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Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Hosts 3rd Undergraduate Research Symposium/ Inaugural Integrated Cellular and Molecular Signaling (ICAMS) Research Retreat
On October 28-29, 2005, dozens of biomedical scientists assembled at the MCV campus to attend the combined
Undergraduate Research Symposium/ ICAMS Research Retreat sponsored by the VCU Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
The event started on Friday evening with a keynote address by Dr. Phillip Hylemon, Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, VCU, entitled “HIV Protease Inhibitors Activate the Unfolded Protein Response
in Macrophages: Implication for Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Disease”.
This event was followed by
a poster session on Saturday, October 29 that featured more than 50 posters by undergraduate, graduate,
and postdoctoral researchers. The posters featured a variety of topics, including the enzymology of
dehydrogenases, phospholipases and lipid metabolism, the regulation of gene expression, lipoprotein
structure and function, and signal transduction in bladder, neuronal, and immune cells. A panel of
faculty judges reviewed the posters and selected the most outstanding presentations in the fields of
metabolism, immune response, cancer biology, and neurobiology. Congratulations to the winners in each of
these categories, Natasha Cover (undergraduate), JiaDe Yu (undergraduate), Sarah Wacker (undergraduate),
Tsega Belachew (undergraduate), Rachael Griffiths (graduate), Jill Ford (graduate), Sunita Gopalan
(graduate), Zendra Lee (graduate), Xueping Zhang (postdoctoral), Carole Oskeritzian (postdoctoral), and
Aki Mikami (postdoctoral). Each of these individuals received a certificate to commemorate his/ her
award. In addition, the undergraduate winners were awarded $400 travel awards to the 2006 American
Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meeting in San Francisco.
Many thanks to the students, staff, and faculty who organized and attended these two successful events!
Please mark your calendars for Friday October 27 and Saturday October 28, 2006 for the 4th Undergraduate
Research Symposium/ ICAMS Research Retreat.
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