Graduate students honored at the Frontiers of Research poster competition

The Department is pleased to announce the following winners of the Annual Frontiers in Biology Research Colloquium poster presentation.
FIRST PLACE: John Pfeiffer (Advisor, Dr. Dan Graf) “Polyphyly of the freshwater mussel genus Lamprotula (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae).”
SECOND PLACE: Adam Harrington (Advisors, Drs. Kim and Guy Caldwell) “Role of VPS41 in C. elegans and mammalian models of Parkinson’s disease.”
THIRD PLACE: Wei Wang (Advisor, Dr. John Yoder) “Sex on the fly: doublesex expression is regulated by the Hox protein Abdominal-B.”

Poster competition winners - 2011
Left to right: John Pfeiffer and Dan Graf; Guy Caldwell and Adam Harrington; John Yoder and Wei Wang.