Poster session highlights graduate students' interdisciplinary health, disease research efforts

The recent Health and Disease: Science, Technology, Culture and Policy Research Poster Session showcased 75 graduate student presenters from seven colleges.

The event, which focused on facilitating the dissemination of results from cross-campus health and disease research efforts, was sponsored by the colleges of Health and Human Sciences, Agriculture, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Science, and Veterinary Medicine, and by the Purdue Polytechnic Institute and Purdue Libraries. The annual poster session aims to foster new interdisciplinary collaborations across a diverse spectrum of disciplines, and to enhance student communication and professional skills.

Posters from six categories (neuroscience; obesity; inflammation, immunology and infectious diseases; cancer; prevention and wellness; other) were evaluated based on the significance of the results and quality of the student’s presentation. The winners for each category are:

Neuroscience
* First place: Season Wyatt, Psychological Sciences, College of Health and Human Sciences (mentor: Amy Brewster)
* Second place: Nicole Vike, Basic Medical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine (mentor: Thomas Talavage and Riyi Shi)
* Third place (tie): Nicole Schartz, Psychological Sciences, College of Health and Human Sciences (mentor: Amy Brewster); Regina Fernandez, Nutrition Science, College of Health and Human Sciences (mentor: Jessica Ellis)

Obesity
* First place: Lauren O’Connor, Nutrition Science, College of Health and Human Sciences (mentor: Wayne Campbell)
* Second place: Joshua Hudson, Nutrition Science, College of Health and Human Sciences (mentor: Wayne Campbell)
* Third place: Shan Xie, Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering (mentor: Yuehwern Yih) 

Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases
* First place: Hassan Eldosouky, Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine (mentor: Mohamed Seleem)
* Second place: Ahmed Hassan, Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine (mentor: Mohamed Seleem)
* Third Place: Ariangela Kozik, Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine (mentor: Yava Jones-Hall)

Cancer
* First place (tie): Mohamed Elsayed, Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy (mentor: Mark Cushman); Tomasz Wilmanski, Nutrition Science, College of Health and Human Sciences (mentor: Dorothy Teegarden)
* Third place: Elena Beketova, Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy (mentor: Chang-Deng Hu)

Prevention and Wellness
* First place: Shivam Patel, Health and Kinesiology, College of Health and Human Sciences (mentor: Chad Carroll)
* Second place: Brittany Mihalec-Adkins, Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Sciences (mentor: Sharon Christ)
* Third place: Angel Avina, Consumer Science, College of Health and Human Sciences (mentor: Andrea DeMaria)

Other
* First place: Kang-Yu Hsu, Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering (mentor: Yuehwern Yih)
* Second place: Kyoungrae Kim, Health and Kinesiology, College of Health and Human Sciences (mentor: Bruno Tesini Roseguini)
* Third place: Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee, Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy (mentor: Richard van Rijn)

Photographs from the poster session and more information on the winning posters (e.g., titles, abstracts, and complete author lists) can be accessed online.