Alhallak presents his research on “Optical metabolic imaging of response to radiation in radiation-sensitive and resistant lung cancer cells.”
From April 16-18, 2016, University of Arkansas biomedical engineering student Kinan Alhallak attended the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), which was held in New Orleans, Louisiana. Below, Alhallak offers his reflections on the conference:
I was very fortunate to be able to go to the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, along with Kristina Maxwell from Dr. David Zaharoff’s lab at the U. of A. On the first day of the conference, I participated in the undergraduate poster competition, and was thrilled to see that over a hundred undergraduates from across the nation also came to present their research.
The plenary talks and posters presented by others over the course of the next few days were very informative, and brought to light many aspects of cancer research I hadn’t considered (see the conference program here for a full list of all the presentations). On my last day, while formally presenting my poster, I also learned a couple new things that I’m planning to implement in my future experiments.
Kristina and I also enjoyed exploring the city of New Orleans, particularly historic Jackson Square. Looking back, I’m grateful that his trip allowed me to not only further my scientific knowledge, but also to gain so many new friends and to bolster my professional experience. In closing, I want to thank Seahorse Bioscience for awarding me a travel grant to fund my trip. For those who’d like to take a look, my preliminary poster is featured on their website.
—Kinan Alhallak