Here's our 2013 PhunWeek visit to Park Elementary School in the Ferguson-Florissant School District. Left to right: Jon, Stan (doctoral student), Gaytri (senior), Rikki (first year medical student), Liz (masters student), Emma (junior), and Obi (senior).
Graduate students, undergraduates, high school students, and high school science teachers form a diverse research team.
Stan Andrisse (shown handing out certificates and cash prizes with an assist from me) mentored Andrea Webber, Gatryi Patel, and Joe Chen in a project to determine factors that regulate GLUT1 localization and activity. Andrea, Gaytri, and Joe received the second place award for undergraduate research from the Department of Biology in May, 2012.
Here's Stan in action at EB2012
The GLUT1 crew!
Graduate students Stan Andrisse (left) and Larry Spears (right) flank high school students David Rubenstein and Nell Briggs who joined the lab in summer, 2011, as part of the Students and Teachers as Research Scientists (STARS) program. In fall, 2012, David will study biomedical engineering at George Washington University. Nell is headed to the University of Pennsylvania. Congratulations, Nell and David!
Larry at EB2012