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:
- Biochemical and Structural Studies of the Repression Mechanisms of Plasmid RK2-encoded KorA and KorB on Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase
- Understanding how ZHX proteins regulate their DNA Binding Properties
- Predictions from critically balanced models of the cortex
- Development of a Computational and Experimental Pipeline for CRISPR-Mediated Depletion of Abundant Reads in Single-cell RNA-seq Libraries
- An Oligo-PROTAC Approach Toward the Degradation of TEAD Transcription Factors
- Assessing the Impact of Repetitive Sequences on the Assembly Quality of Vertebrate Genomes
- Intraepithelial lymphocyte interactions with tuft cells
- Probing The Neural Basis of Locomotion in Zebra Finch
- Generating high density DNA clusters for scalable spatial transcriptomics
- Influence of the DDX42 Helicase on HIV-1 RNA Splicing & Protein Expression
- Elucidating the Conformation of the Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channel MscS in the Open State in a Native Lipid Environment
- Implications of the MAGEL2 Gene in Prader-Willi Syndrome & Development of a New Method for Specific Synaptosome Enrichment
- Discovering Novel Molecular Mechanisms of Axon selection in the Zebrafish Lateral Line
- Isolation of the linker cell in C. elegans: on the way to uncovering transcriptional linker cell death signature
- Establishing and Validating Fbxo7-null H9 Human Embryonic Stem Cells for a Parkinson’s Disease Model
- Metabolomic differences in soil Streptomyces populations: an alternative explanation for silent gene cluster
- NoCAP enrichment: A new method for host associated microbial transcriptomics
- Genetic Expression in the Motor Cortex of the Common Bottlenose Dolphin
- Perturbing mirror symmetry – A targeted CRISPR screen in the zebrafish neuromast
- Studying the role of Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1-alpha Subunit in therapy-induced cellular senescence
- BMP and TGF-β Signaling Dynamics in Human Gut Tube Morphogenesis
- Activity dependent translational control by eIF4G2 in postsynaptic compartments
- A Model of Torpor Induced by CPT1 Inhibition During Nutrient Stress
- The interplay between fibrinogen and Aβ-induced inflammatory response, and their contributions to synaptic damage in an Alzheimer’s Disease model
- Deciphering the role of TXNDC15 in the post-translational regulation of ER lipid metabolism