HIGHEST HONORS
Jonathan Higgins
Advisor: Mercedes Gonzalez-Juarrero
M-CSF and GM-CSF Influence Naïve Murine Alveolar Macrophage Differentiation and Function in vitro
Kirsten Kulcsar
Advisor: Joel Rovnak
Analysis of Unintegrated Walleye Dermal Sarcoma Virus DNA as a Competent Template for Transcription
HIGH HONORS
Amber Troy
Advisor: Steven Dow
Airway Immune Responses to Inhaled Liposome-Based Immunotherapeutics 
April Hohnbaum
Advisor: Mercedes Gonzalez-Juarrero
Foreign body response and cytokine environment of implanted biomaterials in vivo 
HONORS CVMBS
Jamie Everman
Advisor: Julia Inamine and Torsten Eckstein
Characterization of two genes involved in the biosynthesis of a M. paratuberculosis-specific lipopeptide 
Stephanie Lehman
Advisor: RoxAnn Karkhoff-Schweizer
Evaluation of resistance to nourseothricin as an antibiotic selectable marker in efflux pump deficient Burkholderia species
Other MIP Participants
Niccole Carner
Advisors: Julia Inamine and Torsten Eckstein
Cloning M. paratuberculosis-specific genes involved in lipopeptide biosynthesis
Lauren Clark
Advisors: Carol and Jeff Wilusz
The role of 3’ untranslated regions of Ebola virus transcripts in MRNA stability
Danielle Cogswell
Advisors: Julia Inamine and Torsten Eckstein
Structural characterization of a major intracellular cell wall lipid of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis
Samantha Fallon
Advisor: Paul Avery
PCR primer design for detecting IDO expression levels in dendritic cells from FIV-infected cats
Peter Garza
Advisor: Erica Suchman
Synchronized age grading of densonucleosis virus infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes demonstrates a reduction in adult life span
John Gilchrist
Advisor: Alan Schenkel
The role of T-regulatory lymphocytes in a murine model of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Ann Heiliger
Advisor: John McKay
Phenotypic variation in drought adaptation in two ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana
Christopher Lehmann
Advisor: Brian Foy
Construction and characterization of recombinant alphavirus that has a green fluorescent protein-envelope protein fusion
Ines Marques Da Silva
Advisor: Alan Schenkel
The role of CD99L2 in leukocytes
Katherine Mladinich
Advisor: RoxAnn Karkhoff-Schweizer
Evaluation of potassium tellurite resistance as a selectable marker in Burkholderia species
Madeleine Murray
Advisor: Karen Dobos-Elder
Use of the gateway cloning system to create vectors for the investigation of potential vaccine and diagnostic candidates in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Molly Perres
Advisor: Brian Foy
Characterization of eiger in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
Michelle Price
Advisor: Vara Vissa
The role of variable number tandem repeats in Mycobacterium leprae
Aaron Pride
Advisors: Carol and Jeff Wilusz
Development of an aptamer-based transcript-specific purification scheme for the characterization of Sindbis virus nRMPs
Jason Ramer
Advisors: Carol and Jeff Wilusz
Examining the role of the ETR-3 RNA binding protein in regulating mRNA stability in skeletal muscle cells
Kristen Rutherford
Advisor: Alan Schenkel
The usage of platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule in the treatment of West Nile virus
Lacey Sethness
Advisor: Alan Schenkel
VCAM-antibody fusion to prevent inflammatory disease tissue damage
Andrew Sprowell
Advisors: Carol and Jeff Wilusz
The search for dengue RNAs that have been modified by cellular enzymes during infection
Joanne Tennant
Advisor: Tian Wang
Regulation of the mosquito salivary protein, D7, in Culex tarsalis
Latisha Tucker
Advisor: Hana Van Campen
Differentiation between BHV-1 vaccines and wild-type strains using SNPs located within the Ul-41 gene
Tiffany Tweedy
Advisor: Mike McNeil
Determining the function of the proteins encoded by Rv0228 and Rv0225 as possible drug targets for tuberculosis
Ranjana Unnithan
Advisor: Alan Schenkel
Cellular and molecular analysis of chronic idiopathic interstitial pneumonia in PECAM-deficient mice
Jessica Veatch
Advisor: Mark Zabel
Development of an in vitro cell culture based assay for chronic wasting disease
Matthew Whitney
Advisor: Tian Wang
Identification of West Nile virus specific T cell epitopes
Agatha Wieczorek
Advisor: Karen Dobos-Elder
Production of recombinant Psts1 protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and recognition by HLA-E restricted CD8+T-cells
