Undergraduate Research

  • Marc Pierre was our amazing Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Neuroscience (NSURE) student from Columbus State University. He worked on an exciting project developing and characterizing a novel hippocampal culture system. This new system will allow our team to more rapidly evaluate neuroprotective and regenerative therapies with improved precision. Thanks Marc for all of your help…

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  • Congratulations to Chris Littlejohn for winning 1st place at the 2021 CAES Research Symposium for his presentation “Evaluation of Growth Factors on Their Ability to Promote Proliferation and Reduce Apoptosis in Neural Stem Cells.” This was an exciting project evaluating a number of experimental growth factors to enhance the proliferation of neural stem cells. Rapid…

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  • Mary Kate Mehegan (“The Last of the Mehegans”) won 5th place at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium. This was the largest pool of competitors this event has ever seen, making it stiff competition!

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  • Sarah Shaver

    Way to go Sarah Shaver for getting into medical school at Emory University! Hopefully we will see you there when we do our research MRIs.

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  • Caroline Coleman

    Congrats to Caroline Coleman for getting into several medical schools. We wish you the best of luck at Emory next year!

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  • We are so proud of you Aleia for getting into Vet School! You are going to make an amazing vet!

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  • The West Lab would like to congratulate Kathryn Sellman, one of our amazing undergraduate researchers, for getting into medical school. All of your hard work has truly paid off and we are looking forward to the fantastic things you are going to do in the future!!!

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