Three Peters' Lab research students, Connie Chin (Biology '10), Elizabeth (Liz) Sanders (Biology '10) , and Jamie Wagner (Biology and Neuroscience '10) recently attended the Ohio Physiological Society (OPS) Conference in Columbus, OH. Liz and Connie presented a poster entitled "Assaying physical interactions between sodium proton exchangers and calcineurin homologous protein in C. elegans".
Jamie was one of eight researchers selected to give an oral presentation. Her project, "Calcineurin homologous protein is required for a proton-activated muscle contraction that occurs during defecation in Caenorhabditis elegans," is part of her biology honors project. For her talk, Jamie won the oral presentation award: the Ohio Physiology Society's Peter K. Lauf American Physiological Society Travel Award. This is a $1000 travel grant to attend the upcoming Experimental Biology conference for the American Physiological Society in Anaheim, CA from April 24-28, 2010.
From left to right: Connie Chin, Jamie Wagner, and Elizabeth (Liz) Sanders.
