Biomedical Research Day: Bridging Science and Health Tuesday,

Biomedical Research Day: Bridging Science and Health Tuesday,  taking place during Research Week, will showcase the latest discoveries by featured faculty speakers as well as undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees at the U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix. All trainees have been invited to prepare posters to present their research findings, and top abstracts in Cardiopulmonary, Neuroscience, and Cancer Cell Biology & Immunology have been selected for oral presentations.

Thanks to our generous sponsors, the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre, the Flinn Foundation, and the MICA Medical Foundation, there is no cost to attend.

Agenda:

8:00 – 9:00 – Registration opens and poster setup
9:00 – 9:10 – Welcoming remarks Session One – Cardiopulmonary
9:10 – 9:35 – Christopher Glembotski, PhD; Vice Dean for Research; Director, Translational Cardiovascular Research Center; Professor, Internal Medicine “Does 3 represent the state of completeness in a career researching the heart?”
9:35 – 9:50 – Ashton Jorgensen, PhD (Postdoc) “Sex differences in cardiac fibroblast response to transient angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition”
9:50 – 10:05 – Natascha Schippel (Graduate student) “Erythropoietin-dependent acquisition of CD71hiCD105hi phenotype within CD235a− early erythroid progenitors”
10:05 – 10:20 – Ryan Woltz, PhD (Postdoc) “Disruption of a single R395:E398 salt bridge by PIP2 shifts the state distribution towards an open and conductive state in human small-conductance Ca2+-activated potassium channels”
10:20 – 10:40 – Break Session Two – Neuroscience
10:40 – 11:05 – Isabelle Schrauwen, PhD; Associate Professor, Translational Neurosciences “Omics-driven insights into the pathophysiology of neurological and sensorineural disorders”
11:05 – 11:20 – Chris Brown, PhD (Postdoc) “Increased neuronal plasticity accelerates vision deficits in the P23H murine model of retinitis pigmentosa”
11:20 – 11:35 – Bhavik Rajaboina (Undergraduate) “Persistent glial dysfunction in the hippocampus after diffuse axonal injury: sex differences and implications for neurodegeneration”
11:35 – 11:50 – Sunny Vansdadia, BS (Medical Student & Clinical Research Graduate Student) “Predicting brain metastasis from lung cancer: a SEER database ML analysis”
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch and Posters Session
1 1:00 – 2:00 – Lunch and Posters Session 2
Session Three – Cancer Cell Biology and Immunology
2:00 – 2:15 – Rayna Shaik (Undergraduate) “Gas marble therapeutics mitigate oxidative stress in chronic wounds”
2:15 – 2:30 – Hunter O\’Brien (Graduate student) “ITGA3, a novel predictive biomarker for FAK-FAT targeted therapeutics in melanoma”
2:30 – 2:45 – Anita Garwolinska (Undergraduate) “Targeted lipidomics unveils complex lipids in cervicovaginal environment as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for endometrial cancer”
2:45 – 3:10 – Suwon Kim, PhD; Associate Professor, Basic Medical Sciences; Director, Personalized Active Learning, UME “ING4 tumor suppressor, tumor immune microenvironment (TIME), and metastasis: a butterfly effect”
3:10 – 3:20 – Oral presentation awards and closing remarks Location All oral presentations will take place in HSEB C104, the poster session and lunch will take place in Piper Auditorium.

Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB) – 435 N. 5th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Virginia G. Piper Auditorium – 600 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004

PBC Parking Garage – 555 E. Fillmore, Phoenix, AZ 85004