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For the second consecutive year a Creighton student is a top-three award winner at the BIG EAST Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium held March 11 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The symposium, which held its inaugural event last year, is held in conjunction with the BIG EAST Men’s Basketball Tournament. It brings together top undergraduate research students from BIG EAST universities who present research posters to expert panels.
Creighton biochemistry senior Rhiannon McCracken, from Lincoln, Nebraska, took third place for her poster titled “Structural and Functional Analysis of Crassostrea gigas OAZ-PK RNA.”
The win marks Creighton’s third top-three finish in the two-year-old contest.
McCracken’s faculty mentor, Juliane Strauss-Soukup, PhD, associate vice provost for research and scholarship and professor of chemistry and biochemistry, says the poster concerned noncoding RNAs (ribonucleic acids) that play a key role in enabling cell growth and differentiation. They are a key target for the development of new anti-cancer drugs that might slow the growth of cancer cells, she says.
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