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Brian G. Turner, M.D. earned his B.S.
summa cum laude in Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology from the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in
1999. He gained extensive research
experience as an undergraduate at UMBC,
both in the United States and in France. He
conducted research in the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute (HHMI) at UMBC, and he
published several articles with his mentor, HHMI Investigator,
Dr. Michael F. Summers. He is the first author on: Turner
BG, Summers, MF. Structural Biology of HIV. Journal of
Molecular Biology Jan 1999; 285: 1- 32 (Cover Article),
published before he graduated. He completed his M.D.
program at the Harvard Medical School in 2004. He is Board
Certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology.
Currently, he practices medicine in New York and is an
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical
College.
Carla V. Valenzuela earned her B.S.
summa cum laude in Biological Sciences
from the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County in 2010. Moreover, she
graduated with a perfect 4.0 cumulative
grade point average. Conducting summer
research Japan, she performed work on
obesity with top researchers in the field. In her free time, she
climbed Mount Fuji, which she deems as one of her greatest
accomplishments. She is currently enrolled in a M.D.
program at Vanderbilt University. She plans to work with
vulnerable populations, especially those suffering from
infectious diseases. Recently, she was awarded the 2011 Kean
Fellowship from the American Society of Tropical Medicine
and Hygiene.
P. Francesca Villalva is a third-year
Electrical Engineering student at the
University of Maryland, College Park
(UMD). She was both a participant and a
mentor in the LSAMP Summer Bridge
Program. Recently, she was awarded the
Michael L. Cherry Scholarship presented
by NSBE-UMD chapter, for exemplary leadership skills and
service to her community. As an active executive board
member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers,
she works closely with the Center for Minorities in Science
and Engineering and NSBE-UMD to produce the Annual
Student Recognition and Alumni Banquet to recognize
underrepresented minority students’ stellar academic
achievement and alumni. Her research interests include
applications of neural networks and multimedia signal
processing and compression. She plans to graduate in 2013.
Kristen Walker earned her B.S. in
Agriculture from the University of Maryland
Eastern Shore. She completed her M.S.
program in Animal Science with a Certificate
in STEM Cell Biotechnology at Kansas State
University in 2010. Currently, she is
employed as a Research Associate at
Nutramax Laboratories, Inc.
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Ryan B. Turner, M.D. was selected as the
valedictorian of the class of 1999 at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(UMBC) where he earned his B.S. summa
cum laude in Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology. He gained extensive research
experience as an undergraduate at UMBC,
both in the United States and in France. He
conducted research in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(HHMI) at UMBC, and he published several articles with his
mentor, HHMI Investigator, Dr. Michael F. Summers. He is
the first author on: Turner RB, Smith DL, Zawrotny ME,
Summers MF, Posewitz MC, Winge DR. Solution structure of
a zinc domain conserved in yeast copper-regulated
transcription factors. Nat Struct Biol. 1998 Jul;5(7):551-5,
published before he graduated. He completed his M.D.
program at the Harvard Medical School in 2004. He is Board
Certified in Dermatology. Currently, he practices medicine in
New York and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
Christopher Wamble earned his B.S.
in Computer Science from the
University of Maryland, College Park
(UMD) in 2005. Throughout his
undergraduate career he interned at
IBM, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, NIST,
McNair Program at UMD, and
SPGRE. After graduating, he worked at UMIACS for a year
before moving to Newark, NJ for graduate school. He
completed his M.S. program in Computer Science at the New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in 2009, and he also
plans to complete his current M.S. program at NJIT in
Information Systems with a thesis in the area of social mobile
computing. Currently, he works as a systems specialist in
Manhattan, New York for Fidessa, and he operates two parttime
businesses as a product broker and energy marketing
consultant.
Calvin T. Williams, M.D., Ph.D earned
his B.S. magna cum laude in
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
from the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County 2001. He completed
his M.D./Ph.D. program at the
University of Maryland School of
Medicine in 2011. His dissertation research focused on
applying immunogenomic techniques to the identification of
potential antigens from Pre-Erythrocytic stages Plasmodium.
Stacey N. Williams, Ph.D. earned
her B.S. in Chemistry from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County. She completed her Ph.D.
program in Pharmaceutical
Sciences at the University of
Maryland School of Pharmacy.
Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical
Sciences in the School of Pharmacy at Notre Dame of
Maryland University located in Baltimore, MD.