BRAVO! faculty sponsor, Dr. Elwira Sliwinska, reports that Ryan Virdan has arrived at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Cytometry, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, University of Technology and Agriculture, Bydgoszcz, Poland. Both Ryan and an Italian student gave presentations to Dr. Sliwinska and her students on GMOs in the USA and in Europe. Here are some pictures taken during the presentations. For additional information check out Dr. Sliwinska's webpage: http://wr.atr.bydgoszcz.pl/genetyka/Elwira

From Adelaide, South Australia at Flinders Medical Center we hear from Mohammed Abdelwahab: "I am working in a autonomic neurotransmission laboratory in the Department of Anatomy and Histology. The project I am on is looking at the spinal cords of guinea pigs to see which region is responsible for making the pelvic nerve relax (vasodilate). Usually what makes a project fun is the actual experiment, whereas the analysis part is draining, here they have a lot of state of the art microscopes so even the data analysis is cool because of their sophisticated image acquisition techniques. Lastly, I have not seen any koalas, but I hope to see them when I go to the zoo. Instead, I have seen possums, which are rat like creatures with long tails and can stand upright."

Summer 2006 BRAVO! participants: Kevin Chandler and Christina Wong, Wuhan, China; Kelli Davis, Tubingen, Germany; Stephanie Freeman, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Mikhal Gold, Queensland, Australia; Alicia Oretega and Maria Trissal, Cambridge, UK; Meredith Trudel, Toulouse, France.