16 November 2012
This last week our two graduate students Shanique Young and Ryon Graf presented posters of their research at a major international scientific conference held right in their own backyard: downtown San Diego. To the backdrop of the beautiful white-sailboat-filled San Diego Bay, the Sheraton Hotel hosted scientists from as far away as Israel and Finland as they converged upon the joint symposium of the American Society of Matrix Biology and the Society for Glycobiology.
Image: Ryon poses with his research poster.
Shanique presented her new research on the roles of integrins in models of neuroblastoma metastasis, and Ryon presented on conditional protein interactions that might link together therapeutically relevant areas of cancer biology.
Both students received great feedback on their work, and enjoyed the open, collaborative environment. Although science is communicated more and more electronically in the 21st century, there are many positive benefits to the more socially inclined research conferences such as these, like forging future collaborations.
