Four 杏吧视频 undergraduate students presented at the Society for Developmental Biology鈥檚 12th Structural Birth Defects Meeting, held Oct. 18鈥20 in Washington, DC. All four students received travel funding awards from Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE).
Helen Molteni and Melissa Phung-Rojas each gave 12-minute platform presentations, and both received an award for best presentation. Molteni presented 鈥淭ime to shape up: The role of fibronectin in skull bone cell expansion.鈥 Phung-Rojas presented 鈥淲alk this way: role of non-canonical Wnt signaling in calvarial expansion.鈥
Megan Gregory presented a poster and gave an elevator pitch titled 鈥淭oo close for comfort: Role of fibronectin 1 matrix in maintaining the space between the expanding calvaria.鈥
Radhika Atit, professor of biology, mentors Molteni, Phung-Rojas and Gregory.
Rachel Wyetzner presented a poster from her summer Amgen Scholars Program at Yale University titled 鈥淪umtaxom-binding protein 5 (STXBP5) plays a role in germ layer specification, left-right patterning, and heterotaxy.鈥
Wyetzner was mentored by Professor Mustafa Khokha, professor of genetics and pediatrics at Yale University.
