Six undergraduate students from the Abel Lab have been accepted to present abstracts at the 2019 ABRCMS

Six undergraduate students apart of the Abel Laboratory have been accepted to present abstracts at the 2019 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). The ABRCMS is being held November 13-16 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

Benjamin Kirk, Han Le, Margaret Mungai, Salma AshShareef, Innes Hicsasmaz and Romilia Castillo are among those who have submitted an abstract and have been accepted.

Margaret Mungai was selected to present an oral presentation entitled, “OPA-1 Deficiency in Skeletal Muscle Increases Mitochondria-ER Contact Formation through an ATF-4 Dependent mechanism”. The rest of the accepted abstracts will present a poster at the conference.

We want to say Congratulations to those who have been accepted to the ABRCMS and we wish you the best of luck in November.