 Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Selenik Neely, the Associate Director for New Mexico Upscore, and I'm pleased to welcome you to the final event of the New Mexico Research Symposium 2020. I'm so pleased to have you join us today to recognize excellence in science research, engineering research, science teaching, and our fantastic student poster winners. Let's take a quick look back at what we've done this week. November 9th on Monday, we had a fantastic keynote address by Dr. Betty Korber from Los Alamos National Laboratories about COVID-19 and the work that's happening at Lannell. That talk was recorded and we'll have it posted to our symposium website next week. Tuesday, the virtual poster session opened and everybody had the opportunity to see some amazing research going on around the state, not just at our research universities, but at our two and four year colleges as well. People had the opportunity to vote for their favorite and the posters were judged by professionals as well. Yesterday I welcomed four students from the New Mexico Smart Grid Center, the project that's managed by New Mexico Upscore, to present the Smart Grid seminar and we heard amazing research that's happening in their labs. And then here we are today with the award ceremony. We'll record this as well and make it available on our website next week. I'd like to especially thank all of the people that made this research symposium possible. All of the all of you who've worked on on conferences before know how much effort it takes to pull off. And I have to say turning this into an all virtual event was a much bigger lift than any of us could have imagined. I'd especially like to thank our Epscore team, Sarah Pichet, Brittany Vanderwerf, Isis Cerna, and Dustin Allen for their incredible work in pulling this all together. I'd also like to thank our New Mexico Academy of Science partners, who we've collaborated with over the past eight years to present this conference. The entire board contributed this to this effort, but I especially like to thank Jane Albel, Xi Minglu, Anton Somali, and Malvin Noel. And finally, thank you to our poster judges who took time out of their busy schedules to take a look at those posters and provide feedback to the students. Now, I'd like to welcome to the screen, Dr. Xi Minglu, who is the president of the New Mexico Academy of Science. He's also a professor of molecular biology at Eastern New Mexico University. And I'll invite Xi Minglu to turn on his camera to introduce our keynote speaker today. Thank you, Senina. Let me introduce today's winner, award winner. On behalf of New Mexico Academy of Science, the current president, I'm pleased to introduce all the standing contributions to science in New Mexico, award winner, the engineer, one intern nurse. One intern nurse received her PhD in biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. And completed postdoctoral training at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Harleburg, Germany. Her first faculty appointment was at the Northwestern University. Since 1998, she has been on faculty in the Department of Pathology. It's the University of New Mexico Health Science Center, and a member of the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. The one intern nurse is the vector Ruby Hansen Surface Endowed Professor in cancer cell biology in the clinical translation. She serves as associate director for education, training, and mentoring at the UNN Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is also the principal investigator of multiple training programs, an internationally recognized expert in race-related ETPs in cancer research. She has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles. The one intern nurse is an elected fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science. She is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research and education. Most recently, she was recognized as the 2019 Innovation Fellow at the University of New Mexico Rainforest Innovation. She is the 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science Lifetime Mentor. And the United States Presidential Awardee for excellence in science, mathematics, and engineering mentoring. She served as an active board member in the president of the New Mexico Academy of Science from 2004 to 2012. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Angela Montengernes. Hello everyone. It's a pleasure to be here with some familiar faces and many new faces. Thank you for inviting me and thank you for those kind comments, Dr. Liu. So I will share my screen and share with you a little bit more about my story. The title of my presentation today is GTPA's to Cures, My Path to Discovery and Innovation. This path to discovery and innovation has three legs. One is passion. The second is collaboration. And the third is diversity, diversity of thought and diversity of people were incredibly important on my path. My passion for science was first nurtured by my parents, Hella and Low Time Wanderer, who immigrated from Germany to the US. So I'm a first generation US born citizen. I had a number of important mentors along the way. Here I show Bruce Jacobson, who was who first allowed me to come into his laboratory and to take the inspiration I got from my science. From my parents into real world experiences in his laboratory studying dictastelium. And then when I came to New Mexico, the chair of pathology was Dr. Mary Lipscomb, who believed in me and was really the very first woman role model that I had as a senior faculty member that I could really follow in those footsteps. And so it is important to have passion and mentors along the way. The path that I took began in New Jersey, Long Branch, New Jersey on the Jersey shore. From there, I mentioned I went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. And after completing my bachelor's degree in biochemistry, I was not so sure I really wanted to do more classwork. And so I took a stop out as a research technician at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and here another mentor Donald Creighton, believed in me took me in his lab as a neophyte, and train me in rigorous scientific method. And there I was bound and determined to visit the other side of the country and applied to graduate schools in California was accepted at UCLA. And there I met a boy, Scott Ness my husband is my partner in science through the years. Together we went, we can, we continued our journey by traveling across the globe to Germany, where we completed our post doctoral fellowships at the European molecular biology lab, and then returned to Northwestern University in Illinois before coming to New Mexico, the land of enchantment and entrapment as many of you know, it's just a glorious place to be. And so, after coming to New Mexico in 1998, just about two years later, I heard these words that made my heart drop. Calangio, what? Calangio carcinoma. It's a deadly disease. It is a cancer of the bile duct. And sadly, it took my father from me. This led me to regroup about the science that I was doing, and I worked closely with my colleague Dr. Lori Hudson made new collaborations to study cancer in more depth. And I decided to focus on ovarian cancer because, like Calangio carcinoma, it had, it was a devastating diagnosis for women with very few treatment options at the time. And this is what led me to turn my program that was focused on GTP aces, which are enzymes that are crucially important in lots of cell functions. And look at them differently. Look at them as from the perspective of being targets, targets for drugs. And so I also teamed up with Dr. Larry Sklar, who is running the Center for molecular discovery in the field of identifying new drugs for disease and particularly for cancer. We used an instrument that Larry's group had developed and was patented that allowed you to rapidly analyze small volume samples and measure them highly quantitatively, which was crucial to our efforts. And these GTPs, enzymes, you can think of them as switches, they are either off or on, and when they are on, when they're off or on they have a slightly different folded state and you can see that perhaps best up here you see this is all kind of a loose molecule, whereas here you have a tightly wound helix that replaces it. And these changes are decoded by other proteins that recognize when the GTP aces on and respond by passing the signal on downstream and causing changes in things like cell growth and proliferation and sorry, and invasion. Go back to cell motility, the opportunity for cancer cells to invade other tissues to survive stem cells survival, or the ability for the cells tumor cells to hide to become quiescent and then reappear later, resulting in relapse. And so this is the reason we were interested in focusing on GTP aces because they act as the transducer of external stimuli and pass them down to very important cellular processes that when they go awry are allowing cancer to escape treatment. But what was the challenge? The challenge for us was that pharmaceutical companies had spent decades looking at the founder of this class of enzymes called the RAS GTP ace, and that RAS GTP ace was ultimately deemed by drug companies to be undruggable. And so our challenge was, is there really an untapped potential here to look for drugs that could inactivate GTP aces that were functioning out of turn. To do this with Larry Sklar we developed a method whereby we had beads, small little beads microscopic beads to which we could affix GTP aces. And once those GTP aces were fixed to those beads, we used a substrate that binds to those GTP ace and glows. So we can measure on the instrument that Dr. Sklar developed. And so for example here, we're showing the binding of the substrate in different concentrations and to saturation using this assay. Once you can measure the activity of the enzyme, then you can take this assay to the next level and ask, can I find something that interferes with that activity. And the way that looks is that you start at 100% when you do not have any inhibitor or something that interferes with the substrate binding. And if you increase the dose of the inhibitor, then the activity of the enzyme goes down, or that glowing green fluorescence disappears. And so what you have then is a quantitative measure of the potency of a compound or a drug. And so then we translated this into a high throughput assay in which we arrayed up to seven different GTP aces on beads with different intensities of red color. And what that allows us to do is to first find the GTP ace to an individual bead, and then to mix them all together. So they're all present in a single well, and we can measure the intensity of the fluorescence of the substrate based on the red color and assign it to a specific GTP ace almost like a zip code. The red color is the zip code and whatever signal as these beads are read one by one, you know that this is wrap seven, and this white one is rack. So you can quickly assay the activity over time. Instead of having only one line, you're getting eight or more lines all at the same time showing you the activity of individual GTP aces against a single compound. And by measuring this you immediately know whether you have a compound that reacts with all GTP aces, or it might be selective against a particular GTP ace. So we have compounds that increase the activity of the nucleotide or the substrate binding and compounds that decrease the activity of the DTP ace. So in addition to looking for novel compounds, we also looked at a library of molecules that were off patent drugs. And among this library we identified a compound called arnaproxen. Arnaproxen is well known now because it is separated from esnaproxen, which is a common pain reliever, a leaf. When this was first marketed, the two chemically similar identical molecules, but they're like your right and your left hand, they have, you can't fit your right hand in the left glove, and that's the same is true for proteins. So typically these proteins that are chemically identical but look different in space are not able to bind to the same enzymes. And so because a leaf is no longer marketed with this R version, we needed to find a drug that was maybe similar to a leaf to the R enantiomer, sorry the arnaproxen, which is no longer part of a leaf, something that is chemically similar, and that we might be able to use as an inhibitor of DTP aces. And so for that, we identified with Tudoropraeus chemia informatics team. This compound are an eschatorolec that is used for pain relief in a compound or medication called torodol under a physician's advisement. So from that kind of basic discovery, we went into animal models, and then into the clinic with Dr. Carolyn Muller at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, and this is Dr. Hudson whom I mentioned previously. We took our catorolac, a study into clinical trial with Dr. Muller and a graduate student in my laboratory. And the way this worked is that patients who were undergoing surgery to remove the bulk of their ovarian tumor would receive torodol after surgery for its normal indicated use in pain relief. They would get the IV torodol and the patients who consented to participate in this trial would have blood drawn and tumor cells drawn from the peritoneal fluids, through which they ultimately would get chemotherapy after recover from surgery. And what we measured is a decrease in GTPase activity in the tumor cells drawn from patient samples. As a follow-up, our colleague Dr. Linda Cook who is an epidemiologist did a retrospective study in which she looked backwards. Patients who had received torodol for ovarian cancer. What was their survival? Looking backwards. So this is a medical record review. You separate your patients into those who received other forms of pain relief versus those who received torodol. And what you can see is very striking. The patients who received torodol for pain relief after surgery had an improved survival over those who received other pain-relieving measures. And this is a small trial with only 139 patients, but it is now being expanded through a large cohort of patients that she has from Canada. So using novel GTPase targets, we are attempting to go from an on-state in cancer that promotes tumor growth and survival to an off-state. And by doing so, we have moved a first in-class drug, identified that, and moved others into human first and human trials. And we have identified compounds that are like your right and left hand that distinguish. They have different chemical properties and activities against enzymes in people. We have now partnered with Revere Pharmaceuticals with the goal of moving arcatorial lack into the clinic as a drug in its own right. And as I mentioned, this path to innovation discovery would not be possible without a diverse team. And here you see the faculties, the trainees, the staff who have made this possible. And I would like to also acknowledge, of course, it's not possible without money. I've had funding from the Comprehensive Cancer Center, DoD, Rainforest, the National Institutes of Health National Science Foundation. And of course, thank you to the New Mexico Academy of Science for this tremendous honor. Wow, what a journey that must have been. Thank you so much for sharing it. We can go ahead and open it up for questions. If anyone has me, please type them into the Q&A. I'm personally still processing everything you just said. Sorry, it's fast. But while we're waiting for a Q&A, do you have any, you also were recognized as a fantastic mentor. Do you have any insights that you could share with our next class of mentors that are attending this webinar? Certainly. So I mentioned how important mentors were to me. And so I have really throughout my career. Even as a graduate student and then continuing, you know, as I advanced in my career, mentored other students and others with an interest in science and motivated them. You know, when they had doubts, motivated them to persist or encouraging them to pursue science or to try it and say, oh, it's not for me, but yes, maybe it is. Stick your toe in the water and see if you like it. And so for me, mentoring is meeting the person where they are and taking them to where they want to be. Not where I want them to be, but where do they want to be? What is discovering? What it is that is their passion? Where do they want to go and helping them get there? Awesome. Thank you. We do have a question from an anonymous attendee said, can you discuss why repurposing known compounds is so beneficial? What sort of regulatory advantages are there? Certainly. That's a great question. I mean, there is this tension between finding a new drug, a new chemical entity versus repurposing something that is already a known compound. So the benefit would be for repurposing is it shortens the timeline for bringing a drug to clinic. Mainly because you have so many toxicity studies and animal studies that you usually need to do in order to bring something into a human clinical trial. And so for, as you saw, because we were able to use a drug that is already given for pain relief that contains what we think is the active compound, right, the active agent. In addition to its formulation for pain relief. So you have the S that is given for pain and R is thought to be the bystander but it's given as a mix. And so that allowed us to test the samples without any new indication for giving this drug, right? No new indication. It's being given for pain. We're only testing for its impact on the DTPase. Okay, so we can prove that it works in people quickly. Now, importantly, in order, you can't give Torah doll for more than five days and you must be given under a physician supervision. So in order to make this a attractable therapy we have to separate the R away from this very potent pain relieving activity. And that's why that requires us to go back to the food and drug administration, get the R approved on its own right. And so that does create more hurdles, more animal testing, etc. Safety, etc. And time. Yeah. Yeah. Wonderful answer. I've got another one. And is either any human trials plan for ovarian cancer with this new job. Just as soon as we get it to FDA approval. So our partner, Brevia Pharmaceuticals has already done the toxicity studies required to bring it to the FDA in one species, and they're doing the second species now. So if we have the two species results, we can go back to the FDA and request the archatorial act be approved. We think that after that it will be a very quick process to manufacture under good manufacturing conditions, which is required for a new drug, because we can start with with a clinical drug formulation. We can start with that and just purify the R under good manufacturing process so we don't have to do a lot of chemical synthesis. So we think that will be faster. Once that happens, then we can go to trial and UNM comprehensive cancer center is on deck to be one of the first outstanding that is great news, especially for everybody in our state. I am not seeing any other questions. Thank you. We really wanted to thank you for giving your keynote address and talking with us today with that, I am going to hand it back over to Samina. Thank you so much, Dr. Wending Ernest. That was a fantastic talk. We actually are getting a couple of questions in so we have a little time, and I thought we could ask those questions. So, the first one is with COVID treatments we've seen it's possible to accelerate the discovery process. Do you foresee this will be expanded to other disease states. So, I am working with a colleague on using GDP aces for diagnostic purposes and infectious disease, bacterial infections, particularly, but we are, I have not done any work myself in COVID. The reason it couldn't be I mean the GDP aces are, they basically are sensing what's happening in the external environment so there's no reason. There's what did I say there's over 180 of these GDP aces you just need to know which target you're going to focus on for your disease so definitely possible. Do you anticipate that the regulatory environment will change as a result of these COVID processes. I think it is changing. I think it is yeah. I mean, classically things have been easier to get approved in cancer, because for cancers where you don't have many options is a quicker throw to the goal, but for people, you know, getting things approved and healthy patients or as a prophylactic, it's harder. And we do have one final question, which type of ovarian cancer does your treatment treat serious ovarian cancer the most common. But I, you know, we just haven't tested and all the others that are rare. I mean, we would have to look. Thank you so much. I'd like to invite Jimming Lou back to the screen and I will let him take over from me. Jimming, can you turn your camera on. Okay. Beginning in 1962, the Mexico Academy of Science has presented awards intermittently and the scientific education. This is the last presented in 2013. This year, the award will be presented to Dr. Angelina Vantigen-Nass from the University of New Mexico for her excellent research in cancer biology. And for exceptional contributions to mental and scientific research. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Vantigen-Nass. So we're going to mail this block to your home address. Thank you so much. I really am so deeply, I'm just humbled by this. Thank you so much. It's so kind. You're welcome. So let's go to the next step. I would like to introduce Dan Orbel. Okay. Dan Orbel is a geologist and educator at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. He is a past president of the New Mexico Academy of Science and Chair of the Award Committee for the Outstanding New Mexico Science Teacher Awards. Please join me in welcoming Dan Orbel. Thank you, Jimming. The New Mexico Academy of Science Outstanding Science Teacher Awards honor New Mexico science and math educators. We particularly like to recognize educators who provide opportunities for their students to succeed in science classes. They are afraid of science and they become scientifically literate, even if they don't go on in science. The award has been given since 1968. And the criteria have changed through the years. Currently, nominations are open to all pre-K through 12th grade teachers. Last year we actually had a kindergarten teacher as one of our award winners. And she was doing some absolutely amazing things. The association is also open to all informal science educators throughout New Mexico. That is, educators who work for the zoo science centers, museums, park service. The American Chemical Society joins with us in this award and also presents a monetary award to the winning teachers. So as the chair of the Outstanding New Mexico Science Teacher Award Committee, it is my great privilege to introduce to you the 2020 New Mexico Outstanding Science Teachers. Next slide, please. Our amazing 2020 awardees are Eva Abeta and Lena Eddings. And I will start in alphabetical order. So next slide, please. Eva Abeta is, excuse me. She is in her 25th year of science teaching. And she currently teaches sixth, seventh, and eighth grade science at Los Alamos Online Learning Academy, totally online. Eva Abeta was nominated by two of her colleagues. And so I'm just going to review a few sentences from their amazing nominations. Eva Abeta is willing to try new curricula and adapt what she teaches to what her students need. She readily takes on a new challenge and has shown a great deal of ingenuity in teaching science effectively online. She ably heads up the district science fair. And in her previous school as department chair, she helped other teachers make the transition to the next gen science standards. In short, although she is an extremely experienced science teacher, she has never stopped learning herself and is not afraid of using new techniques to address new challenges. So please join me in congratulating Eva Abeta, one of our 2020 outstanding science teachers. And I don't know if you can see the plaque here, but it is in the shape of the state of New Mexico. And this plaque and a check from the Academy will be sent to Eva Abeta's home. Now our partner in the Science Teacher Awards, the American Chemical Society, also has a presentation. So I would like to introduce at this point, Dr. Patrick Burton, who is ACS Central New Mexico local section chair, and ask him to please turn his camera and microphone on to make the ACS presentation to Ms. Abeta. Thank you for the introduction. The Central New Mexico section of the American Chemical Society covers the area in New Mexico from Las Vegas down to Socorro, and we're very pleased to recognize contributions of teachers throughout the area and the state. We also work with universities and outreach programs from various universities in that region. We're very happy to honor Ms. Abeta's accomplishments with a $250 check, which we will also be sending via mail. Great. Thank you. Next slide, please. Our second 2020 awardee for outstanding with science teacher is Lena Eddings. She's currently a physics instructor at La Cueva High School in Albuquerque. Also, Science Department chair and serves on instructional council and next-gen standards team. The goal as a teacher is to promote a challenging and thought-provoking learning environment, giving students problem-solving skills that they can use to further their knowledge and life experiences. As of her nominator, Ms. Eddings has a unique teaching style, making her class not only informative but also providing humor and one-on-one support. She treats students with a high level of respect, and she is genuinely interested in their opinions. Ms. Eddings is open to allowing students to discuss topics beyond the planned lesson, especially real-world applications. Her engineering background provides an invaluable perspective into how to teach the students to be problem-solvers well beyond physics. This year's pandemic restriction from in-person teaching has created challenges for teachers, especially science teachers who cannot have students in laboratories. Ms. Eddings has made tremendous extra efforts to ensure an optimal learning experience for her students. So please join me in congratulating Lena Eddings, 2020 science, outstanding science teacher. And again, we have a plaque for Lena. And we will be sending the plaque and a check from NMAS to Ms. Eddings at her home. So again, Patrick, take it away from the ACS. We're also very excited to have teachers who in their normal routine are outstanding instructors in the classroom. And unfortunately, during this rather difficult time have been forced to make rather unexpected transition outside of laboratories, which is very difficult. And the fact that you're able to continue and excel in this condition is certainly very well appreciated. So we will also be sending a $250 check to Ms. Eddings in addition to the plaque and check from the Academy of Science. Great. And final slide, please. Next slide, please. So, great congratulations from all of us in the New Mexico Academy of Science to Eva Beta and Lena Eddings, New Mexico Academy of Science, 2020 outstanding science teachers. And with that, I am going to pass this on to Sarah. Jane, I think we're going to let the teachers say a few remarks. Yes, thank you. I totally forgot about that. Yes. Can you please turn your cameras and microphones on? And I would like to ask Ms. a beta first, if she has any words for us. Yes, I do. I am sincerely thankful and honored for having been nominated and awarded this 2020 Outstanding New Mexico Science Teacher Award by the New Mexico Academy of Science. I am pleased to receive this engraved plaque and who would not appreciate the Monetary Award provided by the American Chemical Society and the New Mexico Academy of Science. Thank you. My passion for science was inspired by my high school chemistry teacher, Mr. Harold Sanchez. Upon his retirement approximately 16 years later, I assumed his role as chemistry teacher at my alma mater high school. How is that for fate? My science teaching career began over 25 years ago and I have been fortunate to experience teaching the various levels of education elementary, middle school, high school and college levels. I genuinely enjoyed this career path and have never regretted it. I love teaching science because I get to witness those aha moments when my students grasp the scientific understanding of natural phenomena. I believe that by instructing students through hands-on learning, they will also be able to utilize the life skills learned in the real world. Encouraging students to participate in science for over 25 years has been my passion. Participation in the science fair has opened my doors for many students. I'm proud to have the opportunity of instructing and encouraging several of my students and witnessing them advance all the way to the International Science and Engineering Fair. STEM has been fundamental in my students' future to being successful in their adult roles in whatever career they choose. There are but a few examples of why I love to teach. Lastly, I want to thank my family and various administrators, faculty and staff who have supported me along my career. Once again, I want to thank the New Mexico Academy of Science and the American Chemical Society for the recognition and award. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for your dedication for teaching science. It's very important. Ms. Eddings, please. Thank you. This is an incredible honor. And I have to say I never set out to be a teacher. It's funny where life leads you. As an engineer, I thought I would enter the education world and be this rock star. And what I found instead was that I think I have learned more in the setting of being a teacher than I learned in any other setting. I work with the greatest group of human beings in the world, and even though they're high schoolers, I still call them my kids. They're funky, they're weird, they're intuitive, creative little creatures, and they are of course, infamously honest. The kid that made a statement that has resonated with me and I have to make full disclosure, I think actually the statement maybe is even more important today in this strange virtual setting we find ourselves in. The full disclosure is that the statement is from my son when he was 20 years old a couple years ago. And I will tell you that he abruptly decided to switch classes when he heard I was going to be teaching his physics class. But his statement just has stayed with me. And I actually have it written right here above my computer and the statement is having a mentor that constructively moves forward with you instead of against you is brilliant. I strive every day in the hopes that students feel that way about me when they work with me. And so I do like to provide those opportunities for them to feel success, even when they're struggling and they think they can't do it. I very openly share that in my own high school physics class I was a C student, because I was just too intimidated by it and they are shocked when I share that. So, I love working with these kids. It's not pretty these days it's not perfect, but we are doing it we're working, we're laughing, we're crying, not because it's COVID but because it's physics. But we're getting it done. And so I hope I'm living up to the expectation of moving forward with those kids in a positive manner, every day constructively working with them and not against them. And I'm humbled to receive this award and be recognized by the New Mexico Academy of Science. Thank you to the American Chemical Society. It is a complete honor and of course I wish to thank Dr Somali for his recognition and work to get this to have me nominated. It is a pleasure. It will certainly be a highlight of my career. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you again for being a teacher of science. So congratulations to both of you. We're so pleased that you were both able to be here with us to to receive your awards. And I'm just sorry that we can't hand you the award in person and applied as we all should be doing right now. And now, thank you Selena for rescuing me. And I'm going to turn it over to Sarah Peche from EPSCORE, who will make the announcement about those all important symposium poster award. Thank you. Thank you, Jane. It's great to hear all these inspiring stories, especially in the time of COVID. So I can't imagine personally doing physics online, but you are killing it over there. So congratulations to both winners. I have the great pleasure of announcing the 2020 NMRS symposium posters winners. This year we had nearly 30 posters from all corners of the state, including representation from Central New Mexico Community College, Eastern New Mexico University, University of New Mexico, Navajo Technical University, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Tech, and the University of the Southwest. Needless to say, the competition was extremely stiff. First, I will announce the undergraduate poster winners. After I announce your name, if you could turn on your mic and camera to say a few words to accept your award. That would be great. Starting with undergraduate poster category. Our third place goes to Jacobo Heron from NMSU with his poster titled I'm a sharing learning model to predict groundwater levels in the messiah transbound, transboundary aquifer. Congratulations. Thank you. I guess I would just like to start by saying thank you to Dr. Nagarkar. I had never done anything like this in the past and this is my first time doing research as an undergrad. So it was a really good experience. And I would love to continue to do this. Well, wonderful. Thank you so much. And the great thing is it's an annual event. So we look forward to looking at your research next year and thank you so much for participating and stretching your research wings, especially in this unprecedented time. We really appreciate it. All right, thank you guys for letting me participate. Absolutely, absolutely. And as a third place winner, you win a $50 gift card and I will be mailing that out shortly to you. So congratulations. Thank you. Absolutely. Our second place undergraduate poster category winner goes to claim Williams from Eastern New Mexico University with a poster titled the trouble with traffic. Oh, clean your muted. We can hear you now yes. I'd like to thank my mentor, Dr. Brian Pascoe, for supporting me through my research all these years and a half I've been working on it and also, I think, an MF score for the opportunity to share my research with everyone. Well, thank you so much clean. Your research is very pertinent and applicable to many situations so we look forward to your continued research. Wonderful. All right. There we go. Our first place undergraduate poster category winner goes to Joshua May from Central New Mexico Community College with a poster titled Hierarchical structures of microgrid control systems. I think Josh is here. Hi, Josh. It's a little craze that I won this. This is a, I'm honored for this honestly I'm still like my like celebratory boots, you know, I'd like to thank Dr. Biederm because mainly without him I probably wouldn't have gotten this far for sure, because this is totally out of my like the zone of expertise. Yeah, for sure and thanks to EPSCORE staff and the same map. Absolutely. Josh, we really appreciate you spreading your wings and trying something new and I forgot to mention second place is going to receive $100 and then first place will receive $150 so congratulations. Thank you. Yeah. All right, next up are our graduate poster winners. Our third place goes to Awana Marzia Moshi from New Mexico Tech with her poster titled optimal power flow for a power system with grid scale energy storage systems varying wind generation and a fluctuating load. Congratulations. Hi. I'm really grateful that I received this award. So I want to thank to all of the guys that you have looked at over our posters and also judges that it's going to take the place. So I'm really thankful to all of you guys. So thank you. Congratulations. We're really proud of your work and I'm really excited to see where it goes. Absolutely. All right. Next up is our second place graduate poster award winner that goes to Sundar Sapkota from Eastern New Mexico University with the poster titled prospects of GGB as a future crop in New Mexico. Thank you. Thank you so much. I want to thank you. My major supervisor, Dr. Jimming Lou for his health support and outstanding mentorship during my graduate research period. And I am pleased to receive this award. And finally, I want to thank New Mexico Academy of Science for organizing such an informative and wonderful events. Thank you. Well, thank you and congratulations. And you all have a lot of fans in the chat comments. It's delightful to see all the encouragement and support from your friends and family members. All right. Our first place graduate poster award winner goes to Laramima Han from Eastern New Mexico University with the poster titled assessment of freshwater turtle populations on the Picos River in New Mexico and Texas. Hi. I just want to say thank you to you guys for putting on such a great event. This is my second year presenting my research. So it's nice. I also want to thank my lab, my advisor, Dr. Yvonne Amali and everyone who helps me with all the turtle work. I just thank you for the opportunity to show the importance of wildlife biology and how my work. And also I would like to shout out to Sundar and Klein representing Eastern New Mexico University. Good job, guys. Well, congratulations, Team Turtle. We're very proud of you. And yes, Eastern had an extremely strong sewing. So congratulations and all the hard work over there. All right. Our next poster winner was voted on by... Oh, pardon me. Let me... I have my nose out of it. Our next poster winner is the Best Better Poster Award, which is a movement which was created by Mike Morrison who hosted a webinar earlier this month. His entire ethos is to make better posters using kind of intelligent design to make science communication much more acceptable or accessible, I should say. This year's winner is Herbod Norsadayapur, a UNF graduate student with a poster titled How the Built Environment Can Help Employees to Experience Lower Occupational Stress. Congratulations, Herbod. Hey, thank you so much for... This is a great honor. And also I should thank you so much for putting together that webinar with Mike Morrison on how to do the virtual poster. That was a totally new concept for me and I had no idea that such a thing exists. And also the Twitter poster is going to be really helpful in my future research. And thank you for all of your hard work. And this is a great honor. Thank you so much. You're so welcome. Congratulations. And I hope you saw the shout out on Twitter from Mike Morrison about your work. He was very, very proud of you presented. So I hope you screen shot of that tweet and put it kind of next to your workstation because he was extremely proud. She did. You did. He was extremely proud. So. All right. Our last and certainly not least poster award winner was voted on by the public and it is our People's Choice Awards. Congratulations to Ali Garasi, a UNM graduate student with a poster titled, cooperative dynamic power balancing and a soothing and a photovoltaic hybrid energy storage system using multiple reactive agents. I don't see Ali here. So I, there he is. Wonderful. I thank you very much for your disavowed. I have a special thanks to my friends and my family and everyone who select my poster as a best poster award. I have a special thanks to my supervisor, Dr. Ali Bedram, who supported me for my PhD thesis. You know, this presentation was a part of my PhD thesis and I am on the first steps of my research. I'm in the second year of my PhD. I have a special thanks to him because he really helped me and give me lots of idea about my thesis. Thank you very much for this event. And I think it is really helpful for me. And it was a great experience for me. Thank you very much. Well, thank you all to all of our poster winners and congratulations. We all presented outstanding work in such dynamic and diverse fields. It was really a pleasure to see all of the work presented at this year's symposium. So thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so much, Sarah, for managing the poster competition in these extraordinary times. We really appreciate your enthusiasm and the incredible amount of work it took to actually make this happen in the online environment. Congratulations to all the poster winners and we will be in contact with you to make sure we're at your address so we can send out your gift cards. And we look forward to seeing you at future research symposiums. I have the pleasure today of closing the research symposium, and I just want to do a quick shout out to people who have helped to support this conference over the years, and particularly the New Mexico Academy of Science our collaborator in this work. I want to invite you to continue to take a look at our website because we'll be posting all the recordings from this past week. I'd also like to ask you to please fill out the evaluation form that was sent out by our evaluation partner called the mark Leanne Cortez would have sent you an email this morning so we really appreciate your efforts there. And I think that's all there is. So I'd like to echo what we heard from our keynote speaker on Monday. Please everybody be safe, wear a mask, and we'll see you all next year.