A Mississippi State senior from Bay St. Louis is the first-place winner in student research competition held recently at a regional biomedical conference.
Melissa K. Knight, a biological engineering major, won the undergraduate visual display category at the Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, held this year at Virginia Tech University. Her entry is based on biomedical research under way at MSU.
Supported by the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, her project is being conducted in cooperation with researchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and the Medical University of Hanover, Germany.
"Melissa is attempting to determine if cell culture methods used in one lab can be accurately duplicated in others doing the same type of research," said MSU biomedical engineer Joel Bumgardner, Knight's faculty adviser.
"This is important in developing procedures for biomedical labs in this country and overseas to share research information," he added.
A 1996 Our Lady Academy graduate, Knight is the daughter of Linda Knight.
