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Sophomore Allison Wagman Wins Undergraduate Research Poster Competition

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Sophomore Allison Wagman Wins Undergraduate Research Poster Competition

Sophomore Allison Wagman recently won first place in the Undergraduate Research Competition hosted by the Cockrell School’s Student Engineering Council.

Allison’s poster, “Yeast Promoter Mutations Modeled by Nucleosome Affinity”, showcased her research conducted alongside Professor Hal Alper to create novel synthetic parts for cells.

Her research involved creating new promoters for yeast using a model-guided … Read the rest »