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Basia Walenkiewicz

Degree Program: Chemistry Lab: VanNieuwenhze Undergrad Institution: The College of St. Scholastica

My research focuses on developing and understanding cancer therapeutics that specifically target diseased tissue inhibiting one-carbon metabolism, and more specifically purine synthesis pathway, within the cell. Fun Fact: I am a big fan of Jurassic Park. Degree Program: Chemistry Lab: Dann Undergrad Institution: Gannon University

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Lauren Augusta

My research focuses on how coordinated metabolic signals regulate surface attachment and biofilm formation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Fun Fact: I played the harp for 10 years.

Degree Program: Microbiology

Lab: Fuqua

Undergrad Institution: The University of Puget Sound

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Emma McRae

My research focuses on using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study metal-dependent biological systems found in pathogenic bacteria

Fun Fact: I have free-dived and scuba-dived with sharks multiple times!

Degree Program: Chemistry

Lab: Giedroc

Undergrad Institution: UC Berkeley

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