Ashley Keller published her work on the expression and purification of IncA in the University of Virginia engineering and science research journal “The Spectrum“.
Ashley Keller
Ashley publishes in The Spectra
Ashely Keller receives the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award
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. Ashley received her award to continue her successful work on Inc proteins (IncA) of Chlamydia trachomatis. Forty awards of up to $3,000 each are granted on a competitive basis.
Undergraduate Student - Fourth Year
Chemistry major
Ashley is working on expressing and purifying a clean sample of Inclusion Membrane Protein A (IncA) of Chlamydia Trachomatis. She plans to develop an effective purification protocol that will result in a gratifying sample for NMR structural studies. She would like to determine the structure of IncA.
Undergraduates receive summer research awards
Thien Nguyen (Bass Scholarship), Rita Digrazia (Bass Scholarship), and Ashley Keller (Departement Fellowship) received awards to conduct research this summer.