Ten Union seniors joined more than 13,000 graduate students and doctoral and medical researchers at the 2008 Experimental Biology conference in San Diego recently. The conference is the international meeting for the American Physiological Society, American Society of Molecular Biology and numerous other societies.
The Union students are: Kaitlin Arntzen, Alex Carrese, Olga Davydenko, Cassandra Denefrio, Bridget Duffy, Michael Gallagher, Syed Hussnain, Dionna Kasper, Jennifer Libous and Latoya Roper.
They presented their original senior theses in poster format and included work ranging from understanding how development affects grasshopper locomotory physiology to using organic chemistry to improve drug delivery across cell membranes.
Faculty co-authors on posters include: Kristen Fox, assistant professor of Chemistry, John Horton, associate professor of Biology, Brian Cohen, lecturer in Biology; Joanne Kehlbeck, assistant professor of Chemistry; Barbara Danowski, associate professor of Biology; Quynh Chu-LaGraff, associate professor of Biology; and Scott Kirkton, assistant professor of Biology.
In addition, Kirkton presented a poster that described a new lab for the Biology 101 course at Union that he designed with Stephen Rice, associate professor of Biology.
Kirkton and Rice received the Research Recognition Award from the Teaching Section of the APS for their poster.
Attending the meeting with Kirkton and students was Chu-LaGraff.