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The WISE RP offers donor supported scholarships annually to WISE RP students seeking to participate in research or internships for the Spring/Summer terms from any college. These scholarships are funded by generous financial support of champions of the WISE RP. These champions are external donors, alumni, and friends of the WISE RP. Recipients have a research/internship commitment of at least 20 hours per week for 10 weeks. The scholarship offers financial support for students to work and live in Ann Arbor over the summer.
My summer research project will be taking place in the University of Michigan - Life Sciences Institute under the supervision of Dr. Peng Li and Dr. Wenjing Wang. This research will involve the collaboration of the two labs to study and understand respiration patterns and the physiological mechanisms underlying human perception of pain. To study the relationship between breathing patterns and pain alleviation, this project will focus on pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons in the NTS regions, which are known for their role in endorphinergic endogenous analgesia as well as respiratory regulation. The goal of this research is to help understand anesthetics to develop better tools in the future such as those used in surgeries and elsewhere.
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Zandra is an incoming sophomore majoring in Earth and Environmental Sciences through the college of LSA. This summer, she is doing an internship with the Bird Center of Michigan to rehabilitate injured wild birds and educate the public about them. Native Michigan songbirds and waterfowl are often found by the public when they are orphaned or injured by cats, cars, and other hazards, and at the Bird Center they are given specific care and treatments so that they can eventually be re-introduced to the wild. Through this internship during the busy summer months, Zandra will be working with the Bird Center and other interns to take in and care for these birds.
Jessica is a rising junior conducting research in the Peter Ma Lab under the supervision of Dr. Kemao Xiu. This research focuses on the creation and modification of an ideal cationic polymeric gene vector through various functionalization techniques. These polymers are vehicles to deliver genes to host cells, which has been a limiting factor in successful gene delivery and therapy. Specifically, polymeric gene vectors have advantages such as low biological concerns, ease of chemical modifications, versatility in various applications, and possibility of industrial production. This makes polymeric gene vectors a promising candidate in both research and commercialized gene delivery applications. This summer, Jessica will primarily be working on the synthesis, characterization of the structure, and overall efficiency of the polymer. In addition, Jessica will be assisting in the biological testing of the polymer to test transfection efficiency and cytotoxicity levels through cell studies.
Marisa is conducting her summer research in the Castro/Lowenstein Lab in the Department of Neurosurgery at Michigan Medicine. She will work under Dr. Maria Luisa Varela PhD to study the collagen receptor LAIR-1 in mouse models of High Grade Glioma Multiforme (GBM), the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer. Since LAIR-1 has been detected in tumor cells, interacting with the extracellular matrix of gliomas, this project aims to describe the mechanism in which the receptor is involved in tumor progression in hopes of developing a gene therapy and/or antibody-based therapy to target LAIR-1 and lead to new treatments for GBM.
Aida is researching under Lisa Li of the EECS Department in the controls area. The topic focuses on muscle-type limb control and its differences to torque-motor-type limb control. A model of the human muscle arm will be created and iterated on with a control method, then its efficiency will be measured compared to a mechanical robotic arm. The creation of the arm muscle model will involve an exploration in biomechanics, including the contraction of muscles generating force and motor-neuron feedback. Through this comparative research approach, valuable insights can be gained into the principles governing limb control in living organisms.
Annika is a mechanical engineering intern at the Space Physics Research Lab (SPRL) at the University of Michigan. They are working closely with senior mechanical engineers on various projects including vibration and shock testing. SPRL owns multiple thermal and vacuum chambers as well as vibration tables to perform various tests on space and research equipment. This allows components such as satellites and electronics to be verified for the conditions experienced during launch or orbit. This summer Annika will be researching shock testing and the equipment required to meet various aerospace and defense shock testing standards. They will also evaluate the options for SPRL to implement shock testing in its lab, either purchasing equipment directly or designing and building its own shock testing
Jessica is conducting research this summer under the supervision of Dr. Kemao Xiu in the Peter Ma Lab. This research primarily focuses on the creation and modification of an ideal cationic polymeric gene vector. The applications of this vector have shown good transfection ability in vitro, ease of chemical modification, and possibility of commercial manufacture, which prove to be useful in gene therapy. In the current field, there is not a single polymeric gene vector that is able to assist in the transfer of genes into cells effectively. This project aims to improve the transfection ability and decrease the cytotoxicity of the vector. Eventually, the applications of the properly modified polymer could be a promising candidate for gene therapy applications.
Sabrina is conducting research this summer with the Li+ Research Group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering under the guidance of Dr. Yiyang Li. Her research is on lithium-ion batteries, which are a promising energy storage technology due to their high energy density. Conventional commercial lithium-ion battery cathodes are composed of polycrystalline LiMeO2 battery particles, where Me is a combination of Ni, Mn, and Co. These cathodes are referred to as NMC. The specific focus of her research project this summer is single-crystal NMC, which is a potential alternative battery material to polycrystalline NMC. The aim of her research this summer is to refine a process for synthesizing single-crystal NMC battery particles that meet certain specifications in terms of their chemical composition, morphology, and size. Once this goal is achieved, she will then manufacture coin cells out of the synthesized battery particles in order to study their electrochemical performance.
s. It is important to establish a process for consistently producing single-crystal NMC that meet certain specifications as they are not as readily available for purchase as polycrystalline NMC is. The synthesized single-crystal NMC can be used in future research in more precise fundamental studies as well as for comparison with their polycrystalline counterpart to better understand the mechanisms behind both types of battery particles.
Project Description: Grace is working this summer with PhD candidate Aarti Mathur at the Linic Lab through the department of Chemical Engineering, and will be evaluating numerous catalyticmaterials and testing parameters (deposition time, solution concentration, and deposition potential) with the intent of maximizing nanoparticle stability in solar water splitting applications. Results from this project will help create more efficient and affordable mean sof producing and storing hydrogen fuel, alleviate effects of climate change, and increase national energy security.Photovoltaic cells, commonly found in solar panels, use solar energy to photocatalytically decompose water into hydrogen fuel andoxygen, as well as store energy that can be used in fuel cells to provide grid-scale power without releasing pollutants. However, there arecurrently no commercially practicable methods of doing so due to low efficiencies and poor stability.
Project Description: Morgan VanderLeest is a rising third year student studying Computer Science at the College of Engineering with a minor in Political Science. During their time with WISE RP, they have been a first-year mentee and a second-year peer mentor. This summer they are interning at the Institute of World Politics (IWP), where they will be assisting IWP faculty in projects pertaining to cybersecurity and cyber intelligence.
Project Description: Jennifer is conducting research in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology under the guidance of Dr. Amy Chang, here at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on understanding the response of cells when exposed to stress. This lab especially utilizes and cultivates yeast cells such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae to examine the adaptive response to certain stressors such as protein misfolding in the endoplasmic reticulum, leading to the mitochondria undergo a remodeling process. Through examination of the organellar functions of yeast and other cellular organisms, they are able to observe the protein assembling,mitochondrial remodeling, modulating mitochondrial activity, and its critical transcriptional and translational necessary to remodel mitochondrial components. Understanding these cellular processes is vital to understanding human health, as a wide range of diseases are associated with endoplasmic reticulum stress and mitochondrial dysfunction.This summer Jennifer will be working with Dr. Amy Chang to gain experience in cultivating yeast, making media pour plates, constructing solutions, lysing yeast, and analyzing yeast proteins by Western blot.
Project Description: Jenny is conducting research this summer at the Kamcev Lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering, under the guidance of Dr. Jovan Kamcev and Ph.D. candidate Jos Daz. Her research project focuses on proton and metal ion transport in highly charged, low-swelling polymer membranes. Understanding membrane properties such as ion transport and selectivity is essential in the advancement of water treatment and energy generation or storage technology for sustainable applications. Jenny will be specifically focusing on proton (H+) transport these membranes, as it has been found that proton mobility in the membrane outperforms that of other ions, but this phenomenon has not been exploited yet. This summer, she will be working with Jos Daz to synthesize various charged membranes and characterize their equilibrium, transport, and selectivity properties using electrochemical methods.
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