Research Symposium Winners

2022 REGENERATIVE BIOSCIENCE CENTER/ANIMAL DAIRY SCIENCE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

     ORAL PRESENTATION WINNERS

• 1st Place, $100 - Jessie Guadalupe, Undergraduate, Mentor - Dr. Valerie Ryman
  Characterization of rumen, fecal, and milk microbiomes in dairy cows
  
• 2nd Place, $75 - Jenna Williamson, Graduate, Mentor - Dr. Valerie Ryman
  Antimicrobial activity of d-Limonene and orange oil on ruminal and fecal volatile fatty acid production in vitro
  
• 3rd Place, $50 - Katherine Greeson, Ph.D., Mentor - Dr. Chas Easley
  PFAS-induced disruption of DNA methylation patterning during human spermatogenesis
  
  GRADUATE STUDENT POSTER PRESENTATION WINNERS
  

• 1st Place, $100 - Wei Yang, Graduate, Mentor - Dr. Jin Xie
  Nanoconjugates to Enhance PDT mediated Cancer Immunotherapy by Targeting the Indoleamine 2, 3 dioxygenase Pathway
  
• 2nd Place, $75 - Kanupriya Daga, Graduate, Mentor - Dr. Ross Marklein
  Development of a Morphology-based Microglia Potency Assay to Assess the Therapeutic Potential of MSCS for Neurodegenerative Diseases
  
• 3rd Place, $50 - Shanmathi Ramasubramanian, Graduate, Mentor - Dr. Lohitash Karumbaiah
  Downregulating the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway improves CAR T therapy for GBM
  
  UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT POSTER PRESENTATION WINNERS

• 1st Place, $100 - Sweksha Gaddam, Undergraduate, Mentor - Dr. Hong-Xiang Liu
  Mesenchyme-specific conditional knockout of type I BMP receptor Alk3 does not affect cell proliferation in tongue epithelial and mesenchymal cells
  
• 2nd Place, $75 - Thomas Audebert, Undergraduate, Mentor - Dr. Holly Kinder
  Assessment of induced neural stem cell therapy on behavior using an open field test in a piglet model of traumatic brain injury
  
• 3rd Place, $50 - Ruchi Shah, Undergraduate, Mentor - Dr. Hong-Xiang Liu
  Familial Dysautonomia (FD) associated gene Elp1 is expressed in various innervated tissue compartments in the tongue and innervating cranial ganglia

We would sincerely like to this year’s judges for all of their hard work:  Dr. Hong-Xiang Liu, Dr. Amrit Bart, Dr. Nadja Zeltner, Dr. Ross Marklein, Dr. Todd Callaway, Dr. Steve Stice, Dr. Jin Xie, Dr. Valerie Ryman, Dr. Kylee Jo Duberstein, Dr. Qun Zhao, Dr. Holly Kinder, Dr. Jeferson Lourenco