Sharonne Temple, of Smyrna, Presents at Minority Student Research Conference

2011 Nov 4

Addressing topics as diverse as the importance of kinship networks to African American single mothers, to the effect of viper venom proteins on melanoma cells, eight University of Delaware students will present their research at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Nov. 9–12, in St. Louis.

Sharonne Temple, a senior from Smyrna, Del., majoring in biology, will present "Zinc Inhibits the Fibrillization of the Amyloidogenic SEVI Precursor, PAP248-286." She was mentored by Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy at the University of Michigan. She is a student in the HHMI, McNair and NUCLEUS programs.

Now in its 11th year, ABRCMS is designed to encourage underrepresented minority students to pursue advanced education in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, including mathematics, and to provide faculty mentors and advisers with resources for facilitating student success.

UD's student participants will present research they worked on this past summer with faculty mentors, according to Rosalind Johnson, who directs the Network of Undergraduate Collaborative Learning Experiences for Underrepresented Scholars (NUCLEUS) program and the Arts and Humanities Summer Institute, both programs of the Alliance for Summer Scholars at UD. The alliance includes more than a dozen summer experiential programs across the University.

"Our summer alliance programs continue to work with each other throughout the year supporting undergraduate research at the University," Johnson said. "Last year only one UD student went to this conference, so we are very excited to have so many UD students attending this year."