Photos: Doctoral Students Convene for Student Research Day 2024
Doctoral students from across Biomedical Graduate Education came together to present and discuss their work at the annual Student Research Day, hosted by the Georgetown Medical Center Graduate Student Organization (MCGSO). Students delivered oral and poster presentations and attended a keynote by Ukpong Eyo, a microglia researcher from the University of Virginia.
Congratulations to this year’s student presentation winners!
Oral Presentation Winners
- Sidharth Jain (Tumor Biology)
- Iria Gutierrez-Schiefrel (Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience)
Poster Poster Presentation Winners
- Douglas Kung (Tumor Biology)
- Lindsey Russ (Pharmacology & Physiology)
- Katie Hummel (Pharmacology & Physiology)
Ukpong Eyo, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, gives the Student Research Day keynote presentation on his microglia research.
Students listen to Eyo’s keynote.
Eyo speaks with an attendee after giving the keynote presentation.
Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience student Iria Gutierrez-Schieferl speaks about neuroanatomical differences in children with reading disability.
About 5 to 12 percent of the population struggles with reading disability, and we don’t really know what the neuroanatomical basis is of reading disability in children specifically. … Now we have access to this huge database, and we are studying it in a large scale.
Iria Gutierrez-Schieferl, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience student
Reem Aljuhani, a doctoral student in the Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology program, shares her work with endosulfatases.
Attendees listen to a student presentation.
Sidharth Jain, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate in the Tumor Biology program, presents his research on patient responses to therapies for melanoma.
This particular format was challenging for me because we are usually used to giving 30-minute or one-hour talks. So to give that in 10 minutes made me narrow down what was important.
Sidharth Jain, M.D./Ph.D. candidate in the Tumor Biology
Georgetown Medical Center Graduate Student Organization (MCGSO) President Zachary Colon, an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program student, presents his research on perineuronal nets.
Robert Koenig, senior licensing manager at Georgetown’s Office of Technology Commercialization, encouraged students to connect with his office to promote their research ideas and discoveries.
Briana Bernstein, an Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience student, draws a crowd during poster presentations.
I just want to bring to the awareness that breast cancer recurs more over time versus other cancers, and to really shed light on this liquid biopsy. … It’s more feasible to do over time, and you can track it longitudinally. … It really makes it more accessible.
Amber Alley, Tumor Biology doctoral student
It’s really nice to be able to present in this particular setting because a lot of people that come by the posters aren’t in the neuroscience program, so I’m getting a lot of perspectives that are even more interdisciplinary than the ones that I get from within my program.
Anna Pearson, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience student
Gutierrez-Schieferl earns second-place honors for her oral presentation.