Published April 27, 2012 This content is archived.
Three graduate students in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are among the five recipients of Sigma Xi research awards at UB.
UB’s chapter of Sigma Xi presents the awards to recognize outstanding original graduate research. This year, more than 60 students from 24 academic units at UB and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center participated.
The winners from our school are as follows:
Program: Neuroscience
Poster title: “Concurrent Access to Running Wheel Is Necessary for Methamphetamine-Induced Entrainment in SCN Lesioned Mice”
Faculty mentor: Margarita Dubocovich, PhD
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Poster title: “Streptococcus Pneumonial Biofilms Show High Levels of Genetic Recombination”
Faculty mentor: Anders Hakansson, PhD
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
Poster title: “Sestrin2 Mediates the LKB1-AMPK Signaling Cascade in the Ischemic Heart”
Faculty mentor: Ji Li, PhD