Winners of the 2015 Research Symposium

The Genome Science Institute would like to congratulate its winners and presenters from this year’s Research Symposium!

Oral Award Recipients

· Solaiappan Manimaran (Graduate Biostatistics), for his presentation of “BatchQC: Interactive software framework for evaluating sample and batch effects in genomic data”

· Bryan Matthews (Graduate Biology), for his presentation of “The Role of Nuclear Organization in Liver Sexual Dimorphism”

· Anita Mehta (Postdoctoral Fellow in Pharmacology), for her presentation of “A KRAS dependency microRNA signature reveals a p62/Sqstm1-centered autophagy network regulated by mir-124”

· Neema Yazdani (Graduate Pharmacology), for his presentation of “HnRNP H1 regulates the stimulant and addictive properties of methamphetamine: Transcriptomic and spliceomic analyses uncover novel neurodevelopmental mechanisms”

Poster Award Recipients

· Seung Hoan Choi (Graduate Biostatistics), for his poster titled “Evaluation of Logistic Regression Models and Effect of Covariates for Case-Control Study in RNA-seq Analysis”

· Stephanie D’Souza (Graduate Microbiology), for her poster titled “A draft genome sequence for the Egyptian fruit bat, the reservoir host for Marburg virus”

· Zackary Hintze (Undergraduate Biology), for his poster titled “Analysis of Nuclear Architectural Changes Throughout Apoptotic vs. Non-Apoptotic Cell Death”

· Vinay Kartha (Graduate Bioinformatics), for his poster titled “Integrative genomic mining for markers of tumor initiation and progression in oral squamous cell carcinoma”

· Javi Molina Estevez (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Regenerative Medicine), for his poster titled “CRISPR/CAS9 correction of sickle cell anemia mutation in patient-derived iPSCs”