Caitlyn Reese Presented at Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Symposium at Fort Lewis College

2014 May 15

The Fort Lewis College School of Arts and Sciences held its annual Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Symposium on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Student participants were selected by their departments to represent the best undergraduate research and performances done at Fort Lewis College this year. Each department (Anthropology, Art & Design, Biology, Chemistry, Exercise Science, Environmental Studies, Gender & Women's Studies, Geosciences, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics and Engineering, Psychology, Sociology, and Theatre) selects two students to give talks, and up to five groups of students to present posters or performances. Many of these students have also presented at professional conferences in their disciplines.

Caitlyn Reese, of Cortez, CO, presented a project titled "Overexpression of the Klotho Protein in Human Epithelial Lung Cells and the Effect on AKT and p38 MAPK Concentrations in the IGF-1 Signaling Pathway: Investigating the Mechanisms of COPD," supervised by David Blake. Reese's major is Biology - Cellular & Molecular Biology Option .