33rd Annual Symposium Recap

June 10, 2019

This full-day event showcased our department’s ongoing research as presented by our graduate students and postdocs. The keynote speaker was Peter Crawford, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and the Founding Director of the Division of Molecular Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Crawford’s talk was entitled “Following ketone carbon through macrophages, landing in hepatic fibrogenesis.” Graduate students and postdocs competed throughout the day with posters and oral presentations.

Many thanks to our speaker and the other guest judges: George Liu, Zahidul Mondle, Jonathan Moyle, and Monika Proszkowiec-Weglarz.

Here are this year’s winners:
Outstanding Ph.D. Student
Kristen Brady
Staff Member of the Year
Janice Barber
Graduate Student Poster Award
First Place: Sohini Dutt
Second Place: Cynthia Scholte
Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award
First Place: Sai Yuan
Second Place: Ian Chambers
Research Assistant/Postdoc Poster Award
First Place: Ronique Beckford
Second Place: Tamara Korolnek
Research Assistant/Postdoc Oral Presentation Award
First Place: Ronique Beckford
Second Place: Tamara Korolnek
Shaffner Award for Research in Poultry
First Place: Ronique Beckford
Second Place: Chaitra Surugihalli