2023 Winners: 11th Annual San Antonio Postdoctoral Research Forum

Keynote Speaker

Jennifer Sharpe Potter, PhD, MPH
Vice President for Research
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
UT Health San Antonio

"Science Matters - How It Started, How It’s Going"

UT Health San Antonio

Iriscilla Ayala, PhD
Mentor: Luke Norton, PhD
Department: Medicine - Diabetes
1^st place: THE  TRANSCRIPTIONAL  FUNCTION  OF  TCF7L2  IS  SPATIALLY  RESTRICTED  IN  LIVER  AND  REGULATES  ZONATED  METABOLIC  PATHWAYS  WHICH  CONTRIBUTE  TO  LIVER  DISEASE

Bojana Stefanovska, PhD
Mentor: Reuben Harris, PhD
Department: Biochemistry and Structural Biology
2^nd place: APOBEC3B  AND  DNA  LIGASE  1  AS  SYNTHETIC  LETHAL  PAIRS

Carlos Rivera, PhD
Mentor: Paolo Casali, PhD
Department: Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
3^rd place: INTRINSIC  B  CELL  TLR-BCR  LINKED  COENGAGEMENT  INDUCES  CLASS-SWITCHED,  HYPERMUTATED,  NEUTRALIZING  ANTIBODY  RESPONSES  IN  ABSENCE  OF  T  CELL

Francisca Acosta, PhD
Mentor: Jean X. Jiang, PhD
Department: Biochemistry & Structural Biology
Best Oral Presentation: OSTEOCYTE  CONNEXIN  HEMICHANNELS  AND  ASSOCIATED  PGE2  RELEASE  REGULATE  ADIPOGENESIS  AND  BODY  METABOLISM