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21st Annual K-INBRE Symposium

Program Schedule

Friday, January 13, 2023

3:00 PM Early Registration Prefunction Cottonwood
  Open Poster Practice Leatherwood Ballroom
 
4:30 PM Early Registration Closes Prefunction Cottonwood
 
6:00 PM Friday Night Dinner
 
6:30 PM Open Poster Practice Closes Leatherwood Ballroom
 
8:00 PM Dinner Ends

 

Saturday, January 14, 2023

7:30 AM Breakfast Buffet Cottonwood Ballroom/Foyer
7:30 AM Registration Cottonwood Foyer
 
8:30 AM General Session Cottonwood Ballroom
  Doug Wright, Ph.D., K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
  Opening Remarks
 
9:00 AM Sharice Davids, United States Representative, 3rd District of Kansas
 
9:20 AM Theodore Price, Ph.D., Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
  Title: Identifying and Developing Targets for Neuropathic Pain Treatment
 
9:55 AM Anuradha Ghosh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Master Advisor, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
  Title: Study of microbial communities from various niches using culture-based and genomics approaches
 
10:25 AM Break Foyer
 
10:25 AM University Photos Foyer
  10:30 AM: University of Kansas Medical Center Photo
  10:35 AM: Fort Hays State University Photo
  10:40 AM: Kansas State University Photo
  10:45 AM: Pittsburg State University Photo
  10:50 AM: University of Kansas Lawrence Photo
 
10:55 AM General Session Cottonwood Ballroom
  Christine Brodsky, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
 Moderator: Trainee Presentations
 
11:00 AM Trainee #1: Hannah Wall, Langston University, Langston, OK
  Title: Skeletal Muscle Oxygen Delivery and Uptake in Cardiopulmonary Diseases
 
11:15 AM Trainee #2: Paul Worsley, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
  Title: Nanoceria-Based Drug Delivery System for the Treatment of Lung Cancer
 
11:30 AM Trainee #3: Avinash Dhimal, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
  Title: Graphene-based Quantum Dot Synthesis for Bioimaging
 
11:45 AM Lunch Cottonwood Ballroom
 
1:00 PM General Session Cottonwood Ballroom
  James Balthazor, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
  Moderator: Trainee Presentations
 
1:05 PM Trainee #4: Audrey Rips-Goodwin, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  Title: Determining the Accuracy of Food Labeling for Hyper-palatable and non-Hyper-palatable Foods
 
1:20 PM Trainee #5: Audrey Rymer, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
  Title: Comparing the Presence of Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria in Wastewater Systems to Assess the Population Health of Kansas Counties
 
1:35 PM Data Science Core
  Susan Brown, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  Moderator: Data Science Perspectives on Bioinformatics
 
  Featured speaker: Hande McGinty, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  Title: Wrangling Data Using KARMA
 
  Student speaker: Shelby Bell-Glenn, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, Advisor: Devin Koestler, Ph.D.
  Title: Calculating detection limits and uncertainty of DNA methylation based cellular deconvolution
 
  Speaker: Devin Koestler, Ph.D., Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
  Title: Training in Data Science available through K-INBRE
 
2:35 PM General Session Concludes/Break Foyer
 
2:35 PM University Photos Foyer
  2:45 PM: Langston University Photo
  2:50 PM: Emporia State University Photo
  2:55 PM: Haskell Indian Nations University Photo
  3:00 PM: Washburn University Photo
  3:05 PM: Wichita State University Photo
 
3:20 PM Poster Judge Meeting Hawthorne 1
 
3:30 PM Reception/Poster Session I Leatherwood Ballroom
 
4:30 PM Reception/Poster Session II Leatherwood Ballroom
 
5:30 PM Reception/Poster Session III Leatherwood Ballroom
 
6:30 PM Poster Session Ends
  Dinner Cottonwood Ballroom
 
7:00 PM Award Presentations Cottonwood Ballroom
  John Stanford, Ph.D., K-INBRE Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
 
7:30 PM Closing Remarks
  Doug Wright, Ph.D., K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
   

 

Sunday, January 15, 2023

7:30 AM Breakfast Buffet Foyer
 
8:30 AM General Session Cottonwood Ballroom
  John Stanford, Ph.D., Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
  Opening Remarks and Moderator: Regional Scientist and Trainee Presentation
 
8:40 AM Trainee #6: Sarah C. Wilson, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
  Title: Maternal Thm1 heterozygosity protects against cleft palate and shows altered Hedgehog signaling in uterine tissue
 
9:00 AM Trainee #7: Emily Tolbert, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  Title: β-HPV 8 E6 reduces innate immune signaling
 
9:20 AM Trainee #8: Ava K. Lee, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
  Title: Effects of Whole-Body Resistance Exercise in Young and Middle-Aged Rats
 
9:40 AM Vincent M. Rossi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Washburn University, Topeka, K
  Title: Digital Holographic Microscopy as a Tool for Non-invasive, Real-time Measurement of Cellular Dynamics
 
10:10 AM Poster Session IV/Break Leatherwood Ballroom
 
11:10 AM Poster Session IV Ends
 
11:15 AM Introduction of Speaker Cottonwood Ballroom
  John Stanford, Ph.D., K-INBRE Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
 
11:20 AM Haifan Wu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
  Title: Apply protein cross-linking to study amyloid-protein interactions
 
11:50 AM Oral Presentation Awards
  John Stanford, Ph.D., K-INBRE Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
 
12:00 PM Closing Remarks
  Doug Wright, Ph.D., K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
 
12:00 PM Boxed Lunches Available for Pickup Foyer
 
12:00 PM Hotel Checkout