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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

bardet-bidel syndrome, BBS, PhLP1, photoreceptor cells

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Abstract

  1. Devon Blake. Devon was the most productive student I have had in my 18 years at BYU. The MEG award helped support his work from January 2013 through May 2014. During this time, Devon co-authored two papers on the effects of cell-type specific deletion of phosducinlike protein 1 (PhLP1) in rod and cone photoreceptor cells (Lai et al. (2013) J. Neurosci. 33, 7941-7951, selected by the Faculty of 1000 as a high-impact paper and Tracy et al. (2014) PLOS One in press). He reported this work in poster form at an international meeting of the Federation of American Society of Experimental Biology on the Biology and Chemistry of Vision in Steamboat Springs, CO June 2013. He also was acknowledged for his contributions to a study of the structures of chaperone-bound intermediates in the process of G protein complex formation (Plimpton et al. 2014 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. under final review). He applied to many of the best graduate schools including Harvard, Yale, NYU, Duke, Univ. of Pennsylvania and the Univ. of North Carolina and was accepted to them all. He chose to attend North Carolina because of their cell signaling expertise and because his wife was also accepted in a graduate program there.

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