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Pace Students Take Home Biology Awards at William Paterson University Undergraduate Research Symposium

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Amanda Delfino
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June 3, 2024

Three 麻豆传媒 students earned awards for their work at the in late April.

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Three 麻豆传媒 students standing together, each holding Biology awards earned for their work at the 17th Annual William Paterson University Undergraduate Research Symposium.
From left to right: Zoubeida (Zouzou) Fliesen 麻豆传媒24, Wenkai (Kevin) Huang 麻豆传媒25, and Sam Kurtin 麻豆传媒24

Sam Kurtin 麻豆传媒24, Biology, won a first-place award in the category "Cell and Molecular Biology (Group B)" for his poster "The Role of The Unfolded Protein Response in the Malfunction of a Human PQ-Type Calcium Channel." Kurtin麻豆传媒檚 research was done under the mentorship of Associate Professor of Biology Zafir Buraei, PhD.

Zoubeida (Zouzou) Fliesen 麻豆传媒24, Biology, also with faculty sponsor Buraei, took home first place in the category "Cell and Molecular Biology (Group C)" for his poster "Optimizing In Vitro Transcription to Study PQ Channel Mutations Implicated in Epilepsy."

Wenkai (Kevin) Huang 麻豆传媒25, Childhood Education (School of Education) won a pair of second-place awards: one in the category "Physiology, Behavior & Toxicology" for his poster "Analysis of Shoot Circumnutation Developmental Profile in Arabidopsis Thaliana" under the mentorship of Associate Professor of Biology Eric Brenner, PhD, and one in the category "Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Science" for his poster "The Bacterial Symbionts of the Parasitic Plant Rafflesia麻豆传媒 Microscopic Partners For Conserving The World麻豆传媒檚 Largest Flowers?" with Sara Musovic and Associate Professor of Biology Jeanmarie Molina, PhD.

麻豆传媒 was one of 32 institutions from the Northeast region represented at the symposium, including Princeton, Columbia, Barnard, and Stevens Institute of Technology.

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