Congratulations to the poster and presenter winners at the 2019 Research Symposium that took place March 7-8, 2019. Vice President for Research, Joanne Turner, Ph.D., handed out the awards.
POSTERS
Post-doctoral scientist category
1st place — Elisha Egie Enabulele, Ph.D. — “Two eggs which can make you sick”: A picture book for health education of children in schistosomiasis endemic countries
Post-doctoral scientist category
2nd place — Chrissy Leopold Wager, Ph.D. — PPARγ Mediates Eicosanoid Release from Human Macrophages during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
Graduate student category
1st place — Jeffrey Kim — Single cell analysis of neural stem cells derived from induced pluripotent stem calls carrying LRRK2 mutation Gly2019Ser
Graduate student category
2nd place — Hanna Scinto — A Novel Strategy to Adapt SHIV-EV1 Carrying env from an RV144 Volunteer to Rhesus Macaques: Coreceptor Switch and Final Recovery of a Pathogenic Virus with Exclusive R5 Tropism
Technician category
1st place — Holden Kelley— Validation of rapid diagnostics for bovine tuberculosis
Technician category
2nd place — Robbie Diaz — Why do schistosome genotypes vary in the numbers of transmission stages produced?
Staff scientist (combined group for poster/presentation)
1st place — Chris Chen, Ph.D. — Developing a New World monkey model of chronic HBV infection in the post-chimpanzee era
Staff scientist (combined group for poster/presentation)
2nd place — Frederic Chevalier, Ph.D. — Extreme QTL and pooled sequencing for determining the genetic basis of host specificity in schistosome parasites
PRESENTATIONS
Post-doctoral scientist category
Gourav Roy Choudhury, Ph.D. — Charting the onset of Parkinson-like motor and non-motor symptoms in nonhuman primate model of Parkinson’s disease
Graduate student category
Lisa Smith — RNA-guided Cas9 nucleases and paired nickases inactivate SIV via proviral genome editing
Technician category
Shalini Nair — Using CRISPR Cas9 to understand anti-malarial drug resistance
Each winner received an Amazon gift card to recognize their outstanding performance.
