ARFS-2025 - Award

Congratulations!

2025

Outstanding Student Award Winners

Robert Villafane Award to:

Othreniel A. Forte (Ph.D. student, Alabama State University)

Oral Presentation Awards to:

Kayla Love (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Nadia Parker (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Huimin Zhang (Postdoc, Jackson State University)
Ty Santiago (Postdoc, Yale University)

3-minute talk

Kya Hamilton (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)

Poster Presentation Awards to:

Andy-Maxence Tadjuidje (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Kayla Galbreath (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Mia Smith (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Md Imam ul Khabir (Ph.D. student, Alabama State University)

Othreniel A. Forte

Kayla Love

Nadia Parker

Huimin Zhang

Ty Santiago

Kya Hamilton

Andy-Maxence Tadjuidje

Kayla Galbreath

Mia Smith

Md Imam ul Khabir

Congratulations!

2023

Outstanding Student Award Winners

Robert Villafane Award to:

Ayodeji O. Ipinmoroti (Ph.D. student, Alabama State University)

Oral Presentation Awards to:

Anish Boyella (High school, LAMP)
Alexa Mathis (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Hagir Abdelmagid (M.S. student, Alabama State University)
Jeffrey Ogbudu (Ph.D. student, Alabama State University)
Jacob Sebesta (Postdoc, National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

3-minute talk

Anish Boyella (High school, LAMP)

Poster Presentation Awards to:

Raymond Hou and Lindsay Levy (High School, LAMP)
Eryn Griffin (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Arris Thornton (M.S. student, Alabama State University)
Hao-Che Peng (Ph.D. student, University of Texas at Dallas)

Ayodeji O. Ipinmoroti

Hagir Abdelmagid

Arris Thornton

Jacob Sebesta

Jeffrey Ogbudu

Lindsay Levy

Raymond Hou

Hao-Che Peng

Eryn Griffin

Anish Boyella

Alexa Mathis

2022

Outstanding Student Award Winners*

Oral Presentation Award to:

Atindrah Harishankar (LAMP High School)
Kiersten McCalpine (Alabama State University)
Stephanie Monge (Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica and University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Kelci Lawrence (Alabama State University)
Md Ashaduzzaman (University of Alabama)
Christopher J. Gisriel (Yale University)

Poster Presentation Award to:

Vanella Tadjuidje (Alabama State University)
Corrigan Murry and Asia Turner (Alabama State University)
Jordan-Haley McWilliams (Alabama State University)
Sree Kavya Penneru (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

* We greatly appreciate our Advising Committee member, Dr. Thomas Sakmar, for his offering to each of the 2022 Symposium winners to have a free lunch with him at Rockefeller University and a campus tour when the winner is visiting New York City. Dr. Sakmar is Richard M. and Isabel P. Furlaud Professor, formal Acting President of the Rockefeller University and passionate about structure and function of G protein-coupled receptors. Rockefeller University is the world’s leading biomedical research institution in NYC and has won a collective 26 Nobel Prizes.

Atindrah Harishankar

Kiersten McCalpine

Stephanie Monge

Kelci Lawrence

Md Ashaduzzaman

Christopher J. Gisriel

Vanella Tadjuidje

Corrigan Murry

Asia Turner

Jordan-Haley McWilliams

Sree Kavya Penneru

2021

Outstanding Student Award Winners

Oral Presentation Awards to:

Jada C. Finley, Hannah G. Selvy (Undergraduates, Vanderbilt University)
Zoe Hayes (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Donchel Boone (M.S. Student, Alabama State University)
Ayodeji Ipinmoroti (Ph.D. Student, Alabama State University)
Christopher J. Gisriel (Postdoc, Yale University)

Poster Presentation Awards to:

John Samuel Cason (Undergraduate, Huntingdon College)
Moriah Jones (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Breaunna Davis (M.S. Student, Alabama State University)
Charkira Patrick (M.S. Student, Alabama State University)
Md Imam ul Khabir (Ph.D. Student, Alabama State University)
Leyla Rohani (Ph.D. Student, Georgia State University)

2020

Outstanding Student Award Winners

Oral Presentation Awards to:

Daniel Chizhikov (High School, White Station High School, Tennesee)
Tiara Wells (M.S. Student, Alabama State University)
Leandra Jones (Ph.D. Student, Alabama State University)

Three-Min Talk

Gabriela Tilahun (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)

Poster Presentation Awards to:

Gina Taylor (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Gabrielle Maloy (Undergraduate, Alabama State University)
Charity Lattimore (M.S. Student, Alabama State University)
Charkira Patrick (M.S. Student, Alabama State University)

2019

Winners of Outstanding Student Presentations

Oral Presesentations

- Christopher Ball (Undergraduate; Alabama State University)
- Timothy Egbo (Ph.D. Student/Postdoc; Alabama State University)
- Stephanie Barrow (Ph.D. Student/Postdoc; Alabama State University)

Three-Min Talk

- Brittany Hume-Dawson (Undergraduate; Alabama State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Poster Presentations

- Marquis Nelson (Undergraduate; Alabama State University)
- Destiny Ellis (Undergraduate; Alabama State University)
- Tambre Tolliver (M.S. Student; Alabama State University)
- Suresh Gnawali (Ph.D. Student/Postdoc; Georgia State University)

2018

Winners of Outstanding Student Presentations

Oral Competition

James Stokes III (Alabama State University)
Hianxiao Huang (Alabama State University)
Mariah Tolbert (Alabama State University)

Poster Competition

Tyler G. McCaslin (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Leyla Rohani (Georgia State University)
William Swann (University of South Alabama)
Mashunda Longmire (Alabama State University)
Korynn Claiborne (Alabama State University)