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Congratulations to Tyler Nelson, a biology student, who was selected to present at Gulf Coast Undergraduate

Research Symposium at Rice University. The topic of his presentation was "Effect of Varying Cell Culture Conditions in SKNO-1 Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells."

Nelson, a senior undergraduate student with a double major in biology and mechanical engineering, applied to Rice University’s symposium and was selected through a rigorous vetting process.

In his presentation, Nelson discussed how Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) cell lines with t(8;21), when placed under hypoxic conditions, produced greater division speeds and how certain conditions may provide some cancer cell lies with the increased ability to resist cellular death when exposed to some chemotherapeutic drugs. Nelson also talked about how his assays have “been developed to quantify the effects of Cisplatin, Taxol and Doxorubicin Hydrochloride on the SKNO-1 cell line in order to provide useful data to clinicians and other researchers on how the t(8;21) mutation could possibly impact the prognosis of AML patients.”