Misericordia University students, faculty members and an alumna recently presented research findings on a range of topics at the annual Pennsylvania Academy of Science Conference in Wilkes-Barre.

Junior biology majors Michael Blazaskie of Hanover Township and Atasha Rehrig of Lehighton, and senior biology majors Grace Emmett of Mountaintop and Andrea Nale of Gilbert, along with faculty members Jeffrey Stephens, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, and Angela Asirvatham, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Biology, presented their research, "Expression of Anchoring Proteins and Phosphatases Correlates with cAMP Levels in Immortalized Rat Schwann Cell Lines."The interdisciplinary project, Rehrig, Blazaskie and Dr. Asirvatham presented their research, "Are A-Kinase Anchoring Proteins Involved in Myelination?" a study of how Cyclic AMP - the universal second messenger - coordinates the balance between Schwann cell differentiation and its proliferation.