Graduate students present research progress during inaugural symposium

Natthida Tongluan, who was awarded Outstanding Young Scientist, presents at the symposium.

Graduate basic medical sciences students from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology presented their research progress during an inaugural symposium earlier this month.  

Rachel Rodenberg, left, receives the award

for best symposium presentation from

Kevin Macaluso, Ph.D., professor and chair

of microbiology and immunology.

Rachel Rodenberg earned the best symposium presentation, while Natthida Tongluan was named Outstanding Young Scientist by a panel of judges.  

Other student presenters included Killian Brewer, Nam Suwanbongkot, Amanda Tuckey and Meagan Taylor.   

The keynote speaker, Brian Fouty, M.D., a professor of internal medicine who also serves in the Department of Pharmacology and the Center for Lung Biology, shared details with the students about his educational and professional journey through science and how it has shaped his career as a clinical researcher. 

Allyson E. Shea, Ph.D., an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, served as the organizer and moderator of the event.  

View abstracts of the students' presentations.