University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Surgery post-doctoral researcher Camila Gonzalez-Arancibia won an Underrepresented in STEM Research Award from the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC). 

This award allowed Gonzalez-Arancibia to present her work titled “Bacterial Biofilms as Key Participants in Amphetamine Use Disorder” at the Gordon Research Conference on Membrane Transport Proteins held in Newry, Maine, this past July.

Working in the Carter Lab under the mentorship of UAB Department of Surgery Assistant Professor Angela Carter, Ph.D., Gonzalez-Arancibia has a background in neurosciences – specifically dopamine systems and drug response. As a group, the Carter Lab investigates the interaction between microbes and hosts, how those interactions impact health, and how they can be targeted to treat disease.

“I am honored to have won this award and be recognized by such a prestigious society like GRC,” says Gonzalez-Arancibia.

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