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2010 Student Award Recipients and Finalists Named by the SOT Awards Committee
The SOT Awards Committee has selected graduate student award recipients and finalists to be recognized at the SOT 49th Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, in March.
Three recipients were selected for the Colgate-Palmolive Awards for Student Research Training in Alternative Methods:
Maxwell C.K. Leung of Duke University will travel to the lab of Dr. Michael Aschner, Vanderbilt University, to assess the effect of persistent mtDNA damage on neural integrity using fluorescence microscopy with C. elegans strains engineered to express green fluorescence protein (GFP) in neurons;
David Szabo of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be working on the generation of a PBPK model for HBCD stereoisomers using the ACSLX computer software at the software at the lab of Dr. Claude Emond at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and
Natalia VanDuyn of Indiana University will work in the lab of Dr. William Atchison at Michigan State University to learn techniques to determine how MeHg affects calcium levels in mitochondria and mitochondria membrane potential in primary C. elegans cultures and mammalian cell cultures.
Haitian Lu of Michigan State University is named the first recipient of the Syngenta Fellowship Award in Human Health Applications of New Technologies for his project titled “Characterization of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-Mediated Effect and Mechanism of Action on the Humoral Immunity Using Primary Human and Mouse B Lymphocytes.”
The Novartis Graduate Fellowship finalists, who will be interviewed by the Awards Committee at the SOT 49th Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, are Eric Liberda of New York University and Stephanie Lee Ondovcik of the University of Toronto. The fellowship recipient will be announced at the SOT Awards Ceremony on Sunday, March 7, along with all other award recipients.
Many graduate students will attend the 2010 Annual Meeting with the aid of Graduate Travel Support from SOT, the Battelle Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The list of these 75 students is available in the Historical Awards Listing on the SOT Web site.
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