Congratulations to our amazing undergraduates Kirsten Ha, Nicole Lav, and Lauren Nishitani for successfully presenting their research at this year’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)! They have all worked amazingly hard on their respective projects for the past school year.

Kirsten Ha beside her poster, “Inhibition of Fucosyltransferase Activity Reduces Astrogenesis of Neural Stem Cells”

Nicole Lav beside her poster, “Rapidly Assessing the Cellular Composition of Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells using qRT-PCR”

Lauren Nishitani beside her poster, “Characterization of Dielectrophoresis-sorted Neuron Subtype Populations using Immunocytochemistry”
Special thanks to her research mentor, Jazmine Moore.