2006 Poster Awards

Graduate and Medical Students
  • Characterization of an Animal Model of Prostate Cancer Metastasis Using Bioluminescence Imaging
    Justin Drake, Graduate Student, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
    Mentor: Michael Henry, Ph.D.
  • Analysis of Genetic Population Admixture in Northeast Brazil
    Nicholas Ettinger, MSTP Student, Graduate Student, Molecular Biology Graduate Program
    Mentor: Mary Wilson, Ph.D.
  • A Comparison of the Elixhauser and Charlson Comorbidity Measures for Risk Adjustment
    Qian Qiu, Graduate Student, Health Management and Policy
    Mentor: Marcia Ward, Ph.D.
  • Epigenetic Silencing of Manganese Superoxide Dismutase in Breast Cancer
    Michael Hitchler, Graduate Student, Free Radical and Radiation Biology Graduate Program
    Mentor: Frederick Domann, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellows, Faculty and Staff
  • Critical Role for Cyclophilin D and the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore (MPTP) in Platelet Activation
    Shawn M. Jobe, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pediatrics
    Mentor: Jorge DiPaola, Ph.D.
  • Gene Targeting of Pig CFTR: Progress Towards a Large Animal Model of Cystic Fibrosis
    Christopher S. Rogers, Postdoctoral Fellow, Internal Medicine
    Mentor: Michael Welsh, M.D.
  • Inhibition of Caspase 9- It's Not "As Good As It Gets"
    Nicholas Brown, Research Assistant, Pathology
    Mentor: C. Michael Knudson, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Eukaryotic Operon-Like Transcription of Functionally Related Genes in Drosophila
    Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Internal Medicine
    Mentor: Michael Welsh, M.D.
  • Lipooligosaccharide Inhalation Produces Dose- and Time-Dependent Lung Inflammation and Cytokine Release of Mice
    Suzana Hadina, Postdoctoral Fellow, Occupational and Environmental Health
    Mentor: Peter S. Thorne, Ph.D.
  • Expression of Mouse ASIC2a in Drosophila Induces a Genetic Program that Increases Life Span
    Lei Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Internal Medicine
    Mentor: Michael Welsh, M.D.
  • Anatomic Correlates of Alexithymia in Patients Following Traumatic Brain Injury
    Jess G. Fiedorowicz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychiatry
    Mentor: Ricardo Jorge, M.D.