Angela Brown, Ph.D. student working under Professor Steven Wrenn, received 2nd Place at the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society 8th Annual Graduate Student Poster Session. The title of the poster was "Effect of phospholipid chain saturation and chain length on lipid raft size and presence in model membranes." Angela is researching cholesterol-rich regions of cell membranes called lipid rafts, and what factors affect their size.

The Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society Eighth Annual Graduate Student Poster Session was held on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at Temple University. The Section is one of the oldest local sections in the American Chemical Society (ACS.) The Philadelphia section of the American Chemical Society was founded in 1899 by 83 chemists and today is one of the largest local sections in the ACS with over 5000 members. It consists of ACS members who reside in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania and Burlington and Camden counties in New Jersey.