Student Honors
2020
This year Covid19 has brought many challenges our way and along with it proof that our students can accomplish anything even in the midst of a pandemic.
- Amanda Acosta (Levitz lab) was appointed as a Yale Ciencia Academy Fellow for 2020. This innovative program is part of the Career Development Program at Ciencia Puerto Rico. As part of her work at Ciencia Puerto Rico, Amanda also attended the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020 Meeting. In addition, Amanda also led the project Ask A Scientist, a COVID-19 Collaborative Project between the National Science Policy Network and the Federation of American Scientists Connecting Public and State Government with Scientist COVID-19 Insight. This network of 500+ scientists answered 1500+ questions.
- Nevin Yusufova’s (Melnick lab) abstract titled "Histone 1 Mutations Drive Lymphomagenesis By Inducing Primitive Stem Cell Functions and Epigenetic Instructions through Profound 3D Re-Organization of the B-Cell Genome" was published in Blood (https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2019-127774) and won an Abstract Achievement Award.
- Tapojyoti Das (Eliezer lab) received a merit-based BPS Travel Award for his presentation in 2020 at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
2019
It’s been another exceptional year on York Avenue, and BCMB Students have got the awards to show for it!
- Yujie Fan (Studer Lab) was awarded the Frank Lappin Horsfall, Jr Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year.
- Amanda Acosta (Levitz Lab) was a featured scientist in Rockefeller University’s “Scientists of New York #sciony” blog. Read more about Amanda’s experiences here!
- BCMB students Alyna Katti (Dow Lab) and Vidur Garg (Hadjantonakis Lab) took home 1st and 2nd place in the Annual du Vigneaud Second year & Above Poster Awards.
2018
Summer is almost here, and scientific accomplishment is in the air! After a stellar 2017 (see below for more details), BCMB Students have continued to thrive during the first half of 2018.
- Maria Bustillo (Zallen lab) and Nevin Yusufova (Melnick lab) who were both recognized for their outstanding research at the 38th Annual du Vignuead Research Symposium in April 2018. Maria won 1st place for her Student Talk, and Nevin won 2nd place in the Poster awards category.
- Christopher Notzel (Kafsack lab) and Theodoros Giavridis (Sadelain Lab) who were named as the 2018 recipients of the prestigious Julian R. Rachele Prize. The Rachele Prize is the highest student award presented by WCGS, and it honors students who have published a major contribution to research in a scientific journal.
- Aaron Chang (Scheinberg Lab) who has been named as the winner of the 2018 Distinguished Student Commencement Speaker Award. This marks the fifth year in a row where a BCMB Student has been chosen by her or his peers to deliver a commencement address.
2017
Over the past 12 months, several BCMB students have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to science.
- Mridula Balakrishnan (Mary Baylies lab), who won 3rd prize in Weill Cornell's 2017 Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for her talk Understanding Nemaline Myopathy (NM), a Fly's Perspective.
- Angela Park (Richard Hite lab) and Alex Minikes (Xuejun Jiang lab), who took 1st and 2nd place awards as the People’s Choice Posters at this year’s Annual BCMB Retreat.
- Guanshi Wang (Alexandros Pertsinidis lab), who was named co-recipient of the 2017 Julian R. Rachele Prize.
- Faranak Fattahi (Lorenz Studer lab), who received the Distinguished Student Commencement Speaker Award at the 2017 Cornell Commencement in Carnegie Hall. Faranak continues a prestigious winning streak among her peers—students from the BCMB program have been honored as Distinguished Student Commencement Speakers for the past four years: 2017: Faranak Fattahi (Lorenz Studer lab); 2016: Natalya Gertsik (Yueming Li lab); 2015: Igor Dikiy (David Eliezer lab); 2014: Victoria Kalasinsky (Mary Baylies lab).
- Yan Zhang (Richard White lab), Yun-Han Huang (Joan Massague lab), and Mridula Balakrishnan (Mary Baylies lab), who all took 2nd Place in the Oral Presentations category at the 37th Annual Vincent du Vigneaud Memorial Research Symposium.
- Pradeep Ramalingam, MD (Jason Butler lab), who won 1st Place in the Second-Year and Above Poster Award at the 37th Annual Vincent du Vigneaud Memorial Research Symposium.
- Priya Bhardwaj (Frederick Maxfield lab), who won 1st Place in the First-Year Poster Award category at the 37th Annual Vincent du Vigneaud Memorial Research Symposium.
- Pan Deng (Cole Haynes lab), who received the Frank Lappin Horsfall Jr., Student Fellowship in May 2016.