Herminia Frias '97 is senior coordinator with UA Graduate College. To read more about Herminia, click on http://uanews.org/node/18294 She will work with the Student to Academic Professoriate for American Indians initiative and coordinate Graduate Horizons, a pre-graduate school program to be offered during the summer. Herminia was a Biology Bridge UBRPer and worked in Dr. Elizabeth Willott's lab, Entomology E-mail: frias@email.arizona.edu

" I have been working as Institute Fellow in Lead Discovery at Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation," reports Deanna Adams '94. Deanna's project "focuses on the development of cell-based assays for protein kinases and applying to highthroughput screening." As a UBRPer, Deanna worked in Dr. Marilyn Halonen's lab, Pharmacology; Dr. Pamela Kling's lab, Pediatrics; and Dr. John Thomas's, lab, Biochemistry. E-mail: dadams@gnf.org

"I wanted to let you know that a project I was a part of was published in Nature today. This is one of the main projects I had been working on
since my arrival here, so I'm really glad to see it in print," writes Amit Indap '00. "Proportionally more deleterious genetic variation in European than in African populations." Kirk E. Lohmueller, Amit R. Indap, Steffen Schmidt, Adam R. Boyko, Ryan D. Hernandez, Melissa J. Hubisz, John J. Sninsky,Thomas J. White, Shamil R. Sunyaev, Rasmus Nielsen, Andrew G.Clark & Carlos D. Bustamante.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7181/full/nature06611.html
Nature News story:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080220/full/451876a.html
Amit is a programmer in Biological Statistics & Computational Biology at Cornell University and worked in Dr. Michael Hammer's lab, Genomic Analysis and Technology Core as a UBRPer. E-mail: indapa@gmail.com