Frank Low Research Day award results listed
I wanted to thank everyone who participated in Frank Low Research Day to make it a success, especially all of the students, their mentors, faculty and staff who presented posters and/or platform presentations. Thanks to all of the judges who provided timely and fair reviews of the posters. Specific thanks go to Joshua Wynne for very thoughtful and insightful opening remarks; to Phyllis Johnson, VP for Research and Economic Development, who did a great job as chair of the morning research session; to our two invited speakers, Nancy Reame and Stefanie Jeffrey, who gave excellent talks; to Cindy Anderson, associate dean for Nursing, for working with us to involve the College of Nursing; and to Robin Miskimins, director of Research Development at Sanford School of Medicine in Sioux Falls, S.D., for taking the time to visit us and get a flavor of our research efforts at the SMHS. Hopefully her visit will lead to research collaborations between the two schools.
Finally, thanks to Joann Johnson, Dani Stramer, Diane Hillebrand, Beth Kliethermes and Julie Dahlman, who attended to all of the specifics required for this meeting to be a success.
Notable facts regarding FLRD 2010:
Most posters ever: 84
Greatest participation by another UND College (Nursing) at FLRD
There were more basic science than clinical and translational science posters this year. Two cash awards were given for basic science and one for clinical translational science.
Poster Awards for Clinical and Translational Science:
1st Place Tie:
Sarah Dahlhauser (coauthors Holly Frolek, Gail Bass), “On-the-go sensory kit manual for families of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders”
Suneetha Muthyala (coauthors Byron Danielson, Abe Sahmoun), “Prevalence of reporting and management of non-diabetic chronic kidney disease patients by primary care physicians in a rural state”
Honorable mention:
Matthew Cappetta (coauthors Roberta Carrlson, Anne Haskins), “An exploratory study examining interprofessional collaboration between occupational therapy and physical therapy practitioners and students”
Poster Awards for Basic Science:
1st Place:
Amy Moritz (coauthors James Foster, Roxanne Vaughan), “Reciprocal phosphorylation and palmitoylation of DAT regulate transporter capacity and stability”
2nd Place:
Chandra Bathula (coauthors Seema Somji, Don Sens, Mary Ann Sens, Jane Dunlevy, John Shabb, Scott Garrett), “Regulation of cell differentiation by metallothionein-3 (MT-3) in human proximal tubule (HPT) cells”
Honorable mention:
Jason Askvig (coauthors David Lo, Laura Leiphon, John Watt), “Elucidation of CNTF-evoked intracellular signaling pathways in the rat supraoptic nucleus”
Eric Schommer (coauthors Jaya Prasanthi, Jared Schommer, Othman Ghribi), “The cholesterol metabolite 27-hyroxycholesterol triggers Alzheimer’s disease-like pathology by increasing AB, dysregulating iron homeostasis, and inducing apoptosis”
Dhaval Bhatt (coauthors Dane Mitteness, Heidi Gienger, Thad Rosenberger) “Acetate supplementation increases rat brain energy reserves”
Tracy Ystesund (coauthors Wallace Muhonen, John Shabb), “Carbamidomethyl-dithiothreitol modifications of cysteine-containing peptides: a potentially significant byproduct of reduction-alkylation reactions in proteomic studies”
— Edward Sauter, 777-2284, esauter@medicine.nodak.edu.
