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Hope juniors Philip Kerber of South Haven; Sofia Rosenberger of Naperville, Illinois; and Davi Zola de Araujo of Curitba, Brazil, were honored during the meeting鈥檚 29th annual Undergraduate Poster Competition on Saturday, April 12, for presentations regarding research that they have conducted collaboratively at the college with faculty mentors.  A total of about 300 students nationally, including five from Hope, had been selected to compete.

, the students presented their research, with posters providing illustrations and additional description, to a panel of judges.  The entries were organized into six topic categories, with a winner and three honorable mentions awarded in each category.

All three students are majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, and have conducted research with their faculty mentors full-time during the summer and part-time during the school year.  

Kerber received honorable mention in the Genomics and Microbiology category for 鈥淚nvestigating de novo Gene Formation in Phage Genomes,鈥� research that he has conducted with Dr. Joseph Stukey, assistant professor of biology instruction.

Zola de Araujo also received honorable mention in the Genomics and Microbiology category for 鈥淎 baffling interaction involving a foreign immunity repressor in Mycobacteriophage Soul22,鈥� research that he has conducted with Stukey.

Rosenberger, who is also majoring in religion with an emphasis on Christian history, theology and ethics, received honorable mention in the Proteins and Cell Signaling category for 鈥淭he ubiquitination of xCT impacts the protein鈥檚 abundance, turnover rate, and cell surface localization,鈥� research that she has conducted with Dr. Leah Chase, professor of biology and chemistry.

In total, 13 麻豆传媒官网 students and seven faculty attended the ASBMB meeting.  All of the students presented their work during the poster sessions at the main meeting.  The day before the conference began, students also presented posters on their research during the college鈥檚 24th annual A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity.

is a nonprofit professional society that builds and empowers a broad community of molecular life scientists to advance discovery.  The society鈥檚 11,000 members include researchers and scientist educators spanning students to senior scientists. Through dissemination of emerging scientific research, education and training initiatives and advocacy, ASBMB shapes and supports fundamental science that fuels future innovation. For more than 100 years, its community has pioneered new discoveries in the molecular life sciences that drive medical advances and therapies for many disorders and diseases, as well as many other applications ranging from environmental to agricultural.