HPH NOW, April 2, 2004, Poster Day Winners Announced


	Matthias Schulze

More than 60 posters were presented at the annual HSPH Poster and Exhibit Day on Thursday, March 11 in the Kresge cafeteria. This year, there was a competition for two $500 awards–one for best poster or exhibit by a student, or by a team on which a student was the first author and presenter, and one for best poster or exhibit by a postdoctoral fellow, or by a team on which a postdoctoral fellow was the first author and presenter. The posters were judged by the Faculty Council.

The student winner was Jessica Su in the Department of Epidemiology for her poster, "A Genome-Wide Scan of the Age at Onset of Mania Yields Three Potential Susceptibility Loci."


Iris Shai

There was a tie for the postdoctoral fellow poster contest. Matthias Schulze won for "Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drinks is Related to Greater Weight Gain and Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women." Iris Shai won for "A Multivariate Assessment of Lipid Parameters as Predictors of Coronary Heart Disease among Women–Potential Implications for Clinical Guidelines." Both fellows are in the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology.

Honorable Mentions/Students:

Mohamed Arredouani, "Macrophage Class A Scavenger Receptors and Lung Inflammation"

Patricia Fabian, "Effect of Upper-Room Germicidal Ultraviolet Light on Airborne Rhinovirus Concentrations in Grade School Classrooms"

Vanessa Lopez-Pajares, "Critical Role for the MDM2/MDMX Hetercomplex in p53 Regulation"

Carmen Marsit, "Teenage Smoking is Associated with Alterations of Chromosome 3p21.3 in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer"

Kerri Mowen, "Arginine Methylation Controls T-Helper Cytokine Gene Expression via PRMT1 and NIP45"

Dariush Mozaffarian, "Dietary Intake of Trans-Fatty Acids and Systemic Inflammation among Women"

Sung Kyun Park, "Source Location of Air Pollution and Cardiac Autonomic Functions"

Seema Thakore, "Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 Subtype A3 in West Africa"

Judy Tsai, "Lifting the FOG on Adipogenesis"

Honorable Mentions/Postdoctoral Fellows:

Ana Baylin, "Arachidonic Acid in Adipose Tissue and Non-Fatal Acute Myocardial"

Karoline Majken Jensen, "Intake of Whole Grains, Bran, and Germ and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease among Men"

Richard Johnston, "Host Defenses are Compromised in Ob/Ob Mice Following Pulmonary Escherichia Coli Infection"

Esther Lopez-Garcia, "Consumption of Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Plasma Concentrations of Inflammatory and Endothelial Dysfunction Markers"

Liza Makowski, "Escorting Fat: The Role of Fatty-Acid Binding Proteins"

Iris Shai, "The Role of Soluble Intercellular Adhesion Molecules-1 (sICAM-1) and Soluble Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecules-1 (sVCAM-1) in Prediction of First CHD Event in Men"

Jennifer Weuve, "Identifying Predictors of Cognitive Function and Cognitive Change when the Outcome Measurement has a Ceiling"

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