Welcome to the Discovery Day 2009 website!
About 300 posters were presented on October 7th on topics as diverse as malaria, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, cancer, cardiology, spinal cord injury and repair, behavioral neurobiology, and many more.
The featured speaker was Evan Snyder, M.D., Ph.D., who presented the lecture: “Cross-Talk and Development Programs in Stem Cell Biology — A Key to Regenerative Medicine.”
Congratulations to the winners and all who participated in the day’s events. A special thank you to the Discovery committee and everyone else who helped make this event such a spectacular day.
Faculty Awards and Special Awards
Graduate Citation Award
Steven DeArmond, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D. (1972) Medical College of Pennsylvania
M.D. (1975) Medical Colelge of Pennsylvania
Basic Scientist Faculty Award
John Houle, Ph.D. (Neurobiology and Anatomy)
Young Investigator Awards
Eishi Noguchi, Ph.D. (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
&
Wen-Jun Gao, Ph.D. (Neurobiology and Anatomy)
Outstanding Platform Presentation
1st place – Danielle Loughlin
Graduate Student (Microbiology and Immunology Program)
TITLE: 3-deoxyglucosone-modified collagen induces apoptosis of dermal fibroblasts through activation of GADD153 via p38 MAPK.
2nd Place – Vladimir Ratushny
MD/PHD Student (Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics Program)
TITLE: Aurora-A kinase phosphorylates c-Src at serine 17 and may promote Src activation at mitosis.
3rd – Vidya Nadar
Graduate Student (Neuroscience Program)
TITLE: Kinesin-5 functions in the transition zone of growth cones to regulate microtubule invasion into filopodia.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Alyssa Kennedy
Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster
1st place – Adam Leman, Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
TITLE: Human Timeless and Tipin stabilize replication forks and facilitate sister chromatid cohesion.
2nd place – Steven Jones, Neuroscience
3rd place – Gregory Botta, Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
HONORABLE MENTION:
Amy Ott
Michael Amatangelo
Sharron Manuel
Tanuj Gulati
Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow
1st place – Olga Mazin, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
TITLE: Branch Migration of Holliday Junctions by Human RAD51.
2nd place – N. Luisa Hiller, Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Genomic Sciences
3rd place – Jill See, Neurobiology and Anatomy
HONORABLE MENTION:
Silvia Burbassi
Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster
1st place – Satinder Dahiya, Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
TITLE: C/EBP cis-acting element located downstream of the transcriptional start site within lentiviral LTR affects lentiviral transcription in cells of the monocyte-macrophage lineage
2nd place – Anne Lamontagne, Molecular Medicine
3rd place – Oleg Alekseev, Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
HONORABLE MENTION:
Gerard Zitnik
Marianne Strazza
Outstanding Clinical Resident / Fellow Poster
1st place – Lohith Bachegowda, Medicine
TITLE: Incidence of De Novo Non-Skin Post Transplant Malignancy (PTM) in HIV Positive and HIV Negative Kidney Transplant Recipients.
2nd place – Harish Manyam, Medicine
3rd place – Zhenxiang Liu, Easton Hospital
HONORABLE MENTION:
Lusine Ambartsumyan
Outstanding Medical Student Poster
1st place – Joel Jones
TITLE: SP1 Modulates Apoptosis and Bid Expression in a P53 Independent Manner.
2nd place – Hersh Patel
3rd place – Jordan Rapp
HONORABLE MENTION:
Elizabeth Crowe
Daniel Gutman
Talia Shaikh
Outstanding Technician Poster
1st place – Matthildi Valianou, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
TITLE: Pharmacologic Inhibition of Polo-like Kinase 1 (PLK1) Decreases the Survival of TSC1 and TSC2 Deficient Cells
2nd place – Melissa Frank, Pediatrics
HONORABLE MENTION:
Kimberly Wasko
Outstanding Undergraduate Poster
1st place – Alina Burek, Drexel University
TITLE: The Role of P13 Kinase P110 & Delta; Subunit in Influenza Type A Virus Infection.
2nd place – Ashley Landicho, Drexel University
3rd place - David Melnikoff, Drexel University
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Mercedes Ramirez
Outstanding High School Poster
1st place – Quan Chen, Methacton High School
TITLE: Development of a Noninvasive Urine Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening: PCR-Based Assays for the Aberrant Hypermethylation of the Integrin Alpha 4 Gene.
2nd place – Naman Upadhyay, Central High School
For information on Discovery 2010, please contact:
Angelo Milone
Discovery Day Coordinator
Director of Marketing and Recruitment
amilone@drexelmed.edu
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