Duke University | Howard Hughes Undergraduate Program
Inquiry Across Scale: From Genes to Cognition
To many scientists, there is no wilder place than the human brain. Understanding it fully takes cross-disciplinary, collaborative work spanning fields such as genetics, evolutionary biology, and psychology. With support from HHMI, Duke University is giving undergraduates a taste of that collaborative world with the new theme of its undergraduate research program, "Inquiry Across Scale: From Genes to Cognition." The idea is to get students involved in research and to get them thinking about scientific questions on a variety of scales, from the workings of molecules in cells to the behaviors that arise from millions of neurons firing in concert.
Howard Hughes Summer Highlights:
Research Fellows Program
(June 4 - July 27, 2012)
Vertically Integrated Partners Program
(May 21 - July 27, 2012)
Felicia Walton, Research Fellow
Research Fellows Blogs
- "Re-Learning to Think"
- posted 2011-06-12
- Of the successful lab experiments, only about 1 in 1,000,000 in vitro experiments and 1 in 1,000 in vivo experiments actually translate into clinical success. With such daunting odds, how do scientists decide how to model the inimitable brain?
Recent Student Publications
Nichols, Connie B., Jessica Ferreyra, Elizabeth R. Ballou, and J. Andrew Alspaugh. 2009. Subcellular localization directs signaling specificity of the Cryptococcus neoformans Ras1 protein. Eukaryotic Cell, February 2009, p. 181-189, Vol. 8, No. 2. doi:10.1128/EC.00351-08. (Research Fellow 2006)
Babbitt, Courtney, Jesse S. Silverman, Ralph Haygood, Jennifer M. Reininga, Matthew V. Rockman and Gregory A. Wray. 2009. Multiple functional variants in cis modulate PDYN expression. Mol Biol Evol. 2009 Nov 12. (Research Fellow 2004, Summer Scholar 2005)
Styer, Katie L., Varsha Singh, Evan Macosko, Sarah E. Steele, Cornelia I. Bargmann, Alejandro Aballay. 2008. Caenorhabditis elegans Is Regulated by Neurons Expressing NPR-1/GPCR. Science 17 October 2008: 460-464. DOI: 10.1126/science.1163673 (Research Fellow 2007)
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