Three Students Awarded Prizes in the 2024 BIOL/GEN Undergraduate Life Sciences Poster Research Symposium

Best Poster Presentation ($200 gift card):
Catarina Cristian Santos Bittencourt de Almeida (Genetics) 

Title: Optimizing Prime Editing Swine Reporter Model (SRM2) for Studying Gene Delivery and Precision for Human-Sized Organs 

Supervisor: Recombinetics, Egan MN. 

  

Honorable mentions ($100 gift card each):  

Undral Erdenebat (Biology) 

Title: Studying aptamer interactions with 'proxy' viruses 

Supervisor: Marit Nilsen-Hamilton, Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology 

  

Shandra Truong (Biology) 

Title: Kar9 mediates peer-to-peer regulation to control microtubule occupancy and number in the bud compartment during spindle positioning
Supervisor: Moe Gupta, Department of Genetics, Developmental, and Cell Biology