Achievement

During the last reporting year, IGERT fellow Shalini Lo Nam had the opportunity to present her work at several conferences: Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M), Quantitative Biology, and the Annual Biophysical Society Meeting. At the M&M Meeting, she won an award for the Best Biological Sciences Student Poster. She also got to spend a week in the lab of National Academy of Sciences Member, Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, in January 2009, at the National Institutes of Health. During her time at NIH, she learned about the technology and operation of their Photoactivated Localization Microscope (PALM) and collected some data using genetically-encoded and antibody-tagged photoactivatable fluorophores. Her research group plans to build a PALM set-up here at UNM, so she gained invaluable experience that will be helpful in her future research.