Su Lab undergraduate students are the real salt of the
earth! The lab could not function without them.
Eli Nogueira (left) is asking if small molecules that enhance the effect of radiation also enhance the effect of taxol in Drosophila larvae. He plans to examine the combined effects of drugs and radiation on apoptosis, in order to get at the mechanism. Tessie DeLaney (right) is asking if reduced protein synthesis, due to mutations that reduce ribosome level and function, sensitizes Drosophila larvae to radiation and taxol.
Melissa Laughter (left) and Kim Moore (right) are screening for small molecules that rescue the phenotype of Drosophila TSC mutants.
Khyrie Jones (left) is our 2011 SMART student from the University of Rochester. He is working with Tin Tin to test the hypothesis that dying cells protect their neighbors from further death in the wing imaginal discs of Drosophila larvae. (SMART = Summer Minority Access to Research and Training). Keith Earley (right) is our Summer Cancer Research Fellow. He is working with a graduate student, Amber Bilak, to investigate whether a candidate receptor tyrosine kinase regulates the function of microRNA bantam.
Su lab publications co-authored by past undergrads (in bold):
A. Edwards*, Mara Gladstone (formerly Stewart)*, P. Yoon, D. Raben, Barbara Frederick, T. T. Su, Combinatorial effect of maytansinol and radiation in Drosophila and human cancer cells, Disease Models and Mechanisms. E pub on May 2, 2011.* shared first-authorship PUBMED
Smith MK, Trujillo C, Su TT. The benefits of using clickers in small-enrollment seminar-style biology courses. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2011 Spring;10(1):14-7. PUBMED
Jaklevic B, Uyetake L, Lemstra W, Chang J, Leary W, Edwards A, Vidwans SJ, Sibon O, Su TT. Contribution of Growth and Cell Cycle Checkpoints to Radiation Survival in Drosophila. (2006) Genetics. 174(4):1963-72. Epub 2006 Oct 8. PubMed PDF
J. Stumpff, D. R. Kellogg, K. Krohne and T. T. Su. Drosophila Wee1 interacts with Members of <gamma>-TuRC and is required for proper mitotic spindle morphogenesis and positioning. (2005) Curr Bio, 15; 1525-34. PubMed PDF Supplement
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