Congratulations to the 2016 Poster Award Winners:

Graduate Division

1st Place: Mike (Mihnea) Mangalea, 2nd year student in the Borlee Lab in the Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology Department.
Breaking Biofilms: nitrate inhibits biofilm formation in Burkholderia pseudomallei

 

 

 

2nd Place: Jessica Warren, 2nd year student in the Sloan Lab in the Biology Department.
Mitochondrial tRNA Gene Loss in the Angiosperm Family Caryophyllaceae

 

 

 

2nd Place: Julia Labadie,  DVM/PhD student in the Avery lab in the Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology Department.
Hyaluronidase Genes Associated with Risk for Canine T Zone Lymphoma

 

 

 

4th Place: Michael Hamilton, PhD student in the Ben-Hur lab in Computer Science.
Alternative and differential polyadenylation detection from single molecule long sequencing

 

 

Undergraduate Division:

1st place: Cary Mundell, from University of North Carolina- Pembroke.
Investigating regulatory mechanisms for the m6A-methylated RNA reader protein YTHDF2.
Project was mentored by GAUSSI trainee, Adam Heck

 

 

2nd place: Maria Orozco, from Northern New Mexico College. Orozco works in the Izaguirre-Sierra Lab.
ELS1, a Nucleolar SUMO Protease that regulates nuclear structure