Current MARC Scholars

Adrienne Conant (First year scholar) Examination of the motor aspects of decision making using various behavioral and motor function methodologies, with an emphasis on the basal ganglia and the nucleus acumbens with cellular staining and immunocyctochemisty in situ hybridization (Laboratory of Dr. Jennifer Trevitt, Department of Psychology). 

Joshua Pando (First year scholar) Adenosine antagonists as potential anti-parkisonian agents and examining behavior and cellular effects in rodent models of parkinsonism using immunocytochemistry in situ hybridization (Laboratory of Dr. Jennifer Trevitt, Department of Psychology). 

Harold Pimentel (Second year scholar) High-performance computing methods for speedup of Crystallographic applications (Laboratory of Dr. Spiros H. Courellis, Department of Computer Science). 

Diana Rigueur (Second year scholar) MAGP-2 expression on ovarian carcinoma cell lines (Laboratory of Dr. Alison Miyamoto, Department of Biological Science). 

Rolando Ruiz (Second year scholar) Localization of protein kinase C in Ascidia ceratodes sperm cells (Laboratory of Dr. Robert Koch, Department of Biological Science).
  

Amanda Cook-Sneathen (Second year scholar) Asymmetric Aziridination of Alkenes using N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (Laboratory of Dr. Christopher Hyland, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry).

Ashley Watson (First year scholar) Visual perception, exploring the mechanisms of binding various visual features such as color, shape, motion, and size using psychophysical methods (Laboratory of Dr. Eriko Miyahara, Department of Psychology). 

Past MARC Scholars

Graduating Class of 2009:

Gary Gallego will enter the PhD Program in Chemistry at UC Berkeley this fall. While a MARC scholar, Gary worked on " Cyclopropenes: highly strained building blocks for organic synthesis" in the laboratory of Dr. Christopher Hyland, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Vanessa Harris is begun her first year of graduate study at the University of Miami, Ohio, conducting research in Department of Cognitive Development toward her PhD. While in the MARC program, Vanessa examined the effects of losing a twin: the bereavement-related behaviors of identical and fraternal twins, as will the consequences of losing  a twin versus a non-twin. her MARC research was carried out in the laboratory of Dr. Nancy Segal, Department of Psychology.

Graduating Class of 2008:

Jose Corleto will enter the PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego in the fall of 2009. He graduated from CSUF in May, finishing research in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Koch, Department of Biological Science, on “The Role of the RhoGTPases and their Effector Proteins on myosin II activation in the Sperm of Ascidia ceratodes.”

Jacob Gonzalez is a second year graduate student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at Yale University. While a MARC scholar, Jacob worked on the structure and function relationships of ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase from Thermus thermophilus in the laboratory of Dr. Christopher Meyer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Graduating Class of 2007:

Kevin Chavarria is currently working for Viacom, Makena, and Forterra. His MARC research evaluated the social relationships in twins and their families in the laboratory of Dr. Nancy Segal, Department of Psychology.
 
Anita Nosratieh is currently a third year graduate student in the Biomedical Engineering Program at UC Davis. While a MARC scholar, Anita worked on the development and characterization of novel substrates for the Bcr-Abl kinase in the laboratory of Dr. Nancy Allbritton, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine.
 
Eric Nunes is a third year graduate student in the Behavioral Neuroscience Program at the University of Connecticut. During his MARC tenure on the CSUF campus, Eric investigated the relationship between caffeine and adenosine on the dopaminergic system in the brain and its related potential benefits to Parkinson's disease in the laboratory of Dr. Jennifer Trevitt, Department of Psychology.

Richard T. Parenteau will enter the University of California, San Francisco's Medical Scientist Training Program (UCSF MSTP) in July 2009 after completing an MD/PhD prep program at the Mayo Clinic in MN. While in the MARC Program, worked in the laboratory of  Dr. Marcelo Tolmasky, Department of Biological Science, using real time PCR to determine the half life of the antibiotics resistance encoding AAC(6')-lb mRNA.

 
Graduating Class of 2006:

Diego Miranda is a fourth year graduate student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. While in the MARC Program, Diego worked on the identification of peptide inhibitors of aminoglycoside modifying enzyme 6’-N-acetyl transferase type lb in the laboratory of Dr. Marcelo Tolmasky, Department of Biological Science.
 
Paul Gerard is a second year graduate at UC Irvine. As a MARC scholar, Paul investigated Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a viable bioreactor for formation of three single-chain variable antibody fragments against botulinum neurotoxin in the laboratory of Dr. Amybeth Cohen, Department of Biological Science.
 

Graduating Class of 2005:

Richard Ancheta is in his fourth year at UCLA Medical School. While at CSUF, Richard conducted loss of function studies of the zig-6 gene in Caenorhabiditis elegans in the laboratory of Dr. Oscar Aurelio, Department of Biological Science.

Ronald Coleman is a fifth year graduate student at The Scripps Research Institute. His MARC research focused on the design, construction and assembly of a single chain antibody variable region cocktail against botulinum neurotoxin for expression in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in the laboratory of Dr. Amybeth Cohen, Department of Biological Science.

Lawrence Grey is a fifth year graduate student. He began his graduate studies at Oregon Health Sciences and moved with his research mentor to Jonhs Hopkins, where he will receive his PhD. His MARC research was conducted in laboratory of Dr. Maria Linder, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and focused on ceruloplasmin and non-ceruloplasmin ferroxidases in mouse and rat sera.