MID Student Spotlights
Jennifer Hurtig: 2021 Dr. John J. Kopchick Fellowship
Anh Trinh Nguyen: 2021 Investing in Student Futures Fellowship
April Nguyen: ASM Texas Branch Goldschmidt Graduate Student Award
Erika Flores: 2019-2021 NIH Diversity Supplement
Minseon Kim: GSBS Endowment Scholarship
Unekwu Yakubu and Alec Santiago: Selected for the Scientist Mentoring and Diversity Program in BioTech
Alexandra Berroyer:
First authored publication of a review, Berroyer, A. and Kim, N. (2020). The functional consequences of eukaryotic Topoisomerase 1 interaction with G-quadruplex DNA. Genes. 11 (193): 1-16. doi:10.3390/genes11020193
Named co-president of the American Society for Microbiology Texas Medical Center Chapter
2020 Deans Research Scholarship Award
MID successfully defended thesis: |
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SPRING 2020 |
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Robert Williams, Advisor: Michael Lorenz, PhD PhD Thesis: Alternative Carbon Utilization as a Virulence Determinant for Candida albicans Ayesha Khan, Advisor: Cesar Arias, MD, MSc, PhD PhD Thesis: Molecular Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance in Multi-Drug Resistant Enterococci Kara Schoenemann, Advisor: William Margolin, PhD |
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SUMMER 2020 |
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Ayesha Mahmood, Advisor: Charles Darkoh, PhD MS Thesis: Mechanistic Insights into Vancomycin Resistance in Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile
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FALL 2020 |
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Wahaj Zuberi, Advisor: Nayun Kim, PhD MS Thesis: A Pharmacological Strategy against African Sleeping Sickness Minseon Kim, Advisor: Ambro Van Hoof PhD Thesis: Functions of Dcp2 and Ski7 in mRNA Degradation
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