Home Department: Chemical and Systems Biology
Faculty Advisor: Margaret Fuller
Talk Title: A cell type specific transcriptional repressor directs selective upregulation of terminal differentiation program
Event: 56th Annual Drosophila Research Conferenc

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Gene expression profiling in an adult stem cell lineage identified a putative transcriptional repressor critical for differentiation
Event: Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Stem Cell Biology 2013

Home Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: James Spudich
Talk Title: Single molecule studies of recombinant human α- and β-cardiac myosin to elucidate molecular mechanism of familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies
Event: 56th Biophysical Society Meeting

Dr. Joo Ha Hwang specializes in early detection of gastrointestinal malignancies including esophageal cancer, gastric (stomach) cancer, pancreatic cancer, bile duct cancer and colon cancer. Dr. Hwang performs advanced endoscopic procedures including EUS-FNA, ERCP and enteroscopy. In addition, Dr. Hwang also performs per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) to resect large colorectal polyps, and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) to resect early esophageal, gastric, and colorectal cancers.

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Beth Pruitt
Talk Title: Balancing forces in cell pairs
Event: 2014 World Congress of Biomechanics

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Parametric analysis of strain effects on adhesions junctions
Event: ASME: Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference 2011