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laboratories and undergradaute students benefit from participation
in the
Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP). Students learn basic research methods, and are given the opportunity
to develop thier skills as scientists. UBRP students gather for
social events, report to each other about their experiences through
a newsletter, and given opportunities to work ins some of the most
prestigious laboratories in the world. UBRP's 17th Annual Conference was held on January 21, 2006. To read abstracts of the presentations, visit the conference web site. |
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John Biebelhausen, a psychology major and pre-med junior in the Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP), has been a member of the Tolbert Lab since 2004. During his time in the lab, John has acquired the skills necessary to conduct neurobiology research including dissection, cell labeling techniques and confocal microscopy. During summer 2005, as a participant in the BRAVO program (Biomedical Research Abroad: Vistas Open!), John traveled to Wuerzburg, Germany where he spent ten weeks working with honeybees in Dr. Wolfgang Roessler's laboratory. |
| Katlin
Shupe is a senior majoring in Molecular and
Cellular Biology, with minors in Math and Chemistry. She started
working in the Restifo lab in April of 2004, her freshman year, having
no lab experience and delighted to find a job cleaning glassware
and maintaining flies. She quickly transitioned into assisting with
research projects, learning to dissect flies, et cetera. She is currently
working on her honors thesis with Dr. Restifo on the project that
she presented at the UBRP conference: studying expression profiles
in the CNS of Broad Complex mutants during metamorphosis.
“What I've learned in my time working here is invaluable. I was unsure upon starting college whether I would really be interested in doing research for the rest of my life, but have since found that it's actually incredibly easy to be passionate about studying nature. It is an amazingly rewarding experience, realizing that one's work produces not material goods, but a better understanding of how the world works. I can't imagine doing anything else.” |
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Julia Nimlos is a senior in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. She has been a member of the Restfio Lab since 2004. |
