Congratulations to Nadia Mirza-Romero from the Harris lab & Diana Yeritsyan from the Layne lab who were graduate student winners at the 2026 GMS Research Symposium. Nadia’s poster “Identifying PrPSc infection susceptibility and trafficking using regional in vitro stellate astrocyte cultures” was a winner in late career PhD or MD/PHD category. Diana received the research talk award in the early career category for her project “Functional characterization of ACLP mutations that cause Ehlers Danlos Syndrome”. Congratulations Nadia (left) and Diana (right) receiving award from GMS Associate Dean Jamie McKnight!
