 Hello everybody Remember I promise to come back Nice to see you all again Thank you. Oh You're all too nice. I wanted to remind you one more time that we've had some absolutely fantastic sponsors and so For all those sponsors we could not have this meeting without you and know our heartfelt gratitude I know some of the sponsors have already left but for those of you who are still here Thank you so much and let's have a round of applause for the sponsors Now I know how hard graduate students work because once I was a graduate student It happened and I know you've been sitting on pins and needles getting indigestion the whole dinner Wondering did I win? Well, I'm going to invite Kathy and Fritz up here to tell you Whether you what? Okay, thanks everybody for coming. I think this is my favorite part of the buff the banquet and Kathy's gonna say a few words and then we'll get to announcing the winners All right So the young investigator awards from the Linus Pauling Institute are rewarded to the most outstanding poster presentations By a graduate student or a postdoctoral fellow Many of the previous recipients of this war award are currently in this room And many of them have gone on to become PIs in their own laboratory. No pressure The young investigators are judged on their ability to effectively and succinctly present their research the quality of the work that they are presenting and a Personal statement outlining their research goals for the near future each of the awards will be accompanied by a certificate and a $500 gift card that can be used as cash Please see Dustin Helvey to get your gift card There that's the important hand over there That's right and and Lastly, we want to thank our sponsors for their contributions to this research award in order to encourage our graduate students and postdocs in their future work So fritz Okay, I'm gonna announce each winner and then read the title of their work And then they'll come up and accept their award. We'll get a photo and then we'll go through each of those There's there's four It was a tough job in selecting the top four And I just want to thank John McGuire who couldn't be here tonight from the OCC the oxygen oxygen Club of California He was also one of the judges Okay, so the first one goes to Martin Pierce of Oregon State University The title of his Poster was targeting therapy resistant cancer through VCL to functional conversion You want to come up? Okay I guess Siva is gonna come up and see those Calorie is his mentor Okay, the next one Okay, I hope that I say this correctly. It's Shelby Dixit from Vanderbilt University and the title of her Poster was a scorbate deficiency and mitochondrial dysfunction in the APP Peace and one mouse models of Alzheimer's disease Okay, the next one and I think one of the criteria should be short titles These are These are gonna be long so hang in there, please Okay, the next winner is Jeffrey Sasaki from the Ohio State University but This is from the OSU Oregon State University Title was green tea treatment in obese mice with non-alcoholic state Deato hepatitis Lowers hepatic NF Kappa B activation in association second with altered relative abundance of Phosphatidylcholine and biolacid metabolites. Okay, and the last is The last award goes to yang zong from Linus Pauling Institute Oregon State University The title is supplementation of mice fed a high-fat diet with xanthe humul and its derivatives changes the composition of the fecal microbiota And is associated with observed metabolic improvements