Poster Prize Winners from Annual Research Symposium Announced

The Keynote was given by Professor Corné Pieterse from Utrecht University with a talk entitled, ‘Host-microbiome interactions and plant immunity’. Invited speakers, Isla Mackenzie and Tim Hales, from the School of Medicine also spoke. 

Each evening of the two-day symposium, poster sessions took place with prizes awarded to the following people:

Joint 1st Prize: 

• Nicole Ong, a PhD Student in Henry McSorley’s lab in CSI with a poster entitled, ‘Role and Control of IL-33 and Mast Cell Responses in Intestinal Helminth Infection’
• Vasudha Tandon, a PhD Student from Sourav Banerjee’s lab in the School of Medicine with a poster entitled, ‘Novel brain penetrant PI3K/PDGFR/WNT pathway inhibitor that reduces proliferation and cancer stemness in glioblastoma’

Joint 2nd Prize winners: 

• Vikram Tejwani, a PhD Student in John Rouse’s lab in the MRC-PPU with a poster entitled, ‘Investigating the therapeutic potential of Werner syndrome helicase (WRN)’
• Rotimi Fasimoye, a postdoctoral researcher from Dario Alessi’s group in the MRC-PPU with a poster entitled, ‘Golgi-IP, a novel tool for multimodal analysis of Golgi molecular content’ 
• Catriona Liggett, a PhD Student in James Cantley’s group from Cellular and Systems Medicine in the School of Medicine with a poster entitled, ‘The role of protein S-acylation in pancreatic β cell function’

Evening entertainment included a quiz organised by PiCLS, the School’s postgraduate society, on the Thursday and a ceilidh on the Friday. 

Thanks to Mahima Swamy, Gayle Gray, Carol Urquhart and Claire Halpin for organising such a fantastic event and to PiCLS and the poster judges.