DCEG Fellows Present at the 2018 NIH Postbac Poster Day
, by DCEG Staff
Eight postbaccalaureate fellows in DCEG presented at the May 2018 NIH Postbac Poster Day, sponsored by the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education. Posters were judged by teams of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and staff scientists/staff clinicians. Edmundo Torres-Gonzalez received an Outstanding Poster Award for his poster.
Participants included:
Sonia Bhala, B.S.
“Central Nervous System Structural, Neurologic, and Psychiatric Consequences of Very Short Telomeres”
Mentor: Sharon A. Savage, M.D.
Edmundo J Torres González, B.S.
“Affordable HPV Screening for Communities That Lack Cervical Cancer Prevention: HybriBio H13 Compared to Qiagen Hybrid Capture 2”
Mentor: Michael Dean, Ph.D.
Lilly Gu, B.S.
“Using Massively Parallel Reporter Assay (MPRA) to Screen for Functional Variants at Pancreatic Cancer GWAS Risk Loci”
Mentor: Laufey Amundadottir, Ph.D., Ashley Jermusyk, Ph.D.
Seraph Han-Yin Lin, B.M.
“Alternative Splicing of APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B as an Intrinsic Regulatory Mechanism of APOBEC-induced Mutagenesis across Human Cancers”
Mentors: Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, Ph.D., Rouf Banday, Ph.D.
Lindsey Mehl, B.A.
“Functional Assessment of a Recurrent Mutation in the Promoter of KDM5A in Melanoma”
Mentors: Kevin Brown, Ph.D., Dr. Mai Xu
Michael Mobaraki, M.S.
“Investigating a Transcriptional Network of Pancreatic Homeostasis Genes”
Mentors: Jason Hoskins, Ph.D., Dr. Amundadottir
Joselin Vargas, B.S.
“Evaluation of the Functional Impact of Natural Protein-changing Polymorphisms of IFN-λ4 in Relation to Infection and Cancer”
Mentor: Dr. Prokunina-Olsson
Andrew Vu, B.S.
“Post-GWA Functional Studies Identified MX2 as a Potential Melanoma Susceptibility Gene”
Mentor: Dr. Brown