At the 7th UCSF Grad Slam competition on Tuesday, April 4, three PhD students emerged as prize-winners for their 3-minute talks, but all ten of the finalists gave impressive and engaging presentations aimed at sharing their dissertation research with a broad audience.
Read the campus news story: Learn Without a Brain Research Wins 2023 UCSF Grad Slam
Read the Synapse news story: Learn Without a Brain? You Bet!
Watch the event recording on YouTube.
Congratulations to the prize winners and other finalists for an impressive showing:
Prize Winners:
First Prize & People's Choice Award
Deepa Rajan
Tetrad Program
Wallace Marshall, PhD, and Adam Frost, MD, PhD, faculty mentors
Learning Without a Brain
Second Prize
Jaysón Davidson
Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics Program
Atul Butte, MD, PhD, faculty mentor
Improving Health Equity Bit by Bit
Third Prize
Olivia Teter
Bioengineering Program
Martin Kampmann, PhD, faculty mentor
Nipping Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the Bud
Finalists:
(in order of appearance)
Sophia Guldberg
Biomedical Sciences Program
Matthew Spitzer, PhD, faculty mentor
Cancer Can't Breathe (or Grow) With no Aire
Evelyn Hernandez
Tetrad Program
Roshanak Irannejad, PhD, faculty mentor
Sending the Right Signal – How Cells Talk to and Interpret Each Other
Victoria Sayo Turner
Neuroscience Program
Mazen Kheirbek, PhD, faculty mentor
Be Bold, Little Mouse: Finding Courage in the Brain
Mashel Fatema Saifuddin
Tetrad Program
Noelle L'Etoile, PhD, faculty mentor
Memoirs of a Worm
Saumya Bollam
Biomedical Sciences Program
Allan Balmain, PhD, faculty mentor
An Extra Nudge in the Direction of Cancer
Benjamin Wheeler
Biomedical Sciences Program
Mark Ansel, PhD, faculty mentor
Malat1 is a Spongy RNA That Helps the Immune System Remember
Canice Christian
Global Health Sciences Program
Gabriel Chamie, MD, faculty mentor
We Have the Power to Stop HIV
