2025 BIOS PostBac and Graduate Student Research Poster Competition winners
Introduction
Dr. Kate Warpeha organized the third annual PostBac and Graduate Student Research Poster Competition held in the SELE 4th floor Oasis on Wednesday, May 1st, 2025. Students and postbacs from 20 labs participated.
Thank you to Kate, the presenters and judges as well as over 70 additional people came to see and hear presenters talk about their work.
Congratulations to the top presenters and their labs (3 labs are helmed by Assistant Professors).
PostBac student winners
1st place. Presenting author: Sejal Prachand
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ignacio Escalante Meza
Title of Poster: “From story to stats: exploring species establishment in Maine, USA using community science data”
2nd place. Presenting author: Grace Litavsky
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Emily Minor
Title of Poster: “The effect of recent mowing on bee richness and abundance in Chicago vacant lots”
3rd Place. Presenting author: Edwin Quiroz
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Ashley
Title of Poster: “Aphid Infestation and Monarch Oviposition in Urban Gardens”
Graduate student winners
1st place. Presenting author: Phong Lai
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Janet Richmond
Title of poster: “Analysis of the endolysosomal pathway in C. elegans coelomocytes”
2nd place. Presenting author (tie): Karoline Dittmer
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Eric Stabb
Title of poster: “The Broad-Spectrum Racemase, BsrF, Enables Vibrio fischeri to Utilize Some D-amino acids”
2nd place. Presenting author (tie): Jamuna Tandukar
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rui Gao
Title of poster: “A Cell-Type Specific Investigation of Mettl3 mRNA Expression in AUD Brain”
3rd place. Presenting author (tie): Sam Fischer
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kevin Drew
Title of poster: “hu.MAP3.0: Atlas of human protein complexes by integration of > 25,000 proteomic experiments”
3rd Place. Presenting author (tie): Andi Rosner
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kevin Drew
Title of poster: “Deciphering interactomes of Candida auris and related species with high throughput proteomics”