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Scientific Sessions, Saturday, November 16, 2013
1A Bioinformatics I
Location: Manning
Session Chairs:
Michael Bauer, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Eric C. Rouchka, D.Sc., University of Louisville
10:30 AM Highlight Speaker, Michael Bauer, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Leveraging the Old with the New: Integration of Historic Microarray Studies with Next Gen Sequencing for Multiple Myeloma
11:00 AM Davida Crossley, Alcorn State University, Characterizing the Function of the M46 Gene in the Pathogenic Fungus Histoplasma capsulatum
11:15 AM Sarah M. Schrader, Western Kentucky University, Bioinformatic Analysis of Mycobacteriophage TiroTheta9
11:30 AM Devaun McFarland, University of South Carolina, Utility of msTALI in Protein Active Site Identification
11:45 AM Erich Peterson, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Variant Consensus Reporter: Increasing the Confidence of Variants in Whole Exome Sequencing via a Consensus Approach
1B Cancer I
Location: Salon A
Session Chairs:
Scott Weed, Ph.D., West Virginia University
Lori Hensley, Ph.D., Ouachita Baptist University, Arkansas
10:30 AM Highlight Speaker, Seetharama Satyanarayanajois, Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Monroe, EGFR heterodimerization: Dynamics, docking and inhibition of signaling for breast, lung and ovarian cancer
11:00 AM Stuart Grimes, Clemson University, Nanoparticle Delivery of Non-Toxic Drugs to Enhance the Efficacy of Chemotherapeutic Drugs
11:15 AM Greg Phelps, Arkansas State University, Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Guanine Triphosphate Cyclohydrolase 1 Activity
11:30 AM Lori L. Hensley, Ph.D., Ouachita Baptist University, Antitumor effects of the synthetic cannabinoid ajulemic acid on Ewing’s sarcoma
11:45 AM Donald J. Johann, Jr., Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Towards computer assisted laser microdissection
1C Cardiovascular Research
Location: Arkansas Ballroom
Session Chairs:
Daniel R. Kapusta, Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Dakota Pouncey, Hendrix College
10:30 AM Highlight Speaker, Minolfa C. Prieto, M.D., Ph.D., Tulane University, School of Medicine, Deletion of prorenin receptor in the collecting duct attenuates blood pressure in angiotensin II hypertensive mice
11:00 AM Dakota Pouncey, Hendrix College, Identifying Potential R/S-Warfarin Metabolite Biomarkers to Improve Anticoagulant Dosing Strategies in Children
11:15 AM Rachel N Stamp-Siegfried, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Effects of Daily Kangaroo Care on Cardiorespiratory Parameters in Preterm Infants
11:30 AM Sarah Bishop, Ouachita Baptist University, Protective effects of aqueous extract of Terminalia arjuna bark against doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity
11:45 AM Nalini Santanam, Ph.D., MPH, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Perivascular Fat Relation to Hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease
1D Cell Signalling
Location: Hoffman
Session Chairs:
Emilia Galperin, Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Helen Beneš, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
10:30 AM Highlight Speaker, Guo-Lei Zhou, Ph.D., Arkansas State University, GSK3 phosphorylates the actin regulatory protein CAP1 to control the actin cytoskeleton and cell polarization
11:00 AM Timothy M. Horton, Ouachita Baptist University, Inhibiting recognition of the B-cell receptor by the tyrosine kinase Syk
11:15 AM James A. Stahl, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Global phosphoproteomic analyses define host signaling networks usurped for gammaherpesvirus replication
11:30 AM Jeffrey Sifford, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Productive MHV68 infection compromises the cellular p53 signaling pathway
11:45 AM Emilia Galperin, University of Kentucky, HUWE1 is a molecular link controlling RAF-1 activity supported by the Shoc2 scaffold
2A General Biomedical Sciences
Location: Hoffman
Session Chairs:
Angus MacNicol, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Stephanie Byrum, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
2:45 PM Highlight Speaker, Jeffrey Anker, Ph.D., Clemson University, Luminescent sensing and imaging through tissue
3:15 PM Angus MacNicol, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, A Novel Bioassay to Identify Chemical Regulators of Stem Cell Self-Renewal
3:30 PM Dustin Walter, Ouachita Baptist University, A Radial Diffusion Assay for the Rapid Evaluation of Antimicrobial Peptides
3:45 PM Ameya S Gokhale, University of Louisiana Monroe, Surface epitopes of CD2 protein to inhibit CD2-CD58 protein-protein interaction as therapeutic agent for arthritis
4:00 PM Stephanie Byrum, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Purification of a Specific Native Genomic Locus for Proteomic Analysis
2B Infectious Disease/Immunology I
Location: Manning
Session Chairs:
Gus Konsoulas, Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Karl Boehme, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
2:45 PM Highlight Speaker, Sanjay Batra, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Lipid rafts influence the formation of immunoproteasomes via RIP2/NLR pathway against Klebsiella pneumoniae
3:15 PM Carrie S. Yang, Hendrix College, Ibrutinib, a potential treatment for chronic Graft versus Host Disease inhibits T-helper 17 activation and release of IL-17A
3:30 PM Eduardo Salinas, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Enhancement of Gammaherpesvirus Productive Infection by TRIM21 as Revealed through a Proteomics-based LANA Interaction Screen
3:45 PM Yun Xiang, Clemson University, A quantitative evaluation of the binding affinity between antibody decorated liposomes and the antigen using SPR
4:00 PM Logan Blancett, The University of Southern Mississippi, Characterization of the nitrogen regulatory protein AREA in the dimorphic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum
2C Neuroscience
Location: Salon A
Session Chairs:
Robert Doerksen, Ph.D., University of Mississippi
Melanie MacNicol, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
2:45 PM Highlight Speaker, Melanie C. MacNicol, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Science, Control of neural stem cell differentiation and survival through manipulation of Musashi-mediated mRNA translation
3:15 PM Mahmoud Kiaei, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Nrf2 Activation as novel therapeutic strategy for ALS and its Neuroprotective Mechanisms in Astrocytes and Motor Neurons
3:30 PM Miki S. Lindsey, University of Central Arkansas, Calpain Inhibition Blocks Tributyltin Induced Neurodegeneration
3:45 PM Pankaj Pandey, University of Mississippi, Utilizing the ensemble docking method for ranking and selection of representative cannabinoid receptor subtype 2 (CB2) models
4:00 PM Julie Stenken, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Microdialysis Sampling of Cytokine Cell Signaling Proteins in Neuroscience and Wound Healing Applications
2D Undergraduate Research
Location: Arkansas Ballroom
Session Chairs:
Marty Perry, Ph.D., Ouachita Baptist University, Arkansas
Tim Horton, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkansas
2:45 PM John Butler and Kirby Von Edwins, Cell Signalling, Ouachita Baptist University, A Comparative Genomics Approach to Link Plant and Animal Oxidative Stress Signaling Pathways
3:15 PM Jennifer Greene, General Biomedical Sciences, University of Charleston, WV, Analysis of polymeric gels for the transdermal delivery of capsaicin for the treatment of chronic low back pain
3:30 PM Amy Ni, Neuroscience, Western Kentucky University, Time-course of effects of growth hormone (GH) and GH antagonist on auditory hair cell regeneration in zebra fish (Danio rerio)
3:45 PM Boyang Piao, Infectious Disease/Immunology, Louisiana State University, Understanding the mucus production of a human respiratory paramyxovirus infection (ID24)
4:00 PM Franshawn Mack, Cancer, South Carolina State University, Evaluating the Reliability of the ARTQ in Assessing Cancer Clinical Trial Perceptions in a Predominantly Black Sample in SC
Scientific Sessions, Sunday, November 17, 2013
3A Bioinformatics II
Location: Hoffman
Session Chairs:
Glen Shearer, Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi
Somdutta Saha, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
10:00 AM C. Stephen Embry, University of Arkansas at Little Rock/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, NeedleAnalyzer: A Data Analysis Tool for LCMS-Based Untargeted Metabolomics Data
10:15 AM Arjang Fahim, University of South Carolina, nDh-PDPA: n-Dimensional Hybrid Probability Density Profile Analysis
10:30 AM Somdutta Saha, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Defining the Recognition Elements of Lewis Y-Reactive Antibodies
10:45 AM Katelyn Robillard, Southeastern Louisiana University, Investigation of the Mechanism of Apparent HPLC Solvent Interference with an Avidin-Binding Assay
11:00 AM Mihir Jaiswal, University of Arkansas Little Rock/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, XLPM: X-linked Peptide Mapping Algorithm
11:15 AM Nathan Crabtree, University of Arkansas Little Rock/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Adapting a computational evolution system to the analysis of RNA-Seq treatment/response differential gene expression data
3B Cancer II
Location: Salon A
Session Chairs:
Karen Martin, Ph.D., West Virginia University
Joshua Sakon, Ph.D., University of Arkansas
10:00 AM Highlight Speaker, Jorge I. Rodriguez-Dévora, Ph.D., Clemson University, Miniaturized Bioprinting Platform for Personalized Cancer Therapy
10:30 AM Scott A. Weed, West Virginia University , Monitoring changes in cervical lymph nodes by high-frequency ultrasound in a 4-NQO mouse model of oral cancer
10:45 AM Laura Strossner, Ouachita Baptist University, Creating Model Systems to Study the Effects of Ajulemic Acid on Solid Pediatric Tumors
11:00 AM Shweta Chavan, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Profiling Multiple Myeloma Engraftment Phenomena via an in-vivo SCID Mouse Model and RNA-seq
11:15 AM Joshua Sakon, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Targeting mechanism of prototypical collagen binding domains from clostridial collagenase
3C Infectious Disease/Immunology II
Location: Manning
Session Chairs:
Mark Smeltzer, Ph.D., University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences
Ahmad Saied, Louisiana State University
10:00 AM Highlight Speaker, Antonieta Guerrero-Plata, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Type III interferon response by respiratory paramyxovirus infection
10:30 AM Jason S. Stumhofer, University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences, ICOS-mediated Tfh cell differentiation during Plasmodium chabaudi infection
10:45 AM Ahmad Saied, Louisiana State University, Functional Hierarchy of HSV-1 Membrane Proteins in Corneal Infection and Virus Transmission to Ganglionic Neurons
11:00 AM Brent Stanfield, Louisiana State University, Vaccination with the HSV-1 Attenuated Virus VC2 Protects Mice against Lethal Challenge with Virulent HSV-1 and HSV-2 strains
11:15 AM Gyan S. Sahukhal, University of Southern Mississippi, Defining a New Operon, msa, and its Role in Biofilm Development and Virulence