Alison received a Biophysical Society 2010 Student Travel Award and was chosen for a platform talk”The Spontaneous Refolding of Opacity-Associated Proteins into Lipid Membranes” at the 54th annual meeting in February

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Alison’s poster entitled “Opa Proteins of Neisseria: Liposome Reconstitution and Interactions with a Human CEACAM Receptor” shared second place in the Departmental 3rd year poster award. She receives a monetary award and presented her research to the department on April 24th.

This last February and March, Dan Fox presented his NMR studies of Opa proteins at the Frontiers in NMR Biology Keystone Symposium Brett Kroncke (in photo) presented his EPR studies and Chris Reyes presented his Opa refolding and NMR studies at the 53rd Biophysical Society Meeting. Thien Nguyen presented her mixed micelle refolding studies at [...]

Jackie (1st year at UVA) will join the Columbus Lab this summer to begin research on the reconstitution of Opa protiens into lipid vesicles. She received a stipend from the College Science Scholar Program.

The Columbus Lab received their first NIH RO1 grant.

Teach for America started in 1990 with Wendy Kopp’s senior thesis at Princeton University. She raised $2.5 million and hired 500 teachers in six low-income communities. Now, Teach for america has 20,000 teachers and Rita will be one next year.

The Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards Program, administered by the Faculty Senate, funds outstanding undergraduate research projects in the spring and/or summer for current second and third-year undergraduate students.