Med Bio student Stephanie Podolski presents poster at national conference

Stephanie Podolski, Medical Biology major, '11, presented her research "Tissue-specific activation of AMP-activated protein kinase by heat stress in the lobster, Homarus americanus" at the FASEB Experimental Biology Meeting in Anaheim, CA. Her poster was co-authored by Jennifer Jost, Ph.D. and Markus Frederich, Ph.D.

With her research project Stephanie qualified for the final round of the national undergraduate research competition "David Bruce Award". Her research was funded by an undergraduate research fellowship from the American Physiological Society and performed in the laboratory of Markus Frederich, Associate Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences.