Selected student presentations

  • "Elucidating the Contribution of Negative Regulatory NLRs in Traumatic Brain Injury". Meza, A., Brickler, T., Countermarsh-Ott, S., Theus, M., and Allen, I.C.
    Poster Presentation at the 2015 Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science National Conference. Washington, DC. October 29-31, 2015.
  • "NLRX1 attenuates Tumorigenesis Through the Negative Regulation of AKT and NF-κB Signaling". Coutermarsh-Ott, S., Simmons, A., Capria, V., LeRoith, T., Heid, B., Washington, C., Dervisis, N., Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan, V., Hontecillas-Magarzo, R., Bassaganya-Riera, J., Allen, I.C.
    Poster Presentation, American College of Veterinary Pathologists Combined Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. October 17-21, 2015.
  • "Loss of NLRX1 results in increased intestinal pathology and T cell responses in mice with inflammatory bowel disease". Eden, K., Hontecillas, R., Viladomiu, M., Philipson, C., Carbo, A., Leber, A., Philipson, N., Tattoli, I., Girardin, S.E., Allen, I.C., and Bassaganya-Riera, J.
    American College of Veterinary Pathologists Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. October 17-21, 2015.
  • "Evaluating the Inflammasome's Role in PAMP Recognition and Cytokine Production in Epithelial Organoids". Aponte-Santiago, L.A., Rothschild, D.E., Allen, I.C.
    Poster Presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. Seattle, WA. November 11-15, 2015.
  • "Roles for NLRX1, NF-kB, and AKT Signaling in Canine Histiocytic Sarcoma." Coutermarsh-Ott, S., Eden, K., Dervisis, N., Allen, I.C. 
    2016 Poster presentation at the ACVP and ASVCP Concurrent Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, December 3-7, 2016.
  • "Lack of NF-κB Inducing Kinase (NIK) Results in Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) and Gastric Hyperplasia in Mice: Implications of Noncanonical NF-κB Signaling in Human EoE." Eden, K. McDaniel, D.K., Heid, B., Allen, I.C.
    Oral and poster presentation at the ACVP and ASVCP Concurrent Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, December 3-7, 2016.
  • "Enhanced Mucosal Defense in Mice with a potentially compromised negative regulator IRAK-M. Rothschild, D., Zhang, Y., Diao, N., Lee, C., Chen, K., Caswell, C.C., LeRoith, T., Allen, I.C.
    Poster presentation at the AAI Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., May 15, 2017. 
  • "Lack of NF-κB-Inducing Kinase (NIK) Results in Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) and Gastric Hyperplasia in Mice: Implications for Noncanonical NF-κB Signaling in Human EoE." Eden, K., McDaniel, D., Allen, I.C.
    Virginia Tech Graduate Research Symposium, Blacksburg, VA, Mar 29, 2017.
  • "Lack of NF-κB-Inducing Kinase (NIK) Results in Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) and Gastric Hyperplasia in Mice: Implications for Noncanonical NF-κB Signaling in Human EoE." Eden, K., McDaniel, D., Allen, I.C. 
    Poster Presentation at Biomedical and Veterinary Science Graduate Research Symposium. March 16, 2017. 
  • "Lack of NF-κB-Inducing Kinase (NIK) Results in Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) and Gastric Hyperplasia in Mice: Implications for Noncanonical NF-κB Signaling in Human EoE" Eden, K., McDaniel, D., Allen, I.C.
    Oral presentation at the Experimental Biology Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 22-26, 2017. 
  • "Lack of NF-κB-Inducing Kinase (NIK) Results in Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) and Gastric Hyperplasia in Mice: Implications for Noncanonical NF-κB Signaling in Human EoE." Eden, K., McDaniel, D., Allen, I.C.
    Oral and poster presentation at the AAI Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 12-16, 2017.

Graduate student honors

  • 2020 - Margaret Nagai-Singer, Second Place, Eye-opening Societal Interventions Category, Flash Talk Presentation. Spring Graduate Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. April 15, 2020. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2020 - Holly Morrison, Third Place, Myths and Mysteries Unraveled Category, Research Oral Presentation. Spring Graduate Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. April 15, 2020. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2019 - Rebecca Brock, First Place, Biology Division, Oral Presentation, 3rd World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine, Food, and Environmental Technologies. September 6, 2019. Toulouse, France.
  • 2019 - Rebecca Brock, Meritorious Travel Award for the 3rd World Congress on Electroporation. September 3-6, 2019. Toulouse, France.
  • 2019 - Holly Morrison, Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Presentation, Virginia Drug Discovery Conference. May 22, 2019. Roanoke, VA.
  • 2019 - Alissa Hendricks, Gold Award for Best Oral Presentation, 35th Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2019 - Holly Morrison, Silver Award for Best Short Talk Presentation, 35th Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2019 - Brie Trusiano, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Doctoral Scholar Awardee
  • 2019 - Margaret Nagai-Singer, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Doctoral Scholar Awardee
  • 2019 - Kristin Eden, Virginia Tech, Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.
  • 2018 - Veronica Ringel-Scaia, AAI Travel Grant for the 5th European Congress of Immunology. September 2-5, 2018. Amsterdam, NL.
  • 2018 - Rebecca Brock, AACR Travel Grant for the AACR/KCR Joint Conference on Precision edicine in Solid Tumors. November 15-17, 2018. Seoul, Korea.
  • 2018 - Dylan McDaniel, Second Place Best Poster Presentation, 29th Annual Research Symposium. Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2018 - Rebecca Brock, VT Graduate Student Assembly, Graduate Research and Development Award.
  • 2018 - Dylan McDaniel, Silver Award for Best Oral Presentation, 34th Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2018 - Kristin Eden, First Place Best Oral Presentation, 29th Annual Research Symposium. Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2018 - Kristin Eden, VMCVM Nominee for the 2018 National Phi Zeta Research Award in the Basic Science Category
  • 2018 - Sheryl Coutermarsh-Ott, Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.
  • 2017 - Daniel Rothschild, VT Graduate Student Assembly, Graduate Research and Development Award.
  • 2017 - Kristin Eden, VT Graduate Student Assembly, Graduate Research and Development Award.
  • 2017 - Sheryl Coutermarsh-Ott, VT Graduate Student Assembly, Graduate Research and Development Award.
  • 2017 - Daniel Rothschild, AAI 2017 Travel Award. Awards were selected on the basis of the quality of the abstract submitted to the annual international meeting Immunology 2017.
  • 2017 - Kristin Eden, AAI 2017 Travel Award. Awards were selected on the basis of the quality of the abstract submitted to the annual international meeting Immunology 2017.
  • 2017 - Veronica Ringel, Bronze Award for Best Oral Presentation, 33rd Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2017 - Kristin Eden, Gold Award for Best Oral Presentation, 33rd Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2017 - Daniel Rothschild, Gold Award for Best Poster, 33rd Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2017 - Daniel Rothschild, Gold Award, 33rd Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2017 - Sheryl Coutermarsh-Ott, VMCVM Nominee for the 2017 National Phi Zeta Research Award in the Basic Science Category
  • 2017 - Kristin Eden, ACVP/ASIP Experimental Biology Travel Award Awards were selected on the basis of the quality of the abstract submitted to the American College of Veterinary Pathologists Annual Meeting.
  • 2016 - Daniel Rothschild, Silver Award, 32nd Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA.
  • 2015 - Kristin Eden, VT Graduate Student Assembly, Graduate Research and Development Award.
  • 2015 - Sheryl Coutermarsh-Ott, 2nd Place in Poster Competition, Experimental Disease Category, American College of Veterinary Pathologists Combined Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN.
  • 2015 - Corren Freeman, 3rd Place Oral Presentation Winner of the 4th Annual Phi Zeta Research Day. Tuskegee University. Tuskegee, AL.
  • 2014 - Dylan McDaniel, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Doctoral Scholar Awardee

Undergraduate student honors

  • 2018 - Kathleen Huie, One of three students selected to present an oral presentation and represent Virginia Tech at the 2018 Atlantic Coast Conference Meeting of the Minds Conference, Chestnut Hill, MA. April 6-8.
  • 2017 - Saman Khan, Denis Dean Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Conference Best Poster Award. February 20-23.
  • 2016 - Haleigh Hixson, Best Presentation for at the Virginias Collegiate Honors Council 2016 Spring Honors Conference, Lynchburg VA. April 15-16.
  • 2015 - John Doran, received the Ciordia-Stewart Porter Research Award from the Southeastern Society of Parasitologists for the best undergraduate student paper presented at the annual meeting. April 9-11, 2015. 
  • 2015 - Armand Meza, one of 10 students selected to present a research project and represent Virginia Tech at the 2015 Atlantic Coast Conference Meeting of the Minds Conference, April 10-12, 2015.
  • 2020 - Christina Mounzer, First Place, New Educational Viewpoints Category, Flash Talk Presentation. Spring Graduate Research Symposium. Blacksburg, VA. April 15, 2020.
  • 2020 - Hanna Kiryluk, Third Place, Myths and Mysteries Unraveled Category, Poster Presentation. Spring Graduate Research Symposium. Blacksburg, VA. April 15, 2020. 
  • 2020 - Allison Zeher, Third Place, Old Problems, New Solutions Category, Poster Presentation. Spring Graduate Research Symposium. Blacksburg, VA. April 15, 2020.
  • 2020 - Hanna Kiryluk, First Place, Sigma Xi Virtual Students Scholars Symposium, Poster Presentation. May 14, 2020.