2025 Awardee
Tyler Tran
Major & Year
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and a minor in Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Class of 2026
DLS Student Support Award:
$350
Conference Attended:
FASEB GI Epithelium: Plasticity and Pathways to Disease
September 7-11, 2025
Southbridge, Massachusetts
How did your conference experience add to your academic journey at Rutgers?
Attending the FASEB GI epithelium conference was a great opportunity, and presenting a poster and discussing my work with experts in the field was a valuable experience. It gave me insight into aspects of how other scientists can see or interpret my work from their different perspectives across many different topics and with backgrounds ranging from graduate students to professors. They also helped highlight exciting areas we may be able to study in the future, or other new methods to incorporate. The lectures showed the modern work coming out of labs around the country and internationally, some of which were closely relevant to or shared patterns with our research. There were also many clinical and translational research experts present, sharing perspectives on the future implications of basic science work, which is an area I am interested in focusing on later. I'm grateful for the rest of my lab and for the DLS with the Student Support Awards for helping enable this experience, which has been unquestionably valuable for my undergraduate research and career development in science.
