Christopher Wright Finds Success at National Conference

2012 May 4

University of Delaware students received numerous awards at the annual conference of the Experimental Biology Meeting, held this year in San Diego.

As part of the conference, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) sponsored its 16th Undergraduate Poster Competition, in which 18 UD students took part. This is the 13th year in which students from the University's Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) Undergraduate Science Education Program have attended the conference to present their research, and they have won more awards than students from any other institution.

Among those students was Christopher Wright, of Knoxville, TN.

Christopher Wright was awarded an honorable mention for his poster presentation on the role of small RNAs in the aging process of plants. He conducts research with Pamela Green, Crawford H. Greenwalt Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences.

More than 200 students from across the United States competed this year in four categories, with each category awarding one first-place and four honorable mention awards. UD students received four of those 20 awards.