Stupka Undergraduate Research Symposium

Dr. Aadel Chaudhuri, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Translational Research in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is also Co-Director of the Cancer Individualized Medicine Office across the Mayo Clinic enterprise. Dr. Chaudhuri’s research focuses on cancer genomics and the development and application of liquid biopsy technologies. His laboratory is funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the Children’s Discovery Institute, the Children’s Tumor Foundation, and the Melanoma Research Alliance…

My scientific career began with my undergraduate studies at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. I completed graduate studies at Yale University and post-doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley. I joined the Department of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as an Assistant Professor and then was promoted to Associate Professor. I am currently an Associate Member and Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri…

Jacqueline is a 5th year PhD student in the Kawate lab at Cornell University. She is investigating the structural biology of membrane proteins, something she became interested in by researching in Olga Zabotina’s lab, being trained by Al Culbertson, and taking Eric Underbakke’s class on biomembranes. In her four years in Olga’s lab, she worked on the catalytic mechanism, kinetics, and substrate specificity of the xyloglucan synthesizing enzyme, Xyloglucan Xylosyltransferase 1 (XXT1). Jacqueline eagerly presented her findings at Stupka each year…