Congratulations to Graduate Student Skylar Wright for receiving first place for best oral presentation at the 2023 Graduate Student Research Day. Skylar is a member of Dr. Vijay Rathinam’s laboratory, and her project focuses on understanding how pyroptosis--an inflammatory form of cell death--is able to cause death in unstimulated bystander cells and contribute to widespread inflammation during bacterial infections.
![Skylar Wright, Dr. Vijay Rathinam](https://health.uconn.edu/immunology/wp-content/uploads/sites/67/2023/08/Skylar-350-x250.gif)