Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Human Genetics PhD Candidate Garners Research Awards, Accolades

Qi Yang, a PhD candidate in the Department of Human Genetics, has been invited for oral presentations by three prestigious national conferences for her research work in early hematopoiesis in 2009. Hematopoiesis is the formation of blood or of blood cells in a living body. The conferences to which she received invitations are the Keystone Symposia for Molecular and Cellular Biology, the American Association of Immmunologists (AAI), and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).

Qi was awarded 2009 AAI Abstract Trainee Award for her presentation, “The Transcription Factor E47 Controls the Cell Cycle Quiescence and Development of Multipotent Hematopoietic Progenitors.” This award recognizes outstanding research work from student and post-doc trainees that has been selected for oral presentation.

Her other two presentations were “The Transcription Factor E47 Controls the Cell Cycle Quiescence and Development of Multipotent Hematopoietic Progenitors During Progression to B Lineage” at Keystone Symposia and “Essential Role of E47 in Hematopoietic Stem Cells” at the FASEB annual meeting.

As a third-year PhD student, Qi has recently published her first first-author paper and co-authored three others in high-impact journals. She is now laying the groundwork for potential postdoc opportunities, while preparing her second first-author manuscript.