For information about: 2022 LBRN 20th Annual Meeting.

LBRN 20th Annual Meeting Poster and Presentation Award Winners

Faculty / PI Poster award winners (tied)

#15 Matthew Hayes – XULA

"Complex Germline Structural Variant Discovery Via Discordant Cluster Normalization"

#8 Joseph Chaney – XULA

"Applying the Brakes: Understanding the Role of the Conformational Changes in the Kinesin-5 on Processivity and Inhibition"

Graduate Poster award winners (tied for first)

#59 Rizwana Begum – SUBR Tied for 1st Place

"HSP70 and proteasomes coalesce in lipid rafts to regulate E-cigarette Vapor condensate induced inflammation"

#19 Chelsey Jordan – LSUS Tied for 1st Place

"Assessment of student appreciation for applied bioinformatics and computational drug discovery methods in a project-based course"

#44 Prerana Ramesh – LSUHS 2nd Place

"Improving Patient Outcomes for Inflammatory Bowel Disease through Physician Interactions during Infusion Treatment : Symptomatic Review of Biologic Therapy in IBD (STABILITY)"

Undergraduate Poster award winners (tied for second)

#20 Supriya Karki – LSUS 1st Place

"Developmental Stages of Olfactory Sensory Neurons in Neonatal Life vs. Adulthood"

#37 Kalani Myles LSUS – Tied for 2nd Place

"Computer-aided drug discovery for COVID-19 using virtual screening and molecular docking"

#48 Bryan Strong ULM – Tied for 2nd Place

"Translation initiation factors from early-branching eukaryote Giardia lamblia can form multifactor complex in the absence of 40S ribosome in vitro"

High School Poster award winners

#28 Raj Letchuman – Caddo Parish Magnet High School 1st Place

"Identifying Promising Drug Candidates Against SARS-CoV-2 Using Computational Drug Repurposing Methodology"

#11 Devika Dua Cedar Creek School – 2nd Place

"Investigating Key COVID-19 Questions by Using Natural Language Processing on Scientific Publications"

Oral Presentation Award Winner

Graduate talks winner – Eric Clifford – LSUS

"Drug Screen Trends in Emergency Rooms Among Childbearing-Aged Females"

Full project talks Tied for 1st Place – Kyle Piller – SELU

"Life in the fast lane: Testing for congruence among transcriptomic signatures"

Full project talks Tied for 1st Place – Vonny Salim – LSUS

"Elucidation of Plant-Derived Drug Biosynthetic Pathways and Molecular Mechanisms as Anticancer Agents"