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Howard Hughes Medical InstituteScience for Life Graduate Student Awards 2013-20142014 SPRINGCommencementThe award is offered as part of the Science for Life Program with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). This award recognizesgraduate students who participate in research and publication opportunities in the life sciences in collaboration with undergraduates. Up to 20 graduate studentsper year will receive $500 as an HHMI Graduate Student Award recipient. These inaugural recipients were selected from applicants representing 10 differentacademic departments in six colleges and units at the University of Florida. These graduate students published research with 22 different undergraduatestudents while mentoring far more.Bumsoo Ahn, Department: Applied Physiology and KinesiologyFaculty Advisor: Dr. Leonardo FerreiraUndergraduates Mentored: Travis Howard and Gregory FryeJournals: Public Library of Science (PLOS ONE); Biochemical and Biophysical Research CommunicationsTitles: Loss of the Inducible Hsp 70 Delays the Inflammatory Response to Skeletal Muscle Injury and Severely Impairs MuscleRegeneration; Cancer Cachexia Decreases Specific Force and Accelerates Fatigue in Limb MusclesAlexandria Ardissone, Department: Microbiology and Cell ScienceFaculty Advisor: Dr. Eric W. TriplettUndergraduate Mentored: Kevin RechciglJournal: Public Library of Science (PLOS ONE)Title: Meconium Microbiome Analysis Identifies Bacteria Correlated with Premature BirthChris Delcher, Department: EpidemiologyFaculty Advisor: Dr. Mildred Maldonado-MoliUndergraduates Mentored: Rachel Johnson, Hyesu G. Kim, and Nicole SnyderJournals: Journal of Adolescent Health; The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; The Encyclopedia ofTheoretical CriminologyTitles: Driving After Drinking Among Young Adults of Different Race/Ethnicities in the United States; Unique Risk Factors inEarly Adolescence; Crime and Punishment in Puerto Rico; Longitudinal Research DesignsJennie Fagen, Department: Microbiology and Cell ScienceFaculty Advisor: Dr. Eric W. TriplettUndergraduate Mentored: Michael T. LeonardJournal: Standards in Genomic SciencesTitle: Complete Genome Sequence of Liberibacter Crescens BT-1Jeff Fortin, Department: NeurosurgeryFaculty Advisor: Dr. Brent A. ReynoldsUndergraduate Mentored: Mark RohausJournal: Journal of Visualized ExperimentsTitle: Identification and Isolation of Slow-Dividing Cells in Human Glioblastoma Using Carboxy Fluorescein Succinimidyl Ester (CFSE)Adrienne Gauna, Department: Oral Biology, OMDSFaculty Advisor: Dr. Seunghee ChaUndergraduates Mentored: Lauren Dupre and Geidys PerezJournals: European Journal of Immunology; Public Library of Science (PLOS ONE)Titles: Altered miR-146a Expression in Sjogren's Syndrome and its Functional Role in Innate Immunity; Autoantibodies AgainstMuscarinic Type 3 Receptor in Sjogren's Syndrome Inhibit Aquaporin 5 TraffickingKimberly Hawkins, Department: NeuroscienceFaculty Advisor: Dr. Eduardo Candelario-JalilUndergraduates Mentored: Jan Frankowski and Jonathan SinghJournal: Journal of NeurochemistryTitle: Neurovascular Protection by Postischemic Intravenous Injections of the Lipoxin A4 Receptor Agonist, BML-111, in a Rat Model ofIschemic StrokeJacob Richards, Department: MedicineFaculty Advisor: Dr. Michelle GumzUndergraduates Mentored: Sean All, Brandy Compton, Lauren Jeffers, George Skopis, and Nitya SrialluriJournals: American Journal of Physiology Renal Physiology; Frontiers in Physiology; American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory,Integrative and Comparative Physiology; Hypertension; American Journal of Physiology Renal PhysiologyTitles: A Role for the Circadian Clock Protein Per1 in the Regulation of Aldosterone Levels and Renal Na+ Retention; Role of Per1 andthe Mineralocorticoid Receptor in the Coordinate Regulation of aENaC in Renal Coritcal Collecting Duct Cells; Opposing Actions ofPer1 and Cry2 in the Regulation of Per1 Target Gene Expression in the Liver and Kidney: The Circadian Protein Period 1 Contributesto Blood Pressure Control and Coordinately Regulates Renal Sodium Transport GenesMichael Schulz, Department: ChemistryFaculty Advisor: Dr. Kenneth B. WagenerUndergraduate Mentored: Rachel R. FordJournal: Polymer ChemistryTitle: Insertion Metathesis DepolymerizationWendy Yoder, Department: PsychologyFaculty Advisor: Dr. David W. SmithUndergraduates Mentored: Seth Currlin, Allison LaRue, Sweta Pattanaik, Jason Rosen, and Kyle StratisJournals: Journal of Sensory Studies; Attention, Perception & Psychophysics; Journal of Sensory StudiesTitles: Interaction of Guaiacol and Methyl Salicylate in Binary Mixture Significantly Lowers Perceptual Threshold in Human Observers;Evidence of Rapid Recovery From Perceptual Odor Adaptation Using a New Stimulus Paradigm; Time Course of PerceptualAdaptation Differs Among Odorants20