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

TimeTopicLocation
8:00 - 9:00 AMRegistration, Continental Breakfast and Poster Hanging
(Harding, Hawkinson & Green Assembly Halls)
 
9:00 AMWelcome and Introduction: Stefan Strack, PhD (Morse Board Room) 
9:05 - 10:20 AMPresentations by Trainees appointed to the TG
(Each speaker gets 12 minutes + 3 minutes Q&A)
 
    9:05 - 9:20

Rachel Crawford, MNPC/PSET
Mentor:  Jon Doorn, PhD

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
Mentor:  Yuriy Usachev, PhD

Elucidating Presynaptic NMDA Receptors in Pain Sensitization

 
    9:35 - 9:50

Devon Moose, Cancer Biology
Mentor:  Michael Henry, PhD

Cancer Cells Adapt to Hemodynamic Forces to Enhance Metastatic Behavior

 
    9:50 - 10:05

Maria Nunez-Hernandez, Biochemistry
Mentor:  Miles Pufall, PhD

Mechanism of Selective Regulation of Genes Through Transcription Factor Phosphorylation

 
  10:05 - 10:20

Mackenzie Spicer, Molecular Medicine
Mentor: Rory Fisher, PhD

Regulator of G protein Signaling 6 (RGS6) Loss Provokes Nigral Degeneration & Aberrant a-synuclein Accumulation

 
10:20 - 10:40 PMBreak 
10:40 - 10:55 PMGroup Photo 
11:00 - 12:00 PM

Keynote Speaker (Morse Board Room)

Kevin Tidgewell, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA

Using Plant and Bacterial Secondary Metabolites to Target
Membrane Receptors Involved in Disease

 
12:00 - 12:30 PMLunch (Harding and Hawkinson Assembly Halls) 
12:30 - 2:30 PMPoster Session - Viewing / Judging (Hawkinson and Green Assembly Halls) 
    12:30 - 1:30Odd numbered posters 
      1:30 - 2:30Even numbered posters 
2:30 - 3:30 PMFaculty 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 PMAward Ceremony and Closing 

Keynote Speaker

Kevin Tidgewell, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Duquesne University
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. 

 

Kevin Tidgewell, PhD

2019 Awardees

Congratulations to our 2019 Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Retreat Awardees

2019 research retreat award winners

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)