Page 9 - Pharmacology Newsletter 2022

Pharmacology MATTERS
Asumi Hoshino (rotating)
The role of microtubule severing protein UNC-45A in microtubule curvature
2022 American Society of Cell Biology Meeting
Edith Hernandez (advisor: Sade Spencer) Metformin Effects on Cocaine Conditioned Reward in Male and Female Rats
2022 American College of Neuropsychopharma- cology Meeting
FREDERICK E. SHIDEMAN LEADERSHIP AWARD
This peer-nominated award recognizes exemplary contributions to the Pharmacology community, made outside of the research lab, by a senior PhD student. The 2022 recipient of this award is:
Aditi Bapat (advisor: Kaylee Schwertfeger)
MPaT ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD
This award is given in recognition of exceptional academic performance by graduate students in Pharmacology. Awards given to PhD students are based on the quality of their written pre- liminary exam, while awards for MS students are based on academic performance in core coursework.
The 2022 recipients of the PhD awards are: Bushra Haider (advisor: Kevin Wickman)
Apoorva Limaye (advisor: Nick Levinson) The 2022 recipients of the MS awards are:
Nikita Kamath (advisor: Julie Ostrander) Himani Sharma (advisor: Ameeta Kelekar)
Sachinthani Senevirathne
Hannah McMullan
Sanghoon Choi
Edith Hernandez
Jingran Cao
Abigail Brewer
Asumi Hoshino
Bushra Haider
OTHER AWARDS
Apoorva Limaye
The Department of Pharma- cology congratulates Aditi Bapat and Apoorva Limaye on their performances in the 3MT competition. The 3-Minute Thesis (3MT®) challenges students to com- municate the significance of
Aditi Bapat
Aditi Bapat took 3rd place in the Medical School com- petition. Apoorva Limaye took 1st place in the Medi- cal School competition with her talk "Unraveling protein dynamics to facilitate ra- tional drug designing" &
their projects without the use of props or in- dustry jargon, in just three minutes.
moved on to the University-Wide competition where she earned 2nd place.
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