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Nico
Dauphine 2000/01
CEIRP Fellow Crop
Science/ Plant Physiology Hometown:
Carmel, CA BA, Religious Studies,
Yale University
2000
- 2001 CEIRP Fellow Statement | | During
my senior year at Yale, I worked as a research assistant for the Department of
Biology in a lab focusing on the cell biology of Chlamydomonas, a single-celled
green alga with two flagella. I assisted in a flagella motility project, where
we studied mutants of the alga that lacked normal locomotion. The following year,
I worked as a research assistant at an endocrine-surgery laboratory at the Yale
School of Medicine. I worked on a project to identify "rab proteins,"
which are thought to control transport of selected minerals in parathyroid glands.
We used radio labeling to ascertain whether or not these proteins were present
in the calf parathyroids we used for the research. I also spent four years in
the Peace Corps, on the Pacific island of Yap, in the Caribbean, and in French
West Africa. For my MS thesis in Crop Science, I am researching the ecology of
herbaceous medicinal plants near the rainforest corridor of Eastern Madagascar.
During this past summer my research team and I conducted surveys of local markets
in five research sites to identify and describe all herbaceous medicinals sold
in local markets. We then conducted ecological inventories in the surrounding
area to determine population, distribution, and abundance for many of these marketed
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