2008
Mentor Abstracts

 

Amin Liu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry

aliu@biochem.umsmed.edu

Mechanistic Enzymology of Tryptophan Catabolism and Its relation to Neuroscience

John Correia, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry

jcorreia@biochemistry.umsmed.edu 984-1522
Resistance to Antimitotic Drugs is Mediated by Regulators of Microtubule Assembly

Sharon Lobert, PhD, RN
slobert@son.umsmed.edu
601-984-6242 or 601-984-1852
School of Nursing and Department of Biochemistry
Resistance to Antimitotic Drugs is Mediated by Regulators of Microtubule Assembly
 

Elise Gomez Sanchez, DVM, PHD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine-Hypertension
egomezsanchez@medicine.umsmed.edu 601-984-6888

Central Mineralocorticoid Receptor Regulation of Cardiovascular Functions

Thomas L Abell, MD
tabell@medicine.umsmed.edu
984-4540
Correlation of Symptoms and Therapeutic Responses for GI motility Disorders

Donna C. Sullivan, Ph. D.
dsullivan@medicine.umsmed.edu
Ext. 4-5561  Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine

Analysis of Community-acquired Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus for the Panton-Valentine Gene

Junming Wang,
jwang@pathology.umsmed.edu
601 984 1570, Department of Pathology
ER isoform specific ligands prevent apolipoprotein E related AD progression 

Jian-Wei Gu, MD
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics

jgu@physiology.umsmed.edu 984-1821
Mechanisms of EGCG, An Antioxidant Found in Green Tea, in Inhibiting Breast Cancer Progression

Ujjwal K. Rout,PhD
Dept. Surgery
urout@surgery.umsmed.edu
Drug effects on the migration machinery of human colon cancer cell HCT-15

Michael Hebert, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
mhebert@biochemistry.umsmed.edu
984-1526
Disrupted pre-mRNA splicing in Machado-Joseph disease

Stephen Stray, PhD
Department of Microbiology
sstray@microbio.umsmed.edu
Project 1: Assembly, Trafficking, and Stability of HBV Capsids in Tissue Culture
Project 2: Role of Avian Antibody in Evolution of Influenza

David Stec
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics
815-1859
dstec@physiology.umsmed.edu
Role of elevated vascular 20-Hydroxyeciosatetrenoic acid (20-HETE) in hypertension

 

Omar Abdul-Rahman, MD
Department of Preventive Medicine
oabdulrahman@prevmed.umsmed.edu

984-1940
Single nucleotide polymorphism (ANP) and haplotype analysis of families with Van den Ende-Gupta Syndrome followed by a candidate gene approach to identify gene(s) associaited with the condition

Xiao-Ming Ou, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Email: xou@psychiatry.umsmed.edu
Room number G109
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Tel: 601-984-5893 (office)
Stress and Brain Cell Death

Jun Zhang, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery
jzhang@umsmed.edu, 984-6490
Molecular Genetics of Van den Ende-Gupta Syndrome