Five undergraduate students from Wichita State were among the 26 students recognized at the 23rd annual Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE) Symposium in Kansas City, Missouri.
The WSU students who received an Award of Excellence:
- Yara Abdine, junior in biomedical engineering, gave the poster presentation, “Glycosylation unveiled: Exploring the structure and function of FSH hormone glycoforms”
- Mark White, senior in biochemistry, gave the poster presentation, “Using FRET to Assess Conjugate Binding of Anthrax Toxin’s PA and Antigen Spy0469”
The WSU students who received an Honorable Mention:
- Lauren Hughes, junior in biomedical engineering, gave the poster presentation, “What’s Linker Have to Do With It? Examining the Structure and Stability of Palladin’s Ig3-4 Linker Region”
- Breanna Leach, sophomore in biomedical engineering, gave the poster presentation, “Patterns of brain Ferritin expression in the Drosophila divalent cation transporter mutant Malvolio”
- Julie Tran, senior in chemistry, gave the poster presentation, “Structural Elucidation of the Ig3 Domain of Myopalladin by NMR”
The remaining WSU students who presented at the K-INBRE Symposium:
- Emma Simmons, junior, gave the oral presentation, “Developing A Wearable Fetal Heart Monitor: A Practical Evaluation of Fetal Electrocardiogram Extraction Algorithms”
- John Bourget, senior; Ahmed Alsoudi, senior; Zoie Liska, senior; and Anna Brake, senior; gave the poster presentation, “Structure Guided Design of Broad-Spectrum Inhibitors of Coronavirus 3CL Proteases”
- Karen Abril Bustamante-Fuchs, senior, gave the poster presentation, “The functional regulation of protein-based nanofiber bioscaffolds on human astrocyte for neural regeneration”