Susie and other fellow student investigators are interested in the mechanism by which antihemorrhagins present in the gray woodrat, opossum, Mexican ground squirrel and hispid cotton rat neutralize hemorrhagic activity in snake venoms. TX during the summer. Maria de Jesus Herrera participated in a ten week biomedical research program this summer at the University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center. In this program, students were able to get hands-on experience in the areas of biomedical research under the supervision of faculty sponsors assigned to them. At the end of the program, students write an abstract about their summer research project which will be published in the annual UT-Houston Summer Research Abstracts publication.
All participants receive a stipend.
Students are responsible for their own travel and living expenses depending on who is sponsoring them. Maria's participation in this summer program was funded by the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. She worked as a trainee with the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology under the direction of Dr. T. Chyau Liang. Her research involved working with various assays with different substrates and different inhibitors for Chymotrypsin. In the process of her research, she learned how to use instruments such as the GE QE-300, which does NMR Spectroscopy.