A Galore of Undergraduate Research!
WPI’s mission is project-based learning, encouraging undergraduates to delve into research, thereby ensuring they are better equipped for their futures. One of the larger branches of project-based learning is the major qualifying project (MQP), a year-long research undertaking where the undergraduate designs experiments, performs them independently and ends the year with a poster presentation.
This year, our lab had a galore of undergraduate research as MQPs, laying foundations for more research!
Arden Badhwar and Miles Williams presented a poster titled ‘Memory Rescue in C. elegans with Alzheimer’s Disease by Restoring Gut Microbiome’
Madison Affsa presented a poster on ‘Brain-Gut-Microbiome Axis on Behavioral Response in C. elegans Model of Alzheimer’s Disease’
Korinna Muller presented a poster titled ‘Gut Feelings: Unraveling the Microbiome Influence on Parkinson’s Disease’
Brigid Hannibal and Isabel Sumner presented a poster called ‘Inhibition of HDACs via Treatment with Sodium Butyrate to Mitigate the Development of Huntington’s Disease’
Madison and Korinna relieved after their presentations!
We will miss these students and wish them good luck for their futures! 🙂
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