Biology students Katya Van Anderlecht and Lauren Havens win prestigious undergraduate fellowships

Katya Van Anderlecht was selected to participate in the Amgen Foundation’s Amgen Scholars Program this past summer. Van Anderlecht, a junior who is also a pre-med student, spent the summer conducting developmental biology research at CalTech. This year, Van Anderlecht will work in the cellular biology lab of Assistant Professor of Biology Laura Anne Lowery.

Biology major Lauren Havens has been awarded a 2017 American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Haven, a senior, is one of 19 awardees out of 128 applications, according to the society. The ASM fellowship supports undergraduate students in work in their home institution with a faculty mentor. Haven, who will conduct research into the genome of the deadly bacteria streptococcus pneumoniae, will be mentored by Associate Professor of Biology Tim van Opijnen.

To read more about the fellowships, see this BC news article.