Rachel and Alice show off their work!

Rachel (left) and Kha (right), in front of Rachel's poster

The undergraduates of the Yip lab display their impressive work in a 5 minute (give or take) presentation to their peers and judges.

Rachel spoke about the work she completed with Kha and Gage. Here she, investigated the GAP activity of RAB3GAP, for a number of RABs. Skillfully navigating a number of biochemical techniques with the aid of in silico protein structure prediction algorithms to tackle this challenge.

Alice (left) and Tomas (right) in front of Alice's poster.

Alice presented her work trying to better understand how the multi-subunit autophagy tethering factor, HOPS, interacts with different small GTPases. To this end she leveraged a number of established biochemical techniques.

Both of these projects required a lot of preps, pull-downs, and tears, but it sure paid off!