<p>So I'm trying to get a summer internship (and hopefully over the school year) this summer. I am not applying for a program rather I'm contacting a various number of people on a list from the director of a now non-existent program. The place I am trying to get an internship is at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center (or School if you prefer). I need help narrowing down my choices even though because I don't think I'm the ideal candidate I'm probably going to end up sending a nice email to 90something people.
I am looking for:
1. Topics that interest me. Basically anything that is hands-on experiments. (testing dangerous chemicals on virus for example, whereas counting certain number of cells to collect data would not be in my top list of choices, or tracing pretty neurons all day). I like most things that are alive. I'm not interested in massive amounts of paperwork. I'm also not interested in cleaning equipment for a whole summer or longer.
2. Winning topic? I'm trying to get an internship to learn==>do science fair==>win city finals==>Intel ISEF, but moreso I really want to do Intel (and win)
3. A big enough lab to be able to do something I am interested in, but small enough that I can obtain help from the other people in the lab. If I'm going to do the Intel Science Competition I need a mentor that'll help me and not someone who's out looking for a cheap secretary.
4. A lab that will take high school students. The list is actually mainly for college students interested in research before applying for medical school. Since I'm a 16 year old, I know that I simply won't have enough knowledge compared to college students. I'm looking for one in the below list that will accept my ignorance.
5. A lab that I can actively help my superiors with their work (i.e. able to work on some part of their current project, help write a paper, help them with experiments (but not just data collection) or something like that)</p>
<p>Oh! I'm also hunting for suggestions for key points/questions in my nice email. And I am aware I'll probably be interviewed if they like what i say etc. </p>
<p>Each letter is a different lab description.
1. Allergy/Immunology
2. Anesthesiology
a) general
b) Thalamic neurophysiology; electrophysiology; anesthetic mechanism of action; synaptic transmission; GABA receptors; HCN channels
c) Neuropharmacology; general anesthetic mechanisms; neurotransmitter release; sodium channel electrophysiology; intracellular signaling; regulation of protein phosphatases</p>
<p>d) Pharmacology of neuromuscular blocking agents; imapct of advanced age and end-organ disease on the pharmacokinetics of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blockers; the influence of nitrous oxide administration on cobalamin levels; cognitive dysfunction and the incidence of postoperative delirium in geriatric patients
e) Interoperative neuronal protection; postoperative vision loss; hypothermia; cytokines; post-anesthetic outcomes
3. Anesthesiology & Pharm
Cardiovascular physiology; myocardial contractility; input impedence; remodeling; calcium cycling; postoperative function
4. Biochemistry
a) Biophysics; NMR; protein folding; protein recognition; structural studies
b) Neurodegenerative disease; Alzheimer's disease; Parkinson's disease; Prion disease; protein folding; protein misfolding; protein aggregation; amyloid disease; apolipoproteins; coronary artery disease
c) Ubiquitin protein degradation; 26S proteasome; degradation studies of alpha-synuclein; Parkinson's disease and neurodegeneration
d) general
e) Diabetes; insulin-resistance; glucose homeostasis; GLUT4 trafficking; insulin receptor signaling; regulated endocytic trafficking; quantitative optical microscopy; molecular cell biology
f) Organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry; natural products; infectious disease; cancer immunology
g) Apoptosis; protein crystallography; inflammation; TNF; signal transduction; biochemistry
5. Cardiac Surgery
a) Valvular heart disease
6. Cardiology
a) Genetics; heart; developmental biology; tumor biology; vascular biology
b) general
c) aging; heart; stem cells; endothelial; tissue engineering; biosensor
7. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology
Valvular heart diseases; aortic regurgitation; mitral regurgitation; heart failure; cardiac epidemiology; myocardial cell biology, myocardial molecular biology; myocardial matrix biology; cardiovascular clinical pharmacology; nuclear cardiology
8. Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CCIM)
Community-based research; psychosocial determinants of health and health disparities.
9. Cell and Developmental Biology
a) Breast cancer; colon cancer; Wnt signaling; Wnt receptors; cell culture; mouse models; stem cells; cancer prevention
b) Hypertension; blood pressure regulation; central nervous system; circumventricular organs of the brain; reactive oxygen species; rennin-angiotensin system; pre-eclampsia; viral gene transfer; transgenic mice/genetically engineered mice; genetics; physiology; cardiac hypertrophy
c) Notochord development; muscle differentiation; ascidian larvae; chordate origins; clona intestinalis; enhancer; gene regulation; tissue-specific expression; gene network; T-box genes
d) Cell Biology; chromosome segregation; chromatin dynamics; mitosis; spindle; cell cycle; Xenopus egg extracts; cancer
e) Angiogenesis; thrombosis; mouse models; fibrinolysis; blood vessels; endothelial cells; cell biology; developmental biology
f) Breast cancer; Wnt signaling; HER2/neu; COX-2; identification of molecular basis of breast cancer; preclinical testing of drugs for breast cancer treatment and prevention; mouse breast cancer models; cell culture and molecular biology techniques
g) Epithelial development; cytoskeleton; molecular motors; protein transport; fluorescence microscopy of living cells
h) Organogenesis; salivary gland; trachea; Drosophila; embryogenesis
i) Molecular genetics; developmental biology; Drosophila; embryo; transcriptional repression; corepressor; dCtBP; pattern formation; gene regulation
j) Mouse genetics; organogenesis; skeletal development; limb development; craniofacial development; homeodomain proteins; Pbx genes; Hox genes, human, genetic disease
k) Vascular system development; angiogenesis; lymphangiogenesis; intravital vascular imaging; mouse models; mouse embryonic stem cells; endothelial cells
l) Formation of distinct functional regions in the cortex and the development of neural stem cells
10. Cell and Developmental Biology/Neurology
Neuroimmunology; skin; nuron; antigeri presenting cell; neurotrophic factor; ATP-receptors; adjuvants; langerhans cell; neuropeptide; norepinepherine
11. Cell and Developmental Biology/Ophthalmology
Neuronal degeneration disease; retinal cell biology; polarized transport; motor protein/cytoskeleton modulation; endocytosis/cell signaling; adult hippocampal neurogenesis
12. Clinical Pharmacology
13. Emergency Medicine
14. Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Prostate cancer; genotype-phenotype relationship of inherited endocrine diseases
15. Gastroenterology and Hepatology
a) Cyclooxygenase-2; cancer prevention; NSAIDs; prostaglandins; inflammation
b) Hepatitis C virus; HIV/HCV coinfection; translational research; liver disease research; liver inflammation; chemokines
16. Genetic Medicine
a) Several projects in vaccine development
b) epigenetic reprogramming in the murine egg and early embryo
c) general
d) gene expression profiling in lung diseases using microarray analysis
e) Gene therapy for neuro-degenerative disorder
f) hedgehog signaling and development and human cancer
17. Geriatrics-Palliative Care
Pain and palliative care
18. Geriatrics
Immunotherapy of Alzheimers disease
19. Hematology/Oncology
a) Microtubule targeting cancer chemotherapy drugs; molecular cancer thrapeutics; mechanisms of drug resistance; translational cancer research
b) Growth factor/receptor signaling; neurotrophins; angiogenesis
c) AIDS; thrombosis; osteoporosis; endothelial cell damage; T cell dysfunction; clinical trial of gene therapy
d) Hemostasis; thrombosis; coagulation; therapeutics-thrombotic diatheses
e) Prostate cancer progression; cell-surface peptidases; peptide growth factors
f) Angiogenesis and hematopoiesis
g) Leukemia; hematopoiesis; cancer; epigenetics; cell cycle
20. International Medicine/Infectious Disease
21. Medical Informatics (Public Health)
Medical informatics; electronic medical records; medical vocabulary; technology servers; clinical information systems; practice management systems
22. Medicine/Hematology
Hematology and myeloproliferative diseases (over-activity of the bone marrow). Opportunity to gain clinical experience and co-author a paper
23. Medicine/Pulmonary & Critical Care
Role of VEGF in lung edema; adenovirus inhibition of HIV-1 replication of human alveolar macrophages; gene expression profiling of alveolar macrophages in accelerated emphysema in HIV-1 + individuals with early emphysema; Idiopathic Pulmonary fibrosis Clinical Research Network
24. Microbiology and Immunology
a) General
b) Inflammation; innate immunity; macrophage activation; cytokines; bacterial endotoxin
c) Telomere; telomerase; chromosome replication; genome stability; reverse transcriptase; DNA polymerase; recombination sescence; lifespan; end replication
d) Cytokines; innate immunity; inflammation; tumor immunology; autoimmunity; gene expression regulation
e) Infectious disease; biosynthesis of virulence factors; M. tuberculousis; Y. pestis; P. aeruginosa; development of novel antimicrobials
f) Gene expression; RNA processing; pre-mRNA splicing; RNA capping; DExD/H-box helicases
25. Nephrology and Hypertension
a) Transplantation
b) Fluid and electrolyte transport; kidney physiology; mathematical modeling; cellular homeostasis
26. Neurology and Neuroscience
a) Neurodegenerative diseases: Alxhemers, ALS; Parkinsons, Huntingtons; mitochondria; oxidative damage
b) Cerebrovascular regulation; molecular mechanisms of neurodegernation and stroke
c) Molecular Genetics of Neurobiology and Neurological Diseases
d) Pathogenesis of neurological diseases caused by mitochondrial dysfunction; metabolic defects and apoptosis in common neurodegenerative diseases; models of genetic forms of ALS caused by mutations in superoxide dismutase
e) Neurogenetics; brain malformations; neuronal migration cell division and pattern formation; neural tube defects
f) Biology of neural stem cells derived from adult human brain and human embryonic stem cell; application in MS and PD
27. Neurology in Psychiatry
Functional and structural neuroimaging of epilepsy, including neuropsychiatric aspects
28. Ob/Gyn
a) Clinical research in high risk obstetrics; multifetal pregnancies
b) Fetal abnormalities; Down syndrome screening; multifetal pregnancy
c) Quadrivalent HPV vaccine; gene polymorphisms in vulvo vaginal disease; the evaluation of immunoenhancers in women with high risk HPV infections
d) Intra-vaginal non-hormonal contraceptive and anti-STD-HIV delivery devices; Expression of chimeric bi-functional for fertility regulation; drug development and immuno-conjugates of Betulinol derivatives as anti-cancer and anti-HIV agents
e) Clinical research on contraception and evaluation of new drugs for pelvic diseases; intra-vaginal non-hormonal contraceptive and anti-STD-HIV delivery system; fertility regulation; development of immuno-contraceptive
f) General
g) Immune, genetic and infectious aspects of preterm birth; pregnancy complications; infertility; vaginal infections; vulvar vestibulitis
29. Pathology
Viral causes of cancer
30. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Human; B cells; immunoglulins; class switching; TNF receptors; innate receptors; viruses; lymphoma
31. Pathology/Immunology
Inflammation; vascular disease; leukocytes; cell adhesion molecules; endothelium
32. Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Cell cycle and apoptosis control of B cell immunity and multiple myeloma pathogenesis
33. Pediatrics
a) Hematology; clinical studies in thrombocytopenic states, especially ITP, management of fetal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
b) Immunology; innate and adaptive immunity to pathogens; host response to chronic infection; neonatal immune response; flow cytometry; cytokines; chemokines; adhesion molecules
c) Bone marrow stem cells and assays; tumor chemokines; angiogenesis and metastasis; lentiviral gene delivery
34. Pediatrics Division Child Development
Child development; infant-mother attachment; mother-child interaction; failure-to-thrive; infant feeding practices, cultural factors in childhood overweight
35. Pediatrics Division Child Neurology
Pediatric neuro-oncology; role of glutamate in growth and invasion of gliomas; neuroprotection of the developing brain in radiation therapy induced injury; neurofibromatosis
36. Pediatrics Division Child Hematology-Oncology
Hematology; beta-thalassemia; molecular biology; mouse models; gene transfer; lentiviral vectors; stem cells; gene therapy
37. Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Burn assessment in children; Parental expectations for fever management; the role of bicarbonate level as a predictor for admission to the hospital in children with gastroenteritis; cultural sensitivity and patient satisfaction in the pediatric emergency service; pediatric resident training experience in resuscitation skills.
38. Pediatric Pulmonology
Genetic vaccines against pulmonary infections; interaction of macrophages with Pseudomonas in cystic fibrosis; gene and cell therapy for cystic fibrosis
39. Pediatric Urology
Prevention of renal fibrosis in urinary tract obstruction; molecular markers and therapy
40. Pharmacology
a) Cancer prevention; cancer therapy; nuclear receptors; retinoid target genes; vitamin A metabolism; transcription; induction of cell differentiation
b) Dioxin; aryl hydrocarbon receptor; cytochrome P450-dependent arachdionic acid metabolism; cell signaling
c) Animal models of neuropsychiatric diseases; molecular pathogenesis of anxiety and fragile X syndrome
41. Physiology and Biophysics
a) Molecular biophysics of ion channels; control of membrane protein function by the host bilayer
b) Computational neuroscience; neuroinfomatics; databases; synaptic transmission; bioinformatics; neural networks; neural information processing; Aplysia
42. Psychiatry
a) Stress; anxiety; neurooendocrinology; PMS; estrogen; immune function; pregnancy and postpartum
b) Developmental Neurobiology; cerebral cortex; GABAergic interneuron specification; mouse; schizophrenia; epilepsy
c) Developmental psychobiology of attention; learning and plasticity using functional and structural resonance imaging, behavioral and human genetic measures
d) Neuropsychiatric aspects of medical illness, including HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and Multiple Sclerosis
e) Behavioral genetics with a focus on pharmacogenomics and the molecular effects of human genetic variants
f) general
g) Severe depression; phenomenology and treatment; Delusions and delusional depression, geriatric depression and psychopharmacology
h) Childhood bereavement; suicide; depression
43. Public Health
a) Biostatistics and statistical issues in clinical trials and epidemiology; survival data analysis; medical cost analysis, power and sample size estimation, blinding assessment; multiple testing; casual interference
b) Epidemiologic research on Hepatitis C including clinical research; community-based research (and harm reduction) with injection drug users
c) Population based epidemiology; pharmacoepidemiology; health services research; patient satisfaction surveys; breast cancer screening; health care policy
d) Clinical trial design; prognostic modeling; meta-analysis; quality of life research; economic impact of chronic disease
e) Clinical health services research; outcomes and quality of care assessment; medical technology assessment; cost effectiveness analysis; screening of Diabetes; Lung cancer and Breast cancer; diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease; bioterrorism
44. Radiology
a) Neuroimaging; CT and MR perfusion; CT angiography; cerebrovascular reserve capacity; vasospasm; MR spectroscopy, brain tumors; head and neck imaging
b) Clinical radiation oncology
c) Cardiovascular MRI; technology development; clinical evaluation
d) MR neuroimaging; diffusion tensor imaging; functional magnetic resonance imaging; image processing; motor neuron diseases; normal pressure hydrocephalus
45. Reproductive Biology
Oocyte and preimplantation embryo developement
46. Reproductive Medicine
Fertility preservation; Oocyte and ovarian tissue cryopreservation, chemotherapy effects on fertility; molecular mechanisms of egg development; in vitro follicle development; ovarian xenografting
47. Rhematology HSS
a) Lupus; pregnancy; inflammation
b) Lupus; pregnancy; sex distribution of disease; neurologic SLE; antiphospholipid antibody
48. Surgery
a) Molecular biology of thyroid cancer
b) Breast cancer; colon cancer; cancer prevention; gene expression profiling; biomarkers; cell cycle apoptosis; signal transduction; cellular and molecular biology techniques
c) Infectious diseases; bacterial pathogenesis; F. tularensis; macrophages; quantitative fluorescence microscopy; cellular and molecular biology techniques
d) Impact of Diabetes Upon Burn Injury: clinical outcomes; biology of wound repair; clinical & biological predictors of healing/post-burn response in diabetes
49. Surgery-Cell and Developmental Biology
Inflammation; sepsis; molecular mechanisms of septic shock; leukocytes; signaling mechanisms of TREM
50. Urological Oncology
Tumor immunology; immunotherapy; antibody therapy; immunoconjugates; prostate cancer; kidney cancer
51. Urology
a) Ureteral obstruction, renal fibrosis, nitric oxide, transforming growth factor-beta; gene therapy; prediatric urology; wound healing
b) clinical work in male reproductive endocrinology; infertility, and sexual dysfunction; basic research at the population council
c) prostate cancer; bladder cancer; kidney cancer; oncology; clinical trials; basic science; urologic surgery
d) urologic oncology; robotic surgery; prostate cancer outcomes
52. Urology, Sexual Medicine
Neuroprotective strategies in rat cavernous crush injury model; erectile function; cell cycle dysregulation in peyronies disease; fibrosis; p53
53. Vascular Surgery
Vascular biology; signaling transduction; restenosis; gene regulation-the goal is to understand the cellular and molecular mechanism underlying restenosis and to derive novel treatment for this disease process</p>