{"id":1478,"date":"2019-04-23T12:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:51:13","slug":"2019-russek-day-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/2019\/04\/23\/2019-russek-day-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Russek Day Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26th, we celebrated Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day 2019, and the Russek Award Nominating Committee and the Russek Executive Committee announced the winner of this year\u2019s Graduate Program in Genetics and Genomics award! We want to start by thanking the nominating committee for their efforts, and we especially want to thank all of the applicants and presenters for their contributions.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Genetics and Genomics Program<\/u><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Prize\u2013 Stefanie Chan; \u00a0Dr. Perissi\u2019s Lab<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stefanie Chan<\/strong>\u00a0is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program for Genetics and Genomics and was selected for her 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0place prize at the Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day 2019 with her research on\u00a0<em>\u201cThe Role of GPS2 in the PI3K\/AKT Pathway in Breast Cancer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Graduate Program in Genetics and Genomics is proud to recognize Stefanie for being a 2019 Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day first prize award recipient.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Stefanie, and our additional students who presented posters, Gian (poster #62) and Jiayi (poster #15)!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1495\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-1-411x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"376\" class=\"wp-image-1495 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-1-411x300.jpg 411w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-1-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russek Day 2019 Posters!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1496\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-2-404x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"386\" class=\"wp-image-1496 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-2-404x300.jpg 404w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-2-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GPGG student Gian Sepulveda presenting his research at Russek Day 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1497\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-3-382x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"406\" class=\"wp-image-1497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-3-382x300.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-3-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-3.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GPGG Student, Stefanie Chan, with Dr. Shelly Russek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1498\" style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-4-445x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"357\" class=\"wp-image-1498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guest Speaker, Dr. Xiowei Zhuang, an HHMI Investigator from Harvard presented \u201cIlluminating Biology at the Nanoscale and Systems Scale by Imaging\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1499\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-5-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"540\" class=\"wp-image-1499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-5-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2019\/04\/Russek-Day-5.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stefanie Chan presenting her research that won a 1st place prize for the Graduate Program in Genetics &amp; Genomics at Russek Day 2019!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26th, we celebrated Henry I. 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We want to start by thanking the nominating committee for their efforts, and we especially want to thank all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15766,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1907],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}