Dan Mullen Award for Scientific Achievement Winners

Given for excellence in poster preparation and presentation at the Annual Basic Science Research Retreat.

2022

Milky Abajorga
Development of “innate” and “adaptive” piRNA responses protecting the germline from retroviruses
Mentors: William Theurkauf, PhD and Jeremy Luban, MD

Xavier Gonzalez
C. elegans Host Defense Pathways Protect Against Microbiota Cryptic Virulence
Mentor: Javier E. Irazoqui, PhD

Sunil Guharajan
Exploring the Connection Between Transcription Factor (TF) Regulation and Promoter Strength
Mentor:  Robert C. Brewster, PhD 

I-Hao Wang
Spatial transcriptomic reconstruction of the mouse olfactory glomerular map suggests principles of odor processing
Mentor:  Paul Greer, PhD

2021

Sage Foley
Microbiome regulation of intestinal P-glycoprotein expression in maintenance of homeostasis
Mentor: Beth McCormick, PhD

Ethan Loew
The “Microbiome-gut-brain axis” in Alzheimer’s disease and its role in neurocognitive decline
Mentor: Beth McCormick, PhD

Naema Nayyar
CDK pathway inhibition with Abemaciclib improves intracranial and extracranial response to checkpoint blockade in pre-clinical models of brain metastasis
Mentor: Michael Brehm, PhD

Jacob Stillman
Microglial autofluorescent signal:  An important consideration when studying synapse engulfment
Mentor: Dorothy Schafer, PhD

2020

Emily Agnello
Mentor: Brian Kelch, PhD

Christine Carbone
Mentor: Andrei Korostelev, PhD

Hao-Ching Jiang
Mentor: Paul Greer, PhD

Naema Nayyar
Mentor: Michael Brehm, PhD

2019

Kyvan Dang
Mentor: Junhao Mao, PhD

Tatenda Kadungure
Mentor: Hong Zhang, PhD

Joseph Magrino
Mentor: Brian Kelch, PhD

Brittany Rosener
Mentor: Amir Mitchell, PhD

2018

Anne Carlisle
Mentor: Dohoon Kim, PhD

Kyle Gellatly
Mentor: Manuel Garber, PhD

Krishna Ghanta
Mentor: Craig Mello, PhD

Jooyoung Lee
Mentor: Erik Sontheimer, PhD

2017

Georgia Gunner
Microglia mediate sensory experience-induced synaptic remodeling in the rodent somatosensory system
Mentor: Dorothy Schafer, PhD

Ashley Matthew
Elucidating the structural and dynamic mechanisms of resistance against HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitors
Mentor: Celia Schiffer, PhD

Jason Yang
CD8+ T cells specific to an immunodominant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) antigen have limited recognition on Mtb infected cells
Mentor: Samuel Behar, MD, PhD