Nine undergraduate students presented in the 2018 Undergraduate Microbiology Research poster session on April 20, 2017, they include the following:

Emily Hoeper (Yahr lab)
Isabella Morbidelli/Robert Nordell IV (dual presentation) (Yahr lab)
Breanna Kramer-Riesberg (Klingelhutz lab)
Thomas Osborne (Salgado-Pabon lab)
Aissa Kergna (Butler lab)
Carly Twigg (Roller lab)
Yuxun Zhang (Yahr lab)
Sheng Hao Lu (Maury lab)

Congratulations to undergraduate students Emily Hoeper (2017-2018 Stinski Fellow), and copresenters Isabella Morbidelli/Robert Nordell IV, both won the Allen J. Markovetz Award for best poster presentation at this year's undergraduate poster session.

Emily Hoeper (Yahr Lab)

Small, non-coding RNAs that modulate Type III Secretion System Gene Expression 
Isabella Morbidelli, Robert Nordell, Emily Hoeper, Yuxun Zhang, Matthew Ferry, Zachary Slusher, Trey Vanhemert, Deven Voelker, Emily Williams McMackin, Kayley Janssen, Timothy Yahr 

Isabella Morbidelli/Robert Nordell IV (dual presentation) (Yahr lab)

Regulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence Functions by Small Non-coding RNAs
Isabella Morbidelli*, Robert Nordell*, Emily Hoeper, Yuxun Zhang, Matthew Ferry, Zachary Slusher, Trey Vanhemert, Deven Voelker, Emily Williams McMackin, Kayley Janssen, Timothy Yahr *equal contributions, shared presentation

Carly Twigg (Roller Lab)

Regulation of Membrane Budding During HSV Nuclear Egress  
Carly Twigg and Richard Roller, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa

Yuxun Zhang (Yahr lab)

sRNAs Associated with Motility and Type Three Secretion System in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.