The retreat will include oral presentations from our T32 current trainees, faculty talks, and poster presentations by research staff and trainees at all levels. Prizes will be awarded for the top oral and poster presentations. The retreat is an important component of our T32 Training Grant.
Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
We look forward to gathering to celebrate research from multiple laboratories!
Stefan Strack, PhD
Director, Pharamcological Sciences Training Program
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:00 AM | Registration, Continental Breakfast and Poster Hanging (Harding, Hawkinson & Green Assembly Halls) | |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome and Introduction: Stefan Strack, PhD (Morse Board Room) | |
| 9:05 - 10:20 AM | Presentations by Trainees appointed to the TG (Each speaker gets 12 minutes + 3 minutes Q&A) | |
| 9:05 - 9:20 | Rachel Crawford, MNPC/PSET A Reactive Dopamine Metabolite Inhibits Glutathione-S-Transferase but is Scavenged by L-carnosine and L-cystein | |
| 9:20 - 9:35 | Alex Keyes, Neuroscience and Pharmacology Elucidating Presynaptic NMDA Receptors in Pain Sensitization | |
| 9:35 - 9:50 | Devon Moose, Cancer Biology Cancer Cells Adapt to Hemodynamic Forces to Enhance Metastatic Behavior | |
| 9:50 - 10:05 | Maria Nunez-Hernandez, Biochemistry Mechanism of Selective Regulation of Genes Through Transcription Factor Phosphorylation | |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Mackenzie Spicer, Molecular Medicine Regulator of G protein Signaling 6 (RGS6) Loss Provokes Nigral Degeneration & Aberrant a-synuclein Accumulation | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 PM | Break | |
| 10:40 - 10:55 PM | Group Photo | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 PM | Keynote Speaker (Morse Board Room) Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Using Plant and Bacterial Secondary Metabolites to Target | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 PM | Lunch (Harding and Hawkinson Assembly Halls) | |
| 12:30 - 2:30 PM | Poster Session - Viewing / Judging (Hawkinson and Green Assembly Halls) | |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Odd numbered posters | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Even numbered posters | |
| 2:30 - 3:30 PM | Faculty Presentations (Each speaker gets 25 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) | |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Thomas Nickl-Jockschatt, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Translational Research in Psychiatry: Focusing on Brain Structure and Function in Genetic Mouse Models | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Aislinn Williams, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry L-type voltage-gated Calcium Channels in Models of Neuropsychiatric Disease | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 PM | Award Ceremony and Closing |
Keynote Speaker
Kevin Tidgewell, PhD
Using Plant and Bacterial Secondary Metabolites to Target
Membrane Receptors, Involved in Disease
Kevin was awarded his Ph.D. degree from the UI Department Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, in 2007. His mentor was Dr. Tom Prisinzano and he is a past trainee of the Pharmacological Sciences Training Program.
2019 Awardees
Congratulations to our 2019 Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Retreat Awardees
We congratulate Oral Presentation Winner Rachel Crawford (Graduate Student, Doorn lab), Grad Student Poster Winners Emily Walsh (Abel lab), Mackenzie Spicer (Fisher lab), and Sharon Jensen-Cody (Potthoff lab), and Postdoc/Research Staff Poster Winners Deng Guo (Rahmouni lab)
Not pictured: Postdoc/Research Staff Poster Winners Kristin Claflin (Potthoff lab) and Courtney Kaemmer (D. Quelle lab)