Conner Earl and Greg Neilsen represented the BYU Bundy lab this past month at the Utah Conference of Undergraduate Research (UCUR) at UVU.  Conner presented on Fusion Protein Biosensor for Endocrine Disruptors and Greg presented on the Detection of Harmful Ligands using a Cell-Free Biosensor.

This week, Dr. Bundy was invited to the editorial Board of Biotechnology Progress!  Congratulations to him and you can find out more about the journal Biotechnology Progress here.

Undergraduate Whitney Bills recently received approval from BYU to pursue an ORCA project, RAPID.  Described on ORCAs website, we have an excerpt here: Due to the large number of chemicals and mixtures in worldwide commerce and the laborious process of testing them, we still know very little about the endocrine disrupting capabilities of most chemicals. Back in 1996 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), aware of the growing concern of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC), mandated that potential chemicals be tested.The normal process in testing for EDCs is labor intensive, costly, and requires highly specialized instrumentation and training. The purpose of this project is to optimize a newly developed fast, inexpensive EDC biosensor, termed Rapid Adaptable Portable In-vitro Detection orRAPID so that it can be used in human blood and urine.