{"id":1626,"date":"2015-12-21T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2022-11-28T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T18:18:29","slug":"h-sc-biologists-at-the-american-society-for-cell-biology-annual-meeting-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2015\/12\/21\/h-sc-biologists-at-the-american-society-for-cell-biology-annual-meeting-in-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"H-SC Biologists at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two Hampden-Sydney biology students, Taylor Meinhardt \u201916 and Will Echols \u201917, and Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Mike Wolyniak recently returned from the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Diego, California. \u00a0The ASCB is the world\u2019s preeminent society for cell biologists and attracts thousands of scientists from around the world each December to their annual meeting. \u00a0Meinhardt presented his research to the meeting on the molecular activation of T-cells that he performed this past summer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in conjunction with the Hampden-Sydney Honors Council Summer Research Program.<\/div>\n
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Taylor Meinhardt ’16 presents his NIH research poster at the general poster session in the main hall at the ASCB meeting<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

His mentor at the NIH, Dr. Sricharan Murugesan, visits H-SC regularly and works with Dr. Wolyniak to bring cutting-edge laboratory research opportunities to the College\u2019s biology students. \u00a0Dr. Wolyniak is an active member of the ASCB\u2019s Education Committee and presented his work to the meeting on developing the Committee\u2019s mentorship program that, among other things, brought Dr. Murugesan\u2019s research to the H-SC community. \u00a0While in San Diego, the H-SC team was also able to catch up with Kris Miller \u201913, a staff scientist with Synthetic Genomics, Inc. working on recombinant viral research related to work he originally did while a student in Dr. Wolyniak\u2019s Molecular and Cellular Biology class. \u00a0Synthetic Genomics is a company founded by J. Craig Venter of the Human Genome Project whose mission is to develop alternative fuels through the modification or synthetic production of microorganisms.<\/div>\n
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Associate Professor of Biology and ASCB Education Committee Member Mike Wolyniak, Kris Miller ’13, Taylor Meinhardt ’16, and Will Echols ’17 have lunch on Coronado Island<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The ASCB Annual Meeting is an outstanding opportunity for students to interact with peers as well as trained scientists of all levels as they work to discern their future career interests. \u00a0Meinhardt is interested in pursuing graduate school in molecular biology while Echols, who performed research in Dr. Wolyniak\u2019s laboratory on characterizing the yeast homolog of a human prostate cancer tumor factor, has already been admitted to the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine as part of the College\u2019s Early Assurance agreement.<\/div>\n
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After the keynote address<\/p><\/div>\n

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Watching the sun set over the Pacific at La Jolla, California<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Hampden-Sydney biology students, Taylor Meinhardt \u201916 and Will Echols \u201917, and Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Mike Wolyniak recently returned from the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Diego, California. \u00a0The ASCB is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}