Molecular Genetics department members recognized at local and international meetings

Congratulations to a number of members of the department who have recently earned accolades at local and international meetings:

At the 2025 RNA Society Meeting Paolo Sinopoli (undergraduate researcher in the Hopper lab) won the (only) Undergraduate Speaker award and Jackson Hastings (PhD student in the Hopper lab) won a Poster Presentation Award
Manu Sanjeev (postdoctoral fellow in the Singh lab) won a poster award at the 2025 CMBP/Center for RNA Biology Annual Symposium

Harsha Sanaka (undergraduate researcher and Goldwater fellow in the Christin Burd lab) received the Margaret Foti Foundation Undergraduate Student First Place Prize for Cancer and Cancer-Related Research for Outstanding Scientific Poster at the 20th Annual Undergraduate Student Caucus and Poster Competition, hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)