April 6, 2013

Anna Peterson '15 Delta Gamma, Caroline Vail '13 Delta Gamma, Ryan Hughes '13 Phi Kappa Psi, Thomas Swaffield '13 Phi Kappa Psi, and Hannah Komar '13 Alpha Gamma Delta Will Present Research at Annual Meeting of Pa. Academy of Science

Hannah Komar '13 Alpha Gamma Delta ~ Molecular Genetics Laboratory

Hannah Komar ’13 Alpha Gamma Delta ~ Molecular Genetics Laboratory

Five FS Community members will will present research papers with their faculty mentors at the 89th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science April 5-7 at University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.
“You are always wearing your Letters!”

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Anna Peterson ‘15 – Delta Gamma “Cross-Receptor Desensitization of T Cell and Chemokine Receptors in the T cells of Tumor Bearing Mice” withRobert Kurt, associate professor and head of biology, and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor of computer science.
Caroline Vail ’13 – Delta Gamma “The Culturing and Immortalization of Murine Fallopian Tube Secretory Cells as a New Method of Studying Ovarian Cancer” with Robert Kurt, associate professor and head of biology  Check out Caroline’s video presentation.
Thomas Swaffield ’13 – Phi Kappa Psi “Fifty years later: re-examining the cultural eutrophication problem in Raritan Bay, NJ using environmental monitoring and multivariate ordination techniques” with Megan Rothenberger, assistant professor of biology.
Ryan Hughes ‘13 – Phi Kappa Psi “Survey of macroinvertebrate communities as biological indicators of water quality utilized for assessing the effects of dam removal along the Bushkill Creek in Easton, Pennsylvania” with Megan Rothenberger, assistant professor of biology.
Hannah Komar ‘13 – Alpha Gamma Delta “Comparative expression analysis of Phytophthora sojae Polysaccharide Lyase family 3 genes during infection of the soybean Glycinemax” with Manuel Opsina-Giraldo, assistant professor of biology.