Congratulations to all the awardees from the FOEDRC Research Day Scientific Poster Session! From the fifty-five outstanding abstracts entered, we are pleased to announce the results include two highest scoring post-doc poster submissions and the four highest scoring student poster submissions.
Post-doc poster awards of $200 each
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 of $200 each
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 
Our warmest thank you to all students, staff and judges for their participation in the Diabetes Research Day Scientific Poster Session and Speaker Symposium. Without you, the event would not have been a success. We will be sending a date for next year’s event in the coming weeks and look forward to your participation in this annual celebration of the outstanding research that is being conducted by FOEDRC Investigators. We will appreciate receiving feedback from you regarding ways to improve the symposium. The organizers are already thinking about new ideas.
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