SURF students have worked in the laboratories of a variety of noted Rockefeller University researchers, including Nobel Prize-winners.

Recent SURF projects include:

• Structural Approach to Elucidate the Biochemical Function of SseI
• Identification of genes involved in temperature sensation in the AFD neuron and sheath cells of C. elegans
• Characterization of a Novel Mutation of the fat Gene in Drosophila
• Role of fibrin in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease
• Involvement of Helicases in the Export of mRNPs through the Nuclear Pore Complex
• Construction and Screening of an Environmental DNA Library for the Discovery of Antibiotic Natural Products
• Functional Characterization of Human HMG CoA Reductase Genetic Variants Associated with Elevated Plasma Lipid Levels
• Orexigenic neuropeptide expression in the nucleus accumbens regulated by macronutrient content and access schedule
• Analysis of TIM nuclear localization in the Drosophila circadian clock
• Examining the Role of the Cytoskeleton in Ebola Virus Budding
• Model of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus: the Functional Significance of a Rare Type of Synaptic Plasticity
• Do stress and BDNF deficiency modulate spine density in the adult hippocampus?
• Click Chemistry for the Identification of Fatty-Acylated Proteins
• A Chemical Biology Approach to Study Protein Methylation
• Studying Experience-Dependent Changes in Cortical Circuits
• Mos1 insertion causes mutagenesis in C.elegans that confers hypoxic behavior

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows
2007  |  2006  |  2005  |  2004  |  2003  |  2002  |  2001

2007 SURF Students
Adisorn Chaibang	Brown University
Young-Eun Choi	Bard College
Keon Combie	Vassar College
Katherine Fenz	Barnard College
Whitney Fields	University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Miriam Ginzberg	Queens College
Rebecca Josowitz	University of Richmond
Denesy Mancenido	Hunter College
James Oh	UNC Chapel Hill
Ana Pacheco-Navarro	Williams College
Nora Pencheva	Kenyon College
Zinaida Perova	St. Petersburgh State Polytech
Eliah Shamir	University of Virginia
Anna Shneidman	Harvard University
Ryan Squire	Oberlin College
Dyese Taylor	Dartmouth College
2006 SURF Students
Ferhina Ali	University of Rochester
Nwe-Nwe Aye-Han	Mount Holyoke College
Keriann Backus	Brown University
Itay Budin	Cornell University
Kelly Feder	Illinois Wesleyan University
Victor Fedorov	University of Richmond
Dennis Kappei	Ecole Normale Superieure
Maria Maldonado	Cambridge University
Frances Onyimba	University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Krishna Ramkumar	IIT Bombay
Kevin Schaeffer	Princeton University
Roberto Villasenor	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Alice Wang	Columbia University
Ye (Elaine) Wang	University of Rochester
Stephanie White	San Jose State University
Jie Zhang	Bard College
2005 SURF Students
Nsikan Akpan	Bard College
Fabio Casadio	University of Bologna
Samuel Cross	Harvard University
Bethany Drehman	Rhodes College
Gamze Ozlem Camdere	Bilkent University
Lisa Gunaydin	Swarthmore College
Tabitha Guzman	San Jose State University
Parris Humphrey	Bard College
Kenneth Kay	Johns Hopkins University
Gregory Krantz	University of Vermont
Katherine Morgan	University of Georgia
Daniel Seeger	Hamilton College
Brikha Shrestha	Brown University
Michael Silverman	Harvard University
Ashley Taylor	Oberlin College
Cesar Virgen	University of Alberta
Joanna Wilga	St. John's University
2004 SURF Students
Jalal Baruni	Whitman College
Maryna Bayeva	Vassar College
Rudy Bellani	Arizona State University
Eun Young Choi	Columbia University
Ogechukwu Eze	Adelphi University
Shannon Fraser	Cornell University
Michael Gorin	University of Michigan
Emily Gotschlich	Duke University
Yevgeniy Grigoryev	Hunter College
Satoko Kanahara	Oberlin College
David Kastner	Yeshiva University
Soren Peterson	Carleton College
Joseph Pick	Brandeis University
Ryan Schwartz	Bard College
Hiram Shaish	Dartmouth College
Yashaswi Shrestha	Mt. Holyoke College
Vincent Tay	National University of Singapore
Rinat Tuhvatshin	Kyrgyz State
2003 SURF Students
Adewole Adamson	Morehouse College
Peter Chahales	Clark University
Alpertunga Dagcan	Bilkent University
Sara Gale	Vassar College
Enrigue Gonzalez	University of Puerto Rico
Alison Groeger	Rhodes College
Lena Ho	University of Wisconsin at Madison
Rakhi Jittani	Carnegie Mellon University
Maria Kazolea	University of Crete
Aaron Koenig	Columbia University
Heather Kulik	Cooper Union
Tapan Maniar	Bard College
Justin McManus	Cornell University
Daniel Miller	Black Hills State University
Supriya Munshaw	Bard College
Stephanos Pavilides	St. Francis College
Louisa Steinberg	Vassar College
Sean Tackett	University of Notre Dame
Tune Emiroglu	Bilkent University
2002 SURF Students
Steven Backues	Gustavus Adolphus
Grace Chan	SUNY Stony Brook
Dusica Curanovic	Rochester Institute of Technology
Jonathan Johnnidis	Harvard University
Martin Kampmann	Cambridge University
Lukasz Kowalik	Cambridge University
Candace Luces	Claflin University
Jaicharan Iyengar	University of California Los Angeles
Lynn Model	Wesleyan University
Jose Morachis	University of California Riverside
Juliet Morrison	Bard College
Ana Paula Sales	Bard College
Nicolai Siegel	Brown University
Ana Silbering	University of Buenos Aires
Leonard Smith	Morehouse College
Alexander Taussig	Harvard University
Iga Wegorzewska	Georgetown University
2001 SURF Students
Mustanser Badar	Hunter College
Stephen Chung	Cornell University
Graeme Couture	University of Waterloo
Robert Fenster	Harvard University
Raj Gupta	University of Michigan
Martin Jinek	Cambridge University
Terrissa Martin	Hunter College
Melissa Noel	University of Puerto Rico
Janice Ngee Thai	Hunter College
Thomas Petersen	Princeton
Raymond Raad	Massechusetts Institute of Technology
Priscilla Ribeiro	Calvin College
Sarah Shapiro	Bard College
Francois St. Pierre	Cambrige University
Jamie Twaite	Bard College