Congratulations to the 28 undergraduate and graduate students who won poster prizes for presenting their research at
The CMNS comms team spoke with four of the poster prize winners and wrote an article about their respective research projects and their experiences at Bioscience Day.
- Viviana Alpizar, bioengineering and neuroscience dual-degree undergraduate student
- Michael Shuster, biological sciences Ph.D. student
- Jennifer Tabet, neuroscience major
- Alyssa Evangelista, biological sciences major
Alpizar won a first-place poster prize for her research poster, “Cholesterol Depletion Increases Nanogel Uptake in iPSC Derived Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells.” After Bioscience Day, she presented this research at the 2022 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting.
Junior neuroscience major Jennifer Tabet studies the power of physical touch, and presented her research in the Neurocognitive Development Lab at UMD. She won a second-place prize for her poster, “Parent-Child Touch and Children’s Brain Development.”
