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Graduate Student Excellence Roisin Delaney (Powis Lab) won Best Oral Presentation at Cedars Sinai Graduate Research Symposium that took place in October 2016. The event called graduate students from all over California to come together and share their research through poster and oral presentations. In preparation for her presentation, Roisin gathered feedback from her lab and attended a “Podium Pointers” session with OETIS staff. She noted that she used suggestions from “Podium Pointers” both to reconfigure her talk so that the audience could easily follow her story and to update her slide layout to highlight key findings. Monica Gonzalez (Salvesen Lab) also attended the event and felt it was a good opportunity to step outside of her comfort zone.
Clyde Campbell's (Dong Lab) Image of two zebrafish embryos surrounding a zebrafish eye expressing GFP took First Place in the 2017 Aquaneering Art of Science Photography contest
GSBS 5th year student Gianluigi Lichinchi (Rana Lab) was selected to give one of five short talks at the 11th Annual Salk Institute Symposium on Biological Complexity co-hosted by Fondation IPSEN and AAAS/Science held on January 25-27, 2017. This year’s symposium focused on the broadening role of RNA in cell biology and featured HHMI fellow Professor Joan Steitz (Yale University) as the keynote speaker. Two Nobel Laureates, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK) and Phillip Sharp (MIT), also delivered presentations on translation termination and applications of RNA in therapeutics, respectively. Gianluigi’s talk, “Dynamics of RNA Methylation during HIV-1 and ZIKA Virus Infections” was part of the session on RNA Modification, chaired by Dr. Feng Zhang (Broad Institute, MIT), who pioneered the use of CRISPR and optogenetics to study mechanisms of neurological diseases. Gianluigi welcomed the opportunity to present his research before a broad audience and to network with high-profile scientists in RNA biology.
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