{"id":2719,"date":"2014-02-25T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2014-02-25T10:53:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:53:38","slug":"congratulations-to-our-2014-microbiology-trainee-travel-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/2014\/02\/25\/congratulations-to-our-2014-microbiology-trainee-travel-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our 2014 Microbiology Trainee Travel Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> place winner receives an award of $750 and the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place winners each receive an award of $500.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1<sup>st<\/sup> place \u2013 Anna Belkina<\/b>, a postdoc in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/people\/faculty\/barbara-s-nikolajczyk-phd\/\"><b>Barb Nikolajczyk\u2019s<\/b><\/a> laboratory. Anna will be attending and presenting a poster (B Cells Support a Dominant Th17 Cytokine Signature in Type 2 Diabetes) at the Association of Immunologists (AAI) Meeting in Pittsburg, May 2-6, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><b>2<sup>nd<\/sup> place<\/b> \u2013 <b>Munir Mosaheb<\/b>, a graduate student in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/people\/faculty\/lee-m-wetzler-md\/\"><b>Lee Wetzler\u2019s<\/b><\/a> laboratory. Munir will be attending and presenting an oral presentation (Examination of the Role of Dendritic Cells, Macrophages, and B Cells as a Function of Vaccine Adjuvants) in the Block Symposium entitled \u201cVaccines and Immunotherapy: Adjuvants and Immunotherapy at the American Association of Immunologists Meeting in Pittsburg, May 2-6, 2014. In addition, Munir will be displaying two posters at the meeting (Examination of the Role of Dendritic Cells, Macrophages and B Cells in the Function of Vaccine Adjuvant, and Expression of Micro RNAs in Response to a TLR Dependent Adjuvant PorB from <em>Neisseria meningitides<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><b>2<sup>nd<\/sup> place<\/b> <b>\u2013 Greg Wasserman<\/b>, a graduate student in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/people\/faculty\/matthewjones\/\"><b>Matt Jones\u2019<\/b><\/a> laboratory. Greg attended and presented a poster (The piRNA Binding Protein, MIWI@ is Induced during Infection to Enhance Cytokine Expression) at the Keystone Symposia on RNA Silencing in Seattle, WA, from Jan. 31-Feb. 4, 2014. We will be scheduling Greg\u2019s presentation about the meeting to the Department shortly. Look for the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Anna and Munir will be scheduled for a presentation to the Department after the AAI meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1st place winner receives an award of $750 and the 2nd place winners each receive an award of $500. 1st place \u2013 Anna Belkina, a postdoc in Barb Nikolajczyk\u2019s laboratory. Anna will be attending and presenting a poster (B Cells Support a Dominant Th17 Cytokine Signature in Type 2 Diabetes) at the Association of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/virol-immunol-microbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}