Jordan Felipe conducts summer research

2014 Jul 21

Jordan Felipe of Ventura is spending the summer conducting research at California Lutheran University.

Felipe, a bioengineering major, received a $5,000 Swenson Science Summer Research Fellowship for his project titled "The Role of sRNAother in Antibiotic Resistance in Bacillus Thuringiensis." He is deleting a bacterium gene sequence that is similar to one that has been shown to alter antibiotic resistance in a different bacterium and comparing the response to antibiotics with the bacterium containing the gene sequence.

Based on written proposals and academic performance, a faculty committee awarded 24 fellowships to undergraduate students with funding from more than $115,000 in grants from the university. With guidance from faculty mentors, the students are conducting full-time research throughout the summer. The students will publish their results and present them at conferences.

CLU is a selective university based in Thousand Oaks, California, with additional centers in Oxnard, Woodland Hills, Santa Maria and Berkeley. With an enrollment of 4,300 students, CLU offers undergraduate and graduate programs within the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Management, Graduate School of Education, Graduate School of Psychology and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. Members of the CLU student body come from across the nation and around the world and represent a diversity of faiths and cultures. For more information, visit callutheran.edu.