{"id":3727,"date":"2019-04-17T13:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T17:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/?page_id=3727"},"modified":"2019-04-17T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T17:47:51","slug":"gsi-workshop-competition-awards-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/initiatives\/seed-grant-rfa\/gsi-workshop-competition-awards-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"GSI Workshop Competition Awards 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The 1st GSI Workshop Competition Award Recipients<\/h3>\n<p>The BUMC\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/initiatives\/seed-grant-rfa\/seed-grant-rfa\/\">Genome Science Institute<\/a><\/u>\u00a0(GSI) has partnered with the BU <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/singlecell\/\">Single Cell Sequencing Core<\/a><\/span> to make the following awards that were selected following peer review of 12 proposals this academic year.\u00a0 As genetics and genomics research evolves, the GSI recognizes the need to bring more BU\/BUSM labs into using and generating the most cutting-edge genomics data for preliminary results in grant applications and publications. The GSI looks forward to seeing these winners present findings their findings the Annual Research Symposium in November.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><em> Digital Droplet PCR Award &#8211; \u201cQuantitative measurement of intact HIV provirus in latent reservoir of aging HIV populations\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nAlex Olson, Carolyn Coote, and Andrew Henderson, Ph.D.<br \/>\nBMC and BUSM Dept of Medicine and Microbiology<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong><em> scRNA-seq Award &#8211; \u201cA transcriptomic analysis of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived conventional dendritic cells\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIan Rifkin, M.D. Ph.D. and Gustavo Mostoslavsky, M.D. Ph.D.<br \/>\nBUSM Dept of Microbiology, Dept of Medicine, CREM<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong><em> scRNA-seq Award &#8211; \u201cRole of microRNAs in channeling cell fate determination\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nDaniel Cifuentes, Ph.D.<br \/>\nBUSM Dept of Biochemistry<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong><em> scRNA-seq Award &#8211; \u201cSingle Cell Analysis of Skull Formation\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nShannon Fisher, M.D. Ph.D.<br \/>\nBUSM Dept of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong><em> scRNA-seq Award &#8211; \u201cRole of GPS2 in Adipose Tissue Adaptation to Metabolic Stress\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nValentina Perissi, Ph.D.<br \/>\nBUSM Dept of Biochemistry<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>A new GSI hybrid initiative between workshops and seed grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The GSI Directors and the BU scRNA-seq core thank the applicants and external reviewer panel faculty who participated in this process and we look forward to continued growth in genetics and genomics research at Boston University. The BU research community also thank the generosity of the genomics companies of <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-rad.com\/\">Biorad<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.illumina.com\/index-d.html\">Illumina<\/a><\/span> and <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.10xgenomics.com\/\">10X Genomics<\/a><\/span> for providing support for this workshop competition initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact the GSI at\u00a0<u><a href=\"mailto:gsi@bu.edu\">gsi@bu.edu<\/a><\/u>\u00a0with questions or with your ideas on how the GSI can better facilitate or develop genetics and genomics research at BU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1st GSI Workshop Competition Award Recipients The BUMC\u00a0Genome Science Institute\u00a0(GSI) has partnered with the BU Single Cell Sequencing Core to make the following awards that were selected following peer review of 12 proposals this academic year.\u00a0 As genetics and genomics research evolves, the GSI recognizes the need to bring more BU\/BUSM labs into using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15766,"featured_media":0,"parent":759,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3727\/revisions\/3730"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}