| On June 1, STARS kicked off its 1999 Summer Research Program for Teachers and Students. At this time, 10 secondary science teachers from around the Metroplex and 12 high school juniors from the Dallas ISD and started an eight-week summer internship working in research laboratories on the UT Southwestern Campus and affiliated institutions. Under the guidance of a faculty host, participants complete a research project and presented their findings at the end of the summer.
| Juan Gonzales (right), a senior at Kimball High School, observes a rat being perfused with formalin.. Working with Kris Scott in the lab of neurologist Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, M.D., Ph.D. he is studying the role of HSP in seizures. |
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Janet Fernandez is working on signal transduction in a pancreatic beta cell line. A senior at Sunset High School, she is working in the lab of Malgosia Wilk-Blaszczak, M.D., Ph.D. in Anesthesiology and Pain Management. Here she observes her cell culture. |
| Shilpa Mistry, a senior at Skyline Center, observes the results of her western blot. Working with Joan Smallshaw, Ph.D. in Ellen Vitetta's (Ph.D.) lab in the Cancer Immunobiology Center, she is studying use of an antibody system to deliver therapeutics to cancer cells. |
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Craig Lester is working on a breeding experiment with knockout mice to see effects of a loss of the dystrophin protein. He works in the lab of Dan Garry, M.D. in Internal Medicine, and attends Carter High School. |
| Scott Dillender is a graduate of Bryan Adams H.S. Working with Shreefal Mehta, Ph.D. in the lab of Peter Antich, Ph.D. in Radiology, he studies bone density using sonography. This picture shows Scott using a computer to set up the sonographic equipment for a scan. |
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Tiffany Connolly, of the Townview Heath Sciences Magnet, records the vital sign of an anaesthetized rat as part of her project to determine optimum dosage for experimental procedures. She is working in the laboratory of Ralph Mason, D.Sc. in the Department of Radiology. |
| Seagoville High School senior, Justin Bowen, performs analysis on cerebral blood flow data collected from athletes subjected to the effects of altitude. This work is being completed at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas under the guidance of Ben Levine, M.D. |
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Working in the lab of Ralph Shohet, M.D., Internal Medicine, Hillcrest H.S. senior, Hilina Kebede, prepares to run a PCR as part of her project on the molecular basis of inherited heart valve incompetence. |
| Jonathan Calderon is a senior at B.T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts. He is also currently working in the lab of Ralph Shohet, M.D., screening genomic DNA in cardiac patients. |
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Amit Singh of W.T. White High School is currently working on cardiac development in the laboratory of Deepak Srivastava, M.D., using a transgenic mouse line. |
| Thuan Chu, a senior at the Health Professions High School at Townview, inspects the results of his Drosophila crosses. His research was performed in the lab of Dr. Jin Jiang of the Center for Developmental Biology. |
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Selena Cruz is working on a clinical research project with Dr. Clarita Odvina investigating the efficacy of Relyte in the prevention of Thiazide-induced Hypomagnesemia. Selena attends Pinkston High School. |
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