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CGDN has awarded a total of 25 summer studentships for the summer of 2003. Students receiving CGDN Summer Studentships will spend the summer in a CGDN laboratory, working on a 'hands on' research project. A partial list of CGDN summer studentship recipients is shown below.
| Student |
Supervisor |
Project title |
| Pierre Camateros |
Emil Skamene |
Genetic Dissection of Suscepitbility to Allergic Asthma |
| Courtney Casserly |
Dennis Bulman |
Evaluation of candidate gene for myoclonus dystonia |
| Louie Chan |
Elise Heon |
Application of bioinformatics modelling and transcript analysis of optineurin to the disease mechanism in glaucoma |
| Sophia Chan |
Stephen Scherer |
The Molecular Genetics of Lafora's Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy |
| Sarah Cook |
Steven Narod |
Risk of Cancer following Oophorectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers |
| Valeria Di Giovanni |
Elise Heon |
Defining the genetic heterogeneity of keratoconus and posterior polymorphous dystrophy: VSX1, COL8A2 and beyond |
| Roberto Jose Diazs |
Christopher Pearson |
Role of Human Mismatch Repair in Disease-Associated Trinucleotide Instability |
| Annie Jean |
Sylvia Vidal |
Functional dissection of CVB3-induced myocarditis |
| Sam Khalouei |
Jayne Danska |
Bioinformatics approaches to candidate gene analysis in complex disease |
| Calvin Lee |
Michael Hayden |
Creation of Huntington Interacting protein (HIPPI) and expression in HeLa cells |
| Jim Lee |
Celia Greenwood |
Multilevel Modelling in Linkage and Association Analysis of Complex Traits |
| Michelle Levy |
Roderick McInnes |
Identification of the extracellular ligands of the Neto 1 protein, a novel neuronal-specific putative receptor |
| Rajwinder Lehal |
Brenda Gallie |
Mosaicism in Retinoblastoma |
| Lita McDonald |
Susan Andrew |
Elucidating molecular mechanisms by which MMR regulates apoptosis after UVB exposure |
| Megan O'Neill |
Rachel Wevrick |
Role of MAGEL2 and other hypothalamic genes in obesity |
| Anna Piekos |
Robert Hegele |
Elucidation and analysis of gene expression profiles in vascular cells under normal and pathological conditions |
| Jennifer Rauw |
Diane Cox |
Development of microsatellite Markers for Copper Storage Disease |
| Janine Schouten |
Moira Glerum |
Biochemical analysis of cox16 mutants |
| Milvi Tiislar |
Thomas Hudson |
Gene Characterization |
| Paul Valdmanis |
Guy Rouleau |
Fine Mapping of Potentially Positive Regions for a Gene Responsible for a Recessive Ataxia in the Beauce Region of Quebec |
| Andrea Wang |
Kathy Siminovitch |
Identification of Genetic Variants underlying Susceptibility to Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| Teresa Wang |
Wyeth Wasserman |
Bioinformatics for the Analysis of Polymorphisms in Gene Regulatory Regions |
| Annick Wong |
William Foulkes |
Pooled analysis of survival in hereditary breast cancer |
| Daniel Yavin |
Kenneth Morgan |
The statistical modeling of imprinting |
| Grace Zheng |
Francis Ouellette |
PeGASys: A Parallel Genome Annotation System |
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