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Melissa Leonides is a senior at Medgar Evers College.
She loves to keep in touch with her friends!
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Angel Tibbs, currently an NIH fellow at the AMNH, is applying to Ph.D. programs in immunology and virology. She is sequencing the tight adherence genes in various bacteria. She was a UMEB fellow from 2002-2003.
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Candice Fraser is a senior at St. Francis College. She has applied (and has been accepted) to several medical schools. She has worked on both Drosophila development and Jamaican mongoose genetics. Candice enjoys dancing and swimming.
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Inshan Ali is a graduating senior at St. Francis College. He has been in UMEB for the past two
years. He has studied snake phylogenies and bacterial diversity. He loves reading and snakes!
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Jeff Lee, a Medgar Evers student, studied bacterial diversity in the Hudson River and contributed to the Wolbachia project at the AMNH. Wolbachia are bacteria that infect insects and sometimes adversely affect their reproductive systems.
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Mala Subran is a graduating senior from SFC. She worked in the Frozen Tissue Sample Lab for both of her two summers at the AMNH. During the year, she worked on a herring larvae project at SFC. She is interested in forensic science.
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Jerome Williams is currently a junior at St. Francis College. He started with us as a student in the Summer Science Academy, where he also served as a tutor. He studied mimicry in snakes at the AMNH last summer. He is interested in boating, as is evidenced by this picture!
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Chris Giron has been in UMEB for a year, and will be spending his first summer at the AMNH in June, 2005. He has previously worked for the SFC Summer Science Academy as a tutor, and on herring DNA projects at SFC. He also works at the New York Hall of Science.
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James Aquino worked for at the Hawaiian Volcanic National Park last summer on a project that entailed studying the effect of global warming on insects. He is currently working on a biodiversity in coral reefs projects at the AMNH through the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.
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UMEB students mingle with SFC Summer Science Academy high school students. Can you find: Samara Maaliki, Jerome Williams, James Aquino or Angel Tibbs?? Also present are Miriam Delarosa and Joann Mercedes, AMCC senior technicians.
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