2023 Winners: 11th Annual San Antonio Postdoctoral Research Forum
Keynote Speaker
Jennifer Sharpe Potter, PhD, MPH
Vice President for Research
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
UT Health San Antonio
"Science Matters - How It Started, How It’s Going"
UT Health San Antonio
Iriscilla Ayala, PhD
Mentor: Luke Norton, PhD
Department: Medicine - Diabetes
1st place: THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL FUNCTION OF TCF7L2 IS SPATIALLY RESTRICTED IN LIVER AND REGULATES ZONATED METABOLIC PATHWAYS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO LIVER DISEASE
Bojana Stefanovska, PhD
Mentor: Reuben Harris, PhD
Department: Biochemistry and Structural Biology
2nd place: APOBEC3B AND DNA LIGASE 1 AS SYNTHETIC LETHAL PAIRS
Carlos Rivera, PhD
Mentor: Paolo Casali, PhD
Department: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
3rd place: INTRINSIC B CELL TLR-BCR LINKED COENGAGEMENT INDUCES CLASS-SWITCHED, HYPERMUTATED, NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY RESPONSES IN ABSENCE OF T CELL
Francisca Acosta, PhD
Mentor: Jean X. Jiang, PhD
Department: Biochemistry & Structural Biology
Best Oral Presentation: OSTEOCYTE CONNEXIN HEMICHANNELS AND ASSOCIATED PGE2 RELEASE REGULATE ADIPOGENESIS AND BODY METABOLISM