We had an amazing turnout of 46 posters being presented this year, nearly matching the number of faculty in the department.
Special thanks to the organizer of this event, Dr. Jingfang Ju (our Vice Chair for Experimental Pathology), and our other poster competition judges, Drs. John Haley, Mario Shields, Peter Wang, and our featured speaker, Dr. Sanford Simon.
Clinical Poster Presentation Winner: Emily B. Huang
“Parathyroid hormone reference interval verification for new clinical chemistry analyzer”
Mentored by Drs. Lisa Senzel and Daniel Lazarev
Basic Research Poster Presentation Winners: Yinghuan (Lydia) Lyu and David Guber
“Keratin 17 stabilizes mitochondrial dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) to drive chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer”
Yinghuan (Lydia) Lyu from the Shroyer/Marchenko/Escobar-Hoyos Lab
“Game of clones: clonal dynamics driven by INF-gamma shapes the tumor microenvironment in prostate cancer”
David Guber from the Talos Lab
Honorable mention to our other finalists: Noah Brett, and Drs. Sogol Ghanbari, Yibo Xi, and Elizabeth Lovelace.