Sydney Kelly of Windsor, a student at McDaniel College, Westminster, Md., earned first place at the UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences. Kelly was among 13 McDaniel students who attended the conference on Oct. 19.
Kelly, a junior biology major, took first place for her research called "Tudor Domain Containing Protein 5-Like Post-Transcriptionally Regulates Maternally Deposited RNAs in the Drosophila Germline" in biochemistry and molecular biology. The UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences is attended by students and professors from 22 colleges and universities, including Yale, Penn, and the University of Virginia, and exclusively features undergraduate research in all areas of chemistry, biology, and biochemistry.
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