CMRC Children's Memorial Research Center
Award Winners

Spring 2008 Award Winners

Katie Drerup - Excellence Award, Graduate Student in Dr. Jill Morris's Lab
"Disc1 functions in zebrafish craniofacial development"
8th International Meeting on Zebrafish Development and Genetics, Madison, WI

Chris Heier - Excellence Award, Graduate Student in Dr. Christine DiDonato's Lab
"Translational readthrough modulates SMN stability: potential for aminoglycosides as an SMA therapy"
13th International World Muscle Society Congress, Newcastle Gateshead, UK

G. Parker Flowers - Excellence Award, Graduate Student in Dr. Jacek Topczewski's Lab
"Characterization of Notum homologues during zebrafish development"
8th International Meeting on Zebrafish Development and Genetics, Madison, WI

Tyler Schwend - Excellence Award, Graduate Student in Dr. Sara Ahlgren's Lab
"Pharyngeal arch development in chameleon/disp1 zebrafish; evidence for an ongoing role for sonic hedgehog signaling"
8th International Meeting on Zebrafish Development and Genetics, Madison, WI

Heng-Fu Bu, PhD - Excellence Award, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Xiao-Di Tan's Lab
"Characterization of peptidoglycan transcytosis across intestinal epithelia"
Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, CA

Barbara Sisson, PhD - Excellence Award, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Jacek Topczewski's Lab
"Characterization of the gene expression of six frizzleds during craniofacial cartilage morphogenesis"
8th International Meeting on Zebrafish Development and Genetics, Madison, WI

Sarah Calve, PhD - Travel Award, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Hans-Georg Simon's Lab
"Extracellular control of limb regeneration"
International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics, Woods Hole, MA

Xunqin Yin, PhD - Travel Award, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Sara Ahlgren's Lab
"Effect of ectopic expression of death ligand 1B on zebrafish embryogenesis"
8th International Meeting on Zebrafish Development and Genetics, Madison, WI

Xiao Wang, MD, PhD - Travel Award, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Xiao-Di Tan's Lab
"Probiotics modulate the distribution of dendritic cell subsets in the intestinal mucosa"
Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, CA

Winter 2008 Award Winners

Troy Camarata - Excellence Award
Q. Chang - Excellence Award
K. Bergmann - Travel Award

Fall 2007 Award Winners

X. Wu - Excellence Award

Summer 2007 Award Winners

Diana Schwab - Excellence Award
J. Glavaski - Excellence Award
C. Khodr - Excellence Award
R Liu - Excellence Award
Y. Zhao - Excellence Award
M. Suszko - Travel Award