Congratulations to Mason Dana, Asha Cotterell, Bongeka Zuma, Olivia Stephens, and Noni Davis for presenting their past year’s work at 2016 Spelman Research Day! 1st place oral presentation winners: Mason Dana, Asha Cotterell.  

We did a couple of cool activities for ASF this year to explore the strange and wonderful world of color perception. Hundreds of visitors came to our booth to find out how we see colors and why we can’t always trust our eyes. Many thanks to our wonderful volunteers from the Tri-Beta Biology Society at Spelman College and “mini-volunteers” from Sandtown Middle School.

Asha Cotterell received a travel grant from MaGNET to attend the Maize Genetics Conference in Jacksonville, Florida this year. She presented a poster entitled Promoter Deletion Analysis of an Invertase Inhibitor during Arabidopsis Seed Development.