18th Annual K-INBRE Symposium

Program Schedule

Hyatt Regency Wichita
Wichita, KS

Friday, January 17, 2020

3:00 PM	Early Registration	Grand Eagle Ballroom Foyer
	Open Poster viewing	Grand Eagle Ballroom
4:30 PM	Early Registration Closes
6:00 PM	Friday Night Dinner
8:00 PM	Poster Viewing	TBD
	Friday Night Dinner Ends

 

Saturday, January 18, 2020

7:30 AM	Breakfast Buffet	Cypress Ballroom/Foyer
	Registration	Redbud Ballroom Foyer
8:30 AM	General Session	Redbud Ballroom
	Doug Wright, Ph.D., K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Opening Remarks
8:45 AM	Coleen Pugh, Ph.D., Dean Graduate School and Associate Vice President for Research & Technology Transfer, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
	Welcome from Wichita State University
9:00 AM	Doug Wright, Ph.D., K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Moderator: Keynote and Regional Scientist Presentations
9:05 AM	Sonia Hall, Ph.D., President and CEO, BioKansas, Fairway, KS
	Title: Building a career: The value of mistakes, perspective, courage, and exploration
9:35 AM	Moriah R. Beck, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
	Title: New actin branching mechanism facilitated by palladin
10:05 AM	Break	Redbud Ballroom Foyer
	University Photos
10:10 AM	Wichita State University Photo
10:15 AM	Fort Hays State University Photo
10:20 AM	Kansas State University Photo
10:25 AM	Pittsburg State University Photo
10:30 AM	University of Kansas Medical Center Photo
10:35 AM	General Session	Redbud Ballroom
	Marija Kuna, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Moderator: Regional Scientist and Trainee Presentations
10:40 AM	Robert Unckless, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
	Title: Recurrent evolution of a virulent viral haplotype in a Drosophila/DNA virus system
11:10 AM	Morgan Bretches, Trainee #1, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
	Title: Peripheral Nerve-derived Pluripotent Stem Cells as Potential Cell Source to Treat Segmental Bone Defect
11:30 AM	Hunter Woosley, Trainee #2, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
	Title: The role of the hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate (Hrs) on HSV-1 infection
11:50 AM	Lunch	Cypress Ballroom/Foyer
12:50 PM	Poster Judge Meeting	Trail Rooms
1:00 PM	Poster Session I	Grand Eagle Ballroom
2:00 PM	Poster Session II	Grand Eagle Ballroom
3:00 PM	Poster Session II Ends
3:05 PM	General Session	Redbud Ballroom
	Raja Veerapandian, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
	Moderator: Regional Scientist and Trainee Presentations
3:10 PM	Stacii Cross, Trainee #3, Langston University, Langston, OK
	Title: Complement Activation in Rat Pre-Eclampsia
3:30 PM	Priyanka Radadiya, Trainee #4, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Title: Ciclopirox-olamine alters ferritin trafficking and plays a protective role in polycystic kidney disease
3:50 PM	Vedant Jain, Trainee #5, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
	Title: Nanozyme: A Developing Nanotechnology for the Detection of Food-Borne Pathogens
4:10 PM	General Session Concludes/Break	Redbud Ballroom Foyer
	University Photos
4:15 PM	Langston University Photo
4:20 PM	Emporia State University Photo
4:25 PM	University of Kansas, Lawrence Photo
4:30 PM	Washburn University Photo
4:35 PM	Haskell Indian Nations University Photo
4:40 PM	Poster Judge Meeting	Trail Rooms
4:50 PM	Reception/Poster Session III	Grand Eagle Ballroom/td>
5:50 PM	Reception/Poster Session IV	Grand Eagle Ballroom
6:50 PM	Poster Session Ends
7:00 PM	Dinner	Redbud Ballroom/Foyer
7:30 PM	Award Presentations	Redbud Ballroom
	John Stanford, Ph.D.,K-INBRE Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
8:00 PM	Doug Wright, Ph.D., K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS	Redbud Ballroom
	Closing Remarks

 

Sunday, January 19, 2020

7:30 AM	Breakfast Buffet	Cypress Ballroom
8:30 AM	General Session	Redbud Ballroom
	John Stanford, Ph.D.,Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Opening Remarks
8:35 AM	Adam Scheid, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Moderator: Regional Scientist and Trainee Presentation
8:40 AM	Alexis Winter, Trainee #6, Fort Hays State University, Fort Hays, KS
	Title: MRSA YjbIH coordinate expression of hemolysins through global networks
9:00 AM	Colby Spiess, Trainee #7, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
	Title: Overexpression of the RNA binding protein HuR promotes chemoresistance by stabilizing AKT in colorectal cancer cells
9:20 AM	Isabel Lewis, Trainee #8, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
	Title: CRISPR Cas12a endonuclease in a gene drive: Cuts only as good as the guide
9:40 AM	Eric T. Gillock, Ph.D., Professor, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
	Title: The potential spread of porcine endogenous retrovirus C among feral swine populations
10:10 AM	Break	Redbud Foyer
10:30 AM	General Session	Redbud Ballroom
	John Stanford, Ph.D.,Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Moderator: Regional Scientist Presentations
10:35 AM	David Long, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
	Title: Generating morphological models of endothelial monolayers from limited data: A computational framework for mechanobiology to understand and predict cell behaviors
11:05 AM	James Balthazor, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
	Title: Probing the Unfolded Protein Response: mRNA knockdowns in Acyrthosiphon pisum
11:35 AM	John Stanford, Ph.D.,Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Oral Presentation Awards
11:45 PM	Doug Wright, Ph.D.,K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Closing Remarks
12:00 PM	Boxed lunches available for pickup	Redbud Ballroom Foyer