Abstract

The MARC U* STAR Training Program at York College/CUNY is designed to train and motivate high achieving underrepresented minority undergraduates to matriculate in PhD programs in the biomedical sciences upon graduation, to succeed in graduate school and to enter PhD-level research careers in the biomedical sciences. The program will accomplish this through intensive training and experience in research during the students last two years of undergraduate study. Trainees will take a course in research methodology and participate in a two year seminar in which they will be introduced to current research and research techniques, including a journal club course, workshops and field trips. The trainees will also work 15 hours per week under direct supervision of a faculty preceptor on the preceptor's research. The summer before the senior year the trainee will intern in a laboratory at a research-intensive institution that will result in a presentation. In the senior year the trainee will develop an independent research project and conduct original research leading to a senior honors thesis. The trainee will also attend professional meetings in his/her discipline, present posters and make oral presentations. ? ? ?

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
MARC Undergraduate NRSA Institutional Grants (T34)
Project #
2T34GM008498-11A2
Application #
7065476
Study Section
Minority Programs Review Committee (MPRC)
Program Officer
Rivera-Rentas, Alberto L
Project Start
1994-07-01
Project End
2009-05-31
Budget Start
2006-06-01
Budget End
2007-05-31
Support Year
11
Fiscal Year
2006
Total Cost
$157,776
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
York College
Department
Other Basic Sciences
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
620128822
City
Jamaica
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
11451

  Publications

Arsov, Ivica; Adebayo, Adeola; Kucerova-Levisohn, Martina et al. (2011) A role for autophagic protein beclin 1 early in lymphocyte development. J Immunol 186:2201-9
Juszczak, Laura J; Desamero, Ruel Z B (2009) Extension of the tryptophan chi2,1 dihedral angle-W3 band frequency relationship to a full rotation: correlations and caveats. Biochemistry 48:2777-87
Arsov, I; Li, X; Matthews, G et al. (2008) BAC-mediated transgenic expression of fluorescent autophagic protein Beclin 1 reveals a role for Beclin 1 in lymphocyte development. Cell Death Differ 15:1385-95
Zareen, Neela; Yan, Hua; Hopkinson, Angela et al. (2005) Residues in the conserved His domain of fruit fly tRNase Z that function in catalysis are not involved in substrate recognition or binding. J Mol Biol 350:189-99
Dubrovsky, Edward B; Dubrovskaya, Veronica A; Levinger, Louis et al. (2004) Drosophila RNase Z processes mitochondrial and nuclear pre-tRNA 3' ends in vivo. Nucleic Acids Res 32:255-62
Levinger, Louis; Oestreich, Isabel; Florentz, Catherine et al. (2004) A pathogenesis-associated mutation in human mitochondrial tRNALeu(UUR) leads to reduced 3'-end processing and CCA addition. J Mol Biol 337:535-44
Levinger, Louis; Morl, Mario; Florentz, Catherine (2004) Mitochondrial tRNA 3' end metabolism and human disease. Nucleic Acids Res 32:5430-41
Levinger, Louis; Giege, Richard; Florentz, Catherine (2003) Pathology-related substitutions in human mitochondrial tRNA(Ile) reduce precursor 3' end processing efficiency in vitro. Nucleic Acids Res 31:1904-12
Levinger, L; Jacobs, O; James, M (2001) In vitro 3'-end endonucleolytic processing defect in a human mitochondrial tRNA(Ser(UCN)) precursor with the U7445C substitution, which causes non-syndromic deafness. Nucleic Acids Res 29:4334-40
Mohan, A; Levinger, L (2000) The effects of matrices of paired substitutions in mid-acceptor stem on Drosophila tRNA(His) structure and end-processing. J Mol Biol 303:605-16

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