Bioscience research students present posters at MN The Wildlife Society meeting

Dr. Donna Bruns Stockrahm and Dr. Christopher Merkord, Biosciences Department, took 13 Bioscience research students (and members of the MSUM Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society) to the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society held in Willmar, MN, on 18-20 February 2020.  The students presented 6 posters on their research:  Morphometrics of female painted turtles (Chrysemys […]

MSUM Biosciences research students win best undergraduate poster award

MSUM Biosciences Research Students won the “Best Undergraduate Poster Award” at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society held in Willmar, MN, on 18-20 February 2020.   In a long-term study (2001-2019), research students from the Biosciences Department at MSUM have live-trapped and marked over 1,000 painted turtles (Chryemys picta belli) in Clay County, Minnesota, in order […]

Biosciences students presented at Immunology Conference

Seven MSUM students (Jacob Tesch, Andrea Schaefer, Shakiba Hajipouri, Elaina Thompson, Alexis Cory, Mai Ceesay and Jennicca Leier) from Biosciences Department presented at the annual Autumn Immunology Conference. The conference featured many plenary sessions by outstanding Immunologists, forums for students and post-doctoral fellows to discuss their latest findings, and workshops for undergraduate students.Their research focused on investigating the immune response […]