McQuade Lab Update 2017

In 2017, BIOSINQ funds supported the work of four students working in my laboratory. Those students, Josh Shettler, Amber Gillard, Molly Kubesh, and Rachael Holm, conducted work on two major projects. The first is an established project aimed at assessing the mechanisms by which bioactive compounds exert their effects. Some of this work was incorporated into a research article that was published this summer (Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2017;491(2):449-454). The second is a new project focused on understanding the role amoebae play in the soil food web. BIOSINQ funds were essential for routine maintenance of the model organism, Dictyostelium discoideum, used in both projects.

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