First Place Undergraduate Poster awarded to Rebecca Reese at the Inaugural Biomedical Research Conference

Rebecca Reese, a freshman in the Biochemistry Molecular Biology (BMB) department, won the first-place award of Undergraduate Research Poster Session of the Inaugural Biomedical Research Conference in 2018. As the first place award winner, she also received a $100 honorarium. Rebecca has conducted her work under the guidance of Hongmei Ren, PhD, assistant professor in the BMB department. Dr. Ren’s research interests focus on lipid metabolism, its association with autophagic clearance of mitochondria (mitophagy) and homeostasis, and its effects on cardiac and skeletal muscle function. Rebecca's