Research Day Honors Students

The annual Perry V. Halushka 2012 MUSC Research Day was held Nov. 2 at the Wellness Center Gym and in the College of Health Professions. The research day was open to all students, postdoctoral residents and fellows at MUSC and students, postdoctoral residents and fellows at other institutes who had participated this past year in research programs at MUSC.

Congratulations to the winners of the Perry V. Halushka MUSC Research Day, held Nov. 2. For information, visit http://www.musc.edu/grad/srd.

During the research day, more than 220 abstracts were presented. This consisted of 140 poster presentations and 87 oral presentations in 20 different categories.

This year's keynote address was presented by Mary Kennedy, Ph.D., in the Division of Biology and the Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology.

Top photo: Joy Buie, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, explains her poster to the event keynote speaker Dr. Mary Kennedy. Left photo: Danielle Lowe, left, listens to Lauren Stokes during the Nov. 2 poster presentation. Stokes placed second in the Clinical/Professional/Masters I Poster.

The winners are listed below:

Undergraduate I Poster—First place: Sloan Miler; second place: Hannah Hughes
Clinical/Professional/Masters I Poster—First place: Allison W. Prince; second place: Lauren A. Stokes
Clinical/Professional/Masters II Poster—First place: Caitlin J. Moore; second place: Daniela A. Riley
Clinical/Professional/Masters III Poster—First place: Douglas J Roberts-Wolfe; second place: Matthew J. Duffin
Clinical/Professional/Masters IV Poster—First place: Mandev G. Guram; second place: Kaelyn M. Rogers
Clinical/Professional/Masters V Poster—First place: Danielle N. Woodford; second place: Benjamin A. Harlan

PhD I Poster—First place: James B. Small; second plce: Sara D. Johnson
PhD II Poster—First place: Krystal Dole; second place: Brittney M. Cox
PhD III Poster—First place: Denise M. Kimbrough (Kinard-Gadsden Award); second place: Haley B. Lindner
Post Doc/Resident/Fellow I Poster—First place: Yazhi Xing; second place: Wei Chen
Post Doc/Resident/Fellow II Poster—First place: Ying Xiong; second place: Kamala P. Sundararaj

Undergraduate II Oral—First place: Leopold Adler IV;
second place: Matthew Berger
Clinical/Professional/Masters VI Oral—First place: Tanisha R. Hutchinson; second place: Chris D. Clark
Clinical/Professional/Masters VII Oral—First place: Shivani S. Patel; second place: Shivangi Lohia
Clinical/Professional/Masters VII Oral—First place: Taylor M. Stukes; second place: James C. Gray
PhD IV Oral—First place: Kimberly Sauls; second place: Christopher B. Johnson
PhD V Oral—First place: Oday Alsarraf; second place: Jordan D. Gruber
PhD VI Oral—First place: Lindsay T. McDonald (Eric James Award); second place: Caitlyn Ellerbe
PhD VII Oral—First place: Joseph J. Taylor (Willard & Betty Peterson Award); second place: Shanmugam Panneer Selvam
PostDoc/Resident/Fellow III Oral—First place: Philip J. O'Herron; second place: Michelle H. Nelson

Special Awards
Innovation—First place: Benjamin Josey; second place: Jonathan Zurcher
Sigma Xi—First place: Amy Young
Interprofessional—First place: Lauren E. Shuler; second place: Stephanie A. Scheppmann
Health Disparities Poster—First place: Benson Langdon; second place: Dion Foster.
Health Disparities Oral—First place: Kathleen Cartmell; second place: Ellen Maher
VA Oral—First place: Lindsay McDonald; second place: Jessica Trombetta-eSilva.
VA Poster—First place: Dayvia Laws; second place: Daniela Riley

Friday, Nov. 16, 2012