University of Rochester- Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)

A huge congratulations to our new #DoubleDocs! Yesterday's graduation ceremony, along with almost a decade of Rochester memories are sure to make a lasting impact. We will miss you all, and good luck!

We had a great time celebrating our graduates over an intimate (and delicious) dinner! It’s always bittersweet to say goodbye to our graduates, but we are so excited to see what they do next!

A huge congratulations to our new #DoubleDocs! Yesterday's graduation ceremony, along with almost a decade of Rochester memories are sure to make a lasting impact. We will miss you all, and good luck!

We had a great time celebrating our graduates over an intimate (and delicious) dinner! It’s always bittersweet to say goodbye to our graduates, but we are so excited to see what they do next!

Congratulations to the following students on successfully defending their theses so far this spring! Sue Qin, Uday Chockanathan, Keshov Sharma, Karl Foley, Hannah Bell, and Mark Kenney Didn’t get a chance to see them? We still have a few more students set to defend this springstay tuned!

Congratulations to G2 Emily Isenstein on receiving a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Autism Science Foundation! This will support Emily's PhD work on tactile sensitivity in autistic adults, in which she uses EEG and virtual reality to study active and passive touch.

We had such a great time at yesterday's 10th annual MSRS! Thank you to everyone who participated and supported the event. Here's a sneak peek at some photos, and we can't wait to do it all again next year! Extra special thanks to our keynote speaker, invited panelists & student speakers!

MATCH DAY RESULTS! Jonathan Bartko - Case Western/Univ. Hsp Cleveland - Vascular Surgery MJ Beltejar - Rochester (Emergency Medicine) Booyeon Han - Stanford Health Care (General Surgery)... Laura Owlett - Rochester (Child Neurology) Rohith Palli - Rochester (Internal Medicine) Libby Saionz - Mayo Clinic FL (Neurology) Colleen Schnieder - Colorado (Peds, Physical Med & Rehab) Matt Tanner - U. Washington (Internal Medicine) It was so wonderful to be here in person for Match this year. Congratulations to our 2022 graduating class!! #MatchDay2022 #URochesterMatch2022

We had such a great time at yesterday's 10th annual MSRS! Thank you to everyone who participated and supported the event. Here's a sneak peek at some photos, and we can't wait to do it all again next year! Extra special thanks to our keynote speaker, invited panelists & student speakers!

A huge congrats to G3 Emily Przysinda for her newly awarded F30: Neurophysiology of social processing and underlying perceptual deficits in schizophrenia

MATCH DAY RESULTS! Jonathan Bartko - Case Western/Univ. Hsp Cleveland - Vascular Surgery MJ Beltejar - Rochester (Emergency Medicine) Booyeon Han - Stanford Health Care (General Surgery)... Laura Owlett - Rochester (Child Neurology) Rohith Palli - Rochester (Internal Medicine) Libby Saionz - Mayo Clinic FL (Neurology) Colleen Schnieder - Colorado (Peds, Physical Med & Rehab) Matt Tanner - U. Washington (Internal Medicine) It was so wonderful to be here in person for Match this year. Congratulations to our 2022 graduating class!! #MatchDay2022 #URochesterMatch2022

Congratulations to G3 Mark Kenney on a recent first-author publication in Arthritis Research & Therapy. Check it out here: https://arthritis-research.biomedcentral.com//s13075-022-0

Happy International Women's day! There is always a reason to celebrate our students, and in the spirit of today, we are putting a spotlight on a recent review article first-authored by G4 Fara Zakusilo: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34634492/

Two new additions in the same week! Congratulations to G4 Fara and husband George on the birth of their son, Andrew Naeem!

Congrats to G4 Cathy and her husband Eddie on the birth of their second son, Dante!

Two new additions in the same week! Congratulations to G4 Fara and husband George on the birth of their son, Andrew Naeem!

A huge thanks to Dr. Linda Clark with Common Ground Health and the Black Physicians Network of Greater Rochester for her dynamic talk and Q&A on gaining trust with underserved communities!

Congrats to G4 Cathy and her husband Eddie on the birth of their second son, Dante!

A huge thanks to Dr. Linda Clark with Common Ground Health and the Black Physicians Network of Greater Rochester for her dynamic talk and Q&A on gaining trust with underserved communities!

Congratulations to Keshia Mora on her successful thesis defense this week!!

Congratulations to Brendan Whitelaw on a successful thesis defense last week! Catch Arun Venkataraman's defense this Thursday (PM for link)! Throwing it back to last year's lab tour video they made together for us

Looking good in that regalia, MSTP class of 2021!

Happy Commencement Day! Wishing our MSTP graduates a heartfelt congratulations as they move into the next phase of their training (and lives)! We will miss you all, and best of luck!

G4 Karl Foley's review paper: "Regulation of Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity by Protein Phosphatase 1" is featured in the newest JNeurosci. Check it out!: https://www.jneurosci.org/

Fellowship Friday: Congrats to our student Briaunna Minor on her recent fellowship award!

There are so many ways to get involved in the Rochester community, both inside and out of the clinic. Our student Mike Sportiello (G2) has been working to help deliver resources to those in need in the ROC community, including this laundromat book club. Check out the Rochester Mutual Aid Network for more info and ways to get involved!

Flashback Friday to our 40th Anniversary celebration 5 years ago today! Such a fun event with students, program alumni and staff. How quickly time passes!

One of the best parts of living in Rochester is the abundance of fall activities. Apple picking makes the top of the list...fun for humans and furry friends alike!

Congratulations to our students Gary and Aditi on their recent F30 awards, AND to Laura Owlett for a successful thesis defense yesterday. Have a great holiday weekend, everyone!

Thank you to our new student Michelle for capturing this amazing photo from Friday's White Coat Ceremony! You all look fantastic in your white coats, and ready to take on the next 8 years of training. Happy first day of classes!

Wishing our new students a happy, safe and memorable day at the annual White Coat ceremony! Even though we can't celebrate as a group, it's nice to see everyone getting to know each other from a distance!

Congrats to our student Noah and his wife Mariah on their beautiful wedding and family!!

Some screenshots from our virtual Retreat last Friday! We had fabulous scientific and Rochester-related talks, trivia, breakout sessions, and of course elections for this year's Student Council! It was so good to see everyone, and happy orientation week to our new students!

Looking forward to "seeing" everyone and welcoming our new students at Friday's virtual Retreat! We may not be at Letchworth State Park as planned, but here's some #WaybackWednesday pics of previous Retreats at Letchworth. Can you guess which years these were taken?

Check out panelist Bryan Redmond (G1) today at 2pm, where he'll discuss his journey to NSC in collaboration with Black in Neuro Week. (Free) registration details below.

Happy Monday, everyone! Congrats to Booyeon Han for a successful thesis defense last Friday! We have yet another defense tomorrow (7/14) at 9am: Jonathan Bartko will present "Characterizing Context-Specific Roles for CHOP in ER Stress Signaling and Neurodevelopment." DM for link!

Tune in tomorrow (6/23) at 2:00pm for Colleen Schneider's virtual thesis defense: The post-stroke brain: A comprehensive, longitudinal assessment of vascular, neural, and perceptual changes. PM us for link!