Chemistry Interns 2011
Destinee Johnson, Derion Reid, Amy Moore
One of the primary goals of Winthrop's Initiative for STEM Educators
(WISE) is to provide
STEM majors with a meaningful experience in research and education settings.
To this end, a summer internship is available for students finishing their
Freshman or Sophomore years which includes a research laboratory experience.
During May of 2011, three chemistry majors with an interest in teaching at the
secondary level joined my lab and conducted a series of experiments in which
they expressed a maltose binding protein fused to a
smaller protein via a flexible teather that contains the sequence ENLYFQS. This
sequence enables the Tomato Etch Virus Protease N1a to recognize and hydrolyze
the two separate protein domains. They then presented their work in front
of their peers and several Winthrop faculty and administration (as well as
several honored guests) as a culminating experience.
See the
Final Presentation Here
Photos courtesy of WISE and Shannon Kissinger