Program SDB 2002 Annual Meeting

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SDB 61st Annual Meeting Best Poster Competition

First Prize:

Cynthia Fisher

University of British Columbia

Title: "Targeted disruption of a mouse homolog of the Drosophila Asx gene leads to bidirectional axial skeleton transformations and spermatocyte defects"

Prizes: trip to British Soc Dev Biol 2003 Spring Mtg, personal 2003 online subscription to Dev Biol (Acad Press/Elsevier Sci), personal online subscription to Nature Reviews/Molecular Cell Biology (Nature Publ.)

Second Prize:

Seong-Kyu Choe

University of Mass Medical Center

Title: "Meis proteins are essential for hindbrain development in the zebrafish"

Prizes: $100, personal 2003 online subscription to Dev Biol (Acad Press/Elsevier Sci), personal online subscription to Nature Cell Biology (Nature Publ.), and the book "A History of Genetics" by A. H. Sturtevant (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press).

Third Prize:

Anna Kalinina

University of Western Ontario

Title: "The role of leafy in determination of the primordia initiation rate and activation of axillary meristems"

Prizes: Personal 2003 online subscription to Dev Biol (Acad Press/Elsevier Sci), personal online subscription to Nature Reviews Genetics (Nature Publ.), and the book "Arabidopsis: A Laboratory Manual" by Detlef Weigel and Jane Glazebrook (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press).

Special Awards for Excellent Posters:

Tandy Mgwebi

University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa

Title: "Mesenchyme-epithelial transformation during corneal endothelial morphogenesis"

Prizes: Personal online subscription to Development (Company of Biologists), and the book with CD "Vade Mecum: An Interactive Guide to Developmental Biology" by Mary Tyler (Sinauer)

Fred Oakley (undergrad)

Iowa State University

Title: "Identifying novel relationships among RNA expression patterns in microarray data"

Prizes: Personal online subscription to Development (Company of Biologists) and the book "Protein-protein Interactions" edited by Erica A. Golemis (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press).

Marian Viveros (undergrad)

New Mexico State Univ

Title: "Characterization of different populations of motoneurons in regenerating and adult spinal cords of the weakly electric fish"

Prizes: Personal online subscription to Development (Company of Biologists) and the book "Embryology: Constructing the Organism" by Scott Gilbert and Anne Rauniio (Sinauer)

Mentor with most good posters presented by students:

Vojislava Grbic

Univ of Western Ontario

Prize: set of four children books from "Enjoy Your Cells" series (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press).

Honorable Mention Posters:

Brandon Burbach

Univ of Wisconsin Madison

Title: "Overexpression of syndecan-1 extracellular domain disrupts adhesion and blocks invasion of T470 mammary carcinoma cells"

Prize: "At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator" by Kathy Barker (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press).

Maya Kumar

Harvard University

Title: "Lateral plate mesoderm induces the pre-pancreatic domain in a posterior dominant fashion"

Prize: "Laboratory Studies of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Embryos: Guide & Atlas of Descriptive & Experimental Development" by Gary Schoenwolf (author's gift)

Si Wan Kim

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Title: "Developmental functions of XKaiso, a transcriptional repressor association with the Xp120 catenin in Xenopus laevis"

Prize: "Translational control of gene expression" edited By Nahum Sonenberg and Michael B. Mathews (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press).

Jeiwook Chae

University of Virginia

Title: "Inducible control of tissue-specific transgene expression in Xenopus tropicalis transgenic lines"

Prize: "The Coiled Spring" by Ethan Bier (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press).

Alexander Runko

Univ of Mass Medical Center

Title: "Roles of the Nlz zinc finger protein in zebrafish development"

Prize: "Evolution of Developmental Pathways" by Adam S. Wilkins (Sinauer)

Our gratitutde to the publishers for donating the journals and books for prizes.

Catherine Krull, Junior Faculty Representative and Chair of Best Poster Competition.

Program SDB 2002 Annual Meeting

Past SDB Meetings