{"id":476,"date":"2020-10-09T15:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/presidents-summer-research-symposium-2020\/?p=476"},"modified":"2020-10-13T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:08:17","slug":"usira-ali-22-and-emily-pan-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/presidents-summer-research-symposium-2020\/usira-ali-22-and-emily-pan-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Usira Ali &#8217;22 and Emily Pan &#8217;22"},"content":{"rendered":"[ensemblevideo contentid=NDwU1_pJEk6EV1pqXoYFCA]\n<p><strong>Title of Abstract:<\/strong> Bioinformatics approaches to discovering antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the American lobster, Homarus americanus<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name of Mentor: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/estemmle\/index.html\">Elizabeth Stemmler<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mentor&#8217;s Organization or Department: <\/strong>Department of Chemistry, Bowdoin College<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/presidents-summer-research-symposium-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2020\/10\/Usira-Ali-22-Emily-Pan-22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/presidents-summer-research-symposium-2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2020\/10\/Usira-Ali-22-Emily-Pan-22-300x166.png\" alt=\"Usira Ali &#039;22 and Emily Pan &#039;22\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-611\" \/><\/a><strong>Research Abstract: <\/strong>Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) play an essential role in the nonspecific innate immune responses of lobsters. Studying AMPs can provide useful insight into lobster health and for developing novel antibiotics against resistant bacteria. This summer, we used various bioinformatics tools to discover new putative lobster AMPs. By comparing our mass predictions for bioinformatics-derived potential AMP sequences to hemolymph mass spectral (MS) data from previous work in the Stemmler lab, we were able to identify a new putative AMP sequence with a predicted mass within 1 Da of an experimental mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ensemblevideo contentid=NDwU1_pJEk6EV1pqXoYFCA] Title of Abstract: Bioinformatics approaches to discovering antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the American lobster, Homarus americanus Name of Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler Mentor&#8217;s Organization or Department: Department of Chemistry, Bowdoin College Research Abstract: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) play an essential role in the nonspecific innate immune responses of lobsters. 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