{"id":803,"date":"2012-10-20T13:09:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T13:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=803"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:49:13","slug":"4-h-sc-students-present-research-work-at-marcus-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2012\/10\/20\/4-h-sc-students-present-research-work-at-marcus-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"4 H-SC biology students present research work at MARCUS meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0This year, 4 Hampden-Sydney biology students presented past and ongoing research work done in conjunction with faculty in H-SC&#8217;s Biology Department. \u00a0Christian Lehman &#8217;14 did an oral presentation on his project on the genetics of the model plant\u00a0<em>Arabidopsis thaliana<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_804\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/IMG_0241.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-804\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-804\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/IMG_0241-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Lehman &#8217;14 in his presentation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The afternoon poster session had three H-SC research presentations: Alan Fish &#8217;14 with his work on cell division in budding yeast,\u00a0<em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae<\/em>), Francis Polakiewicz &#8217;14 with summer work on a virus spreading through turtle populations, and Brandon Fox &#8217;14 describing his work in using the new field of synthetic biology to create a means using <em>E. coli<\/em> by which disease spread through a population may be modeled.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_805\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/IMG_0251.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-805\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-805\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/IMG_0251-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Fish &#8217;14<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_806\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/IMG_0250.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-806\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-806\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/IMG_0250-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Polakiewicz &#8217;14<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_807\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/IMG_0247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-807\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-807\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/IMG_0247-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Fox &#8217;14<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0This year, 4 Hampden-Sydney biology students presented past &hellip; 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