We’ve been doing some amazing things lately! Sam presented his poster for STRONG!Maddie presented her poster for INBRE!Friday Fun for July: Breakout Games (again!)Trace gave the best talk at the Mid-West Zebrafish conference in St. Louis, MO!Friday Fun for May: Bowling!Maddie, Sam, and Maddie joined the lab as part of their summer research programs!Viral won a Scholar-in-Training travel award from AACR and presented his poster in San Diego!Jessi visited Caroline at the V Foundation and served on a mentoring panel for new grantees!Awards time! Majd gave the best talk at the department retreat, and Viral’s student seminar was voted best of the entire year!Majd was selected to give a talk at the Department Retreat!Welcome to the lab Karol!Claire presented her research at UK’s Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars!Friday Fun for April: Ziplining!Kenan gave a talk on his project at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2024 in Long Beach, CA!Majd was nominated for the Sarah Bennett Holmes Award! The SBH Award recognizes graduate students for their contributions to issues that affect women.Friday Fun for March: Breakout Games!Ty won the Glen B. Collins Undergraduate Research Achievement Award! (Given to just one ABT student each semester!)Ty gave a great talk on his research at the ABT395 student symposium!Kristin Miller (our past undergrad) defended her PhD thesis in the Department of Toxicology & Cancer BiologyMajd is UK’s WIMS Rising Star of 2023, given yearly to just one graduate student!Friday Fun for October: Apple & Pumpkin Picking!Majd gave a presentation at the Zebrafish Disease Models meeting in Durham, NC!Trace was awarded the Department’s 2023 Max Steckler Fellowship for Excellence in Research and Service!Caroline’s nanobody paper was featured in UKnow!Chase presented his research project at the UK summer undergrad poster session!Joanne presented her research at the UK summer undergrad poster session!Majd passed her qualifying exam!Kenan, Olga, and Ty won summer fellowships from the Office of Biomedical Education!Viral gave a great talk at the Biochem retreat!Ty presented his first poster at the department retreat!Majd won a best poster award at the department retreat!Caroline officially has her PhD!Angelica won a Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) Program fellowship from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation!Celebrating Caroline being hired as the Director of Scientific and Foundation Partnerships at the V Foundation for Cancer Research!UK filmed a video with Jessi and Phoebe Glazer to highlight their collaboration to develop new drugs to treat pediatric tumors.Trace presented a poster at the FASEB Protein Phosphatases conference in Palm Springs!Caroline gave a talk at the 2022 FASEB Protein Phosphatases conference.Angelica won a travel award to present her research at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS) in Anaheim, CA!Kenan presented a poster at the Annual Biomedical Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS) and won a travel award that covered the full cost of his attendance!Caroline is officially the most “Outstanding Graduate Student” in the College of Medicine!Trace passed his Qual!Kenan is now a Undergraduate Research Ambassabor!The lab was featured in a story on UKnow about promoting inclusivity in research (check out the blog for details!)Viral was selected for the 2022 Max Steckler Award for “Excellence in Research and Service”!Viral passed his qualifying exam!Meghan graduated from med school! She is now officially an MD, PhD!Trace won an award at the retreat for best 2nd year student seminar!Caroline won a $20,000 PEO Scholar Award!!!Caroline was invited to give a podium presentation at AACR on her research!Meghan matched to her top choice residency program–Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital!
