GLWI graduate students win awards in
neuroscience, toxicology, engineering

Posted: April 24, 2009

Jennifer Forecki won the award for best graduate poster at the 26th Midwest Neurobiology Meeting.

Updated: May 7, 2009

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) graduate students conducting research at the Great Lakes WATER Institute (GLWI) recently won awards for work in neuroscience, toxicology, and engineering.

Jennifer Forecki, a third-year doctoral student in neuroscience, won the best graduate poster award at the 26th Midwest Neurobiology Meeting, held Apr. 17-19 in Milwaukee.

Forecki's poster was titled, "Developing Tools to Study the Role of GAP-43 Phosphorylation in Axon Guidance in the Developing and Regenerating Visual System of Zebrafish." She conducted the research in collaboration with her advisor, Ava Udvadia, assistant professor of biological sciences at GLWI and UWM.

Forecki's research efforts also earned her the Louise Neitge Mather Scholarship, awarded Apr. 23 by the UWM Department of Biological Sciences at its annual research symposium.

Dena Hammond won the award for best oral presentation at UWM 's Biological Sciences Research Symposium.

Dena Hammond, also a third-year

doctoral student in neuroscience in the Udvadia lab, won two awards at the Apr. 23 symposium: the Ruth Walker Grant-in-Aid award, and the best oral presentation award. Hammond's presentation was titled, "Co-localization of Calcineurin, Mef2 and Cabin1 in the Developing Nervous System."

Qing Liu, a third-year doctoral student in molecular toxiciology, won the Victor A. Drill Award for best student poster at the Society of Toxicology's Midwest Regional Chapter Meeting, held May 1 in Lincolnshire, Ill.

Liu's poster was titled, "Time- and Dose-dependent Effects of Dietary TCDD in Juvenile Rainbow Trout." He conducted the research under the guidance of co-advisors Michael Carvan, Shaw associate scientist at GLWI, and Reinhold Hutz, professor of biological sciences at UWM.

Marcia Silva, a third-year doctoral student in civil engineering, took second place for her poster, "Fate and Transport of Bacteria at Bradford Beach and Atwater Beach, Milwaukee, WI—Engineering and Science at the Land-Water Interface," in the UWM College of Engineering and Applied Science's graduate poster competition, held on campus Apr. 4.

Silva conducted her research in collaboration with co-advisors Sandra McLellan, associate scientist at GLWI, and Hector Bravo, associate professor of engineering at UWM.

Marcia Silva won second place in UWM's College of Engineering and Applied Science poster competition.

Qing Liu won the award for best student poster at the Society of Toxicology's Midwest Regional Chapter Meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

–Jennifer Yauck