Nneka wins excellence in poster presentation price at SMB 2025

Nneka Karen Enumah, a second year PhD student in the department of mathematics at Clarkson received an excellence in poster presentation award at the annual meeting of the society for mathematical biology held from July 13-18^th 2025 at Edmonton, Canada. Her poster was selected from over 120 attendees from around the world to receive a cash prize of $250 and a certificate of recognition. Karen’s research uses mathematical modeling to understand how the dynamics of long actin-rich cell protrusions, called filopodia, facilitate the activation of signaling proteins that help in the development of spot patterns in biological tissues. Her work is part of a broader effort by Clarkson math professor Emmanuel Asante-Asamani and developmental biologist, Dr. Ginger Hunter of Howard University, to understand how cells communicate over long distances during the creation of tissue scale spot patterns. This collaborative research project is currently supported by the joint NSF/NIGMS mathematical biology program under Award Number R01GM152810.