22nd Annual K-INBRE Symposium

Program Schedule

 

Friday, January 12, 2024

3:00 PM Early Registration Grand Ballroom Foyer
  Open Poster Practice (Until 6PM) Mcdowell, Tuttle, Alcove, Big Basin
 
4:30 PM Early Registration Closes
 
6:00 PM Friday Night Dinner Konza Prairie, Kaw Nation
 
8:00 PM Dinner Ends

Saturday, January 13, 2024

7:30 AM Breakfast Buffet Konza Prairie, Kaw Nation
7:30 AM Registration Grand Ballroom Foyer
 
8:30 AM General Session Flint Hills, Kings
  Doug Wright, Ph.D., K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center
  Opening Remarks
 
8:50 AM David Rosowsky, Ph.D., Vice President for Research, Kansas State University
  Welcome from Kansas State University
 
9:00 AM V. Gustavo Blanco, M.D, Ph.D., Professor and Chairperson Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical
  Keynote Speaker
 
9:30 AM Team Science: The role of the microbiome in chronic abdominal pain syndromes: An Innovative Team Science Approach
  Erin Young, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center
  Harnessing the microbiome to treat visceral hypersensitivity
 
  Kyle Baumbauer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center
  Combining neurophysiologic and transcriptomic data to understand functional pain disorders
 
  Anuradha Ghosh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pittsburg State University
  Diagnostic applications of the microbiome
 
  Sree Chintapalli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
  Metabolomics-Driven Protein Target Prediction: An In-Silico Methodology
 
10:25 AM Break Grand Ballroom Foyer
 
10:25 AM University Photos Hotel Lobby
  10:30 AM: Kansas State University Photo
  10:35 AM: Pittsburg State University Photo
  10:40 AM: University of Kansas Medical Center Photo
  10:45 AM: Fort Hays State University Photo
  10:50 AM: Wichita State University Photo
 
10:55 AM General Session Flint Hills, Kings
  Sherry Fleming, Ph.D., Professor, Kansas State University
  Moderator: Trainee Presentations
 
11:00 AM Trainee #1: Camryn Greving, Fort Hays State University
  Title: Distribution of the 2-micron Plasmid in Various Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
 
11:15 AM Trainee #2: Kayla Smith, Langston University
  Title: Impairments in Cerebral Autoregulation and Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Cancer Survivorship
 
11:30 AM Trainee #3: Grace Schieferecke, Kansas State University
  Title: Molecular Analysis of Benzimidazole Resistance in Hookworms in Kansas Dogs
 
11:45 AM Lunch Konza Prairie, Kaw Nation
 
1:00 PM General Session Flint Hills, Kings
  Stephen Fields, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Emporia State University
  Moderator: Trainee Presentations
 
1:05 PM Trainee #4: David Claridge, Emporia State University
  Title: Assessing Plant Derived Antioxidants for a Protective Effect Against Pesticides in the Honeybee Gut
 
1:20 PM Trainee #5: Alexandra Robinson, Pittsburg State University
  Title: Syntheses of Co-MOF, Ni-MOF, and Fe-MOF for applications in both electrocatalysis and energy storage using a single-step microwave method
 
1:35 PM Data Science Core: What the Data Science Core can do for you
  Bradley Olson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
  Moderator: Data Science Core
 
  Featured speaker: Dinah Davison, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Kansas State University
  Title: The reorganization of protein interaction networks during the transition to multicellularity
 
  Featured speaker: Dong Pei, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center
  Title: optima: An open-source R package for the Tapestri platform for integrative single cell multiomics data analysis
 
2:35 PM General Session Concludes/Break Grand Ballroom Foyer
 
2:35 PM University Photos Hotel Lobby
  2:45 PM: Washburn University Photo
  2:50 PM: Haskell Indian Nations University Photo
  2:55 PM: Emporia State University Photo
  3:00 PM: Langston University Photo
  3:05 PM: University of Kansas Photo
 
3:20 PM Poster Judge Meeting Big Blue River, Fort Riley
 
3:30 PM Reception/Poster Session I Mcdowell, Tuttle, Alcove, Big Basin
 
4:30 PM Reception/Poster Session II Mcdowell, Tuttle, Alcove, Big Basin
 
5:30 PM Reception/Poster Session III Mcdowell, Tuttle, Alcove, Big Basin
 
6:30 PM Dinner Konza Prairie, Kaw Nation
 
7:00 PM Award Presentations
  John Stanford, Ph.D., K-INBRE Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center
 
7:30 PM Closing Remarks
  Doug Wright, Ph.D., K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center
   

Sunday, January 14, 2024

7:30 AM Breakfast Buffet Konza Prairie, Kaw Nation
 
8:30 AM General Session Flint Hills, Kings
  John Stanford, Ph.D., Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center
  Opening Remarks and Moderator: Regional Scientist and Trainee Presentation
 
8:40 AM Trainee #6: Keetan Munsell, Washburn University
  Title: Examining the Reproductive Ecology of Terrapene ornata in Western Nebraska; a Multi-year Study
 
9:00 AM Trainee #7: Ian Ensley, University of Kansas Medical Center
  Title: Hyaluronan synthase (Has)2, in dual Has1 and Has3 deficient mice, protects against age-associated weight gain by reducing adipocyte hypertrophy
 
9:10 AM Trainee #8: Alia Michaelis, Wichita State University
  Title: Characterization of Cardiomyopathic Point Mutations in the Ig3 Domain of Myopalladin
 
9:25 AM Scott Lovell, Ph.D., Director, Protein Structure and X-Ray Crystallography Laboratory, University of Kansas
  Title: High Throughput Structural Biology Methods and Applications
 
10:10 AM Poster Session IV Mcdowell, Tuttle, Alcove, Big Basin
 
11:15 AM Oral Presentation Awards Flint Hills, Kings
  John Stanford, Ph.D., K-INBRE Associate Director, University of Kansas Medical Center
 
11:45 PM Closing Remarks
  Doug Wright, Ph.D., K-INBRE Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Medical Center
 
11:45 PM Boxed Lunches Available for Pickup Grand Ballroom Foyer
 
12:00 PM Hotel Checkout