Pharmacology trainees were well represented among those receiving awards at the 2018 Research Day Scientific Poster Session of the Federal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center. Graduate students Sharon Idiga (Molecular Medicine, Potthoff laboratory) and Rachel Minerath (Pharmacology, Grueter laboratory) and postdoctoral scholars Guorui Deng (Grobe laboratory) and John Reho (Rahmouni laboratory) were recipients of top poster awards, which were selected from among fifty-five total poster abstracts submitted. The complete list of awardees and their poster titles are:

Post-doc Poster Awards

• Guorui Deng - AT1A Couples to G-alpha-i in AgRP Neurons to Control Resting Metabolic Rate
• John Reho - mTORC1 Signaling Regulates Vascular Endothelial Function via Reactive Oxygen Species and NFκB Signaling

Student Poster Awards

• Sharon Idiga - Novel Endocrine Circuit Regulating Sugar Satiety
• Rachel Minerath - CDK8 Activity-dependent Regulation of Heart Disease
• Angela Olvera - Fat-derived FGF21 is Dispensable for the Resistance to Diet-Induced Obesity Observed in Mice Lacking OPA1 in Adipose Tissue
• Alix Arthur Jean Rouault - Regions of MRAP2 Required for the Inhibition of Orexin and Prokineticin Receptor Signaling

Please join us in congratulating our pharmacology trainees on their outstanding poster presentations!