Congratulations to our 2022 research retreat presentation winners Rodney Park, Xavier Bonner, and Jonathan Eicher. Special thanks to Odessa Goudy the winner of the T-Shirt design.
Best Talk
![Rodney Park at his talk in 2022](https://www.med.unc.edu/biochem/wp-content/uploads/sites/795/2022/10/Rodney-at-his-talk-1024x576.jpg)
Talk title “Design of substrate recruitment domains in enzymes”
Poster Winners
![Xavier Bonner IME scholar of the month October 2020](https://www.med.unc.edu/biochem/wp-content/uploads/sites/795/2020/10/Xavier-Bonner-October-2020-IME-schola-of-the-month-150x150.jpg)
Title of Poster “Understanding Genotypic and Phenotypic Determinants of Macrophage Tropism”
![Eicher, Jonathan 2022 by poster](https://www.med.unc.edu/biochem/wp-content/uploads/sites/795/2022/10/jack-is-a-winner-2022-300x226.jpg)
Jonathan “Jack” Eicher a graduate student in the Pielak Lab
Title of Poster “Secondary Structure and Stability of a Gel-Forming Tardigrade Desiccation-Tolerance Protein”
T-shirt Design
Odessa Goudy a graduate student in the Kuhlman lab
Thank you to all our 2022 retreat committee members for the planning!
Laura Lindsey-Boltz, PhD
Richard Baker, PhD
Kanishk Jain, PhD
Darex Javier Vera Rodríguez
Jean Marie Mwiza
Rhonda Strickland
Marsha Lynn Ray