Congratulations to, Sara El-Toukhy and Olivia Iberi, Excel in Science Undergraduate students, supervised by Rachel Clifford, who recently won abstract presentations at national meetings for their presentations titled:
“Will you regret dumping your X? Sex as a biological variable in Asthma Genomics”.
The Excel in Science internship programme is a University of Nottingham programme of initiatives to inspire budding undergraduate researchers and address diversity challenges in academia, particularly Black representation.
Sara, a 4th Year Medical student, won the postgraduate prize for her oral presentation at the British Association of Lung Research Meeting.
Olivia, a second year Biotechnology student, won the Wendy Stannard best presentation prize at the Joint Nottingham Leicester Respiratory Research Day.
Both presented novel data looking at X and Y chromosome DNA methylation in publicly available data from asthma cohorts, data that is normally excluded from analysis as it cannot be analysed in conjunction with somatic chromosome data.
Well done both!