Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja Receives a UConn Research Excellence Program Award

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Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja
Congratulations to Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja on receiving a UConn Research Excellence Program award for her proposal entitled, “Modulation of Noncanonical Inflammasome by Bacterial Pathogen”. The focus of this project is to understand the mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens modulate the host innate immune responses to successfully establish an infection.

Erica Lorenzo Receives a Glenn/AFAR Scholarship

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Erica Lorenzo and Dr. Laura Haynes
Erica Lorenzo, pictured here with her mentor Dr. Laura Haynes, received a Glenn/AFAR Scholarship for Research in the Biology of Aging. This competitive program is designed to give students enrolled in M.D., D.O., Ph.D., or combined-degree programs the opportunity to conduct a three-to-six-month research project focused on biomedical research in aging with the goal of learning more about the field of aging research, as well as increasing their understanding of the challenges involved in improving the quality of life for older people.

Fall 2016 Department of Immunology Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Awards

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An abundance of Fall 2016 awards for our Immunology graduate students and postdoctoral fellows! Please clink on the link to read more about their accomplishments. Seated Front Row Left to Right: April Masters, Ishita Banerjee, Paurvi Shinde. Standing Back Row Left to Right: Julie Svedova, Basak Cicek, Spencer Keilich. Not pictured: Dr. Jenna Bartley and Dr. Payal Mittal.
An abundance of Fall 2016 awards for our Immunology graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Seated Front Row Left to Right: April Masters, Ishita Banerjee, Paurvi Shinde. Standing Back Row Left to Right: Julie Svedova, Basak Cicek, Spencer Keilich. Not pictured: Dr. Jenna Bartley and Dr. Payal Mittal.

Oral Presentation and Travel Award for Graduate Student Julia Svedova

September 2016
The Society for Leukocyte Biology’s 40th annual meeting in Verona, Italy.

In conjunction with the Neutrophil 2016 meeting, Ms. Svedova presented her work at a section entitled, “Enabling Technologies for Leukocyte Research”.

Travel Award for Graduate Student April Masters

September 2016

Ms. Masters received a HCRAC travel award to attend the 2016 Northern Immunological Mountain Society Conference held in Bolton, Vermont, September 9-11.

Oral Presentation for Graduate Student Spencer Keilich

September 2016
The 2016 Northern Immunological Mountain Society Conference held in Bolton, Vermont.

Mr. Keilich presented his research entitled, “Aging augments the impact of influenza respiratory tract infection on mobility impairments, muscle-localized inflammation and muscle atrophy.”

Travel Award for Graduate Student Paurvi Shinde

October 2016
2016 International Society for Vaccines (ISV) Congress Conference in Boston, M.A.

Ms. Shinde received the ISV Presidential Travel Award for the 2016 ISV Congress.

Travel Award for Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Payal Mittal

October 2016
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) – Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Conference in Boston, M.A.

Dr. Mittal received a Scholar-In Training Award. This event provided a unique opportunity for the authors of highly rated abstracts to present their work to an audience of researchers from around the world. As the sixth in the series, this conference will continue to provide a forum for the effective exchange of ideas among basic cancer immunologists, non-immunologists and clinical oncologists, from academia to industry.

$1,600 Scholarship Award for Graduate Student April Masters

October 2016
Ms. Masters received this scholarship provided by the NIH for the Short Course on Systems Genetics held at the Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, C.T.

Charles Janeway Poster Award for Graduate Student Basak Cicek

October 2016
New England Immunology Conference held in Woods Hole, M.A.

Ms. Cicek’s poster was entitled, “Discovery of a novel subset of lung resident macrophages that regulate pathogen clearance and immune homeostasis after respiratory infection”.

AAI Young Investigator Award for Graduate Student Ishita Banerjee

October 2016
New England Immunology Conference held in Woods Hole, M.A.

Ms. Banerjee’s poster was entitled, “A Novel Function of the AIM2 Inflammasome in Type I Interferon Regulation”.

Oral Presentation for Post-Doctoral Fellow Jenna Bartley

November 2016
2nd Annual Northeastern Glenn Meeting on the Biology of Aging, Yale University, New Haven, C.T.

Dr. Bartley’s talk is entitled “Aging augments the impact of influenza respiratory tract infection on mobility impairments, muscle-localized inflammation, and muscle atrophy.”