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Heather Minges Wols Receives AAI Undergraduate Faculty Travel Grant

Heather Minges Wols (Science and Mathematics) was selected as a recipient of the American Association of Immunologist (AAI) Undergraduate Faculty Travel Grant, allowing her to attend IMMUNOLGY 2013, the AAI annual meeting, in Honolulu, HI, this May. She will present her poster, "Metabolic strategies used by long-lived bone marrow plasma cells,” and show that plasma cells utilize two types of metabolic strategies, glycolysis and aerobic respiration, to potentially modulate antibody secretion rates and adapt to specific niches in the bone marrow.