Undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research presented at Posters on the Hill supported by the Council on Undergraduate Research

Ashlee Seldomridge, a senior in the health professions track in EXPH (HONS), and a volunteer in Dr Chantler’s lab has been selected among a very competitive application process to present her research work on Capitol Hill. Ashlee has been working as a volunteer in Dr Chantler lab since the fall of 2014. Initially Ashlee wanted to gain some research experience to help with medical school applications, but since then her work alongside Evan DeVallance (PhD student) has blossomed into so much more. In the summer of 2015, Ashlee was awarded an American Physiological Society STEP-UP Fellowship, which ended with a poster presentation at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; an accepted first author abstract for the Annual Experimental Biology meeting to be held in San Diego (April 2016); and finally the 20th Annual Posters on the Hill, where she will present to members of Congress and congressional aids, advocating for undergraduate research. The above presentations relates to Ashlee’s work with Evan on how adipose tissue surrounding blood vessels (known as perivascular adipose tissue, PVAT) affects blood vessel function, and how exercise and depression modifies the role of PVAT on blood vessel function. Beyond the undergraduate level, Ashlee plans on either attending medical school or a post-baccalaureate program through the National Institutes of Health or Johns Hopkins. Read More...