CONFERENCE AGENDA

A robust agenda is being developed, including poster sessions and oral presentations for faculty, research administrative staff, and students. Check back for updates as speakers and topics are added.

 

Day 1: July 23, Tue

7:00 AM-5:00 PM Registration and Information, Natcher Conference Center, NIH Campus
7:15-8:15 AM Light breakfast provided onsite
8:30 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks – Jon Lorsch, PhD, Director, NIGMS
10:00-11:30 AM

Morning Sessions (Tue)

  NIH/NIGMS Data Science Session – Lakshmi Matukumalli, PhD, NIGMS
  Poster Session A | Neuroscience & Health Disparities
  Research Administrative Session 1 | Room A
  • Building a Research Development Strategy for Your Institution — Louetta Hurst, MA
  • Compliance 101 (Research and Financial Compliance Overview) — Kris Monahan, PhD
  Trainee Oral Presentations | Room B | Microbiology, Environment, Stress
  • Light-Activable Silver Nanoparticles to Eliminate Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria — Varsha Godakhindi and Anjumana Nur
  • Defining a Role for Sleep in Chlamydia Pathogenesis — Awa Sore
  • The Effects of Sexual Dimorphism and Estrous Cycle on CDI in Rodents — Erica Bacab
  • Mental Stress Response in Pseudogymnoascus Destructans Revealed Through Transciptomics — Saika Anne
  • Preparation of Innately Antibacterial Chitosan-Based Hydrogels for Wound Care Applications — Alexander Browning
  • Surviving Progeny of Blm-Deficient Development in Drosophila Melanogaster Exhibit Neurodegenerative Phenotypes — Ava Hasenoehrl
  • Effect of Nanoplastic Exposure on C. elegans Brood Size and Longevity — Paola Garcia
  Scientific Oral Presentations | Room C | Genetics, Development
  • IGEG-1/EGF Shedding Links Peripheral Tissue Damage to Organismal Sleep Drive — Cheryl Van Buskirk
  • Transection of the Saphenous Nerve Results in Sensory Denervation of the Mouse Tibia with No Change in Bone Architecture — Kathleen Becker
  • Naturally-Derived, Blm-Dependent Y Chromosome Genetic Variation affects Sex-Specific Survival in Drosophila Melanogaster — Eric Stoffregen
  • Eyeing Regrowth: Mechanisms Regulating Retinal Repair During Development — Kelly Tseng
  • Impact of Endometriosis on Colonic Inflammation and Reactive Gliosis in an Animal Model — Caroline Appleyard
  • Therapeutic Effects of Primitive Mesenchymal Stem Cells-Derived Neural Stem Cells in an Experimental Model of Multiple Sclerosis — Rasul Chaundry, Yusuf Jimoh
  Steering Committee Meeting | Room D
11:30 AM-12:45 PM Lunch provided onsite
1:00-5:00 PM

AFTERNOON SESSIONS (TUE)

  Scientific Keynote AddressStanley Andrisse, MBA, PhD, Assistant Professor, Howard University College of Medicine 
  NIH Staff Sessions
Five sessions which include individual presentations from NIH staff and SuRE Resource Center (SRC) team members:  
  • TBD — Pauline Cupit, PhD, NIH SuRE Program Director
  • TBD — Jason Chan, PhD NIH Scientific Review Officer
  • TBD — Arina Kramer, NIH Grants Management Specialist
  • Responsible Research Evaluation: Implementing SCOPE Framework— Baron Wolf, PhD, SuRE Resource Center
  • Bibliometric Network Analysis: Building Collaborations — Baron Wolf, PhD, SuRE Resource Center
  Student Professional Development Session
  Poster Session B | Environment, Stress, Microbiology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics, Technology
  Scientific Oral Presentations | Room A | Cancer, Tissue Regeneration, Circadian Rhythm
  • Developing Modern Degradable Polymeric Materials for Wound Healing Applications — Sharon Hamilton
  • Effects of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 2 Knockout on Mammary Gland Development in Mice — Xiaohe Yang
  • Nanotechnology Platform for Targeted Delivery of Taxane and Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Therapy — Emmanuel Akala, Bharathi Mandala
  • Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase as a Potential Determinant of Cell Fate in Mitotically Arrest Cancer Cells — Charles Shuster, Naghamana Ashraf
  • Natural Killer Cells Derived Exosomes to Overcome Resistance in Lung Cancer — Mandip Sachdeva Singh
  • Environmental Circadian Disruption Re-Writes Liver Circadian Proteomes — Hao Duong
  Trainee Oral Presentations | Room B | Behavior, Neurobiology
  • Recruiting Racial and Ethnic Minorities for Research: Lessons Learned from Two Multi-Ancestry Taste and Genetic Studies in the United States — Janel Clovis
  • Impact of Mother's Prenatal Sleep on Infant's Postpartum Sleep — Sofia Bojkova
  • Where's the Magic? Infants' VoE Appraisal Depends on Who, How, & Where — Ethan Kile, Willow Albee
  • Effects of Vicarious Defeat Stress on Affect-Related Behavior in Adolescent C57BL/6 Mice — Minerva Rodriguez
  • Reward Anticipation Reduces H-Current in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons — Cristhian Calo-Guadalupe
  • Neonatal Trauma Induces Lasting Tactile Hypersensitivity Mediated by Neurons in the Amygdala — Emma Naess
  Scientific Oral Presentations | Room C | Biotechnology, Molecular Modeling
  • Analgesic Diterpenoid Alkaloids from Aconitum Species — Ed Kennelly
  • Multitarget-Directed Ligands as Non-Opioid Analgesics for Treating Chronic Pain — Stevan Pecic, Anesa Mesic
  • Unconventional DNA-Based Engineered Technologies — Reza Zadegan
  • Prediction of ∆-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol Exposure in Health Adults Using Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling — Zhu Zhou
  • Predicting the Impact of Mutations on Protein Folding Stability Through MELD-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations — Emiliano Brini
  • Quantification of Nucleobases and Nucleosides Present in Biological Fluids by On-line SPE-HPLC-MSMS — Yiming Liu
  • Quantitative Three-Dimensional Label-Free Digital Holographic Imaging of Cardiomyocyte Size, Nucleation, and Cell Division — Alexander Payumo
5:00 PM Dinner on own | Free time
7:00-9:00 PM Optional Networking Mixer, Hilton Garden Inn Bethesda Downtown

 

Day 2: July 24, Wed

7:00 AM-5:00 PM Registration and information, Natcher Conference Center, NIH Campus
7:15-8:15 AM Light breakfast provided onsite
8:30 AM-11:30 PM

MORNING SESSIONS (WED)

  State of the NIH AddressMichael Lauer, MD, Deputy Director Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  Scientific Oral Presentations | Room A |  Microbiology
  • Prevalence of Rickettsia Species Phylotype G022 and Rickettsia Tillamookensis in Lxodes Pacificus Nymphs and Adults from Northern California — Jianmin Zhong
  • Patterns of Mutation Accumulation in Varying Rates of Temperature Change — Sonia Singhal
  • Comparative Structural and Functional Analysis of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Inhibitor of Vertebrate Lysozyme Paralogs — Thomas Leeper
  • Elucidating Impacts of Substance Abuse on the Postmortem Human Microbiome — Gulnaz Javan, Christina Harris
  • A Heat-Shock Response Protein is Required for Activation of the Envelop Stress Response in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa — Boo Shan Tseng, Riley Shute, Melissa Londono
  Trainee Oral Presentations | Room B | Cancer
  • Sensitive Detection of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer-Related MicroRNAs using Pure DNA Hydrogel — Mahlboobeh Nasiri
  • Classification of Immune Landscapes in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma — Nicole Thompson
  • Targeting Rac and Cdc42 in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma — Annamaris Torres Sanchez
  • Targeting Metabolic Reprogramming for Glioblastoma Therapy: Exploring the Molecular Mechanisms of Stiripentol — Anjali Yadav
  • Evaluating the Anti-Cancer and Therapeutic Potential of Ergosterol Peroxide on Aggressive Breast Cancer Models — Adriana Aponte  Ramos
  • Microengineered 3D Collagen Matrices with Tumor-Mimetic Gradients in Fiber Alignment Guide Directional Cell Migration — Dinindu De Silva
  • HMGA2 Promotes Resistance to Enzalutamide — Yusuf Liadi
  OSP Seed Grant Roundtable | Room D
11:30 AM-12:45 PM Lunch provided onsite
1:00-3:30 PM

AFTERNOON SESSIONS (WED)

  Poster Session C | Cancer Biology, Drug Design/Development
  Research Administrative Session 2 | Room A
  • Research Compliance Committee Basics — Paul Murphy PhD and Kris Monahan, PhD
  • Elements of a Strong and Successful Proposal — Loretta Hurst, MA
  • Submitting Your NIH Proposals: The Dos and Don'ts — Veronica Taylor, MPA, CRA
  • Research Administration Panel Discussion 
  Trainee Oral Presentations | Room B | Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology
  • A Novel Splicing Graph Allows a Direct Comparison Between Exon-based and Splice Junction-Based Approaches to Alternative Splicing Detection — Jelard Aquino
  • Design, Synthesis, and Enantioseparation of a Functionally Selective 5-HT7 Receptor Ligand — Alexus Morgan
  • Targeting Amyloid-6 Plaques with Protein Modulation via Small Novel Organic Compounds — Claudia Ramirez
  • Engineering a Novel Bio-Scaffold for 3D Hepatic Bioprinting and. Tissue Restoration — Mary Jean Savitsky
  • Regulation of Intestinal Stem Cells and Longevity by the Nuclear Envelope Protein Klaroid (Koi) — Ithan Cano
  • Impact of Exercise on Uncoupling Protein 1 and Macrophage Phenotype in Mesenteric Adipose Tissue in an Animal Model of Endometriosis — James Torres
  • The Drosophila Melanogaster TENT5 Homolog is Required for Individualization of Spermatids During Spermatogenesis — Abdul Al-Nouman
  • Quantitative Assay of miRNA by HPLC-MS Method — Avinash Kumar
  Scientific Oral Presentations | Room C | Behavior, Aging, Dementia
  • The Neurobiological Mechanism by which the Novel ADRD Gene Scully Contributes to Dementia — Kyung-An Han
  • A Genetic Algorithm for Evolving Coarse-Grained Models of Amyloid Fibril Formation that Bridge Graph Representations with Particle Representations — Gianmarc Grazioli
  • Aging and Prospective Memory Offloading — Hunter Ball
  • Older Adult Social Participation, Gender, and Cognitive Decline — Eric Vogelsang
  • Language Identity, Discrimination, and Mental Health Among 1.5 Generation Asian/Asian American Immigrant Young Adults — Chulwoo Park, Avizia Long
  • Preliminary Insights: Designing Innovation and Technology to Facilitate Participation in Health Behavior Interventions and Reduce  Health Disparities Among Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and Latinos — Christina Holub, Diane Hoang, Amy Alexandre, Rosalva Romero-Gonzalez
3:45-4:15 PM Closing Remarks and Poster Awards — Brett Spear, PhD and Paul Murphy, PhD, Co-Directors, SuRE Resource Center