Each October, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference for Undergraduate Scholarship (MARCUS) is held at Sweet Briar College and provides an opportunity for undergraduates to meet and share their research work across all disciplines.  This year, 4 Hampden-Sydney biology students presented past and ongoing research work done in conjunction with faculty in H-SC’s Biology Department.  Christian Lehman ’14 did an oral presentation on his project on the genetics of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana:

Christian Lehman ’14 in his presentation

The afternoon poster session had three H-SC research presentations: Alan Fish ’14 with his work on cell division in budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae), Francis Polakiewicz ’14 with summer work on a virus spreading through turtle populations, and Brandon Fox ’14 describing his work in using the new field of synthetic biology to create a means using E. coli by which disease spread through a population may be modeled.

Alan Fish ’14

Francis Polakiewicz ’14

Brandon Fox ’14