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Biology and BCMB majors attend national conference

Biology and BCMB majors attended the national conference of the American Society of Cell Biology in Philadelphia between December 6-10.

Biology and BCMB majors attended the national conference of the American Society of Cell Biology in Philadelphia between December 6-10.  This meeting, a premiere conference for biology and biomedicine, contained over 100 scientific sessions and over 2,500 poster presentations.  Students presented their accepted posters at both the main meeting and a special “Undergraduate Poster Session” on December 6.

They attended a variety of scientific presentations during their visits and enjoyed conversations with scientists from around the world.  Sophomore Chase Renninger explains “Although I did not get to present my own research, going to a large meeting like this allowed me to hear cutting-edge talks by high level professionals in the fields they are studying. The presentations were complicated, but exciting as it is what is really being discovered right now in science and allows for experience listening to professionals in the biological sciences talk about their work as if you were their colleague.”

Students associated with Center for Science and the Common Good who attended were: Dan Selechnik and Dylan Stephens, both Fellows of the CSCG; and Alyse Brewer and Juliet Mbaluka, who both participated in summer research as part of the CSCG FUTURE program.

The lab members working with Dale Cameron presented on “The ribosome-associated complex antagonizes prion formation in yeast.”

The Rebecca Lyczak lab presented three different posters: “The effects of PAM-1 suppressors on the polarization of C. elegans embryos” and “The identification and characterization of PAM-1 targets through the use of suppressors in Caenorhabditis elegans” and “The role of centrosome in anterior-posterior axis formation in single-celled Caenorhabditis elegans embryos”. 

Students from the Rebecca Roberts lab presented two posters: “B lymphocytes from lupus-prone mice are highly sensitive to LPS stimulation” and “Estrogen and bisphenols A and S regulate lysosomal proteolysis: implications for Lupus.

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