{"id":6,"date":"2012-04-09T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=6"},"modified":"2022-03-25T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:09:26","slug":"science-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/science-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Five \u201cK\u201d Students Compete in Poster Presentation for ASBMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/NewASBMB.jpg\" alt=\"Five Kalamazoo College students\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to Right: Popli, Nagy, Diffenderfer, Parson, and McNamara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College enjoyed a strong scientific presence at the Washington, D.C. meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). Associate Professor of Chemistry\u00a0<strong>Laura Furge<\/strong>\u00a0served as a judge in the 15th Annual Undergraduate Poster Competition, in which five \u201cK\u201d students competed against more than 200 other undergraduates from throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Diffenderfer \u201911<\/strong>\u00a0presented a poster titled \u201cAutodock as a method for predicting binding for substrates and inhibitors of human cytochrome P450 2D6,\u201d based on a sliver of the research she\u2019s conducted for the past two years in Furge\u2019s lab. Diffenderfer plans to attend Wayne State Medical School this fall.\u00a0<strong>Alyssa McNamara \u201911<\/strong>, a four-year denizen in the lab of chemistry professor\u00a0<strong>Regina Stevens-Truss<\/strong>, presented \u201cSuramin discriminates between the calmodulin-binding sites of neuronal and inducible nitric oxide synthase.\u201d She will work for the Schuler Family Foundation in Chicago before she enrolls in medical school in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leslie Nagy \u201909<\/strong>\u00a0and Diffenderfer presented \u201cMechanism-based inhibition of human cytochrome P450 2D6 by Schering 66712,\u201d work recently accepted for publication in Drug Metabolism and Disposition. Nagy is completing a two-year appointment as a laboratory research associate in Furge\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tanav Popli \u201911<\/strong>\u00a0presented a poster based on his SIP work at University of California-San Francisco. His poster was titled \u201cTmtc4 interacts with C3G, Wntless, and Zfhx4: a yeast two-hybrid trap for proteins associated with development of the corpus callosum.\u201d Tanov plans to work in a laboratory after graduation and then apply for an M.D.\/Ph.D. program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Parson \u201911<\/strong>\u00a0presented a poster titled \u201cCharacterization of a real time PCR assay for the detection and quantification of Plasmodium malariae parasites.\u201d She did her SIP, which was based in part on her study abroad experience in Kenya, at the Walter Reed U.S. Army Medical Research Unit in Washington, D.C. After she graduates this spring, Emily will return to Walter Reed to continue research in related areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttendance at a national meeting is a tremendous opportunity for students to hear and meet leading scientists, to see how scientists share ideas with each other, and to see how scientific research accumulates and allows for the formation of new hypotheses,\u201d said Furge.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s an opportunity that depends on philanthropy. Student travel to this meeting was supported by a grant to \u201cK\u201d from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Popli received a travel award from the Undergraduate Affiliation Network of Kalamazoo College headed by Stevens-Truss. Stevens-Truss organized the first annual ASBMB workshop titled: &#8220;Fostering Partnerships Between Colleges\/Universities and Junior High School Teachers,&#8221; and she noted that it got off the ground despite her absence due to and airline grounding. &#8220;I was disappointed to miss the workshop when my flight was grounded in Kalamazoo,&#8221; said Stevens-Truss. &#8220;But I\u2019m glad the idea is now a successful reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second offering of the workshop will occur next April in San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College enjoyed a strong scientific presence at the Washington, D.C. meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). Associate Professor of Chemistry\u00a0Laura Furge\u00a0served as a judge in the 15th Annual Undergraduate Poster Competition, in which five \u201cK\u201d students competed against more than 200 other undergraduates from throughout the country. 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Associate Professor of Chemistry\u00a0<strong>Laura Furge<\/strong>\u00a0served as a judge in the 15th Annual Undergraduate Poster Competition, in which five \u201cK\u201d students competed against more than 200 other undergraduates from throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Diffenderfer \u201911<\/strong>\u00a0presented a poster titled \u201cAutodock as a method for predicting binding for substrates and inhibitors of human cytochrome P450 2D6,\u201d based on a sliver of the research she\u2019s conducted for the past two years in Furge\u2019s lab. Diffenderfer plans to attend Wayne State Medical School this fall.\u00a0<strong>Alyssa McNamara \u201911<\/strong>, a four-year denizen in the lab of chemistry professor\u00a0<strong>Regina Stevens-Truss<\/strong>, presented \u201cSuramin discriminates between the calmodulin-binding sites of neuronal and inducible nitric oxide synthase.\u201d She will work for the Schuler Family Foundation in Chicago before she enrolls in medical school in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leslie Nagy \u201909<\/strong>\u00a0and Diffenderfer presented \u201cMechanism-based inhibition of human cytochrome P450 2D6 by Schering 66712,\u201d work recently accepted for publication in Drug Metabolism and Disposition. Nagy is completing a two-year appointment as a laboratory research associate in Furge\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tanav Popli \u201911<\/strong>\u00a0presented a poster based on his SIP work at University of California-San Francisco. His poster was titled \u201cTmtc4 interacts with C3G, Wntless, and Zfhx4: a yeast two-hybrid trap for proteins associated with development of the corpus callosum.\u201d Tanov plans to work in a laboratory after graduation and then apply for an M.D.\/Ph.D. program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Parson \u201911<\/strong>\u00a0presented a poster titled \u201cCharacterization of a real time PCR assay for the detection and quantification of Plasmodium malariae parasites.\u201d She did her SIP, which was based in part on her study abroad experience in Kenya, at the Walter Reed U.S. Army Medical Research Unit in Washington, D.C. After she graduates this spring, Emily will return to Walter Reed to continue research in related areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttendance at a national meeting is a tremendous opportunity for students to hear and meet leading scientists, to see how scientists share ideas with each other, and to see how scientific research accumulates and allows for the formation of new hypotheses,\u201d said Furge.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s an opportunity that depends on philanthropy. Student travel to this meeting was supported by a grant to \u201cK\u201d from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Popli received a travel award from the Undergraduate Affiliation Network of Kalamazoo College headed by Stevens-Truss. Stevens-Truss organized the first annual ASBMB workshop titled: &#8220;Fostering Partnerships Between Colleges\/Universities and Junior High School Teachers,&#8221; and she noted that it got off the ground despite her absence due to and airline grounding. &#8220;I was disappointed to miss the workshop when my flight was grounded in Kalamazoo,&#8221; said Stevens-Truss. &#8220;But I\u2019m glad the idea is now a successful reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second offering of the workshop will occur next April in San Diego.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18017,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/18017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}