Awards and Presentations

Awards

• Jesse Velasco, a graduate student in the Ducker Lab, was awarded a slot on a metabolism T32
• Steven Draper, a postdoc in the Kay Lab, was awarded an NIH F32 postdoctoral fellowship
• Talia Cahoon, a graduate student in the Miller Lab, was awarded a T32 on the Genetics Training Grant
• Onyeka Obidi, a graduate student in the Brasch Lab, won the ASBMB Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award to attend the DiscoverBMB conference
• Kylie Jacobs, a postdoc in the Hughes lab, was awarded a position on the T32 in metabolism training grant
• Kevin Chui, a graduate student in the Hughes lab, was awarded an F31 from NIA (National Institute on Aging)
• Michael Stewart, a graduate student in the Miller lab, was awarded an an F31 from NCI to "Investigate the regulation and mechanism of tension-sensors Stu2 & Ndc80c at budding yeast kinetochores"
• Radek Omelianczyk, a joint postdoc in the Sigala and Leffler labs, was awarded a 1-year pilot grant from the Cooperative Centers for Excellence in Hematology to study metabolic changes in red blood cells due to sickle cell disease, hypoxia, and malaria infection. 
• Caroline Craig, a MB graduate student in the Starr lab, was awarded a spot on the Genetics T32 training grant.
• Mark Lee, a graduate student in the Hilgendorf lab, received a T32 predoctoral training grant in metabolism.
• Meghan Curtin, a graduate student in the Hilgendorf lab, received the trainee award at the Metabolic Breast Cancer Research Conference. 
• Ahmad Clunton, a postdoc in the Rutter lab, received a K99/R00 grant.
• Kylie Jacobs, a postdoc in the Hughes lab, was awarded an NIH F32
• Libby Mumby, a graduate student in the English lab, was accepted to the T32 Pitch Training Grant Program.
• Alexa Gormick, an undergraduate researcher in the English lab, was named a UROP scholar for the Summer 2023 and Fall 2023 semesters with respective allocated funding and was awarded the labs first $500 grant through the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) as well.  Alexa was further awarded the College of Science Dean’s Scholarship and the School of Biological Sciences Continuing Education Scholarship for the 2023-2024 year.
• Kade Loveridge, a graduate student with the Sigala lab, was awarded the "Best Talk" award at the MD/PhD retreat and was selected for funding on the STARS Research Translation T32 training grant.
• Nate Krah, a clinical oncology fellow with the Rutter lab, was awarded the Quagliana Endowed Fellowship from the Department of Internal Medicine.
• Luis Cedeno-Rosario, a postdoctoral fellow with the Rutter lab, was selected as a University of Utah U-HELM scholar.
• Ashish Toshniwal, a postdoctoral fellow with the Rutter lab, won the first-place poster prize at the 2023 DMRC retreat.
• Kevin Hicks, a research instructor in the Rutter lab, won the Inaugural University of Utah Innovation Award in the “Innovation Impact” category for the development of MIDAS, which was the founding technology of Atavistik Bio.
• Luis Cedeno-Rosario,  a postdoctoral fellow with the Rutter lab, was selected to be part of the 2023 National SACNAS leadership institute.
• Rachel Skabelund, a graduate student in the Rutter lab, was awarded an F31 fellowship.
• Aaron Ferrell, a graduate student in the Shen lab, received an excellent fundable score for his NIH F31 graduate fellowship application.
• Sangeetha Balasubramaniam, a graduate student with the Hughes lab, was awarded a Travel Scholarship to attend the upcoming Keystone Symposia on Mitochondrial Signaling and Disease.

Presentations

• Anna Gilstrap, an undergraduate researcher in the Shen lab, was selected to present her research as part of the Research on Capitol Hill (ROCH) on Thursday, January 18^th  at the Utah State Capitol Building. This annual tradition features some of the best research by undergraduate students at the University of Utah and Utah State University.

• Julio Fierro, a graduate student with the Roh-Johnson lab was selected to give a keynote address at a symposium sponsored by the Salt Lake Community College.