Project Description Research assistant position for various neonatal intensive care unit and NICU Graduate Clinic projects Project Outcome Briefly: -Impact of auditory stimulation on infants within the NICU -Impact of prenatal auditory stimulation on mothers and term infants -Perinatal mental health outcomes in high-risk maternal-infant dyads Project Details Time, eligibility, and other details Expected workload […]

Project Description Assist in projects involving clinical sequelae and urogenital viral dynamics in survivors of ebola virus disease. Collaborates with partner groups researching emerging viral infections in Sierra Leone. Project Details Time, eligibility, and other details Expected workload Skills required Who is eligible Undergraduate Students Core partners Sponsoring party Faculty-organized Volunteer, Paid, or Credit-eligible? Volunteer

Project Description Dr. Liya Pi has focused on the liver and examined reparative processes after local and environmental stresses/injuries. Her research utilizes genetically modified animal models and asks how and why aberrant expression of growth, angiogenic, and fibrotic factors in hepatic microenvironments affects: (1) hepatic progenitor cell activation and ductular reaction, (2) hepatocyte regeneration, (3) […]

Project Description Chronic alcohol abuse has been linked to abnormal epigenetic modifications that affect the progression of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) by influencing factors in controlling cell death in hepatocytes. One such factor is 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), but there is currently little information as to how chronic alcohol consumption affects 5hmC’s regulation of cell death. Understanding […]

Project Description Dr. Liya Pi has focused on the liver and examined reparative processes after local and environmental stresses/injuries. Her research utilizes genetically modified animal models and asks how and why aberrant expression of growth, angiogenic, and fibrotic factors in hepatic microenvironments affects: (1) hepatic progenitor cell activation and ductular reaction, (2) hepatocyte regeneration, (3) […]