Emily Essman completed her second semester as a BISC 195 student by presenting her results in a symposium for peers and faculty. Congratulations Emily! We are delighted to have her back in the lab for Spring semester 2007.
In other news, Marianne Junck, who started in the lab as a BISC 195 student last spring has been accepted to her first medical school! Congratulations Marianne!
Undergraduate research is vital to our lab, and an important goal here at Marquette. We were delighted by the opportunity to present some of our work at Marquette’s second annual Forward Thinking Poster Session on December 5.
The dual purpose of this symposium is to “celebrate and encourage faculty research that involves students”, and “focus on projects that will take place in the next 12 months”. Our poster presented an experimental plan to merge two existing methods in our lab, in vivo microdialysis and self-administration, to test a key hypothesis.
Two of our lab teams were involved in collecting the preliminary data. Michelle Gunther, a sophomore majoring in Biomedical Engineering, has been heading the microdialysis team. Chad Garven, a senior majoring in Biology, is the team leader for our self-administration studies. Sergey Gurevich and Emily Essman, both majoring in Biomedical Sciences, have lent their many skills to several projects including the data presented at the symposium. Together, the four student authors presented our work to a series of colleagues and judges (while I took photos with relatively less success).
We were honored the following week to recieve a discretionary grant award from our Provost, Dr. Madeline Wake, in support of the proposed project! Dr. Wake especially commended our lab on the presentation of our preliminary results, and I am more than happy to take little of that credit.
Some of our BISC majors from neighboring labs, presenting their work:
