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Congratulations to Alex, Harikesh & Zhongyuan for their poster award!
The Bowdish lab undergraduates, Zhongyuan, Harikesh & Alex, co-presented their poster entitled “Your Mama’s so phat, even a macrophage couldn’t engulf her” at the IIDR Opening Symposium and won best undergraduate poster. Don’t let the title fool you, this was a very serious piece of work on their characterization of MARCO expression & function. Below is the excerpt from the IIDR website.
Summer student Zhongyuan Tu wins IIDR studentship!
The Bowdish lab’s first member, Zhongyuan Tu, has won a summer studentship award from the IIDR for his proposal called “How does the macrophage scavenger receptor MARCO signal?”. Zhongyuan will be starting in the lab in May and will continue on as a thesis student. During this time he will study the role of the macrophage scavenger receptor MARCO in adhesion, motility and phagocytosis. Congratulations Zhongyuan!
Dawn judges at the BASEF
Dawn attended the Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair as a merit judge. She spent a very enjoyable day meeting with grade 7 & 8 students. The projects were superb and the students were extremely enthusiastic and bright. She foresees being involved for years to come.