Biology Faculty and Students Present Their Research

Loyola's Department of Biological Sciences was very well represented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. We had a great group of 5 students and 4 faculty presenting their research projects. Everyone did an excellent job! Special shout out to students, Anna Keller and Daniela Torres Matir, for winning presentation awards in the Tri Beta student sessions!  

Oral presentations: 

• Jonah Basinger and Kim Mix “Identification of NR4A2-target genes in human chondrocytes”
• Michael Doosey “Vertebrae Development and Segmentation in the Caudal Region of Bony Fishes"
• Anna Keller and Amrita Datta “Development and characterization of a novel 3D co-culture system to model EMT” (2nd place BBB award )
• Daniela Torres Matir and Amrita Datta “The Role of FAT4 in Metastatic Breast Cancer” (3rd place BBB award )

Poster presentations:

• Haeden Wahden and Philip Bucolo “Assessing the appropriateness of PhyoPAM-II to quantify phytopigment concentrations of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin”
• Margaret Woods-Crawford and Amrita Datta: “Investigating FAT cadherin associated polarity and EMT signatures in breast cancer”