Senior Biology major Kellie Cicconi won 1st prize for her research poster presentation at the 9th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). The title of her poster was “Cellular Factors Controlling Assembly of the Type III Secretion System in Pseudomonas aeruginosa,” which described research she did during her summer research internship at Case Western Reserve University. Kellie plans to pursue a PhD beginning next Fall. Kellie is pictured here showing her poster at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

*taken from the Lycourier