A FEW photos of the symposium!

Carolyn Lawrence-Dill giving opening talk

Dean Carolyn Lawrence-Dill, Associate Dean for Research and Discovery, CALS, gives opening remarks to start the First Annual Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Symposium!!!!

Dr. Trista North

Dr. Trista North, Associate Professor of Pediatrics - Boston Children's Hospital gives her talk on "Extrinsic regulation of vertebrate hematopoietic stem cell development"

Dr. Reinhard Laubenbacher from the University of Florida gives his talk on "Digital twins in medicine and the life sciences".

Dr. Jim Cornette

Dr. Jim Cornette was instrumental in creating the BCB graduate program at Iowa State University.  

Group photo

 

Group photo

Ashmita Mainali (MCDB) and Blessing Olabosoye (IGG) enjoy the poster competition.  

Sahiba Siddiqui explaining her 1st place poster to Mudith Ekanayake

Sahiba Siddiqui, a Genetics and Genomics graduate student with Dr. Maura McGrail, explains her 1st place poster to Genetics and Genomics graduate student Mudith Ekanayake.  

Anna Schwake - honorable mention poster

Anna Schwake an undergraduate student in the Biochemistray program received an honorable mention for her poster presentation.  

Anurag Das - 3rd place poster

Anurag Das, a Neuroscience graduate student with Dr. Hua Bai, received 3rd place for the poster presentation.  

Colleen Yanarella - 3rd place poster presentation

Colleen Yanarella, a Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate student with Dr. Carolyn Lawrence-Dill, received 3rd place in the poster presentation.  

Ryan Rapp talking about Flagship Pioneering

Dr. Ryan Rapp an alumnus of the Genetics and Genomics graduate program gave a talk on "Different models for startups and careers in industry".

Entries for the creative arts showcase

Creative Arts Showcase 

Amanda Ramer-Tait from University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Dr. Amanda Ramer-Tait an ISU alumna of the Immunobiology graduate program gave a talk on "Modulating microbiomes to limit metabolic inflammation".

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Associate Vice President for Research Surya Mallapragada giving closing speech

Associate Vice President for Research Surya K. Mallapragada gives closing remarks for the symposium

Dr. Erik Vollbrecht talking about Nick Lauter and giving the awards to the 1st honoree of the Lauter award

Dr. Erik Vollbrecht, Genetics and Genomics Director of Graduate Education talks about Nick Lauter and the first annual Lauter Award for Graduate Student Creativity and Research Excellence.

David Hall - 1st place Oral Presentation

David Hall, Genetics and Genomics graduate student with Dr. Ryan Smith, received 1st place in the Oral Presentation category.

Clayton Carley and Swathy Krishna - 1st honorees of the Lauter Award for Graduate Student Creativity and Research Excellence

Clayton Carley, an Agronomy student with Akeesh Singh, and Swathy Krishna, an Animal Science with Joshua Selsby, were the award winners for the First Annual Lauter Award for Graduate Student Creativity and Research Excellence.

 

 

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