Congratulations to our graduate students on their accomplishments!
Awards from 2017
Spring 2017 BSBS Graduate Research Symposium Winners
1st place PhD (Biomedical Sciences Director’s Award):
Christopher Grube (Roy lab)
2nd place PhD (Biomedical Sciences Graduate Symposium Award):
Richard Barrett (Parthasarathy lab)
1st place Masters (Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Award):
Anika Saxena (Siddiqi lab)
2nd place Masters (Maya Singla Memorial Award):
Zahra Tavakoli (Singla lab)
2017 Florida Academy of Sciences
Zin Htun, Outstanding Oral Presentation, Graduate, University of Central Florida, “Preexisting IFNGR1 mutation increases susceptibility to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection and Crohn’s disease development”
Graduate Research Forum Winners
Philip Adams, Biomedical Sciences Ph.D., First Place Doctoral, Health Sciences
Carolina Rodrigues Felix, Biomedical Sciences Ph.D., First Place Doctoral, Life Sciences
Anika Saxena, Biotechnology M.S., First Place Master’s, Life Sciences
Simeon Thibeaux, M.S. Biotechnology, First Place Master’s, Life Sciences
University Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant
Sarah Gitto, Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. student
2016 UCF Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- Philip Adams (PhD student)
- Brittany Allen (PhD student)
2016 Conference Awards
- Bracken Roberts from D. Chakrabarti’s lab was awarded Best Presentation at the 27th Annual Molecular Parasitology Meeting in Woods Hole (International Meeting).
- Sambuddha Basu from Yoon Kim’s lab won second prize at the Lake Nona Medical Research Day (competing against postdocs, students and faculty)
- The BMS grad students also had a great weekend at the Florida ASM meeting held in Miami Oct 15-16. At the meeting, out of 10 awards given at the conference, UCF won 7!
- Best Talk:
- First Place: Bracken Roberts (PhD Candidate, D. Chakrabarti)
- Second Place: Robert Sharp (PhD Candidate, S. Naser)
- Best Graduate Poster:
- First Place: Zin Mar Htun (MS student, S. Naser)
- Second Place: Robert Wingo (MS student, S. Moore)
- Third Place: Corey Seavey (PhD student, S. Moore)
- Best Undergraduate Poster:
- First Place: Ebraheem Naser (Honor, EXCEL, S. Naser)
- Third Place: Amna Naser (RAMP, S. Naser)
- Best Talk: