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Grad Slam 2025

4th-year Ph.D. graduate student in Biochemistry, Jenna Myers, gives her 1st-place-winning Grad Slam presentation, A Sticky Situation: The Age-Related Influx of Clot-Producing Platelets, on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at the Santa Cruz Kuumbwa Jazz Center.

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