Jazmine Pope is an undergraduate student participating in the USF Biomedical Engineering Summer Research Fellowship Program. She will be assessing epithelial sodium channel activity in polarized cell cultures.
Jacob Yudiono is a medical student in the inaugural class of the Research and Education in Nephrology for Undergraduate Medical Students - Florida (RENUM-FL) Summer Program. The goal of this 8-week funded summer research and education program is to enhance the training of a scientific and clinical workforce in nephrology to meet the growing healthcare need of patients afflicted with kidney disease and/or hypertension. Jacob will be investigating whether dietary taurine exacerbates renal damage in a rat model of polycystic kidney disease.