Congratulations to winners at Annual Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium hosted by MBGSO

  • March 18, 2025
Awards & Honors

The Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Organization hosted their 2025 Annual Symposium. It was a huge success! 

Congratulations to the presenter winners!

Oral presentations 

1st place: Pradeep Moon Gunasekaran, Advisor Shin-Heng Chiou, PhD

2nd place: Abigail (Abby) Heller, Advisor Chiara Manzini, PhD 

Poster presentations 

1st place: Eleanor (Nellie) Agosta, Advisor Cristina Montagna, PhD

2nd place: Sebastian Gallon, Advisor Bobby Brooke Herrera, PhD

3rd place: Prateeksha Rout, Advisor Michael Verzi, PhD

Click here for the symposium booklet 

Also see attached for beautiful artwork that the graduate students created by making individual origami cranes that were then strung together in a beautiful mobile that will hang in The Child Health Institute.

Congratulations also to our keynote speaker, Dr. Zhiping Pang who won the 2024 Rutgers Health Foundation Excellence in Research award from the School of Graduate Studies.

Thank you to our hard working MBGSO Board for putting together such a wonderful symposium:

President: Reem Alatrash

Vice president: Sayoni Chatterjee

Treasurer: Salman Sirajee

Secretary: Prateeksha Rout

Program Coordinator: Noah Mac

Media director: Eton Victor

Public Relations Officer: Seanna Kelly

Development Officer: Alexandra Logerfo

MBGSA award winners 2025

Origami