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Student Research Symposiums

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2024 Student Research Symposium

Friday, August 2, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. 
Student Life Center

Agenda

Guest Speaker

Professor of Chemical Biology
University of California, Berkeley

Dan Nomura

“Reimagining Druggability Using Chemoproteomic Platforms”

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Awards

  • Richard Armstrong Award for Research Excellence

    Xiaoyu “Lily” Yu, Winner

    Katherine Clowes Moster, Runner-up

  • Chemistry Focused Poster Awards

    Katie Penton – “Bioactive Exploration of Commercially Unavailable Oxazolomycins and Identification of Oxazolomycin D Biosynthetic Gene Cluster”

    Sydney Bates – “Leveraging Oxazolomycin Biosynthesis to Investigate the Biological Impact of the Spirocycle Moiety and Taking Steps to Elucidate Mechanism of Action”

  • Biology-Focused Poster Awards

    Jenny Tran – “Dissecting the functional role of an active site gate in the initiation of eukaryotic heme biosynthesis”

    Emilee Patterson – “Investigating Elicitor/Regulator Pairs for Induction of Secondary Metabolism in Streptomyces”

  • Overall Poster Award

    Katherine Stefanski – “Small-molecule modulators of protein raft affinity and raft stability”

  • Flash Talks

    Jenny Tran (VU)
    Brynn Roman (VU)
    Sourav Roy (St. Jude)
    Hannah Thirman (VU)
    Sarah Comer (VU)
    Greg Phelps (St. Jude)
    Matt Munneke (VU)

  • Oral Presentations

    Abigail Rose (VU)
    Maowei Hu (St. Jude)

Photos

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Dr. Stephen Fesik during his talk at the 2024 VICB Annual Student Research Symposium on August 2nd, 2024.
Dr. Stephen Fesik during his talk at the 2024 VICB Annual Student Research Symposium on August 2nd, 2024.
Katherine Clowes Moster, graduate student in the Chuck Sanders lab, during her talk as the Richard Armstrong Prize runner-up at the 2024 VICB Annual Student Research Symposium on August 2nd, 2024.
Katherine Clowes Moster, graduate student in the Chuck Sanders lab, during her talk as the Richard Armstrong Prize runner-up at the 2024 VICB Annual Student Research Symposium on August 2nd, 2024.
group of people looking at poster presentations
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student in front of their poster presentation
student in front of their poster presentation
student in front of their poster presentation
student and judge in front of their poster presentation
student in front of their poster presentation
group of students in front of a poster presentation
Richard Armstrong Prize winners Katherine Closes Moster (runner-up), and Xiaoyu “Lily” Yu (winner).
Richard Armstrong Prize winners Katherine Closes Moster (runner-up), and Xiaoyu “Lily” Yu (winner).
CBAS Committee members pose with Dr. Nomura.
CBAS Committee members pose with Dr. Nomura.
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Sponsored by Ancora Innovation (Deerfield Management)
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Organized by Vanderbilt Chemical Biology Association of Students