April 20, 2015

Congratulations to Agnes Mendonca and Rohit Jaini for their first place finishes in the 2015 Sigma Xi Graduate Student & Post-Doctoral Research Poster Competition.

Jaini, who is advised by Professor John Morgan, presented a poster entitled “Metabolite Profiling of the Monolignol Biosynthesis Pathway Using Reversed Phase Liquid Chromotography Couple with Tandem Mass Spectrometry.”

Mendonca, who is advised by Professor Chongli Yuan, presented a poster entitled “A Mechanistic Understanding of the Effect of DNA Hydroxymethylation on Nucleosomal Conformation and Stability.”

Both graduate students were recognized during Sigma Xi’s annual banquet in April.