Savannah Makowski, “Experimental Methods to Identify Biomechanical Stresses During Brain Morphogenesis” Mentor: Jennifer Gutzman, Biological Sciences Poster #120 Birth defects of the brain can cause physical or mental impairments. The effect they exert on an individual may vary from minor…… Read More
Kirandeep Kaur, “Identifying Zebrafish with MYPT1 Gene Mutations” Mentor: Jennifer Gutzman, Biological Sciences Poster #106 The mypt1 gene plays an important role in early embryonic brain development by affecting cell shape changes that are required to form the midbrain-hindbrain boundary…… Read More
Kleida Doci, “The Impact of Mechanosensory Proteins in Brain Morphogenesis” Mentor: Jennifer Gutzman, Biological Sciences Poster #50 Brain morphogenesis is the study of how the brain tissue acquires specific shape during early development. Structural birth defects that occur during brain…… Read More