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Mary Kate Mehegan (“The Last of the Mehegans”) won 5th place at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium. This was the largest pool of competitors this event has ever seen, making it stiff competition!
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Emily Wyatt was awarded a UGA Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant for Doctoral Students award for her groundbreaking research to develop a stem cell therapy for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI is one of the leading causes of death and long-term disability among persons in the United States. Despite the number of…
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Tina Ethridge won second place in the 2015 College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Research Symposium oral presentation competition! She didn’t invent induced pluripotent stem cells; she just made them great!
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Congratulations to Mary Kate Mehegan for winning fourth place in the 2015 College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Research Symposium! What a SUPERSTAR!!
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Congratulations to Tina Ethridge for winning 3rd place in the 2014 CAES Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Competition! She presented an exciting poster entitled “mRNA Reprogramming of Leigh’s Syndrome Patient Human Fibroblasts into Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Clinical Research.” Very exciting work that will hopefully one day help in drug discovery and treatment of these patients.
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Vivian Lau won 1st Place in the 2013 Science of Veterinary Medicine Symposium Graduate Student Poster Presentation with her poster entitled “Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Histology, and Sensorimotor Analysis of a Novel Ischemic Stroke Pig Model.” Congrats to her and co-authors.
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Vivian was awarded a travel grant to present her ground breaking research in the development of a pig stroke model at the 4th Annual Southern Translational Education and Research (STaR) conference (https://www.rxugace.com/STAR). This year’s focus is “Brain Injury: Pathways to Recovery.” Come see her talk entitled “Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Functional Analysis of a Novel…
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Amie Goedeke received a fellowship to work on the derivation of canine induced pluripotent stem cells from the Morris Animal Foundation. These unique canine stem cells can be turned into neurons to help daschunds with spinal cord injury or mesenchymal cells for dogs with bone or cartilage defects or arthritis. This personalized medicine option gets…
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Amber was a key part of our pig stroke model team. Her project was studying behavioral changes post-stroke and she assisted with histological and MRI studies. This work won her 4th place in the 2013 College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium Oral Competition (see abstract here). We are going to miss Amber,…
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Kaitlin Jones represented the pig stroke model research and development group at this years 2nd Annual College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium. Her in-depth discussion of the development of the model and the MRI and sensory motor function characterization lead to a 4th place finish in stiff competition. Way to go Kaitlin…
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