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Lake Forest College students win awards at national fruit fly conference

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Edward Whipple Interim Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students | Lake Forest College

Edward Whipple Interim Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students | Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College students recently attended the Genetics Society of America's Drosophila Genetics Research Conference in San Diego, California, held from March 19-23.

Biology and neuroscience double major and chemistry minor Daniel Tulchinskiy '25, environmental studies and neuroscience double major Inés Riojas '26, and biology major with chemistry and Islamic studies minors Salma Abdelkhalek '26 participated in the conference to present posters sharing their research. They were accompanied by Otoha Tatami '24, a full-time research assistant in Assistant Professor of Biology Becky Delventhal's lab.

Riojas and Abdelkhalek both won awards for their posters, competing among 500 undergraduate presenters.

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