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IBB's 5th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM Information & Photos - 2009
Thanks to all who participated and congratulations to the following 5th Annual IBB Symposium poster winners of a $150 prize awarded to the Best Postdoc, Graduate Student, and Undergraduate Student Poster, and a $150 prize awarded to the best poster in the areas of Biomedicineand Bioscience. This year’s winners are:
- Best Poster by a Postdoctoral Fellow - Dr. Jean Altus, for her poster entitled "Fibrous Biomimetic Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering." Dr. Altus is from the Department of Bioengineering and works in Dr. West's laboratory.
- Best Poster by a Graduate Student (TIE) - Jennifer Saik, for her poster entitled "Promotion and Regulation of Angiogenesis through Rational Design of Bioactive Poly(ethylene glycol) Hydrogels." Saik is from the Department of Bioengineering and works in Dr. West's laboratory. Tom Guu, for his poster entitled "Structure of the hepatitis E subviral particle suggests mechanisms for virus assembly and receptor binding." Guu is from the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and works in Dr. Tao's laboratory.
- Best Poster by an Undergraduate Student - Bradley Otto, for his poster entitled "Mapping Strain within a Stretching Biaxial Bioreactor." Otto is from the Deparmtent of Bioengineering and works in Dr. Grande-Allen's laboratory.
- Best Poster in the Area of Biomedicine - Michael Cuchiara, for his poster entitled "Perfusable Microvascular Networks in Poly(ethylene glycol) Hydrogels." Cuchiara is a graduate student in the Department of Bioengineering and works in Dr. West's laboratory.
- Best Poster in the Area of Biosciences - Matthew Pena, for his poster entitled "Protein folding dynamics and function determine evolutionary fates withina microbial population." Pena is a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and works in Dr. Shamoo's laboratory.
IBB is grateful to the following 5th Annual IBB Symposium Poster Judges: Mr. Bill Gottfried, President and Founder of Gottfried International, Inc.; Dr. John Slater, HHMIPostdoctoral Fellow, Rice University; Dr. Dimitra Tsavachidou-Fenner, Postdoctoral Fellow, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Dr. Mark Pierce, BIOE Faculty Fellow, Rice University; Dr. Stacey Kalovidouris, Executive Director of IBB.
Dr. Daniel Carson, Dean of Weiss School of Natural Sciences & Schlumberger Chair Adv. Studies and Research at Rice University, spoke first on "MUC1: A Multifunctional Cell Surface Compenent in Reproductive and Cancer Biology."
A talk on the "Role of Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans in Prostate Cancer Bone Metastases," was given by Dr. Mary "Cindy" Farach-Carson, Associate Provost of Research & Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Rice University.
Dr. Nik Putnam, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Rice University, gave a lecture on the "Evolution of Metazoan Genome Organization."
New to Rice University, Dr. Peter Lwigale (Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology), spoke on "Eyeing the Regulatory Roles of Sema3A on Neural Crest during Ocular Development."
A lecture on "Strategies for Designing a Contractile Heart Patch for Congenital Heart Defect Repair," was given by Dr. Jeff Jacot, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University.
Jim Kretlow, one of two 2009 IBB Morse Fellows, gave a talk on "Biomaterial Strategies for Craniofacial Tissue Regeneration."
Mr. Bill Gottfried, a poster judge at the symposium, is seen here speaking with Bradley Otto, the winner of the "Best Poster by an Undergraduate Student."
The poster session consisted of 39 posters submitted by postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students from six different departments at Rice Univ.
IBB Director, Dr. Yousif Shamoo, congratulates Dr. Jean Altus for winning the "Best Poster by a Postdoctoral Fellow" Award.
The "Best Poster by a Graduate Student" Award was a tie - going to both Tomm Guu and Jennifer Saik.
Matthew Pena won "Best Poster in the Area of Biosciences."
Michael Cuchiara won the "Best Poster in the Area of Biomedicine" Award.
The dinner honored Diana Welch (former IBB Associate Director, and now Director of Operations at the BRC) for her many years of dedication with IBB. On hand to help her celebrate is Dr. Shamoo and Erica Taylor, one of IBB's 28 summer interns.
Delicious Mexican food ended the successful event.
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