Mindlin Undergraduate Mentored Researchers selected

Congratulations to Bich (Hien) Vu and Shawn Rupp for being selected as Mindlin Foundation Undergraduate Mentored Research awardees in the Wilson Sayres lab! From the Mindlin Foundation website:

This program is intended to support promising undergraduates in the sciences or engineering, in a mentored research project that introduces the student to academic research. 

The structure of the research plan should involve a mentored research experience, wherein the undergraduate student is responsible for addressing an appropriate self-contained question relevant to the mentor’s larger ongoing study.

I am thrilled to have the opportunity to mentor such wonderful undergraduate students! We are so thankful to the Mindlin Foundation for recognizing their potential, and for the value of their research contributions. 

Hien Vu, Senior

Dr. Wilson Sayres, faculty in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, and Bich (Hien) Vu, a senior at Arizona State University majoring in Biological Sciences (Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology), have been selected to receive Mindlin Foundation funding in support of their proposal, "Patterns of evolution across vertebrate sex determining genes."

Shawn Rupp, Junior

Dr. Wilson Sayres, faculty in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, and Shawn Rupp, a junior majoring in Biological Sciences (Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology), have been selected to receive Mindlin Foundation funding in support of their proposal, "Characterizing sex-biased gene expression in the green anole."