LEWISTON — About 85 Bates students have delivered presentations summarizing their summer research and several of the students are from York County.

This work was made possible thanks to support through the Bates College Dean of the Faculty’s office.

Jillian Sheltra of Biddeford, a senior at Bates College, presented a poster summarizing their summer research experience with Assistant Professor of Biology Martin Kruse.

Sheltra, a neuroscience major, shared a research poster entitled “Regulation of neuronal activity by phosphoinositide transfer proteins.” She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Sheltra of Biddeford, and is a 2015 graduate of Biddeford High School.

Julie Ludwig of Kennebunkport, Maine, a senior at Bates College, presented a poster summarizing their summer research experience with Professor of Philosophy Mark Okrent and Efi Kokkotou, associated professor of medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center.

Ludwig, a philosophy and neuroscience major, shared a research poster entitled “Researching Melanin-Concentrating Hormone in the Context of IBD.”She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Ludwig of Kennebunkport and is a 2015 graduate of Kennebunk High School.

Sheltra and Ludwig are She was among 85 Bates students who received support through the Dean of the Faculty’s office in order to undertake summer research.

Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates is internationally recognized as a leading college of the liberal arts, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community.

With a commitment to affordability, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin. Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world.