Annual Report 1998
1 Feb 98 - 31 Jan 99

Documentation and Evaluation

RAIRE Student Spotlight on Research

As part of the University of Arizona's ongoing commitment to documenting the successes of its undergraduate researchers, RAIRE funds were utilized this year in the establishment of a Student Spotlight section which features the efforts of a diverse cross-section of our student research community.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/raire/spotlight

Undergraduate Biology Research Program Conference Web Site

The Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP) at the University of Arizona, has an annual conference at which students present their experimental results in poster form. Each year a booklet of abstracts is produced. The conference was again supplemented by a web site, which was funded by RAIRE. The site features an abstract of each poster, as well as a photograph of the student researcher. Visit the site at http://www.blc.arizona.edu/ubrp/conference99/

BRAVO! Documentation

The international extension of the Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP), called BRAVO! (Biomedical Research Abroad: Vistas Open!) used RAIRE funds to bring three students from our foreign collaborators to UA for three-month research visits. These students were:

Anke Dahlmann Transport and Toxicity of Ochratoxin A in Isolated Segments of the Rat Nephron

Ms. Dahlmann is from Wurzburg, Germany, and she is Dr. Stefen Silbernagl's student. At the University of Arizona she was in Dr. William Dantzler's laboratory in Physiology. The work she did at UA was included on a poster presented at the Experimental Biology '99 Meetings held in Washington, DC in April 1999.

Miguel Gomez "Resprouting and Ecophysiological Responses in Burned Matorral Shrubs of Central Chile"

Mr. Gomez is from Santiago, Chile, and he is Professor Gloria Montenegro's student. He worked at UA with Dr. Barbara Timmermann in Pharmacology & Toxicology, and with Dr. Tom Swetnam, Tree Ring Laborarory.

Keisuke Kamura Genetic Screening for Genes Involved in Drosophila Dally Signaling Pathway

Mr. Kamura is from Tokyo, Japan where he is Dr. Hiroshi Nakato's student. He worked at UA with Dr. Scott Selleck in Molecular & Cellular Biology.