The following participants in NIGMS' minority programs made presentations about their research at recent scientific meetings:

• Barry University: Kevin Peterson presented a poster of his research at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Anaheim, CA, in March; Gesulla Toussaint received a travel award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology to present her research at the Experimental Biology meeting in Washington, DC, in April; and Salihah Dick received a travel award to make an oral presentation on her research at the 9th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved, and Cancer, in Washington, DC, in March.
   
• Cuyahoga Community College: Bridges program participants La Shonda Everett, Sylvia Aybar, and Sheena Baskin presented their research at the National Technical Association Conference at Tuskegee University in Alabama in September.
   
• Florida International University: Aileen Andreu, Pedro Garcia, Jr., Kathy Quinones, Kathy Loftis, and Jay Rosenberg presented their research at the American Chemical Society meeting in Anaheim, CA, in March. Roman Garcia and Lidice Lopez presented at the PanAmerican Society for Pigment Cell Research annual meeting in Newport Beach, CA, in June. Liza Merly presented at the Sixth Comparative Immunology Symposium at Florida International University in Miami in March and at the Experimental Biology meeting in Washington, DC, in April.
   
• The Indiana University School of Medicine Bridges to the Doctorate program hosted its first annual seminar in July. This year's speaker, Sarah England, Ph.D., an associate professor in the department of physiology and biophysics at the University of Iowa, met with the Bridges participants and shared her graduate school experiences, as well as those she has had as a minority faculty member.
   
• Johns Hopkins University: MARC predoctoral fellow Rosamund Leila Reynald received a best poster award for her presentation at the Protein Society annual meeting in San Diego, CA, in August.
   
• The Leadership Alliance National Symposium was held July 30 to August 1, 2004, in Chantilly, VA. The annual symposium, funded by the MORE Division, is the culmination of the summer research experience for undergraduates participating in summer and other programs based at Leadership Alliance member institutions. The Alliance, a consortium of the nation's leading research and teaching academic institutions, is dedicated to improving the participation of underserved and underrepresented students in graduate studies and Ph.D. programs. For more information on The Leadership Alliance, see http://www.theleadershipalliance.org.
   
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: PREP scholar Rebecca Jordan presented her research at the Ecological Society of American annual meeting in Portland, OR, in late July/early August.
   
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine: PREP scholar Karl Pendergrass presented a poster of his research at the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control meeting in August in New Orleans, LA.