Sixth formers
Long Tran,
Jenny Quilty and
Andrew Walther are this year’s Berkshire School
entrants for the
INTEL Science Talent Search Competition, the
top science contest in the nation for seniors. Approximately 1700
seniors across the nation enter the contest. Students must submit a
research paper by November 17th based on research that they have done,
usually under the supervision of a research scientist. They also must
complete an extensive application form that requires them to write two
major essays about their interest in science. “It’s a great group of
students from our Advanced Math/Science Research Course,” said Research
Course Director
Kurt Schleunes.
“What I like most is that each of them made an amazing contribution to
their scientific field. Jenny was able to exhibit tumor suppression in
mice using a vaccine, Andrew identified certain genetic mutations
responsible for a form of breast cancer, and Long developed a testing
system for aging in cells that will enhance our understanding of the
connection between disease and aging.”
The student’s mentors, research sites, and projects are listed below:
Andrew Walther of Pennsylvania
Genetics: Dr. Ganguly, UPenn
Detection for a CHEK2*1100delC Mutation in a Cohort of TP53 Negative probands with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Long Viet Tran of Vietnam
Genetics: Dr. Maxwell, Wadsworth Center
Testing Systems to Examine Genome Instability During Yeast Aging
Jenny Quilty of Massachusetts
Cancer: Dr.Srivastava, UConn
Using Identification and Characterization of Immunogenic Mutations
in the Mouse Genome as a Potential Vaccine for Cancer Causing Cells: A
Mouse Fibrosarcoma Model
INTEL will announce the 300 semifinalists on January 12, 2011, and the 40 finalists on January 26, 2011.
Last year Berkshire had its first INTEL Semifinalist, Xiao Rui Guo '10. To read more about Xiao Rui's INTEL project, click here.
To learn more about Advanced Math/Science Research at Berkshire, click here.
and all-boys prep school outside of Boston, for a 1-day mini-symposium on Student Biomedical Research. The goal was to foster collaboration, communication and community outreach with our students. AMSR students Liza Bernstein '13, Sissi Wang '13, Lars Robinson '13, Elsie Guevara '13, Ernest Yue '13, and Nate MacKenzie '14, gave short talks about their work in the new Bellas/Dixon Math and Science lecture hall. The talks were followed up by break-out sessions where Belmont Hill students described their research projects and students discussed commonalities between the projects and future goals.
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