My first Honours thesis students, Sydney, Kristen, and Alysha - the self-proclaimed 'OG Squad' - presented their work at the Queen's Undergraduate Poster Day last week. Sydney worked on a genetics project to isolate double mutants to study an immune signalling pathway. Kristen worked on the CPK28 interactome, tirelessly cloning split-luciferase constructs and performing coIPs. Alysha generated over 25 point mutations in CPK28 phosphosites (in both bacterial AND plant expression vectors!) and established a functional screen in N. benthamiana to test regulatory roles of these sites. I couldn't be more impressed by the excellent work they've done these past months. Special shout-out to Kristen, who equally impressed several faculty in our Department and walked away with a Best Poster prize - congratulations!!
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