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So-Youn Kim, PhD - Lab
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Alumni and Former Lab Members
Alumni and Former Lab Members
Rosemary Dong, BS (Jan. 2022 - Jan. 2023)
- Education: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Kim Lab: Technologist
- Current: Prep for Medical School
- Project: Vasculature Damage in the Ovary by Chemotherapy
- Achievements:
- Book Chapter (Molecular mechanisms determining mammalian oocyte quality with the treatment of cancer therapy. Dong R., et al. 2023. Spring Nature)
- Selected to present work in Poster Symposium/Rapid Fire Presentations at CHRI Conference (Nov. 4, 2022)
- Selected 3rd place for poster presentation, the MSPS 2022, Vermillion, SD (Oct 7-8, 2022)
- A judge for the State Science and Engineering Competition at the Nebraska Junior Academy of Sciences (Apr. 21, 2022)
- 14 posters in total
Maya Eldani, BS (Nov. 2018 – Aug. 2020)
- Education: Wichita State University
- Kim Lab: Technologist
- Current: Master's Student at Wichita State University
- Project: Ovarian Damage by Chemotherapy
- Achievements:
- Eldani M, Luan Y, Xu PC, Barger T, Kim SY. Continuous treatment with low-dose cisplatin induces the oocyte death of primordial follicles without activation. 2020 Aug 23. The FASEB Journal (PMID: 32830364)
- 19 posters in total
- 2 papers
Ibrahim Elesh, PhD (Oct. 2021 – Aug. 2022)
- Education: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Egypt
- Kim Lab: Postdoctoral Fellow
- Current: Lecturer, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University
- Project: Cachexia
- Achievement:
- Judge for the State Science and Engineering Competition at the Nebraska Junior Academy of Sciences (Apr.21.2022)
- 6 posters in total
- 1 paper
Heng Jiang, M
Education: UNMC College of Medicine, Omaha, NE, 2023
Yi Luan, MS (Sept. 2019 – Dec. 2022)
- Education: Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
- Kim Lab: PhD student
- Current: Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca
- Project: Role of TAp63 in the oocyte
- Achievements:
- Selected to present work in Poster Symposium/Rapid Fire Presentations at CHRI Conference on Nov. 4th
- Selected 1st place for Poster presentation, the MSPS 2022, Vermillion, SD (Oct 7-8)
- Outstanding Poster Presentation Award (post-comprehensive) at the 2022 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Research Symposium
- Outstanding Performance Award (Best Comprehensive Examination) at the 2022 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Research Symposium
- An Outstanding Abstract Award in conjunction with ENDO 2022, Atlanta, GA (June 11-14)
- Judge for the State Science and Engineering Competition at the Nebraska Junior Academy of Sciences (Apr.21.2022)
- Trainee Travel Award, Society for the Study of Reproductive 54th Annual Meeting in 2021
- 1st place for poster presentation (graduate student category) at the Midlands Society for Physiological Sciences in 2021
- Endocrine Society Outstanding Abstract Award, ENDO EXPO 2021
- Top viewed paper in 2019; Journal of Endocrinology 2020
- 47 posters in total
- 10 papers
- 1 book chapter
Emma C. Morris (June-August, 2024)
- Education: University of Nebraska Lincoln
- Kim Lab: SURP summer student
- Project: Effect of GW9662, PPARy Antagonist, in Granulosa Cell Tumor Mouse Model
Wend Kuni Rodrigue Oeudraogo, BS (Summer, 2019)
- Education: University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- Kim Lab: Volunteer Student
Amelia Podolny (June – Aug. 2021)
- Education: Olaf College
- Kim Lab: SURP summer student
- Project: Role of KIT in ovarian reserve
- Achievement:
- 1 poster (Role of oocyte-specific cKIT on development of ovarian reserve. Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Aug. 12. 2021.)
Macy Thonen, BS (June – Aug. 2022)
- Education: University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Kim Lab: SURP summer student (M1)
- Current: University of Nebraska Medical Center (M2)
- Project: The Ovarian Toxicity Of Busulfan And Cyclophosphamide In Mouse Model
- Achievements:
- 2022 Research Experience for Graduate and Medical Students award from the ENDOCRINE SOCIETY
- Medical Student Summer Research Program award from UNMC
- 2 posters (MSBRF, ACOG)
Pauline C. Xu, BS (Mar. 2019 – Feb. 2022)
- Education: University of Maryland
- Kim Lab: PhD student
- Current: University of Nebraska Medical Center (M3)
- Project: PDAC-driven cancer cachexia
- Achievements:
- 1st place for Oral presentation in the MD, PhD Category at Child Health Research Institute Conference at UNMC
- UNMC Graduate Studies Program of Excellence Assistantship
- Trainee Travel Awardee, Gilbert S. Greenwald Symposium on Reproduction
- 40 posters in total
- 5 papers
Seok-Yeong Yu, PhD
- Education:
- PhD - Area of Study: Public Health
- MS - Area of Study: Nutrition
- Kim Lab: Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Selected for Presidential Poster Award Candidate, the ENDO 2023, Chicago, IL (Jun 15-18)
- Judge for the State Science and Engineering Competition at the Nebraska Junior Academy of Sciences (NJAS) (Apr.20.2023)
- Selected Oral presentation (1st place), the MSPS 2022, Vermillion, SD (Oct 7-8)
- Selected for Presidential Poster Award Candidate, the ENDO 2022, Atlanta, GA (Jun 11-14)
- An Outstanding Abstract Award in conjunction with ENDO 2022, Atlanta, GA (Jun 11-14)
- Judge for the State Science and Engineering Competition at the Nebraska Junior Academy of Sciences (NJAS) (Apr.21.2022)
- Postdoctoral Representative at the MSPS Conference
- 1st place for poster presentation (postdoctoral category) at the Midlands Society for Physiological Sciences (MSPS) in 2021
- Oral Presentation at Greenwald symposium (2021)