Basic Science/Engineering Graduate Students

Masters Basic-Science Student Division

First Place: Akshata Moghe, Pharmacology and Toxicology, "Reactivation of the Epigenetically Silenced Tumor Suppressor Gene - Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor-2 (TFPI-2) by Curcumin Causes Cell Death in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells."  Mentor:  Shirish Barve, Ph.D., Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology

Second Place: Tim Horrell, Bioengineering, "Analytical Methods of Determining Coherence in the Gamma Band EEG."  Mentor:  Ayman El-Baz, Ph.D., Bioengineering

Third Place :  Madhuvanti Patil, Pharmacology and Toxicology, "Transmethylation Pathway-dependent Epigentic Changes Involving Histone Modifications Play a Critical Role in the Regulation of IL-2 Gene Expression in Primary Human CD4+ T Lymphocytes."  Mentor:  Shirish Barve, Ph.D., Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology

Doctoral Basic-Science Student Division 

First Place:  Colleen Tucker, Microbiology and Immunology, "A Role for Regulatory T Cells in Gender-biased Disease Susceptibility in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus."  Mentor:  Michele Kosiewicz, Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology

Second Place: Elizabeth Novak, Periodontics, Endodontics and Dental Hygiene, "QseBC and Autoinducer-2 Control Biofilm Formation and in vivo Virulence in Aggregatibacter Actinmycetemcomitans."   Mentor:  Don Demuth, Ph.D., Oral Health & Systemic Disease Research Group

Third Place:  Patrica Ward, Anatomical Science and Neurobiology, "Locomotor Training Improves Urodynamic Function in Spinally Contused Rats."  Mentor:  Charles Hubscher, Ph.D., Anatomical Science and Neurobiology

 
Student/Faculty Bioengineering Collaboration

First Place: Jaintain Wang, Martin O'Toole, Ph.D., Souvik Biswas, M.S., Micheal Nantz, Ph.D., Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D.,  "Molecular Beacon-like Fluorphore-gold Nanoparticle Complex for Highly Specific Breast Cancer Imaging."

Second Place:  Tim Horrell, Ayman El-Baz, Ph.D. and Tato Sokhadze, Ph.D., "Analytical Methods for Determing Coherence in the Gamma Band of EEG".