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2020 Prize for Undergraduate Research in Quantitative Biology

The NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology’s Prize for Undergraduate Research in Quantitative Biology recognizes outstanding undergraduate research in quantitative biology.  This year five finalists competed for the Prize for Undergraduate Research in Quantitative Biology at the 3rd Annual Conference on Quantitative Biology, November 19-21, 2020 hosted virtually. They each presented their work as a 10-minute video hosted on YouTube for conference attendees and judges and participated in an hour Discord chat on Friday, November 20, 2020. Awards were based on the content and presentation of their research projects. The winners are:

FIRST PLACE
First Place: Riley Jueneman, Tulane University, A first-pass statistical dashboard for categorizing diverse particle movement patterns
SECOND PLACE
Second Place: Ishaani Khatri, Brown University, A novel systems biology and network model to predict mutational effect on protein interactome networks in human disease
THIRD PLACE
Third Place: Amber Park, Davenport University, Gene Expression Meta-Analysis Identifies Molecular Changes Associated with SARS-CoV Infection in Lungs

Finalists also included,
Phillip Nicol, Harvard University, “Modeling cancer evolution as an interacting particle system”
Jack Toppen, Georgia Tech, “Efficient Agent-Based Modeling of Self-Organization within Pluripotent Stem Cell Colonies”

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