February 7, 2017
K-State students honored for bioscience research posters, presentations at annual K-INBRE symposium
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Four students from Kansas State 1xbet best casino website were among the 18 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students honored for their scientific research presentations at the 15th annual Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence, or K-INBRE, Symposium Jan. 14-15 in Manhattan.
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The following K-State students received cash prizes for their oral and poster presentations:
• Ruben Shrestha, doctoral student in chemistry, for the poster presentation "Mechanistic characterization of surface exposed radical site of dye-decolorizing Peroxidase from Thermomonospora curvata."
• Kasey Swilley, doctoral student in biology, for the poster presentation "A Golgi-localized protein, Gdt1, is important for multicellularity."
• Vaithish Velazhahan, junior in microbiology and medical biochemistry, for the oral presentation "Investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying the anti-cancer action of dietary flavonoids."
• Molly Zych, junior in biology, for the poster presentation "Drosophila Importin-7 is required for proper muscle attachment site formation."