As a participant in the 2013 Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, Rhodes student Tina Dao, of Memphis, is conducting research at St. Jude. <\/p>\n
Memphian and Rhodes College rising junior Tina Dao is participating in the 2013 Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) Program presented by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). <\/p>\n
The fellowship program is aimed at highly competitive students who wish to pursue graduate studies in microbiology. <\/p>\n
Students conduct full-time research with an ASM member and present research results at the ASM General Meeting the following year. <\/p>\n
Dao is conducting research with Michael Johnson, Ph.D. and Jason Rosch, Ph.D. in the Infectious Diseases Department of St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital for a minimum of 10 weeks. <\/p>\n
Her research project examines the role of the copper efflux pump and the mechanism of copper-mediated toxicity in Streptococcus pyogenes, which cause strep throat, pneumonia, bacteremia, scarlet fever, pharyngitis, and flesh eating diseases. <\/p>\n
A graduate of Wooddale High School in Memphis, Dao is now a biochemistry and molecular biology major at Rhodes. <\/p>\n
Additionally, she is a member of the Rhodes Chapter of Gamma Sigma Epsilon Chemistry Honor Society. <\/p>\n
Dionne Chalmers is with the Office of Communications at Rhodes College. <\/p>\n
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