2007 Awards

Graduate Students

Richard Smrt, a Zhao Lab graduate student, won second place in the category "Confocal, single plane, three channel image" in the Microscopy Facility Imaging Competition. Awards were given out on Tuesday, January 30th 2007. The image was then published in the Pathology newsletter.

Undergraduate Students

Nick Santistevan, a Zhao Lab ungraduate student, won a $300 prize in the 2007 Undergraduate Symposium at UNM for his poster presentation, "MeCP2 is an epigenetic regulator critical to neuronal maturation in brain development.” Nick was accepted by the MARC program last fall and was recently awarded a full fellowship to do summer research at UCSF this summer.

2008 Awards

Postdoctoral Fellows

Xuekun Li, a Zhao Lab post doc, recieved a travel award for 2008 ISSCR meeting his was also selected for platform presentation (49 out of 1300 abstracts selected)

Graduate Students

Basam Barkho, a Zhao Lab graduate student, recieved the American Heart Association (AHA) - Pacific Mountain Affiliate Pre-doctoral Fellowship, January 2008-December 2009, $24,000 per year. He also recieved a BSGP Travel award ($600) to attend the 2008 ISSCR annual meeting.

Richard Smrt, a Zhao Lab graduate student, won multiple awards at the 2008 Microscopy Facility Imaging Competition, 1st Place: Widefield Fluorescence, 1st Place: Confocal Z-series, single channel (single-image projection), 2nd Place: Confocal Z-series, two channels (single-image projection), 1st Place: Confocal Z-series, three channels (single-image projection), 2nd Place: Confocal Single Plane, three fluorescence channels. The winning images are here.

Undergraduate Students

Ari Munoz, a Zhao Lab ungraduate student, won a $300 prize in the 2008 Undergraduate Symposium at UNM for his poster presentation, "Matrix metalloproteinases and Adult Neural Stem Cell migration in response to ischemia-induced chemokines.".