Dan Shechtman and His Discovery of Quasicrystals

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College features chemist and material science professor Dan Shechtman who discovered Quasicrystals in 1982

IVD Formation in Monodelphis domestica

The research summarized on this poster supports the use of the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) as a lab animal for research into invertebral disc formation and degeneration. Preliminary data suggests that some genes involved in the formation and maintenance of the notochord in mice are the same in the short-tailed opossum. Data also suggests the ossification of the vertebral column of pups proceeds anteriorly to posteriorly and that much of the maturation of the nucleus puposus happens in the first ten days

PRECS Participant: Emma Gray

Emma Gray, a participant in the Phenotypic Plasticity Research Experience for Community College Students, discusses her experience and assigned project