Our undergrad student researcher Gabriella Ganser won the second place award at this year’s Texas A&M System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) Symposium held on April 5th-6th at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. Directly advised by our research technician Joshua Wan and Dr. Ry Young, Gabriella presented a poster titled “Experimentally Identifying Phage Lysis Genes Through Lysis Complementation Assays”.
The Texas A&M System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) is a partnership comprised of Texas A&M University, Texas A&M International University, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, and Prairie View A&M University committed to increasing the number of underrepresented students participating in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) program designed to foster achievement in minority students seeking degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The goal is to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students who complete baccalaureate and doctoral degrees in STEM fields and, ultimately, enter the ranks of the faculty.