Three Husker students under the mentorship of Luwen Zhang, a leading University of Nebraska-Lincoln virologist, have achieved a rare feat for undergraduates.
Vanessa Hubing, a junior biological sciences major from Castle Pine, Colorado; Avery Marquis, a senior pre-veterinary medicine student from Omaha; and Chanasei Ziemann, a recent biological sciences graduate from Hickman, Nebraska; are first authors of two recently published scientific research articles that describe significant findings about how human immune systems evolved.
“Undergraduates are often participants in research as part of a larger group—but first authorship is very rare,” Zhang said. “The three of them made a major contribution to this work.”…