Congratulations to the MCDB & NSCI Prize Recipients!

Congratulations Class of 2019 prize winners! 

The recipients of the Class of 2019’s MCDB Edgar J. Boell Prize (Excellence in Senior Research) are as follows:

• Nicole Eskow (Pierson College): Role of MKL1 in Fetal Megakaryopoiesis
• Omair Khan (Branford College): Discovering non-canonical Open Reading Frames (ORFs) that control Mucosal Immunity
• Christina Stankey (Benjamin Franklin College): Role of Enteroendocrine Cells in Nutrient Sensing in the Gastrointestinal Tract
• Brendan Rooney (Benjamin Franklin College): Using Behavioral, Pharmacological, Cellular and Brain Activity Mapping Tools to Study ASK-Risk Genes in a Zebrafish Model
• Ariela Schear (Davenport College): Determining the Regulatory Function of an UTR Motif Upstream of purF
• Leslie Wang (Jonathan Edwards College): Design and Construction of Strains for the Evolution of Orthogonal Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases-tRNA Pair in Escherichia coli for the Genetic Encoding of Nonstandard Amino

The recipients of the Class of 2019’s William Belknap Prize (Excellence in Academics) are as follows:

• Claire Altany (Branford College): Modeling the Effects of E-cadherin Downregulation in Basal-Like Breast Cancer Metastasis
• Yuyang Liu (Pauli Murray College): Identifying Metabolic Vulnerabilities Associated with Hyperactive O-Glcnacylation by Crispr Screen
• Charlotte Brannon (Trumbull College): Differential Cell Leakage from Bacterial Chemotactic Waves in Soft Agar
• John Lee (Grace Hopper College): Searching for the Counter Receptor of Immune Modulating Molecule PD-1H

The recipients of the Class of 2019’s NSCI Prize (funded by the Kavli Institute of Neuroscience) are as follows:

• Angus Fong (Timothy Dwight): Dynamic Functional Connectivity During Task Performance and Rest Predicts Individual Differences in Attention Across Studies
• Geeta Rao (Grace Hopper College): Sex Differences in Pupillary Diameter as a Biomarker for Stress Responsiveness
  (Alex Kwan)