Our Carolina Summer Fellows gave their final presentations Tuesday. 聽Our congratulations to all the students on completing the program! We are very proud of each of you!
Talks were given as follows:
Morning Sessions (10:30 AM)
- Stuart Phipps (Biology), Morehouse College (2021),鈥淓ffects of N. Gonorrhoeae PorB Treatments on Bone Marrow-Derived Dendritic Cell DOCK8 Levels鈥�, Duncan Lab
Jasmine Scott (Biochemistry),Spelman College(2021), 鈥淭he Interaction of Neisseria Gonorrhoeaeand the Female Microbiome鈥�, Duncan Lab
Dante Reyna (Cellular & Molecular Biochemistry), University of Texas at El Paso (2020), 鈥淩egulation of Nod1 v. Nod2 expression by NIpC in Neisseria Gonorrhea鈥�, Nicholas & Duncan Lab
Joseph Kim (Psychology & Pre-Med), Stony Brook University (2022), 鈥淣ovel Treatments for Antibiotic Tolerant Sub-Populations of Staphylococcus Aureus鈥�, Conlon & Graves Lab
Veronica Samojedny (Neuroscience & History), Tulane University (2021), 鈥淩ole of Acute Stress and Ethanol in the Modulation of Threat Response Behaviors鈥�, Kash Lab
Afternoon Sessions (1 PM)
- Jordan Dean (Pharmaceutical Sciences), University of Rhode Island (2020), 鈥淓xplaining Unexpected Patterns of Synergy in Novel Drug Combinations for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment鈥�, Der Lab
Kodi Harris (Biology & Computer Science), Morehouse College (2022), 鈥淜DM6A Loss Sensitizes PDAC Human PDX Lines to BET Inhibition鈥�, Yeh Lab
Kathy Nowak (Biological Sciences), North Carolina State University (2020), 鈥淚nvestigating Resistance Mechanisms to KRAS Suppression in Pancreatic Cancer鈥�, Der Lab
Nadia McBean (Biology & Neuroscience), Spelman College (2021), 鈥淔actors that Contribute to Successful Establishment of PDAC Patient-Derived Organoids鈥�, Yeh Lab
Andrea Vargas (Biological Sciences), University of South Carolina (2021), 鈥淎ssessing Synergistic Drug Combinations in Triple Negative Breast Cancer鈥�, Graves Lab
