program, contact:

Prof. Bilin Tsai, Chair of 2009 SURP Committee, btsai@d.umn.edu
Mrs. Joanne Ellis, Executive Office and Administrative Specialist, jellis@d.umn.edu