Department Retreat 2022
The Department held its annual retreat on Friday May 13 in the Longship Room at 好色先生鈥檚 Kroger Field (the football stadium). The day was kicked off with a presentation by Assistant Professor Houfu Guo on his work on the glycosylation of fibrillar collagen. This was followed by Dr. Chen-Yu Wu, a postdoc in Dr. Becky Dutch鈥檚 lab, discussing human metapneumovirus replication and Martha Sim, a graduate student in Dr. Jeremy Wood鈥檚 lab, talking about the dysregulation of coagulation in HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infections. After a coffee break Rebecca Norcross, graduate student in Dr. Emily Galperin鈥檚 lab, talked about the role of the scaffold protein Shoc2 in neural crest development and Trace Jolly, graduate student in Dr. Jessi Blackburn鈥檚 lab, discussing work on PRL phosphatases. Lunch was bracketed by two poster sessions featuring over forty posters. After the second poster session Kia Markussen, graduate student in Dr. Matt Gentry鈥檚 lab, discussed her work on metabolic fingerprints associated with Lafora disease. The research talks were finished up by Tiantian Chen, a graduate student in Dr. Craig Vander Kooi鈥檚 lab, talking about the structural basis of the activity of the novel LSF3 glucan phosphatase. Attendees then participated in some fun and games with a Science Olympics. Lastly, Dr. Tianyan Gao, interim chair, presented a series of awards before a closing reception.
Congratulations to our award winners!
Best Retreat Posters:
Sumati Hasani
Shravani Prakhya
Lyndsay Young
Smita Joshi
Best Retreat Talks:
Kia Markussen
Rebecca Norcross
2021-2 Best Student Seminar Talk Given by a Second Year Student:
Trace Jolly
2021-2 Best Student Seminar Talk Given by a Third Year or Higher Student:
Tiantian Chen
2021-2 Early Publication Awards:
Samantha Hart
Sumati Hasani
Hadley Neal
Tara Hawkinson (two early publications!)
Wesley Saintilnord
2021-2 Robert L. Lester Award for Most Outstanding Senior Graduate Student:
Lyndsay Young
