| Hostler Auditorium |
| 9:00 - 9:15am |
Opening Remarks
Dr. Fred Butcher, Senior Associate Vice President, Robert C.
Byrd Health Sciences Center
Dr. Gary Rankin, Principal Investigator, WV-INBRE
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| Oral Presentations by WV-INBRE
Participants |
| 9:15 - 9:30am |
“The Formin hDia2 is Expressed
in Invadopodia in Human Head and Neck Cancer Cell Lines”
-Dr. Luke Huggins, West Virginia Wesleyan College – Summer
Fellow
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| 9:35 - 9:50am |
“Effect of Mechanical Stretch
on Vascular Smooth Muscle”
-Dr. Robert Harris, West Virginia State University
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| 9:55 - 10:05am |
“Endothelial-dependent and
–independent Vasodilation in Cerebral Resistance Arteries:
Effects of Age and Estrogen Status“
-Casey McCroskey, Alderson-Broaddus College – Summer Intern
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| 10:10 - 10:20am |
“3,4-Dichloropropionalide (DCPA)-Induce
Change to the Mouse Stromal Cell Line S17”
-Jim Garland, West Liberty State College – Summer Intern
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10:25 - 10:45am
|
BREAK
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| 10:45 -10:55am |
"Expression and Purification
of Recombinant Novel Testis-Specific MT13 Gene for Contraceptive
Vaccine Development“
-Jessica Hammons, University of Charleston – Summer Intern
|
| 11:00 - 11:10am |
“Effects of Reovirus on Peanut
Allergies: A Model to Test the Hygiene Hypothesis”
-Ryan Busch, West Virginia Wesleyan College – Summer Intern
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| 11:15 - 11:25am |
“Evaluation of Aldehyde
Dehydrogenase Enzymatic Activity for the Analysis of Stem and
Progenitor Cells“
-Jennifer Thompson, West Virginia State University – Summer
Intern
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| KEYNOTE SPEAKER |
| 11:30 - 12:25pm |
"Biomedical Research and
the Future of Health Care"
Dr. Ted Torphy, Corporate Vice
President for Science and Technology, Johnson & Johnson
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| Health Sciences South
Cafeteria |
| 12:25 - 1:30pm |
LUNCH
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| John E. Jones Conference
Center |
| 1:30 - 3:30pm |
Poster Session
at which
WV- INBRE
and Cancer Center summer program participants will present
posters describing their research activities.
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