Previous NE-INBRE Scholars from UNO
(For more information on each scholar's presentation, please click on the student's name.)

• Corey Lawson - College of IS&T
  • Worked with Y. Persidsky and G.D. Kanmogne in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience at UNMC during the summer of 2005.
  • He conducted research related to problems with HIV-infected patients that presented respiratory complications related to alterations in pulmonary immune regulation.


• Scott Abboud - College of IS&T
  • Worked with Dr. Ahmad at the Durham Research Center at UNMC during the summer of 2005.
  • His research involved gathering all of the genes that are involved in retinal stem cell development and data basing the information.


• Kathryn Dempsey - College of IS&T
  • Worked with Dr. Lawrence G. Harshman in the Department of Biological Sciences at UNL during the summer of 2005.
  • The research that she took part in was part of a larger project entitled "The Search for Virus-Like Copia" and other current issues in dresophila melnanogaster. She studied and performed experiments that investigated the genetic, physiological, and other biological factors that underlie extended longevity in d. melanogster.


• Nicholas Palermo - College of IS&T
  • Worked with Dr. Sándor Lovas at the Creighton University Medical Center during the summer of 2004
  • Nick presented a poster entitled “Weakly Polar Interactions in Model Helical Peptides” at the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) meeting in Capetown, South Africa.


• Sarfraz Chandio - College of IS&T
  • Worked with Dr. Steven Hinrichs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center during the summer of 2004
  • Sarfraz gave a presentation on his research entitled “Rapid Molecular Identification of Medically Important Fungi using RFLP Database” at the INBRE annual meeting in Grand Island, NE.