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Graduate Research Forum

 March 19-20, 2013: Annual Biomedical Graduate Research Forum

The Annual Biomedical Science Graduate Research Forum was held on March 19-20, 2013.  This event is organized by the Council of Biomedical Graduate Students of the UT Health Science Campus and provides an opportunity for health science students to present their work to fellow students and faculty.  This year both oral and poster presentations were included with 16 oral presentations and 36 posters.  Thirty-one UT faculty and post-docs helped in the initial round of judging.  Three CVMD students, Varunkumar Pandey, Resmi Pillai and Jian Wu gave oral presentations and nine students in the CVMD track presented posters.  Winners in the poster competition were first place Minal Mulye (IIT track, Mark Wooten, PhD advisor), second place David Leggat (IIT track, Dr. Julie Westerink advisor) and third place Namrata Madan (CVMD track, Zijian Xie, Ph.D. advisor).  Winners of the oral sessions were first place winner Laura Halpin, (NND track, Brian Yamamoto, Ph.D. advisor) and second place Meghan Wyse (CB track, Kate Eisenmann, Ph.D. advisor).  Congratulations to all the winners and participants.  The judges of the final group were keynote speaker Dr. Robert Copeland, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Epizyme, Inc. and Dr. Douglas Leaman (Chairman UT Dept. of Biological Sciences).

Poster Session

Robert Lee (Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases (CVMD) track)

Xiaojun Wu (Infection, Immunity, and Transplantation (IIT) track)

Sumeet Solanki (CVMD) describes his work to Dr. Akira Takashima

Minal Mulye (IIT) presents her 1st place winning poster to Drs. Travis Taylor and Joshua Park

Gaurav Mehta (Cancer Biology (CB) Track) with his poster

Minal Mulye (IIT) and Sumeet Solanki (CVMD)

Kaitlyn Dvorak, Caitlin Baum and Gurpanna Saggu

Harshal Wagulde (CVMD) with his poster

Yi Yao (IIT) and Qiming Duan (CVMD)

Saja Khuder (CVMD)

Lance Stechschulte (CVMD)

Hasan Alhaddad (COP) with his poster

Brian Muntean (COP) with judges Drs. Hermann von Grafenstein and Bob Trumbly

Michael Bechill (IIT) with his poster

Dr Akira Takashima reviews Ji-Youn Yeo's (CB) poster

Paul Schroder (IIT) with his poster

Mike Robinson (CB) explains his poster to Dr. Mark Wooten (IIT)

Sushant Lakkadwala (Pharmacy Practice, COP) discusses his work

Michael Bechill (IIT) and Robert Lee (CVMD)

Akshay Jain (Pharmacy Practice) with his poster

Gaurav Mehta (CB) with Varunkumar Pandey (CVMD)

Dr. Bob Trumbly - a judge at work

Brian Muntean (Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, COP) with his poster

Kaitlyn Dvorak and Caitlin Baum

Lance Stechschulte (CVMD) presents his poster to Drs. Ivana de la Serna and Noor Khaskhely

Yi Yao (IIT) presents her poster to Drs.  Randy Worth and Joe Marino

Qiming Duan (CVMD) discusses his poster with Arnab Mandal

Anita Iyer, Nneka Mbah, Jennifer Ohtola and Namrata Madan

Jatin Tulsulkar (Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, COP) with his poster

Aparna Raghavan (Medicinal Chemistry and Biological Sciences, COP), Dr. Reka Natarajan and Dr. Dave Dignam

Dr. Dave Dignam, Aparna Raghavan (Medicinal Chemistry and Biological Sciences) and Dr. Reka Natarajan

Judges at work: Drs. Hermann Von Grafenstein and Bob Trumbly

Nan Zhang (IIT)

Mugdha Patki (CB) discusses her poster with Drs. Youssef Sari (COP) and Sandrine Pierre (CVMD)

Stephanie Chillas (COP)

Dulat Bekbolsynov

Drs. Hermann Von Grafenstein and Bob Trumbly (CB) with Harshal Waghulde (CVMD)

Drs. Kate Eisenmann (CB) and Mark Wooten (IIT) - judges at work

Caitlin Baum (IIT) defends her poster

Ji-youn Yeo (CB), with judges Drs. Travis Taylor and Joshua Park

Dr. Randy Worth (IIT) with Robert Lee (CVMD) and Paul Schroder (IIT)

Drs Joshua Park and Travis Taylor - judges at work

Harshal Waghulde (CVMD) with Drs. Bob Trumbly and Hermann von Grafenstein

Paul Schroeder, Caitlin Baum, Jean-Yves Tano, Ph.D., Lance Stechschulte and Michael Bechill