On April 8th Weill Cornell Graduate School held the 40th Annual du Vigneaud Research Symposium, this year via remote webcast.
The one day symposium featured two poster sessions and two sessions of oral presentations by current WCGS students, along with a keynote address by Dr. Kevan Shokat, of UCSF.
Tri-Institutional MD-PhD students were awarded first, second, and third place in the Oral Presentation Awards and second place in the Poster Awards for students beyond their first year of graduate study, making it an extremely strong showing for the program.
The winners, listed below, will be individually acknowledged during the 2021 WCGS Convocation, to be held virtually on May 19, 2021.
MD-PhD Student Winners:
ORAL PRESENTATION AWARDS
1st Place: Bobbie Pelham-Webb, “The Molecular Resetting of Pluripotent Stem Cell Identity during Mitotic Exit.” (Asst. Professor Effie Apostolou)
2nd Place: Aleksandr Talishinsky, “Distinct transcriptomic signatures predict sexually dimorphic connectivity changes in depression.” (Associate Professor Conor Liston)
3rd Place: Alexandra Miller, “A novel reporter system identifies iron uptake virulence genes in mycobacteria.” (Professor Sabine Ehrt)
POSTER PRESENTATION AWARDS - SECOND YEAR AND ABOVE
2nd Place: Robert Myers, “A single-cell multiomic investigation of JAK2 V617F mutant myeloproliferative neoplasms.” (Associate Professor Dan-Avi Landau)
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