GSI Workshop Competition 2020 Winners

The Genome Science Institute is excited to announce the winners of our second annual Workshop Competition! For full details on the competition and our partners that made the competition possible, check out our official announcement here!

1. scRNA-seq Award, theme – “Invertebrates”: “Genomic analysis of brain evolution and complex social behavior: leveraging the power of single-cell RNA sequencing to understand functional neuroplasticity”
   Sean Mullen, Ph.D. and James Traniello, Ph.D.
   BU Dept of Biology
   
   
2. scRNA-seq Award, theme – “Neurobiology”: “Deciphering Down Syndrome (DS)-related abnormalities in the white matter using a novel platform.”
   Ella Zeldich Ph.D. and Tarik Haydar, Ph.D.
   BUSM Dept of Anatomy and Neurobiology
   
   
3. scRNA-seq Award, theme – “Immunology”: “Perform benchmark study of novel unbiased single cell surface proteome and transcriptome profiling technology.”
   Julian Kwan, Ph.D. Dylan Steiner, and Andrew Emili, Ph.D.
   BUSM Dept of Biochemistry and BU Biology
   
   
4. scRNA-seq Award, theme – “Cancer and Stem Cells”: “Defining cellular changes driving basal-like breast cancer initiation and invasion”
   Bob Varelas Ph.D.
   BUSM Dept of Biochemistry
   
   
5. scRNA-seq Award, theme – “Lung and Fibrosis”: “Time series scRNA-seq to dissect the fate decisions of human foregut patterning.”
   Taylor Matte and Finn Hawkings, MBBCh.
   BUSM Dept of Medicine, Pulmonary Center, and CReM
   
   

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