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Education

B.S., Japanese, Microbiology, University of Washington, WA

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Okada, Starlyn; Farin, Federico M.; Stapleton, Patricia; Viernes, Hanna; Quigley, Sean D.; Powers, Karen M.; Smith-Weller, Terri; Franklin, Gary M.; Longstreth, W.T.; Swanson, Phillip D.; Checkoway, Harvey. (2005) No associations between Parkinson's disease and polymorphisms of the quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1, NQO2) genes. Neuroscience Letters. 375:178-80

Abstracts Presented at Meetings

S. Okada. "Foamy viruses: Regulation of Foamy Virus Pol Protein Expression and Cleavage by the Carboxyl-terminus of Gag" Presentation: University of Washington's Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium and the EIP/McNair Program Annual Spring Research Conference, 2005

S. Okada, F.M. Farin, P. Stapleton, H.A. Viernes, S.D. Quigley, K. Powers, H. Checkoway. "The association between the development of Parkinson's disease and genetic polymorphisms in the NQO1 and NQO2 genes." Poster: Federation of European Toxicologists and Societies of Toxicology Congress (Eurotox), Budapest, Hungary September 2002.

S.Okada. UCH-L1: Seeking a genetic association to Parkinson?s disease Poster: University of Washington's Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2003

The association between the development of Parkinson's disease and a genetic polymorphism in the NQO2 gene. Poster: University of Washington's Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium and the EIP/McNair Program Annual Spring Research Conference, 2002

Honors & Awards

UF Alumni Fellowship, 2005-09

Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Research Scholarship 2006-2007