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2009-2010
November 2009
Congratulations to Lili Gong, of Dr. David Li's lab, who has been awarded a travel fellowhip by the National Foundation for Eye Research. Lili is invited to give an oral presentation at the 2009 US-Japan Eye Research Congress to be held in Kona, Hawaii.
September 2009
Rosslyn Grosely and Kelly Virgil, both students in Dr. Paul Sorgen's lab, attended the regional NMR meeting over the weekend of September 26-27 and received awards. Rosslyn received an award for the best oral presentation and Kelly received an award for the best poster presentation.
Amit Tuli, graduate student in Dr. Joyce Solheim's lab, has been selected to attend the Annual NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival (NGSRF) and present his research. This event is scheduled to occur on November 12-13, 2009, on the main campus of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.
2008-2009
May 2009
Congratulations go to our recent graduate, Marko Jovic, of Dr. Caplan's lab, who has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Ingenuity Award. This award consists of a check for $500 and an honor plaque. It is awarded to recognize a caring Ph.D. graduate student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center who has exhibited unmatched creativitiy and ingenuity in completing the research requirements of his/her doctoral dissertation.
Shantibhusan Senapati of Dr. Surinder Batra's lab recently received a Department of Defense Predoctoral PhD and MD/PhD 3-year Prostate Cancer Training award.
Amit Tuli of Dr. Joyce Solheim's lab submitted an abstract to The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) meeting that was held May 8-12 in Seattle, Washington. His abstract was selected for an "AAI Trainee Abstract Award," which provides a cash award of $500 to AAI Trainee Members (students and postdoctoral fellows) whose first-author abstract is submitted to the AAI Annual Meeting is selected for oral presentation in an AAI Block Symposium.
April 2009
Congratulations to Marko Jovic of Dr. Caplan's lab for having another paper in press in "Molecular Biology of the Cell." His paper will be written up in the American Society for Cell Biology newsletter "InCytes" section as a featured article containing important new contributions to the field. It has also been nominated for a Molecular Biology of the Cell Paper of the Year award.
March 2009 Congratulations to the following BMB students who were recipients of the 2009 Norman and Bernice Harris Graduate Student Cancer Research Fellowships:
Sangeeta Bafna (Dr. Surinder Batra)
Subhankar Chakraborty (Dr. Surinder Batra)
Shantibhusan Senapati (Dr. Surinder Batra)
Amit Tuli (Dr. Joyce Solheim)
These students will be honored at an award luncheon to be held on April 22, 2009.
Congratulations to the Department of Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Winners of the 2009 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum.
Harini Chakravarthy (Dr. Angie Rizzino)
1st Place Oral Presentation Award, Graduate Student/Resident
Dulce Maroni (Dr. John Davis)
1st Place Poster Presentation Award, Graduate Student/Resident
Mahak Sharma (Dr. Steve Caplan)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Best Oral Presentation Cash Award
Amit Tuli (Dr. Joyce Solheim)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Best Poster Presentation Cash Award
December 2008
Kristen Johnson of Dr. Mehta's lab was among 11 female students who received scholarships from the UNMC Faculty Women's Club for 2008-2009.
September 2008
Mi Deng of Dr. David Li's lab received a travel fellowship in September 2008 from the International Society of Eye Research. He then gave an oral presentation at the Young Investigators' Symposium I of the XVIII International Congress of Eye Research in Beijing, China.
Mahak Sharma of Dr. Caplan's lab applied and was selected for the NIH Annual National Student Research Festival. Her poster was presented at this meeting at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, which was held September 10-12, 2008.
Amit Tuli of Dr. Joyce Solheim's lab has received a scholarship from UNeMed to attend the "Making It! The Second Annual Business Start-Up Conference" held on September 25-26, 2008, here in Omaha, Nebraska.
2007-2008
June 2008
Shantibhusan Senapati and Subhankar Chakraborty, both students in Dr. Batra's lab, were involved in the International Student Research Forum (ISRF) that was hosted at UNMC on June 2 and 3. Students from all over the world presented their research to one another at this forum. This forum also allows students to develop relationships with international students with similar research interests in hopes of future collaboration beyond the lines of disciplines and nationalities.
May 2008
Please wish Mahak Sharma of Dr. Caplan's lab congratulations on receiving a prestigious 2-year American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship (she received a score of 1.29 and was in the 7th percentile). A total of 55 applications were funded out of 154 applications reviewed. The title of Mahak's project is "The Role of EHD4 in endocytic transport." The award begins July 1, 2008.
March 2008
Congratulations to the following BMB students who were recipients of the 2008 Norman and Bernice Harris Graduate Student Cancer Research Fellowships:
Shonali Deb (Dr. Surinder Batra)
Shalini Mitra (Dr. Parmender Mehta)
Mahak Sharma (Dr. Steve Caplan)
Congratulations go to Mahak Sharma of Dr. Caplan's lab. Her paper entitled "A Role for EHD4 in the Regulation of Early Endosomal Transport" has been published in Traffic, March 2008.
Congratulations to the Department of Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Winners of the 2008 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum.
Kristen Johnson (Dr. Parmender Mehta)
Second Place Poster Presentation Award
Jason Porta (Dr. Gloria Borgstahl)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Presentation Cash Award
Amit Tuli (Dr. Joyce Solheim)
First Place Award for Excellence in Manuscript Writing
December 2007
Congratulations to Sangeeta Bafna of Dr. Batra's lab. She has received a Department of Defense Predoctoral Phd and MD/Phd 3-year Prostate Cancer Training award.
Marko Jovic, graduate student in Dr. Steven Caplan's lab, was selected as one of six top-ranked students to receive a travel award from the American Society for Cell Biology Education Committee to attend the ASCB 47th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, occurring December 1-5, 2007.
Shyamali Mandal, graduate student in Dr. Keith Johnson's lab, received a travel award to the December 2007 American Society of Cell Biology annual meeting.
October 2007
Marko Jovic of Dr. Caplan's lab has been selected to attend the Second Annual NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival and present his poster. This event is scheduled to occur on October 10-12, 2007, on the main campus of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.
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