TBC2023 Poster Competition Winners

TBC2023 Poster Symposium

Congratulations to all of the TBC2023 participants and winners across all categories. Here we highlight the first-place winners in each category to serve as an inspiration for future contest participants:

Agricultural Biotechnology

Intermediate (Grades 9-10)

1st – Alicia Castellon, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), “Indoor Vertical Farming”

Senior (Grades 11-12)

1st (Tie) – Christopher Haddad, Christian Brothers High School (Sacramento), “Aquaponics: Are Fish the Future of Farming?”

1st (Tie) – Emma Lam, Pleasant Grove High School (Elk Grove), “Integrating Bees Back into Agricultural Methods”

 

Biomanufacturing / Subcategory in Cellular Agriculture

Intermediate (Grades 9-10)

1st – Kelly Nguyen, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), “The Likelihood of Cultured Meat in Everyday Life”

Senior (Grades 11-12)

1st – Ashleigh Lecitona, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), “Breast Believe: Using Modern Biotechnology to Eliminate the Shortage of Infant Formula”

 

Biomanufacturing / Subcategory in Biopharma

Intermediate (Grades 9-10)

1st – Dolly Ho, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), “Vabysmo - To See the Future: A Real-Life Application of Biotechnology in the Eyes”

Senior (Grades 11-12)

1st – Nishka Modi, Folsom High School (Folsom), “One Stroke at a Time Cure HIV with ART”

 

Computational Biology & Genomics

Intermediate (Grades 9-10)

1st – Nouvel Virtusio, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), “Reviving Our Woolly Friend Using the Power of Genome Sequencing”

Senior (11-12)

1st (Tie) –Sanjana Bajaj, The Quarry Lane School (Dublin), “Predicting mRNA Degradation in Vaccines”

1st (Tie) – Sucheer Maddury, Polygence Research Academy, “A Signal Processing Procedure for Early Huntington’s Disease Prognosis”

 

Environmental Biotechnology & Planetary Health

Intermediate (Grades 9-10)

1st (Tie) – Phuc Dang, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), “For a Greener Future: Genetically Modified Trees”

1st (Tie) – Matthew Yang, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), "Cleaning Up Our Act: Bioremediation for a Cleaner, Healthier Planet”

Senior (Grades 11-12)

1st (Tie) – Caitlyn Hoang, Pleasant Grove High School (Elk Grove), “Phytoremediation: Engineering Plants to Clean the Environment”

1st (Tie) – Harmoni La, Pleasant Grove High School (Elk Grove), "Phytoremediation and Its Benefits”

 

Molecular Tools: Nanobiotechnology, Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering

Intermediate (Grades 9-10)

1st (Tie) – Alana Le, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), “An Allergen-Free Kitty”

1st (Tie) – Princeton Ly, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), “What's Next with Microbots?”

Senior (Grades 11-12)

1st (Tie) – Prajanya Kannan, The Quarry Lane School (Dublin), “Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery: The Tiny Wonders Transforming Medicine”

1st (Tie) – Finna Wang, The Quarry Lane School (Dublin), “CAR-T Cell Therapy”

1st (Tie) – Bahar Zahir, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), “Liposomes: Versatile Drug Delivery Vehicles”

 

Regenerative Medicine & Biomedical Engineering

Intermediate (Grades 9-10)

1st – Lekha Anand, Amador Valley High School (Pleasanton), “Stem Cells: Repair, Restore, Regenerate”

Senior (Grades 11-12)

1st (Tie) – Erika Young, Pleasant Grove High School (Elk Grove), “Technologizing Tissue”

1st (Tie) – Jia Li Zhou, Sheldon High School (Elk Grove), “Using Biotechnology to Restore Sight: Bionic Eye and Artificial Lenses”