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(music playing) View of the University at Buffalo's South Campus.
The best thing about UB is research (Amber is speaking) because I know that there is a lot
going on here and there is many opportunities for, you know, anyone to get involved.
Last summer (Mee Rim is speaking) I volunteered for his lab work. I started doing some basic work
and ever since he made me do more work.
UB has such a big diverse campus (Ravinder is speaking) and also very well-developed health sciences
and research field. And the campus is great and
when I saw how big of a research institution that it is and that was my way, I'm going to UB!
Dr. Kenneth Takeuchi (Jasmine is speaking) has been a big influence on me
I did an internship with him during the Fall of 2009 in which I worked in his lab along with grad students
They were able to teach me techniques that were important for my research development and for just understanding basic skills that research scientists should know.
My research is looking at the physiological and behavioral effects of caffeine on adolescents.
I also showed the interactions between the fluorescent SSB with other DNA-binding proteins.
Prostate cancer patients are undergoing radiation therapy. How the radiation therapy works is by killing the cancer cells in the body.
or in the tissue (um) so these patients are receiving multi-vitamins so we want to see if there is less oxidative damage done.
So this study was done to see if it good or bad to take multivitamins and supplements.
The main goal is to develop new bio-imaging tools so that they'll be more efficient and cheaper methods of detecting tumors
and locating them within a human system without having to do surgery.
What we had done (Dr. Bianco speaking) is that we engineered fluorescent versions of the protein and when Mee Rim stepped into the project
was to characterize the binding of all these fluorescent proteins to DNA
and then measure the interaction of them with a partner protein called reg-G
that has a very important role in repairing DNA and all of this is done in the bacterium e-coli.
Caffeine use is on the rise in children and adolescents (Dr. Temple is speaking)
and also because there is a renewed interest in the effects of caffeine
(um) in particular in soda consumption (um) based on the new government regulations trying to push through an excise tax specifically on soda.
What we really want to do in this study (Dr. Horvath speaking) is to change the quality of life for these individuals as they undergo radiation therapy
It's a very difficult time, there's a lot of stress involved,
and if we can make them better in terms of their general health, in terms of their outlook, that's the sort of thing that we're working on, to try to do.
The April 13 event (Tim Tryjankowski speaking), the Showcase is an opportunity for elected officials to discuss with SUNY undergraduate students the research opportunities available on their campuses.
It is really a chance for all of SUNY to showcase undergraduate research and UB will be very well represented that day.
I'm going to facilitate learning in children.
I want to understand cancer.
I want to improve the quality of patient care.
I want to help in the fight against cancer.
(music playing). Video directed by John J. Fink and Sam Avery, Department of Media Study
State University of New York at Buffalo Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities: http://curca.buffalo.edu