LHRD 2023 Physiology and Pharmacology Poster Winners
Congratulations Poster Award Winners
Our annual LHRD event was wonderful this year. Physiology and Pharmacology had a great turn out. Congratulations to all our poster award winners, listed below. Special thank you to all the student participants, poster judges and organizers.
Alexandra Troitskaya, Undergraduate Student
Supervisors: Sean Gill and Ruud Veldhuizen
Title of poster: “Inflammatory Response to Mechanical Ventilation: Impact of Aging”.
Adrianna Tsang, PhD Candidate
Supervisor: Stephen Pasternak
Title of poster: “Investigating lysosomal exocytosis as a pathway of beta-amyloid release from neurons”.
Mehreen Tufail, MSc Candidate
Supervisor: Qingping Feng
Title of poster: " SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein does not induce endothelial cell inflammation".
Ryleigh Van Neck, MSc Candidate
Supervisor: Qingping Feng
Title of poster:”Maternal exercise improves fetal heart development during pregestational diabetes in eNOS heterozygous mice”.
Stephanie Wojtowicz, PhD Candidate
Supervisor: John DiGuglielmo
Title of poster: “Characterizing How DHP2 Inhibits Transforming Growth Factor-beta Receptor Signalling”.
Robert Wong, PhD Candidate
Supervisor: Donglin Bai
Title of poster: "Identifying Molecular Structural Determinants of Heterotypic Docking and Formation of Functional Gap Junction Channels Among Human Lens Connexins".
Xin Yue (Sharon) Xie, MSc Candidate
Supervisor: David Hess
Title of poster: "Functional validation of human multipotent stromal cell-secreted islet regenerative proteins".
