{"id":38586,"date":"2016-03-16T03:05:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T07:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=38586"},"modified":"2016-03-15T14:57:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T18:57:52","slug":"stem-cell-investigator-ut-students-to-present-at-graduate-research-forum-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_16_2016\/stem-cell-investigator-ut-students-to-present-at-graduate-research-forum-this-week","title":{"rendered":"Stem cell investigator, UT students to present at Graduate Research Forum this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Toledo\u2019s Council of Biomedical Graduate Students will hold its Graduate Research Forum Thursday and Friday, March 17 and 18.<\/p>\n

Dr. Weian Zhao, assistant professor in the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at the University of California in Irvine, will be the keynote speaker Friday, March 18, at 3:30 p.m. in Health Education Building Room 110 on Health Science Campus.<\/p>\n

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Zhao<\/p><\/div>Zhao is doing work encompassing bioengineering, biology and pharmacology to improve diagnostic and monitoring techniques in such fields as cancer and cardiovascular processes. He is the founder of Velox Biosystems, a startup company that aims to develop rapid and sensitive diagnostic technologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Zhao\u2019s work appeals to a variety of biomedical and pharmaceutical research applications, and his path to success is something that our graduate students should aim to emulate as they progress to the next stage in their careers,\u201d said Adam Blatt, a fifth-year MD\/PhD candidate in the infection, immunity and transplantation track, and president of the Council of Biomedical Graduate Students.<\/p>\n

In addition to Zhao\u2019s free, public keynote presentation, the forum\u2019s main event will be the oral and poster presentations by PhD students in the fields of infection, immunity and transplantation; neurosciences and neurological disorders; cancer biology; cardiovascular and metabolic diseases; and pharmacy.<\/p>\n

Each presentation will be judged by different faculty members both inside and outside of the departments the students are in. This provides an opportunity for students to thoroughly explain their research while also getting an outside perspective on their work, according to Blatt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Graduate Research Forum is an excellent way for students to learn about their colleagues\u2019 research and to practice their scientific communication skills in a friendly, instructional environment,\u201d Blatt said.<\/p>\n

Nearly 40 students will present on Thursday, and selected finalists will present again Friday morning. Winners will be chosen from that group by Zhao and other guest judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Weian Zhao of the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at the University of California will speak at the Graduate Research Forum this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38,42,3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38668,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586\/revisions\/38668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}