News

June 15, 2010

Lab members attend Genetics Conference in Boston

Professor Peters and recent graduate Jamie Wagner traveled to the "Genetics 2010: Model Organisms to Human Biology" meeting in Boston, MA.  Jamie presented a poster entitled “Calcineurin homologous protein is required for a proton-activated muscle contraction in Caenorhabditis elegans.”  Prof. Peters gave a poster about her Genetics teaching lab, “Classical and molecular mapping of C. elegans mutants in an upper level Genetics lab class” authored by Prof. Peters and Prof. Cullen.

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Professor Peters and Jamie Wagner at their research poster.

May 31, 2010

Class of 2010 became lab alumni

Three cheers for Connie Chin, Liz Sanders and Jamie Wagner!  All three have obtained awards from the Biology Department, degrees from Oberlin College, and jobs in the “real world”.

Connie Chin began a research technician position in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Liz Sanders will be a Peace Corps volunteer in a yet to be determined location in Africa.

Jamie Wagner will be working at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health as a research technician.

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The Peters Lab, 2010. L to R: Maureen Peters, Liz Sanders, Jamie Wagner, Connie Chin, Andy Burns

March, 2010

Jamie Wagner awarded prize at EB Meeting

Jamie Wagner wins the David S. Bruce Excellence in Undergraduate Education prize from the American Physiology Society at Experimental Biology Meeting in Anaheim, CA!  The award criteria were the excellence of her research project, an oral presentation and a formal, written application. Jamie’s trip to this meeting was funded completely by a travel award from the Ohio Physiological Society given in recognition of an excellent oral presentation at their meeting last year. 

Professor Peters attended the meeting as well and survived leaving her new son Patrick for three entire days.

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Professor Peters and Jamie Wagner pose with Jamie's award.