Undergraduate students present research at UAMS conference

Three students from the Schurko lab presented their summer research at the Third Annual Central Arkansas Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium on July 23 at UAMS in Little Rock.

Jake Higgins presented the work that he and Meghan McFadden completed this summer in a poster titled “Investigating the Role of Histone H2A Variants in the Unprecedented DNA Repair System of Bdelloid Rotifers."

Lettie Hattabaugh and Erika Jasso also presented their progress on their summer project in the poster titled “Sexual Healing: Examining the Role of Meiotic Genes in DNA Damage Repair.”