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Jamie Cooke
Jamie
teaches Biology at Mercer Island High school in Mercer Island,
Washington. He worked in Ken Mackie’s lab at the University of
Washington inserting a red fluorescent protein into a protein
which acts upon cannabinoid receptors.
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Debby Jacobson
Debby is a teacher at Meadowdale
Middle School in the Edmonds School District. While working in the
UW lab of Dr. Debbie Nickerson, Debby researched patterns in fixed
base differences between human and primate DNA with a focus on 164
genes involved in cell cycle control and DNA repair mechanisms.
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Connie Kelly
Connie teaches Chemistry and
Biotechnology at Shorewood High School in Shoreline, Washington.
She worked with Jim Wager-Miller and Matt Wallace in Ken Mackie’s
lab at the University of Washington troubleshooting an antibody
used in the study of a protein involved in the metabolism of
anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid produced by mammals.
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Samantha Ketover
Samatha teaches at Kentridge High School in Kent, Washington.
This summer she worked with Dr. Jeanette Norris and Tatiana
Masters of the UW's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute to examine
the relationship between a woman's alcohol consumption and her
perception of risk in a sexual assault scenario.
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Toni Roberts
Toni teaches at Shorewood High
School in the Shoreline School District. This summer she worked in
the lab of Dr. Ken Thummel in the UW Department of Pharmaceutics
studying cytochrome p450 enzymes and drug metabolism.
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Martha Strachan
Martha Strachan is a student in
the Master of Science in Biology for Teachers program at the
University of Washington. She worked with Dr. Nephi Stella and
Allyn Franklin in Dr. Stella’s lab characterizing an in vitro
astrocyte primary culture system for use in the study of the CB1
cannabinoid receptor in the brain.
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