Kasey Parks, a third-year chemistry undergraduate in the Schmitt group, is a winner in the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) annual Undergraduate Poster Competition.
Parks’ poster, titled “Illuminating compartmentalized AMPK signaling in single cells”, won in the “Chemical and Metabolic Innovations in Biology” category at the competition held during the ASBMB annual meeting in Chicago this past April. More than 200 undergraduates presented their research at the event. One winner and three honorable mentions were selected in each of six research categories.
Parks conducts research in Professor Danielle Schmitt’s group where she is leading a project investigating redox-mediated AMPK activity at the single-cell level. Her work focuses on utilizing and developing biosensors for live-cell fluorescence microscopy, enabling real-time visualization of biochemical processes. Parks’ project has been supported by a grant from the UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows.
Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penjen@g.ucla.edu.
