UNC Postdoc Research Symposium Microbiology Highlights
We attended the UNC Postdoc Research Symposium done by Microbiology and Immunology this week. It lasted all day and featured a lot of wonderful speakers. David, our lab manager at the Triangle site, went there to deliver the $100 amazon giftcard for the best presentation.
This is Qian Xu of the Cotter lab
A total of sixteen presentations were broken up into three sessions by lunch and an afternoon coffee and cookie break, both provided by Fisher Scientific. The topics discussed came from all four areas of research in the Department of Microbiology and Immunolgy: immunology, microbial pathogenesis, virology, and molecular/structural/computational biology. Event MC Joshua Hall gave an unofficial award for best title of a presentation to Eton customer Dilan Weerakoon (of the Braunstein Lab) for his “Identification of in vivo exported proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.”
This is Dilan from the Braunstein lab.
At the end of the event a panel of judges picked the two best presentations, with no distinction given for first or second place. VWR sponsored an iPod Nano given as a prize to Jainab Khatun of the Giddings Lab for her “Identifying Protein-Coding DNA Sequences of Human Genome by Proteo-Genomic Mapping”. Eton’s own prize of a $100 Amazon gift certificate went to Chelsea Lane of the Miller Lab for her “Contribution of the YapG Autotransporter to Plague Pathogenesis”.
We would like to thank Eric Weening of the organizing committee for contacting us with the opportunity to help out with this event. It was a pleasure to see some of the end results of our DNA sequencing and we hope to be of more help to the Microbiology and Immunology Postdoc Association in the future.
