Central Research Forum
Tuesday
March 10, 2009
Program
12:00 Noon – 2:00 p.m.
Apollo (Multipurpose) Room
160 Student Union
2:00 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.
Discovery Room
163 Student Union
2:10 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Discovery Room
163 Student Union
Poster Set-up
Howard Part, M.D.
Dean, Boonshoft School of Medicine
SESSION 1:
NEW INVESTIGATORS AT WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
David Ladle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and
Physiology
“Transcriptional Regulation of Synaptic Connectivity to
Motor Neurons”
Yong-Jie Xu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
“Molecular Mechanism of the DNA Replication
Checkpoint in Fission Yeast”
Rosalyn Scott, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
“Collaborating with the College of Engineering - Initial
Strategies and Early Outcomes”
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.
Discovery Room
163 Student Union
SESSION 2:
TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AT WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
Steven Berberich, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
“Translational Research: From Bench to Bedside”
Michael Johnson, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
“Translational Research in Regenerative Medicine”
4:40 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Discovery Room
163 Student Union
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Apollo (Multipurpose) Room
160 Student Union
Sonia Michail, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
“The Human Gut Microbiome”
Data Blitz
Robert W. Putnam, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology
Reception and Poster Session
Posters/Alpha Listing
Poster #
Name
Patricia
Abboud
37
26, 27, 28, 29
Lawrence S. Amesse
5 Ana Benito Gonzalez
64 Nicole Borges
48 Subbaraju Budharaju
Poster #
Name
Shihong
Mao
47
57 Erin McConnell
22 Kelly Miller
30 Marvin Miller
52, 53 Ann Morrison
21 Katie Bullinger
58 Gary Nieder
43 Ruth Chambers-Turner
36 Oleg Paliy
41 Richard Chou
59 John Pearson
39 Raminta Daniulaityte
25 Lawrence Prochaska
7 Avik Das
54 Brenda Roman
1 Adam Deardorff
14 Eric Romer
32, 33 Mauricio Di Fulvio
13 Douglas Downey
12 David Ellis
49 Tharu Fernando
46 Shannon Romer
42 Richard Salisbury
60, 61, 62, 63 Nathaniel Schlicher
3 Alok Sharma
44 Ryan Finnan
50 Valerie Siembab
16 Gordana Gataric
38 Patrick Sonner
56 Donald Gronbeck
9 Chanel Hagler
2 Adrienne Stolfi
65, 66 Raymond Ten Eyck
55 David Hart
4 Amber Todd
18 Heidi Jordan
8 Brian Tucker
23 Kevin Kelley
40 Rebecca Tuttle
34 Michael Kent
11 Christopher Vaiana
19 J. Ashot Kozak
45 Sapna Varia
20 Kashmira Kulkarni-Datar
15 Gary Ventolini
35 Miryoung Lee
6 Andrew Whitlatch
31 Mary Leonard
10 Chris Wyatt
17 Guangze Li
51 Zhongyu Yan
24 Ke-yong Li
Poster Session
1.
Adam Deardorff (Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology)
R. Tracy, J. Roebel, B. Walmsley and R.E.W. Fyffe
Calcium Binding Proteins in Brainstem Auditory Nuclei of Normal and Deaf (dn/dn)
Mice
2.
Adrienne Stolfi (Pediatrics)
Jonathan C. Labbe, Sara E. Thompson, S. J. Gentry and Arthur S. Pickoff
The Relationship Between Physical Fitness and Body Habitus in School Age
Children- The "Partners for School Health" Program, Cleveland, Ohio
3.
Alok Sharma (Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program)
Sapna Varia, Athanasios Bubulya and Paula A. Bubulya
Probing Functions for SON in Nuclear Structure and Gene Expression
4.
Amber Todd (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Kevin Kelley, Kelly Miller and Steven Berberich
YPEL3 Expression is Induced by the p53 Family
5.
Ana Benito-Gonzalez (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
Maria C. Berrocal, Martyn Goulding and Francisco J. Alvarez
Renshaw Cells are V1-Derived Neurons with a Very Early Birth Date
6.
Andrew Whitlatch (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Ramakrishna Kommagani and Madhavi Kadakia
p73 is Essential for Vitamin D Mediated Osteoblastic Differentiation
7.
Avik Das (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Shuzhen Chen,Wenfeng Zhang, Jinju Wang, Mariana Morris and Yanfang Chen
Enlarged Ischemic Damage and Decreased Expression of SDF-1a in the Brain of
db/db Diabetic Mice
8.
Brian Tucker (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
James Olson
The Role of Glutamate on Hippocampal Tissue Swelling During Oxidative Stress
9.
Chanel Hagler (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
Kashmira Kulkarni-Datar, Jonathan Stamper, David Cool, Daniel Ketcha and
Thomas L. Brown
Effect of Methylation on Anti-apoptotic Activity of Cell Death Inhibitors
10.
Chris Wyatt (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
Drew C. Burlon, Heidi L. Jordan, Barbara L. Barr and Andrew W. Jenkins
Presynaptic Regulation of Isolated Neonatal Rat Carotid Body Type I Cells by
Histamine
11.
Christopher Valana (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Athanasios Bubulya, Madhavi Kadakia, Larry Drummy and Rajesh Naik
Functional Nanoparticles for Wound Healing Applications
12.
David Ellis (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Tharu Fernando and Courtney Sulentic
TCDD Inhibits Transcriptional Activation of the 3'IgHRR and hs3a/hs1,2 Enhancers
in a Transgenic Lymphoma Cell Line
13.
Douglas Downey (Surgery)
Benjamin Monson, Karyn Butler, Gerald Fortuna, Ronald Markert and
Jonathon Saxe
Does Administration of Platelets Change Outcomes in Head Injured Patients
Receiving Antiplatelet Therapy?
14.
Eric Romer (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Courtney Sulentic
Hydrogen Peroxide Modulates IgH Transcription via a 3' Regulatory Region
15.
Gary Ventolini (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
R. Neiger and T.J. Genrich
Pregnancy Outcome After Placement of "Rescue" Shirodkar Cerclage
16.
Gordana Gataric (Geriatrics)
Amy Sipp, Blair Rowley and Larry Lawhorne
Efficacy of a New Gyroscope-based Sensor in Detecting Pre-fall Postural Sway
17.
Guangze Li (Emergency Medicine)
Shuzhen Chen, Wenfeng Zhang, Yanfeng Chen and James E. Olson
Increased Brain Swelling and Cell Death Following In Vitro Ischemia in Human
Rennin and Angiotensinogen Double Transgenic Mice
18.
Heidi Jordan (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
Barbara L. Barr, Benoit Viollet, A. Mark Evans and Christopher N. Wyatt
Knockout of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Alpha 2 Subunits Disrupts the Hypoxic
Ventilatory Response in Mice
19.
J. Ashot Kozak (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
Cation Channels Expressed In Human Lymphocytes
20.
Kashmira Kulkami-Datar (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
Amy Gultice and Thomas L. Brown
Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1alpha Mediates Oxygen-dependent Inhibition of
Trophoblast Cell Differentiation
21.
Katie Bullinger (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
Paul Nardelli, Qing-Bo Wang, Mark Rich and Timothy Cope
Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy Alters Encoding Behavior of Proprioceptive Afferents
22.
Kelly Miller (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Steven Berberich
HdmX Overexpression Inhibits Oncogenic Ras Induced Premature Senescence
23.
Kevin Kelly (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Kelly Miller, Amy Kelley, Amber Rosenberg, Rebecca Tuttle, Meldrick Mpagi,
Katherine Heminger and Steven J. Berberich
YPEL3, a Novel p53 Regulated Gene with Growth Suppressive Activity
24.
Ke-yong Li (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
Robert W. Putnam
Multiple pH-sensitive Potassium Channels in Chemosensitive Neurons from the
Locus Coeruleus
25.
Lawrence Prochaska (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Teresa Cvetkov and Robert Gennis
Functionality of Single-Cytsteine Mutants in Subunit III of Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Cytochrome c Oxidase
26.
Lawrence S. Amesse (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Teresa Pfaff-Amesse and Thomas Brown
HOX Gene Expression in Transforming Growth Factor Beta-Induced Differentiation
of Labyrinthine Trophoblast Stem Cell Line SM-10
27.
Lawrence S. Amesse (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
James A. French, Zaira Moreno, Nancy Duffy and Teresa Pfaff-Amesse
Early Natural History of Menorrhagia in Adolescents with Platelet Function Disorders
and Their Treatment Outcomes
28.
Lawrence S. Amesse (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Austin Findlay and Teresa Pfaff-Amesse
Endometrial Ablation for Menorrhagia Control in Developmentally Delayed
Adolescents: A Case Series Comparison of Techniques and Outcomes
29.
Lawrence S. Amesse (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Teresa Pfaff-Amesse, William T. Gunning, Nancy Duffy, Philip Jones and
James A. French
Menorrhagia in Adolescents with Platelet Function Disorders: Family History
Suggests Further Investigations
30.
Marvin Miller (Pediatrics)
Laurence Kleiner
Klüver-Bucy Syndrome in a Child with Neurofibromatosis-type 1
31.
Mary Leonard (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Vandana Payal, Ramakrishna Kommagani, Lindsey Mayo and Madhavi P. Kadakia
PTEN Expression is Negatively Regulated by DeltaNp63alpha
32.
Mauricio Di Fulvio (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
T. Garzon-Muvdi, S. Mao and F. Javier Alvarez-Leefmans
5'-UTR Splicings of NKCC2 Transcripts and an Additional Promoter in the NKCC2
Gene
33.
Mauricio Di Fulvio (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
T. Garzon-Muvdi, B. Raval and F. Javier Alvarez-Leefmans
Cloning of NKCC2A Expressed in Dorsal Root Ganglia and its Heterologous
Expression in Cell Lines
34.
Michael Kent (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
M.K. Makley, G.L. Jahns, N. DelRaso, D. Boverhof, L. Burgoon, D. Jump,
T. Zacharewski and NV Reo
TCDD Effects on Hepatic Metabolites - Mouse vs. Rat
35.
Miryoung Lee (Community Health)
Ramzi W. Nahhas, Audrey C. Choh, Ellen W. Demerath, Wm. Cameron Chumlea,
Dana L. Duren, Richard J. Sherwood, Kimberly D. Williams, Bradford Towne,
Roger M. Siervogel and Stefan A. Czerwinski
Longitudinal Analysis of Calcaneal Quantitative Ultrasound Measures During
Childhood
36.
Oleg Paliy (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Harshavardhan Kenche, Frank Abernathy and Sonia Michail
Community Microarray for Quantitative Analysis of Human Intestinal Microflora
37.
Patricia Abboud (Pediatrics)
Deena Kemper, Abigail Reidel and Adrienne Stolfi
Established Protocols in Pediatric DKA Management Improve Morbidity
38.
Patrick Sonner (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
Maria C. Berrocal, Martyn Goulding and Francisco J. Alvarez
Differences in Firing Properties Between V1-derived Renshaw and non-Renshaw
Cells
39.
Raminta Daniulaityte (Community Health)
Robert Carlson, Russel Falck and Jichuan Wang
Non-Medical Use of Pharmaceutical Opioids Among MDMA Users in Ohio
40.
Rebecca Tuttle (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Surgery)
Paual M. Termuhlen, Daniel Hood and Steven Berberich
Epigenetic Downregulation of YPEL3 in Cancer Cell Lines and Human Colonic
Adenocarcinoma
41.
Richard Chou (Surgery)
Drew M. Nedderman, Parviz H. Goshtasby, R. Michael Johnson and
Andrea Hoffmann
Differentiation of Human Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (ADSCs)
into Hematopoietic Lineages as Anti-Cancer Therapy for Melanoma
42.
Richard Salisbury (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Eric J. Romer and Courtney E.W. Sulentic
Role of NF-kappaB/Rel proteins in Mediating the Repressive Effects of TCDD on
3'alpha IgH RR Activation
43.
Ruth Chambers-Turner (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Tharu Fernando and Courtney E.W. Sulentic
Characterization of the Human IM-9 B-Cell Line; a Potential Model for Evaluating
Chemical-Induced Modulation of the Human hs1,2 Enhancer
44.
Ryan Finnan (Orthopaedic Surgery and Biological Sciences)
Lynn A. Crosby, Christopher G. Anderson, Jon Gozdanovic and Mill W. Miller
Tetracycline Labeling as a Measure of Humeral Head Viability after Three- and FourPart Proximal Humerus Fractures
45.
Sapna Varia (Biological Sciences)
Zhihui Deng, Alok Sharma, Athanasios Bubulya and Paula A. Bubulya
Elucidating a Role of Btf in pre-mRNA Transcription and Splicing
46.
Shannon Romer (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
K. Dominguez, R. Fecher, Z. Deng, P. Nardelli, L. Goss, T.C. Cope and
R.E.W. Fyffe
Redistribution of Somatic Membrane Kv2.1 Ion Channels on Spinal Motoneurons
Following Peripheral Nerve Injury
47.
Shahong Mao (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
F.J. Alvarez, M. Di Fulvio, K. Flues, T. Garzon-Muvdi, E. Delpire and
F.J. Alvarez-Leefmans
Changes in Intracellular Cl- Regulation in Primary Sensory Neurons During Postnatal
Maturation are Independent of KCC2 Expression
48.
Subbaraju Budharaju (Surgery)
Curtis J. Wozniak, Rebecca J. Darner, Lawrence J. Prochaska, Scott A. Kerns,
Shawn M. Gargac, Anthony J. Pothoulakis and Mark P. Anstadt
Diastolic Augmentation During Direct Mechanical Ventricular Actuation
49.
Tharu Fernando (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Roger Fecher and Courtney E.W. Sulentic
TCDD-induced Modulation of the Human Polymorphic hs1,2 Enhancer within the
3'IgH Regulatory Region
50.
Valerie Siembab (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
D. S. Richards, M. C. Berrocal, M. Goulding and F. J. Alvarez
Distinct Synaptic Development in 1a Inhibitory Interneurons Compared to Renshaw
Cells
51.
Zhongyu Yan (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
William C. Grunwald Jr. and David R. Cool
Chlorpyrifos Induces Inhibition of Insulin Signaling via DAG-lipase and Protein
Kinase C Pathways
52.
Ann Morrison (Psychiatry)
B. Roman, N. Borges and J.M. Ballester
Preliminary Results of a Study of Attitudes Towards Homeless Persons Among
Medical Students During Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine Clerkships
53.
Ann Morrison (Psychiatry)
B. Roman
Program Evaluation of the Psychiatric Experience of a Homeless Clinic
54.
Brenda Roman (Psychiatry)
Reza Khavari and David Hart
Examining the Impact of a Chief Resident in Medical Student Education
55.
David Hart (Psychiatry)
A. Reza Khavari and Brenda Roman
Combating Stigma: A Psychiatric Assessment Exercise at a State Psychiatric
Hospital During 2nd Year Neuroscience
56.
Donald Gronbeck (Emergency Medicine)
Nathaniel Schlicher and Raymond Ten Eyck
Critical Event Recall Following a Simulated Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Does Not
Differ at Two Weeks versus Six Weeks of Follow-Up
57.
Erin McConnell (Internal Medicine and Pediatrics)
Elvira Jaballas, Adrienne Stolfi, Carla Clasen and Dustin Anderson
Community Service and the Pediatric Exam: An Introduction to Clinical Medicine via
a Partnership Between First Year Medical Students and a Community Elementary
School
58.
Gary Nieder (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
John C. Pearson, Nicole J. Borges and Dean X. Parmelee
Characterization of High Level and Low Level Users of Online Lectures: Patterns of
Use and Learning Styles
59.
John C. Pearson (Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology)
Implementation of a Team-based Learning Module that Effectively Teaches
Neurologic Localization Skills
60.
Nathaniel Schlicher (Emergency Medicine)
Raymond P. Ten Eyck and Melissa Schloneger
Utilization of Simulation in Evaluation of Resuscitation Skills in Emergency Medicine
and Internal Medicine Residents
61.
Nathaniel Schlicher (Emergency Medicine)
Thomas Proctor, Holly Long and Jessica Rutschilling
Physician in Triage: An Experimental Approach for Improving Patient Care Times,
Satisfaction, and Left Without Treatment Rates
62.
Nathaniel Schlicher (Emergency Medicine)
Raymond P. Ten Eyck
Medical Malpractice: Identifying the Knowledge Gap
63.
Nathaniel Schlicher (Emergency Medicine)
Raymond P. Ten Eyck
Medical Malpractice: Utilization of Layered Simulation for Resident Education
64.
Nicole Borges (Community Health)
R. Stephen Manuel and Carol L. Elam
Millennial Medical School Students: Perspectives on Service
65.
Raymond Ten Eyck (Emergency Medicine)
Matthew Tews and John M. Ballester
Improved Medical Student Satisfaction and Test Performance with a SimulationBased Emergency Medicine Curriculum: A Randomized Controlled Trial
66.
Raymond Ten Eyck (Emergency Medicine)
Matthew Tews and John M. Ballester
Improved Medical Student Emergency Medicine Team Leader Skills Following a
Simulation-Based Curriculum
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