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Six biology majors and one neuroscience major will present research papers with their faculty advisers at the 86th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science April 9-11 at the Radisson Hotel in Camp Hill, Pa.
Christopher Cosgrove ’10 (Palm City, Fla.) will present his work with Laurie Caslake, associate professor and head of biology, exploring the responses of desert-based microorganisms when they are removed from their natural environment and dehydrated.
Adetutu Egunsola ’11 (New York, N.Y.) has researched the role certain genes play in the reduction of cancer tumor growth rates with Robert Kurt, associate professor of biology.
Melissa Haber ’12 (Piscataway, N.J.) and Caslake will present their paper, “The Effect of Increasing Salt Concentrations on the Growth Rate of Sporosarcina pasteurii [bacteria].”
Nafis Hasan ’11 (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and Ioana Marin ’11 (Galati, Romania), a neuroscience major, worked with Shyamal K. Majumdar, Kreider Professor Emeritus of Biology, on research of leading anti-breast cancer drug Tamoxifen.
Karen LeSage ’10 (Littleton, Mass.) will present her work with Bernard Fried, Kreider Professor Emeritus of Biology, on parasitic flatworms.
Megan Schlitt ’11 (Haddonfield, N.J.) worked with James Dearworth, assistant professor of biology, to research the effects of muscle relaxers on pupil constriction in the Red-Eared Slider Turtle.