Beth Schlimm
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Beth Schlimm (BIO ‘08) is working at The Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center in Newton, Georgia. She is involved in surveying the populations of different kinds of amphibians and reptiles which include tortoises, crocodiles, and snakes. Beth is seen in this photo handling a venomous eastern diamond [...]
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Leah Griffith
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Biology junior Leah Griffith recently presented her current research at the annual spring poster session in May. Leah worked with chemistry faculty member Dr. Tracey Mason, studying DNA cross-linking and repair mechanisms in bacterial and mammalian cells. The work has important implications for cancer treatments, because [...]
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Katie Beasley Shanks (BIO ‘08) will be a published author this summer! Her manuscript, on which she is the first author, has been accepted to the Journal of Clinical and Vaccine Immunology and will be published later this summer. The article describes work that Katie did as a senior during her research capstone, in the [...]
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John Mann
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John Mann is shown here presenting his senior research at the annual Spring School of the Sciences Research and Internship Poster Session in May. John worked with biology faculty member Dr. Andy Kreuz to identify and locate the position of a gene responsible for a [...]
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John Mann
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Biology senior John Mann is shown here working with the fruit flies he is studying to learn more about muscle development. He is doing his senior capstone research with biology faculty member Dr. Andy Kreuz, trying to determine the location of a mutation that causes flies [...]
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Alfred Tetteh
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Biology senior Alfred Tetteh is working with biology faculty member Wendy Kimber, studying the expression of genes during early development of mouse embryonic stem cells. He is continuing work done by Dr. Kimber’s previous students, studying genes that are involved in the early development of mouse [...]
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John Amoroso – Fall 2009
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Biology senior John Amoroso completed his capstone research in the University of Maryland laboratory of Dr. Geoffrey Schoenbaum, studying learning and memory in rats. John’s work measured the activity of individual neurons as rats were conditioned to respond to sound and light stimuli. [...]
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Antoinette Smith – Fall 2009
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Biology senior Antoinette Smith is shown here presenting her work from her capstone research last fall. Antoinette worked in the laboratory of Dr. Carole Stzalryd at the University of Maryland, studying molecular mechanisms of lipid metabolism. Antoinette presented her work at the 12th [...]
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Stem Cell Meeting
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Biology faculty member Wendy Kimber and her student Amanda Hieatzmann took some time out from presenting their research at the recent Keystone Symposium on Stem Cells to enjoy some of the winter activities in Colorado. Amanda traveled with Dr. Kimber to present a poster on [...]
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Kristyna Hnizda – Fall 2009
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Hearing is what biology senior Kristyna Hnizda studied for her research capstone in Dr. David Ryugo’s laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Kristyna worked to map the pathways between neurons in the rat brain that are activated upon stimulus with sound waves. The work [...]
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