{"id":3288,"date":"2018-01-03T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2018-01-03T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:13:18","slug":"congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-2017-gsi-research-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/2018\/01\/03\/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-2017-gsi-research-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the Winners of the 2017 GSI Research Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gsi\/files\/2018\/01\/pic-website-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"pic website\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3289 aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/files\/2018\/01\/pic-website-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/files\/2018\/01\/pic-website.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Directors, faculty, and staff of the Genome Science Institute would like to thank all who attended the Ninth Annual GSI Research Symposium and helped to make it a success! We extend special thanks to those faculty members who participated as poster judges this year, and to the vendors upon whose generous support this event depends.<\/p>\n<p>Following a very successful event, the Directors of the Genome Science Institute at Boston University School of Medicine are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 GSI Research Symposium!<\/p>\n<p>Oral Award Recipients<br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Virginia Fisher<\/strong> Department of Biostatistics, BUSPH <em>A Hierarchical Approach to Genetic Fine Mapping Incorporating Functional Annotation<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Anoush Calikyan<\/strong> Undergraduate College Of Arts and Sciences, BUSM <em>Modeling Familial Partial Lipodystrophy Dunnigan Type 2 with CRISPR Technology<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Ruben Esse<\/strong> Department of Biochemistry, BUSM <em>Embryonic H379 Methylation of Enhancers Poises them for Future Tissue-Specific Activation and Prevents their Epigenetic Silencing<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Hongjae Sunwoo<\/strong> Department of Molecular Biology, MGH <em>Repeat E Anchors Xist RNA to the Inactive X Chromosome Territory Through Interaction with CIZ1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poster Award Recipients<br \/>\n<strong>-Timothy Norman<\/strong>, <em>CSF1R+ progenitors con-tribute to postnatal pulmonary lymphatic endo-thelium<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Eve Byington<\/strong>, <em>Discovery of Topologically Associating Domains using RNA-Seq datasets in human brain<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Dmitry Kretov<\/strong>, <em>Dicer-independent miR-451 interferes with Canonical microRNA-biogenesis pathway<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Ekaterina Gushchanskaia<\/strong>, <em>Effect of small RNAs on chromatin landscape<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We extend our sincere congratulations to this year\u2019s winners. Given both the quantity and quality of the abstracts and posters submitted this year, choosing just 5 speakers and 5 poster award winners was by no means an easy task.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that all who attended enjoyed the Symposium, and look forward to seeing you again in November 2018!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directors, faculty, and staff of the Genome Science Institute would like to thank all who attended the Ninth Annual GSI Research Symposium and helped to make it a success! We extend special thanks to those faculty members who participated as poster judges this year, and to the vendors upon whose generous support this event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[712],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}