May 17th, 2012 by meredithdurmowicz
Rafael Acosta (BIO ‘08) volunteered at a dental clinic sponsored by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps in Knoxville, Tennessee. Over 1,000 patients without health insurance were treated by physicians and dentists in a single day. Rafael is in his 4th year at the Meharry Dental School in Nashville, Tennessee.
May 7th, 2012 by meredithdurmowicz
Biology department faculty and students recently welcomed over 60 newly accepted biology, biotechnology and medical technology majors on the Greenspring campus for a day of tours, conversations and celebration. Students and their parents got to see our laboratories first hand and talk with students and faculty about what it’s really like to be a science major at SU. Congratulations to all of our newly accepted students and we hope to see you in the fall!
May 4th, 2012 by meredithdurmowicz
As one of the service projects for the year, members of the Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society spent a day helping to clean and restore habitat for a rare lupine plant population that is native to Maryland. The project is being done in partnership with Dr. Sara Tangren of the University of Maryland, and also involves data collection on this population in order to better understand its distribution and prevalence. Pictured here (from left to right) are Sean Reynolds, Elizabeth Leizear, Jessica Forbes and Nick Levasseur.
May 2nd, 2012 by meredithdurmowicz
Students in the Introduction to Biotechnology course recently received a pre-opening, behind the scenes tour of the brand new facility for the Biopharmaceutical Development Program in Frederick, Maryland. Because the facility has not officially opened yet, the class was able to tour areas that will be off-limits once the facility comes online. They saw clean rooms and learned how they work, viewed the equipment and facilities used for the entire process of biopharm drug production from cell culture all the way through to the automated bottling system at the end of production, and learned about standards and practices of cGMP labs. The students also learned about sustainable construction, since the facility has been built as a green manufacturing facility. Some of the students and their instructor, Ms. Terrie Biddinger, are pictured here in front of giant mammalian cell culture tanks.
Apr 30th, 2012 by meredithdurmowicz
Congratulations to adjunct faculty member Kathleen Shanks, who is also an alum, on the publication of some of her research! The study of the role of the Neuroimmune semaphorin 4A protein in the allergic response was recently published in the journal Mucosal Immunology, which is published by Nature magazine. The article can be found at this link - http://www.nature.com/mi/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mi201218a.html.
Apr 28th, 2012 by meredithdurmowicz
Congratulations to Lauren Bonsal (‘09 BIO) and Kim Schaefer (‘10 BIO) who are in their first year of the Physician Assistant Program at Towson University/CCBC Essex.
Apr 27th, 2012 by meredithdurmowicz
Kristyna Hnizda (‘10 BIO), who is in her first year of the Physician Assistant Program at Syracuse University, is getting a dental checkup from her sister Barb Hnizda (‘08 BIO), a third year dental student at University of Buffalo-SUNY.
Apr 23rd, 2012 by meredithdurmowicz
Congratulations to Robin Tolbert (‘08 BIO) who is graduating in June from the West Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Tolbert will begin a residency in family medicine at Marshall University Medical Center.
Apr 20th, 2012 by meredithdurmowicz
Kristin Seibel, senior biology major, is shown here at the School of the Sciences Fall Research and Internship Poster Session, where she shared her findings on the effects of sugar source on the expression of genes in the bakers’ yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Kristin worked with biology faculty member Dr. Hildy Sanders on this project, which included using real-time polymerase chain reaction to determine whether genes were expressed or shut down under various growth conditions. Kristin is continuing her work with a gene related to copper transport this fall for her senior research experience.
Apr 17th, 2012 by meredithdurmowicz
Congratulations to Katie Clark (BIO ‘06) who received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Virginia-Medicine Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Clark is practicing at a small animal clinic in Laurel, MD.
Congratulations and good luck!!!
