SACNAS 2007

October 11- October 14

Kansas City, Missouri

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2007 UCLA Presenters, SACNAS Awards Dinner

front row from left:

Maria Meza Lopez, Carolina Mendez

 

second row from left:

Jennifer Guerrero, Melissa Padilla, Velveth Klee,

Maggie Zhu,

 

third row from left:

Krystal de la Rosa, Lan Huong Lai,

Susan Realegeno, Brenda Vazquez, Sergio Pacheco

Johnny Bontemps, Laina Long SACNAS Coordinator/Advisor

 

back row from left:

Richard Rodriguez, Anthony Eskander, Mika Guzman,
Rodrigo Gonzalez, Alberto Ponce, Alejandro Tamayo

not pictured:
Isabel Neacato, Michelle Palacios, Roxanne del Rio

 

 

"SACNAS is more than another research conference – it’s an experience like no other! Not only did I learn how to network and better present my research at SACNAS, I met faculty and students from several institutions that I keep in contact with today. The friendships that are made at SACNAS are a testament of the power we have when we join together to do great things. It is not atypical to walk into the first day of SACNAS not knowing what you want to do with your academic life and walking out the last day knowing what you are going to do that summer, the next year, and maybe even your entire career. SACNAS is more than a Conference for me . . . it’s family!"

-Anthony Eskander, UCLA ‘07

UCLA UC LEADS, '05-'07
SACNAS Attendee, ‘05-‘07
SACNAS Award Recipient, ‘05
Currenlty in MD/PhD Program, and Admissions Liaison at Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon

 

More SACNAS 2007 Conference Info

 

 

 

Conference Description

The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) welcomes science, engineering, and math students of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds to its annual national research conference. It is one of the oldest and most popular conferences for undergraduates in the sciences, which focuses on mentoring, research, and professional growth opportunities.

Website

http://www.sacnas.org/

Contact Information

Laina Long
URC/CARE Program Coordinator
310.206.4600
lainal@chem.ucla.edu

 

 

 

SACNAS 2007 UCLA Award Winners

 

Carolina Mendez, MARC Scholar
2005-2007 UC LEADS alumni
SACNAS Poster Award in Environmental Science

Title: Chemical Precipitation Techniques to Remove Viruses Out of SeaWater

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Edward Boyle

Maria Meza-Lopez, UCLEADS Scholar
SACNAS Poster Award in Chemistry

Title: Revealing Gene Function Using Phenotypic Analysis of Neurospora Crassa Knockout Mutants

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard Weiss

 

 

Additional UCLA Presentations

Johnny Bontemps, CARE Scholar

Title: HOXB9 Is a Novel Transcription Factor Involved in the Interferon-Beta Mediated Antiviral Response

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Genhong Cheng

 

Rodrigo Gonzalez, MARC Scholar

Title: Elastic Response of Single Stranded Nucleic Acids to Sharp Bends

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Giovanni Zocchi

 

Jennifer Guerrero, UCLEADS Scholar

Title: Improving the Whole Cell Biocatalytic Properties
Through Protein Engineering of LOVD

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yi Tang 

 

Velveth Klee, CARE Scholar

Title: How Does the Coefficient of Friction Depend on Nanoscale Structure?

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sarah Tolbert

 

Lan Huong Lai, MARC Scholar

Title: Synthesizing Monodisperse Polymer Millispheres
 in a Droplet-Based Microfluidic Device
     
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robin Garrell 

 

 

Isabel Neacato, CARE Scholar

Title: Caspase Activation Induced by an Immunotoxin Targeting the Human Transferrin Receptor in Malignant B-Cells

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Manuel L. Penichet

 

Sergio Pacheco, CARE Scholar

Title: Determining the Role of the Cyclic AMP Response Elemend Binding (CREB) Protein in Anthrax Edema Toxin-Induced ANTXR Expression

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kenneth A. Bradley

 

 

Melissa Padilla, CARE Scholar

Title: Molecular Gyroscopes and Molecular Rotors

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Miguel Garcia Garibay

 

 

Michelle Palacios, CARE Scholar

Title: The Role of the Insulinase-Like Protein
Toxolysin-2 in Host Cell Infection by Toxoplasma Gondii

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peter Bradley

 

Alberto Ponce, MARC Scholar

Title: A Study of the Requirement for Histone Deacetylases in Groucho-Mediated Repression

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Albert Courey

 

Susan Realegeno, MARC Scholar

Title: Identifying HIV-1 Target Cell Entry Versus Infection with a Dual Reporter Virus

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Otto Yang

 

Richard Rodriguez, CARE Scholar

Title: Convergent Synthesis of a Photochemically Reactive Molecular Dirotor Based on a Diarylethene Optical Molecular Switch

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Miguel Garcia-Garibay

 

 

Maggie Zhu, Davenport Scholar
Honorary URSP Scholar

Title: WNT4 Signal in the Developing Ovary Results in a Female-Specific Pattern of Beta-Catenin Localization to the Cell Membrane

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Vilain

 

Additional UCLA Attendees

Krystal de la Rosa, CARE Scholar

Brenda Vazquez, CARE Scholar

Mika Guzman, CARE Scholar 05-07
SACNAS Student Chapter President

Alejandro Tamayo, CARE Scholar

Isabel Neacato, CARE Scholar

Roxanne del Rio, CARE Scholar