Congratulations to the Department of Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards winners of the 2014 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum:
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2013-2014
Kriti Bahl (Dr. Caplan's Lab)
Third Place Award in Poster Presentation
Congratulations to Gaelle Spagnol
3rd Place-Poster award at the International Gap Junction Conference in Charleston, NC.
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2012-2013
February 2013
Congratulations to the Department of Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards winners of the 2013 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum:
Shiv Ram Krishn (Dr. Surinder Batra Lab)
1st Place - Oral Presentation Award
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department - Best Oral Presentation Cash Award
Graduate College Cash Award
Sai Srinavas Panapakkam Giridharan (Dr. Steve Caplan Lab)
1st Place - Poster Presentation Award
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department - Best Poster Presentation Cash Award
Parul Katoch (Dr. Parmender Mehta Lab)
4th Place - Oral Presentation Award
November 2012
Suhasini Joshi of Dr. Surinder Batra's lab received a Young Investigator Travel Award from the American Pancreatic Association and the International Association of Pancreas to attend the APA conference held in Miami in November 2012.
Other Honors/Awards
James Reinecke of Dr. Steve Caplan's lab received a travel award from the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB).
Megan Zavorka of Dr. Richard MacDonald's lab received a 2012-2013 Nebraska Center for Cellular Signaling (NCCS) Graduate Assistantship.
2011-2012
February 2012
Congratulations to the Department of Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Winners of the 2012 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum:
Parul Katoch (Dr. Parmender Mehta Lab)
2nd Place - Poster Presentation Award
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department - Best Poster Presentation Cash Award
Priyanka Vaz (Dr. Surinder Batra lab)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department - Best Oral Presentation Cash Award
January 2012
Congratulations to Weike Ji of Dr. Li's lab, who received a travel fellowship from the American Society of Anatomists and gave an invited lecture at the International Conference of Eye Lens Research in Kona, Hawaii.
July 2011
Congratulations to Parama Dey of Dr. Batra's lab, who was one of eight recipients of the University of Nebraska's 2011-12 Presidential Graduate Fellowships. This prestigious fellowship honors NU graduate students on the basis of high scholastic performance, personal accomplishment and innovative research.
2010-2011
April 2011
Congratulations to the following BMB students who were recipients of the 2011 Harris Awards for Graduate Students in Cancer Research:
Michael Baine (Dr. Surinder Batra lab)
Subhankar Chakraborty (Dr. Surinder Batra lab)
Juliati Rahajeng (Dr. Steve Caplan lab)
Sudhir Singh (Dr. Robert Bennett lab)
February 2011
Congratulations to the Department of Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Winners of the 2011 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum:
Srustidhar Das (Dr. Surinder Batra lab)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Best Oral Presentation Cash Award
Dulce Maroni (Dr. John Davis lab)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Best Poster Presentation Award
December 2010
Please congratulate Srustidhar Das of Dr. Batra's lab for receiving a highly competitive federally funded Predoctoral Traineeship Award from the Department of Defense (DOD). He is funded for a three-year period starting January 2011 amounting to 128,315 for his work "Molecular characterization of MUC16 (CA125) in breast cancer." In this work, he is trying to understand the molecular mechanism of MUC16 mediated breast cancer progression with particular emphasis on the role of MUC16 cytoplasmic tail (MUC16CT).
November 2010
Please congratulate Jennifer Kopanic and Rosslyn Grosely, both of Dr. Paul Sorgen's lab, who were awarded 1st and 2nd place (respectively) for their poster presentations at GRASP, the regional NMR meeting.
October 2010
Subhankar Chakraborty of Dr. Batra's lab published a first author research article in the prestigious American Journal of Gastroenterology. The study identified a novel serum-based biomarker, Neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL), for the diagnosis and predicting prognosis of patients with severe acute pancreatitis. The Reuters news agency wrote a special report covering this novel discovery. Further, Nature Reviews in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, one of the leading journals in the field of clinical gastroenterology, picked this study as one of the Research highlights of 2010.
We would like to congratulate Juliati Rahajeng of Dr. Steve Caplan's lab for receiving an American Society for Cell Biology Travel Award to attend the 50th annual meeting in Philadelphia this December 2010.
Juliati Rahajeng also received a first-author Journal of Biological Chemistry "report" for top 5% of all J. Biol. Chem. papers from this past summer 2010.
Also congratulations to Bishuang Cai of Dr. Steve Caplan's lab for her excellent first-author paper in the prestigious journal Traffic, entitled "Pre-sorting endosomal transport of the GPI-anchored protein, CD59, is regulated by EHD1" which has been published in Traffic, October 20, 2010, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2010.01135.x. [Epub ahead of print].
July 2010
Congratulations to Juliati Rahajeng of Dr. Steve Caplan's lab, who has been awarded an assistantship from the Nebraska Center for Cell Signaling (NCCS).