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Sui Tong Chan Fung Travel Award

January - March 2020 Awardees

             Name            Dates      Conference     Location        Title of Presentation
G. Dalton Smedley 1/2/2020 1/8/2020 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Austin, Texas, USA Molluscan Transcriptomes Suggest a More Complex Visual Cycle Homologous to Vertebrates
Yan Zhou 1/10/2020 1/15/2020 International Plant & Animal Genome XXVIII (PAG 2020) San Diego, CA, USA Identification of Genetic Determinants of Maize Tassel Structure Using RGB Images
Mark McHugh 2/2/2020 2/7/2020 Anthelmintic Discovery to resistance IV Santa Monica, CA Expression of putative levamisole sensitive nAChR in Ascaris suum intestine
Sharu Paul Sharma 3/11/2020 3/16/2020 62nd Annual Maize Genetics Meeting Sheraton Kona of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA Gene Activation via Transposon Induced Inversions
Jaspreet Rishi 3/15/2020 3/19/2020 Society of  Toxicology 59th Annual Meeting Anaheim, California Impact of heat stress on ovarian chemical biotransformation enzyme abundance
Huyu Liu 3/12/2020 3/15/2020 the 62nd Annual Maize Genetics Meeting Sheraton Kona of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA. Genetic Analysis of Nitrate Accumulation in Maize Stalks

October - December 2019 Awardees

First Name Last Name Start Date End Date Conference Location Title of Presentation
Emmanuel Nsamba 12/6/2019 12/11/2019 ASCB Washington DC From Cytoskeletal Function To Genome Stability: Resolving The Mystery Of Tubulin Isotypes In Budding Yeast ( Saccharomyces Cerevisiae )
Allison Birnbaum 11/1/2019 11/5/2019 Midwest Drosophila Conference Bloomington IN/Minneapolis MN Transcription factor FOXO in maintaining homeostasis at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction
Kai Chang 11/2/2019 11/3/2019 2019 Midwest Drosophila Conference Indiana University The role of TGF-Beta/activin and mTORC2 signaling in cardiac homeostasis