Discovery Day 2012 Winners
October 10, 2012
Alumni, faculty, staff, students and guests gathered to view the more than 300 posters at this year’s Discovery 2012. The October 4 event covered such topics as infectious diseases, cancer, behavioral neurobiology and many more.
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This year’s keynote speaker, Lynn W. Enquist, PhD, Henry L. Hillman Professor and Chair of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, presented "Unexpected Effects of Alpha-herpesvirus Infection of Neurons."
Discovery 2012 poster and platform winners were:
1st prize – Ryan Eberwine (PhD student), Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
2nd prize – Anna Abt (PhD student), Neuroscience
3rd prize – Gokul Swaminathan (PhD student), Microbiology and Immunology
Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster
Tie for first:
1st prize – Scott Baliban, Microbiology & Immunology
1st prize – Christina Ferrer, Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
3rd prize – Sergey Karakashev, Biochemistry
Honorable mention
– Donald Gracias, Microbiology & Immunology
Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster
1st prize – Valerie Sodi, Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
2nd prize – Melissa Manners, Pharmacology & Physiology
3rd prize – Lanfranco Leo, Neuroscience
Outstanding Technician Poster
1st prize – Katlin Davitt, Surgery
2nd prize – Marina Zambrotta, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Outstanding Medical Student Poster
Tie for first:
1st prize – Cynthia Edirisuriya
1st prize – Maurice Hinson
3rd prize – Gregory McKenna
Honorable mention –
Deshka Foster
Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Poster
1st prize – Simon Oh, Surgery
2nd prize – Alexander Schlachterman, Medicine
3rd prize – Anitha Somasundara, Medicine
Honorable mention –
Sarina Kapoor, Medicine
Outstanding Post-Doctoral Fellow Poster
1st prize – Surbhi Jain, Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Biotechnology & Virology Research
2nd prize – Hui Nie, Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Biotechnology & Virology Research
3rd prize – Marguerite McDonald, Pharmacology & Physiology
Honorable mention – Padmavathi Ponnuru, Pharmacology & Physiology
Outstanding Undergraduate Poster
1st prize – Rebecca Hollenbach, Ursinus College
2nd prize – Shravan Savant, Drexel University
3rd prize – Esteban Martinez, Drexel University
Honorable mention – Shauna Ebanks, Lincoln University;
Rebecca Golden, Muhlenberg College
Outstanding High School Poster
1st prize – Lijia Xie, North Penn
2nd prize – Abigail Wang, Central Bucks South
Basic Science Faculty Award
Alexander Mazin, PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Clinical Investigator Award
Ari Brooks, MD, Department of Surgery
Young Investigator Award
Boris Polyak, PhD, Department of Surgery
GSA Teacher of the Year Award
Michael Bouchard, PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Graduate Citation Award
Kimberly L. Simpson, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy
University of Mississippi Medical Center
(1998 PhD graduate from the Neuroscience program – Hahnemann University)
Honored for service to Discovery Day
Michael Bouchard, PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Alexander Krupka, PhD candidate, Neuroscience
Bondi Awards
Christopher Haas, MD/PhD student, Neuroscience
Daniel Chandler, PhD candidate, Neuroscience
Benjamin Weiss Scholarship Award
QingXin Liu