Student Research Day 2001 held Friday, Nov. 2
Each year on the first Friday of November, MUSC holds its annual
Student Research Day (SRD). This year's event attracted 198 abstracts.
SRD has a threefold mission: 1). to give all students the opportunity to develop and perfect their presentation skills in a safe environment that resembles a major meeting; 2). to showcase the research conducted on campus, and 3). to give other students the chance to view the research process in action.
Experience gained through participation in SRD allows students to be better equipped to present not just here at MUSC but also at major meetings and to act as ambassadors for MUSC.
Christopher
V. Crosby, Department of Cell Biology, explains his abstract to the judges
during the Student Research Day Poster Sessions. His poster, which also
includes Kelley M. Argraves, Paul A. Fleming and Christopher J. Drake,
is entitled “Hepatocyte Growth Alters Blood Vessel Development.”
With participants are drawn from all six MUSC colleges and SRD benefits all the colleges and all research programs at MUSC, and is also used as a tool in the recruitment of students and faculty.
Presentations were divided into 19 separate sessions from the six MUSC colleges (Graduate Studies, Medicine, Dental Medicine, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Nursing).
Silvana
Vielma prepares her abstract for the poster session. The poster entitled,
“Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase is Not Involved in the Regulation of
Chlamydia Pneumoniae-Induced ICAM-1 Expression in Human Aortic Endothelial
Cell. Possible Role of NF-KB Pathway,” is presented by Vielma and Maria
Lopes-Virella, departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Endocrinology.
Each of the presentations was judged and, in each section, a first place prize of $500 and a second place prize of $250 was awarded. Feedback to the participants was provided by interactions with the judges and also by return of the judges’ score sheets.
SRD2001 was organized by a committee of representatives from the six colleges and was sponsored by the deans of the colleges as well as by the president, the provost/vice president for academic affairs, the MUSC Library, the Graduate Alumni Association, and the Graduate Student Association.
Student Research Day 2002 will be held on Friday, Nov. 1.
Student Research Day 2001 Winners
Undergraduate
Oral: 1st place— Aprill Dawson,
2nd place—Nathan B. Lee
Undergraduate Poster: 1st place—D. Paredes, 2nd place—Jennifer Cruz
Clinical Professional Social/Behavioral Science Oral and Poster:
1st place—Jason McMullan, 2nd place—Matthew
Appenzeller
Clinical Professional Basic/Clinical Sciences Oral I:
1st place —Edward P. Buchanan, 2nd place—Daryl
Pauls
Clinical Professional Basic/Clinical Sciences Oral II: 1st place—Eric
M. Wilson, 2nd place—David Norrington
Clinical Professional Basic/Clinical Sciences Poster:
1st place—Jonathan M. Mitchell, 2nd place—Michael
J. Rossi
Masters Oral and Poster: 1st place—Scotty
M. Morrow, 2nd place—F. Andrew Kozel
Ph.D. Oral I: 1st place—Elizabeth
A. Rucks, 2nd place—Lena Heung
Ph.D. Poster I: 1st place—Christopher
L. Hunter, 2nd place—K.M. Lindsey
Ph.D. Oral II: 1st place—Lily Remsing,
2nd place—Lauren E. Ball
Ph.D. Poster II: 1st place—Mark G. Slimiany,
2nd place—David H. Holman
Ph.D. Oral III: 1st place—Michelle Crosby,
2nd place—Mark P. Rubenstein
Ph.D. Poster III: 1st place—Elizabeth S. Chesterman, 2nd place—Jeffrey
A. Jones
Residents and Fellows Oral and Poster: 1st place—Christopher
V. Benson, 2nd place—Shane K. Woolf
Postdocs Oral: 1st place—Karen Szumlinski,
2nd
place—Jennie L.E. Walgren
Postdocs Poster: 1st place—Maria
H. Hamilton, 2nd place—Rita A. Fuchs
Kinard-Gadsden Award presented by the Graduate Alumni Association: Elizabeth S. Chesterman
Bioinformatics Awards (presented by MUSC Library): 1st place—Russell
A. Goodwin, 2nd place—Christopher A. Wells.