Current MARC Scholars

Jose Corleto (Second year scholar): The Role of the RhoGTPases and their Effector Proteins on myosin II activation in the Sperm of Ascidia ceratodes

(Laboratory of Dr. Robert Koch, Department of Biological Science).

Jacob Gonzalez (Second year scholar): Structure and function relationships of ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase from Thermus thermophilus

(Laboratory of Dr. Christopher Meyer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry).

Vanessa Harris (First year scholar): Twin research, which examines the effects of losing a twin; the bereavement-related behaviors of identical and fraternal

twins will be compared, as will the consequences of losing  a twin versus a non-twin

(Laboratory of Dr. Nancy Segal, Department of Psychology).

 
Lilia Rodriguez (First year scholar): Studying the relationship between adenosine and dopamine on motor function, specifically as it relates to Parkinson’s

disease and basal ganglia function

(Laboratory of Dr. Jennifer Trevitt, Department of Psychology).

 
Anna Trinidad (First year scholar): Structure Reactivity Studies of Reactive Intermediates Formed in the Oxidation of Xenobiotics

(Laboratory of Dr. Peter de Lijser, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry).

Gary Gallego (First year scholar): Cyclopropenes: highly strained building blocks for organic synthesis

(Laboratory of Dr. Christopher Hyland, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry).

Current Pre-MARC Students

Rolando Ruiz: Localizing PKC activity in the sperm of Ascidia ceretodes using anti-PKC antibody FM-1 (Laboratory of Dr. Robert Koch, Department of Biological Science).
  

Past MARC Scholars

Graduating Class of 2007:

Kevin Chavarria is currently working for Viacom, Makena, and Forterra. He will be applying to psychology graduate programs this year. 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 first 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 first 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 be applying to MD/PhD Programs this fall. He is currently finishing his last year at CSUF, and will graduate in June 2008. Richard continues to work 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 second 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 in his second year of a postbac program at UC Irvine. He will be applying to PhD programs this fall. 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 second year at UCLA Medical School, and in the process of applying to their MD/PhD Program. 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 third 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 third year graduate student at Oregon Health Sciences. 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.