The best minorities posters presented at the ASCB Annual Meeting MAC Poster Session. Each winner receives an honorarium.

Minorities Poster Session Winners

2009

Undergraduates:
First Place: Victoria Tate, NIH, NIAMS
Second Place: Danjuma Quarles, Whitworth University
Third Place: LaQuinte Brinson, Clayton State University

Graduate Students:
First Place: Timothy Raines, North Carolina A & T State University
Second Place: Joy Agee, University of Alabama, Huntsville
Third Place: Maisel Caliva, Univeristy of Hawaii, Manoa

Postdoctoral Fellows:
First Place: Carmelo Carmona Rivera, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Second Place: Raquel Raices, City of Hope
Roslyn Crowder, University of Pennsylvania

Faculty:
First Place: Shanta Hinton, Hampton University
Second Place: Ghislaine Mayer, Virginia commonwealth University
Third Place: Selwyn Williams, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

2008

Undergraduates:
First Place: Sasheen Pottinger-Francis, LaGuardia Community College
Second Place: Bridget Kreger, University of Vermont
Third Place: John Vu, University of California, Los Angeles

Graduate Students:
First Place: Alina De La Mota-Peynado, Universidad Central de Caribe
Second Place: Bado de Franco, University of Pittsburgh
Third Place: Cristy Tower, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Postdoctoral Fellows:
First Place: Raquel Raices, City of Hope
Second Place: Raymond Jones, University of Texas, Arlington
Third Place: Raquel Sitcheran, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Faculty:
First Place: Annette Gonzalez, Northwestern
Second Place: Sergio Catz, The Scripps Research
Third Place: Eduardo Martinez-Ceballos, Southern University

2007

Undergraduates:
First Place: Stephanie Valtierra, Lake Forest College
Second Place: Sonia Singhal, Yale University
Third Place: Karen LeGrand, California State University Northridge

Graduate Students:
First Place: Jose Barrera, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Second Place: Theresa Shakespeare, Stony Brook University
Third Place: Micaela Vargas, University of Texas at San Antonio

Postdoctoral Fellows:
First Place: Gloria Conover, University of Arizona
Second Place: Emmanuel Preprah, Emory University
Third Place: Luis Vidali, UMass

Faculty:
First Place: Ruben Aguilar, Purdue University
Second Place: Cindy Jo Arrigo, New Jersey City University
Third Place: Alexis J. Rodriguez, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

2006

Undergraduates:
Dwayne Clarke, Morgan State University
Evelyne Ntam, Morgan State University
Juan B. Rodriguez-Molina, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Sasan Salimian, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Graduate Students:
Maria del Rocio Montes de Oca, John Hopkins Medical School
Starlette Dossou, Creighton University
Montrell Seay, Yale University
Tiana Garrett, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Postdoctoral Fellows:
Sidney Cambridge, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Armando Varela, University of Texas at El Paso
Alexis Rodriguez, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Faculty:
Leticia R. Vega, Barry University

2005

Graduate Students
Sabrice Guerrier, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lymarie Maldonado-Baez, The Johns Hopkins University
Mauricio Cortes, University of Chicago
Anthony Aragon, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Juan Reyes, Chicago State University

Postdocs
Alex Rodriguez, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Veronica Lopez, University of California, Davis

Faculty
Omar Quintero, Franklin and Marshall College

2004

Graduate Students:
Derek Applewhite, Northwestern University
Damon Jacobs, University of North Carolina
Alissa Richmond, College of William and Mary

Postdocs:
Noel Gerard, NIH/NIAID
Souvenir Tachado, Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard University

2003

Honorable Mention:
Jasma Rucker, University of Pittsburgh
Elisha Peterson, University of Pittsburgh
Dwane Clark, Morgan State University

Graduate Students:
Elethia Woodfolk, Meharry Medical College

Honorable Mention:
David Vigerust, Vanderbilt University
Mauricio Cortes, University of Chicago

Postdocs:
Annette Gonzalez, Northwestern University
Ruben Baler, National Institutes of Health (Faculty)

2002

Honorable Mention:
Brent Elliott, NIH/NIDDK/ LDCB
Mario Fernandez, Minnesota State University, Morehead
Shazia Saleem, Southwest Texas State University

Honorable Mention:
Luis Rodriguez, Cornell University
Miriam Segura-Totten, Johns Hopkins University
Melanie Van Stry, Boston University School of Medicine

Postdocs:
Triscia Hendrickson, Emory University School of Medicine

Honorable Mention:
Sidney Cambridge, Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology
Tracie Gibson, University of Wisconsin Medical School
Annette Gonzalez, Northwestern University Medical School

2001

Honorable Mention:
Sabrice Guerrier, Long Island University
Terrance Vincent, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio

Master's Students:
Josephine Allen, University of California, Northridge.

Honorable Mention:
Wanda Ocana-Rivera, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguiez
Aria Miller, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Postdocs:
Melissa Hubbert, Wake Forrest University School of Medicine
Irving Vega, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/Rutgers University
Madeleine DeBeer, University of Wisconsin, Madison Postdoctoral Fellows Christopher Tubbs, University of Minnesota

Honorable Mention:
Jacqueline Jordan, Universities Space Research Association

2000

Graduate Students:
Alexis Rodriquez, Rutgers University
Honorable Mention: Carla Gardner, Meharry Medical College

Postdocs:
Robert Scott, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Honorable Mention:
Margaret Colden-Stanfield, Morehouse School of Medicine
Michael Garcia, University of California, San Diego

1999

Honorable Mention:
N. Dowling, et al., Norfolk State University

Graduate Students:
Raul Rojas, University of Pittsburgh

Honorable Mention:
Alma Rodenas-Ruano, University of Central Florida

Honorable Mention:
Annette Gonzalez, Northwestern University Medical School

Faculty:
Belinda Pastrana, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Honorable Mention:
Winston Thompson, Morehouse University Medical School

1998

Honorable Mention:
Julissa Sosa, California State University, Northridge

Graduate Students
Jian-Carlo Ochoa, Yale University
Sonya R. Summerour, University of California, San Diego

Postdoctoral/Faculty
Joanne Trejo, University of California, San Francisco
Ozuem Paul Mgbonyebi, Fox Chase Cancer Center

1997

Undergraduate
Andrew Medina-Marino, Swarthmore College

Graduate Student
Erika Brown, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Honorable Mention:
Jims Jean-Jacques, Boston University School of Medicine, Undergraduate
Linda R. Johnson, University of Pennsylvania, Postdoctoral Fellows

1996

Honorable Mention:
Ahna Skop University of Wisconsin

1995