Annual WSU CBI Symposium
Saturday, September 30, 2023: Prof. Mary Kay Pflum gets the day started with introductory remarks!
Oral Presentations and Three-Minute Thesis Competition
CBI Fellow Daniel Corey from the Fehl lab (Chemistry) presents his work: "Proximity based approaches to study O-GlcNAc-driven protein-protein interaction of stem cell regulatoer Sox2's intracellular interactome."
CBI Fellow Ashley Pall from the Stemmler lab (Pharmaceutical Sciences) presents her work: "The characterization of iron targeting drugs in treating Friedreich's Ataxia."
CBI Fellow Aditi Singh from the Ruden lab (Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics) presents her work: "Toxicants drive imbalanced cell fates in naive pluripotent embryonic stem cells: pan-stress marker search for optimal high-throughput screening."
Three-minute thesis (3MT) presenters:
Teresa Wolak (Chow lab, Chemistry)
Hadi Yassine (Schrader lab, Biological Sciences)
Eseiwi Obaseki (Hariri lab, Biological Sciences)
Tyler Ralph-Epps (Greenberg lab, Biological Sciences)
Tasnim Arroum (Huttemann lab, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Uma Sharma, CEO MMS Holdings
Dr. Sharma gave an inspiring talk about her journey from being a PhD student at Wayne State to her role as CEO at MMS Holdings: "SOUL in the CRO Industry: A Journey of Wisdom, Values, and Victory."
Students and faculty discuss science during the Poster Sessions
Inspiring the next generation!
Join us next year for more great science!!