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Annual Merck / BE-BMES Poster Session

 

5th Annual Merck/ BE-BMES Undergraduate Research Poster Session

Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
Time: 6pm
Location: Stata R&D Commons (Building 32, 4th Floor)

3 winners receive cash prizes of $500, $300, or $100!

Work will be judged on quality of research, poster, and presentation. Broad range of biological engineering research topics accepted!




This year's winners:

1st: Omar Abudayyeh - "Gold Nanoparticles Bearing Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigens as a Cancer Vaccine Construct: Determination of their Antigen Coverage and Investigation of Cellular Uptake"

2nd: Anne Ye - "Crystallographic Approach to Protein Engineering BirA for Protein Tagging"

3rd: Yadir Guerrero - " 'TCPBP' Tethered EGF Increases Early Passage Primary Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation and Conserves Multipontency in 3D Beta-TCP Scaffolds"

Congratulations!




List of past winners:

4th Annual Merck/ BE-BMES Poster Symposium (2008)

1st: Jarrett Remsberg
2nd: Saja Fakhraldeen
3rd: Roshini Zachariah


3rd Annual Merck/ BE-BMES Poster Session (2007)

1st place:
Angiogenesis Inhibition Through Layer-by-Layer Drug Delivery Methods
Natalia M. Rodriguez, Mara Macdonald, Paula T. Hammond
Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2nd place tie:
Intracellular Translocation and Cytoskeletal Association of Syndecan-1 in Response to Mechanical Strain
Aaron B. Baker1,Andrew L. Ji1, and Elazer R. Edelman1,2
1Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA; 2Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Effects of nitric oxide inhibition on Citrobacter rodentium-induced colonic disease
Patricia Zheng1, Megan McBee1, Diana Borenshtein1, Barry Rickman2, James Fox1,2, David Schauer1,2
1Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; 2Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA