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Annual Scientific Symposium and Retreat 2008
This year's symposium and retreat was Aug. 22-23, 2008.
MSTP Symposium 2008: Group photograph
Poster Presenters: Twenty-two students presented their research work in poster format.
Oral Presenters: left to right
Front row: Dona Murphey, Ph.D., Tim Muldoon, David Lee, Ph.D., Roopa Nalam, Anita Saraf and Tuan Chao
Back row:
Jeff Triffo, Ben Elder, Ph.D., Andrew Sharabi, Roman Naoli, James Orengo, Ankur Nagaraja and Corey Speers.
Winners: left to right
Dona Murphey, Ph.D., Andrew Sharabi, Tuan Chao, Ankur Nagaraja, Cathryn Hughes, Jeff Howard, Libby Stephens and David Chiang received awards including Best Poster, Best Speaker, Best First-Year Academic Performance in Basic Sciences, Best Overall Academic Performance in Basic Sciences, and Publication Award.
Michael Friedlander, Ph.D., Wilhelmina Robertson Professor and Chair - Department of Neuroscience, director of Neuroscience Initiatives, spoke on "Old horses, new tricks and neurobiology."
Antonios Mikos, Ph.D., John W. Cox Professor of Bioengineering, director of the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering, director of the J. W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering, and professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University and a member of the MSTP Executive Committee spoke on "Bioengineering Technologies in Regenerative Medicine."
Geoff Preidis, left, and Scott Basinger, Ph.D., associate dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, talk about Geoff's work.
Tiffany Sills, right, discusses her work with Sriram Eleswarapu, Dr. Martha Mims and Minhtran Ngo.
Best Poster winner Libby Stephens, left, discusses her work with first-year student Isabella Garcia.
Carissa Thomas presents her work to William Choi.
Dustin Baldridge, right, has an intense audience in Philip Boone, left, and Marty Matzuk, M.D., Ph.D., MSTP co-director.
First-year student David Chiang asks Tiffany Williams about her work.
David Barron, left, seems to be getting advice from two M.D./Ph.D. students who are about to graduate - Stacy Johnson, Ph.D., and William Buitrago, Ph.D.
Vafa Bayat, center, talks with first-year students Liubin Yang and Ian Campbell
James Cotton presents his poster to Sharon Plon, M.D., Ph.D., MSTP director.
Albert Chen, left, seems to be enjoying talking with Sam Wu, Ph.D. and Adam Lin, right.
Abby Fahim, Ph.D., asks Misha Koshelev about his research.
Mark Edson, left, and James Orengo discuss Mark's project.
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