The department is pleased to announce winners of the spring 2013 Undergraduate Research Poster Competition:

First Place

Annie Pan (Alper Group)
Itaconic Acid Production in S. Cerevisiae
$150 prize

Annie works with biological systems to produce biomolecular monomers used in the plastics industry-she engineers microorganisms to make plastic monomers as a biomolecular byproduct.  Biomolecular monomers … Read the rest »