Central IDeA States Regional Meeting

Program Schedule

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

3:00 PM	Early Registration	Ballroom Foyer
	Open Poster Setup	Salon 2/3

4:00 PM	Early Registration Closes
4:00 PM	Poster Session I	Salon 2/3

5:00 PM	Poster Session II

6:00 PM	Dinner On Your Own

Thursday, June 8, 2023

7:00 AM	Breakfast Buffet	Rooftop Ballroom
	Registration	Ballroom Foyer

8:30 AM	General Session	Salon 1A/1B
	Doug Wright, Ph.D., K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Opening Remarks

	Ming Lei, Ph.D., Director of the Division for Research Capacity Building, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), Bethesda, MD
	NIGMS Update

	Victor Huber, Ph.D., Professor in Basic Biomedical Sciences, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
	COVID-19 Study

	Robert (Scott) Seville, Ph.D., WY INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
	National Association of IDeA Principal Investigators (NAIPI) Update

	Chittibabu (Babu) Guda, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core, & Jordan Rowley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
	Live demo of the learning module for ATAC-Seq

10:25 AM	Break	Ballroom Foyer

10:50 AM	General Session	Salon 1A/1B
	Kaela Varberg, Research Assistant Professor in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
	Women's Health

	Karissa Payne, Doctoral Student in Psychological Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
	Data Science

	Lisa Friis, Ph.D., Professor in Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
	I-RED

12:00 PM	Lunch Buffet	Rooftop Ballroom

1:00 PM	Breakouts
	Undergraduate Research, led by Victor Huber	Salon 2
	Erica Biven, Carter Dierlam, Daesha Erskin, Mariam Garcia Escobar, Olivia Nicholson, Emmanuela Tchona, Hannah Wall, and Lexe West

	CTR, led by Timothy VanWagoner	Salon 3

	SEPA, led by Maya Baughn	Pavilion One

3:00 PM	Networking Break	Ballroom Foyer
	With Food and Games!	Pavilion One

4:00 PM	Breakouts
	INBRE Leadership with NIH, led by Ming Lei (until 5pm)	Salon 2

	COBRE/RPL Research Presentations	Salon 3
	Steve Wonderlich, Ross Crosby, Scott Engel, Anna Gorczyca, E. Matthew Morris, Sunil Sukumaran, Maria Diehl

	ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (ISPCTN), led by Kristina Foster and Ann Davis	Pavilion One

6:00 PM	Networking Dinners
	Sign Up for Your Reservation	Pavilion One

Friday, June 9, 2023

7:00 AM	Breakfast Buffet	Rooftop Ballroom
	Registration	Ballroom Foyer

8:30 AM	Breakouts
	Undergraduate Career Development, led by Brian Ackley	Salon 2

	INBRE Collaborative Research	Salon 3
	Nicholas Wallace, Peter Chung, and a panel moderated by Doug Wright

	COBRE Leadership with NIH, led by Ming Lei (at 9am)	Pavilion One

10:00 AM	Break	Ballroom Foyer

10:30 AM	Breakouts
	Translational Research, led by Douglas Wright	Salon 2

	Entrepreneurship, led by Tyler Scherr	Salon 3

	CTR Leadership with NIH, led by Ming Lei (at 10am) (MOVED TO LUNCHTIME ON THURSDAY AT RESERVED TABLE)	Pavilion One

	PEARL Group, led by Sarah E. Velasquez	Salon 1A
	Ben Claar, Lydia Schlitzkus, and a forum moderated by Sarah E. Velasquez

12:00 PM	Boxed Lunches Available for Pickup/Hotel Checkout	Ballroom Foyer