Past Projects
SURF students have worked in the laboratories of a variety of noted Rockefeller University researchers, including Nobel Prize-winners.
Recent SURF projects include:
- PI31 Regulation Involves Catalytic Activity of the Proteasome
- Small Intestine Organoids: Reductionist System to Study the Gut
- Characterizing Projections from the AM and OFC to the ACC and their Involvement in Associative Learning
- Building an Actin Filament Molecular Force Detector
- Delineating the role of immunoglobulin A in suppressing colon tumorigenesis
- The Fidelity of T7 RNA Polymerase Under Force
- FHL2 interacts with AP-1 transcription factors bound to DNA
- Antibody staining of primordial germ cells in Taenopygia castanotis embryos
- Characterizing DNA Damage-induced Phenotypes in FANCA-deficient Keratinocytes
- Role of Thy-1 Promotor in Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Models
- Refining ATAC-seq master peak sets to identify putative regulatory networks involved in drug induced senescence
- Visualizing the mechanosensitive channel YbiO preserved in a native membrane nanodisc environment
- Fat is a Chatty Organ: Studying Adipose Crosstalk and Secretion
- SOX9’s Mode as a Master Regulator Through Global H3K4-Monomethylases Recruitment
- Optimizing cryo-EM data processing of native γ-tubulin ring complex
- Understanding RTF2 Regulation During DNA Replication Stress
- Optimizing CRISPR tools for use in mycobacteria
- Engineering CFTR for single-molecule analysis of folding
- Investigating the Mechanisms Underlying Feather-follicle Formation Variation Among Avian Species
- CPT1 Blockade During Fasting Precipitates Rapid Onset Torpor
- Developing a Pipeline to Call and Identify Variants in Clustered Single Cells
- Single Cell Sequencing Uncovers Expression Pattern of a Novel Brain-and Ovary-Specific GPCR in Aedes aegypti
- The Role of Cell Death in Yellow Fever Virus 17D Attenuation
- Visualizing Ligandable Cysteines in T Cell Exhaustion
- Compositionality in drawing behavior in monkeys
- Ceramide Metabolism is Essential for Pancreatic Tumor Growth
- Gone with the Wind: How Fruit Flies Remember Wind Directions