The 2022 WSSP Summer Institute (SI) was held at the Waksman Institute, Rutgers University from July 5 to July 15, 2022 for 26 students and 6 teachers. The goal of the SI is for students and teachers to learn the background and methods on how to conduct a research project in molecular biology and bionformatics. Students and teachers use this information to lead the research project in a class or club setting at their high schools during the academic year. Participants learned how to purify DNA from a cDNA plasmid library of the duckweed Landoltia punctata. They then analyzed the plasmids by PCR, restriction digests and agarose gel electrophoresis. These DNA clones were sequenced and students performed bioinformatic analyses by searching the scientific databases to determine if their DNA sequences code for proteins and then investigated function of these proteins in the cell. Below is a list of students who participated in the program and the cDNA plasmid clones they isolated, analyzed and published on the NCBI DNA sequence database. (See below how to properly reference these sequences.)
Images of WSSP -2022 SI students and teachers working in the lab
| School # | School | Student Leader | Clones |
| 004 | East Brunswick HS | Burhanuddin Danish | |
| 006 | Hillsborough HS | Samantha Flaim | 06SF1.22, 06SF3.22 , 06SF4.22 |
| 007 | James Caldwell HS | Payton McGoldrick | 07PM1.22, 07PM3.22, 07PM4.22, |
| 009 | John P. Stevens HS | Girish Subramani | 09GRS1.22, 09GRS3.22, 09GRS4.22 |
| 011 | Montville Township HS | Mythri Iyer | 11MI1.22, 11MI3.22, 11MI4.22, 11MI5.22 |
| 015 | Rutgers Preparatory School | Jason Xu | 15JX2.22, 15JX4.22, 15JX5.22, |
| 018 | Watchung Hills Regional HS | Juliette Cheng | 18JC2.22, 18JC4.22 |
| 019 | West Windsor Plainsboro HS South | Amy Xu | 19AX2.22, 19AX3.22, 19AX4.22, 19AX5.22 |
| 038 | Hackettstown HS | Anagha Nair | 38AN2.22, 38AN3.22, 38AN4.22, |
| 049 | Piscataway HS | Syeda Islam | 49SI1.22, 49SI2.22, 49SI3.22, 49SI4.22 |
| 104 | Elwood Park Memorial HS | Johana Larti | 104JL1.22, 104JL2.22, 104JL3.22, 104JL4.22, |
| 105 | North Brunswick Township HS | Saloni Agshiker | 105SA1.22, 105SA2.22, 105SA3.22, 105SA4.22 |
| 109 | New Providence HS | Aidan Berth | 109AB1.22, 109AB2.22, 109AB3.22, 109AB4.22 |
| 109 | New Providence HS | Olivia Glenn | 109OG1.22, 109OG2.22 |
| 112 | Kinnelon HS | Blake Kessler | |
| 114 | Toms River HS East | Hailey Mastej | 114HM1.22, 114HM2.22, 114HM5.22, |
| 115 | Toms River HS South | Lilian Raccuia | |
| 118 | Monroe Township HS | Parth Tripathi | 118PT1.22, 118PT3.22, 118PT4.22, |
| 119 | South Plainfield HS | Avery Green | 119AG1.22, 119AG2.22, 119AG3.22, 119AG4.22 |
| 121 | Toms River HS North | Brialis Phan | 121BP1.22, 121BP2.22, 121BP3.22, 121BP4.22, |
| 122 | West Windsor Plainsboro HS North | Rithika Thambireddy | 122RT1.22, 122RT2.22, 122RT3.22, |
| 130 | Metuchen HS | Arjun Gupta | 130AG1.22, 130AG2.22, 130AG3.22 |
| 130 | Metuchen HS | April McLane | 130AM4.22, 130AM5.22 |
| 131 | Phillipsburg HS | Erinne Hathaway | 131EH1.22, 131EH3.22, 131EH4.22 |
| 133 | Union County Vocational Technical School | Sripriya Challa | 133SC1.22, 133SC2.22, 133SC3.22, 133SC4.22 |
| 139 | Morris County School of Technology | Madeline Klapal | 139MK1.22, 139MK2.22, 139MK4.22 |
To connect to the published report page of your clone, either click on the clone name link below or go to the NCBI Nucelotide Database Search page, and paste in the name of the clone. The links will be to the EST database. Note that your data is published on the NCBI EST database. The "Unpublished" at the bottom of your clone report indicates that the data is not part of a research paper that has been published in a science journal.
To cite these sequences in resumes and college applications, we suggest you use the following format:
01AMR2.12 WSSP Duckweed cDNA library Landoltia punctata cDNA clone, similar to thioredoxin F-type 1, mRNA sequence. Martinez,A., Levin,H., Mead,J., NCBI, May 24, 2013. Accession# JZ356973 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucest/507330755