Annual IDM Research Day

2018 IDM Research Day
Thursday, September 13
Noon - 3 p.m., O'Hara Student Center

Students, alumni, and faculty: learn about current research and support the PhD, MS, and MPH students presenting posters to faculty judges.

Selected winners are then invited to present their work on Monday, September 17 as part of the departmental seminar series at noon in the Public Health Lecture Hall (A115).

2018 Winners

PhD Presentations
1st Place (tie): Jennifer Bowling "Natural History of Pneumonic Tularemia in Outbred New Zealand White Rabbits"
1st Place (tie): Nicole Grant "Investigating Cellular Characteristics of Early and Late TB Granulomas in Non-Human Primates”
2nd Place: Henry Ma “Radiofrequency Telemetry Monitoring of Inhalatioal Alphavirus Disease in Cynomolgus Maqcaques Provide Biomarkers for Infection”
3rd Place: Priyanka Talukdar "Type III Interferons are Expressed by Epithelioid Macrophages Tuberculosis Granuloma"

MPH-MIC Presentations
1st Place: Kelsey Messerschmidt “A Logistical Review of Points-of-Dispensing Sites in Allegheny County”
2nd Place: Lindsay Summers “Building Skills at the Local Level: A Competency Bases Approach to Public Health Workforce Development”
3rd Place: Jessica Salerno “Preliminary Characterization of Reasons behind Measles Undervaccination in Europe and the United States”

MPH-PEL Presentations
1st Place: Alexandra Weissman “Development of a Rapid Clinical Flow Cytometric Assay of Neutrophil Cell-Surface Biomarkers”
2nd Place: Justin Dutta “Follistatin-Like Protein 1 Deficiency Plays a Protective Role in Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection via Innate Immunity Mechanisms”
3rd Place: Cory Hayes "Predicting Hospital Readmission Risk: Conducting a Retrospective Cohort to Assess and Validate the Accuracy of a Real-Time Multiple Logistic Regression Tool for Accessing the Likelihood of Patient Readmission Upon Discharge"