Day 2

Concurrent Sessions A

Session A.1

Community Based Participatory Research

Location: Palmar Ballroom A-C

Chairperson

Jennifer L. Lemacks, Ph.D.

Director, Mississippi-INBRE Telenutrition Center

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg Campus, MS

Co-Chairperson

Mohammed Elasri, Ph.D.

Program Director, MIssissippi-INBRE

Hattiesburg Campus, MS

• Speaker 1: Dr. June Gipson and Dr. Jennifer Lemacks, MS-INBRE

"Student and Community Integrated Reasearch to Address Health Disparities of Undeserved Deep South Populations"

• Speaker 2: Dr. Loyda Mendez and Dr. Nilda Medina, PR-INBRE

Community Engagement Continuum: Carrying Out Health Disparities Research with Puerto Rican School Communities"

• Speaker 3: Dr. Katherine Mills, Tulane COBRE for Clinical and Translational Research in Cardiometabolic Diseases.

"Partnership for Intensive Blood Pressure Treatment: Working with Federally Qualified Health Centers to Reduce Hypertension Health Disparities"

• Speaker 4: Dr. Selena Ahmed and Dr. Virgil Dupuis, MT-INBRE

"Community Engagement for Advancing Sustainable Diets on the Flathead Reservation"

• Speaker 5: Student flash talk

Session A.2

MultiOmic approaches through the looking glass

Location: El Jibarito Room

Chairperson

Filipa Godoy, Ph.D.

Core Co-Director, Puerto Rico-INBRE Bioinformatics Resources

University of Puerto, Medical Science Campus, PR

• Speaker 1: Natailya Chorna, PhD, Adjunct Professor, University of Puerto Rico Med. Sciences Campus, PR-INBRE Metabolomics Facility

"Integrative omics for health and disease"

• Speaker 2: Alan Tackett, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

"IDeA National Resource for Quantitative Proteomics: service, outreach and education"

• Speaker 3: Jose Lugo-Martinez, PhD, UPR Dept. of Computational Sciences

"Computational approaches for integrating and analyzing longitudinal multi-omics micro biome data"

• Speaker 4: Student flash talk

Session A.3

Bioinformatics and Data Science

Location: Verde Luz Room

Chairperson

Stanley M. Hileman, Ph.D.

Program Coordinator, West Virginia-INBRE

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Co-Chairperson

Konstantin “Gus” Kousoulas, Ph.D.

Program Director, Louisiana Biomedical Research Network

Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, LA

• Speaker 1: Dr. Todd Reilly, NIH CT, Client Services Team Lead CIT Cloud Services | STRIDES

"The NIH STRIDES Initiative"

• Speaker 2: Dr. Jim Denvir, DirectorWest Virginia Bioinformatics Core, Marshall University, WV

"Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants in WV"

• Speaker 3: Dr. Urska Cvek, Professor & Director, Dept. of Computer Science, LSU, Shreveport, LA

"Addressing the Complex Connections of Substance Abuse in Young Women and Their Children"

• Speaker 4: Student flash talk

Session B.1

Building Collaborative Research Across IDeA Programs

Location: Palmar Ballroom A-C

Chairperson

Edie Goldsmith, Ph.D.

School of Medicine

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

• Speaker 1: Dr. Aymen A. Shatnawi, West Virginia-INBRE, University of Charleston, Charleston, WV

"The Emerging Role of ING4 Dysregulationin Breast Cancer Development and Progression"

• Speaker 2: Dr. Jianfeng Xu, University of Charleston School of Pharmacy, WV

"Plant cell-secreted growth factors for ex vivo production of red blood cells"

• Speaker 3: Dr. Adi Dubash, South Carolina-INBRE, Furman University, Greenville, SC

"Cardiomyocyte-Cardiac Fibroblast signaling during fibrotic gene expression"

Speaker 4: Dr. Rachel Tinius, Kentucky-INBRE, Western Kentucky University, KY

"Development of and mHealth application to increase physical activity and monitor weight status during pregnancy and postpartum"

• Speaker 5: Student Flash Talk

Session B.2

Neuroscience

Location: El Jibarito Room

Chairperson

Martha Bickford, Ph.D.

Program Director, Kentucky-INBRE

Univerity of Louisville, KY

Co-Chairpersons

Jose Lasalde, Ph.D.

Program Director, Puerto Rico COBRE

University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, PR

Mark Miller, Ph.D.

Core Director, Puerto Rico COBRE

University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, PR

• Speaker 1: Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, PhD, School of Medicine, LSU Health New Orleans, LA

"Uncovering Rules that sustain neurons long life"

• Speaker2: Dr. Jessica Larsen, Clemson University, South Carolina

"Pathology as a Tool for Barin Delivery Design"

• Speaker 3: Dr. Andrew M. Seeds, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico

"Defining how the nervous system produces movement sequences"

• Speaker 4: Student flash talk

Session B.3

Clinical Research in IDeA States

Location: Verde Luz Room

Chairperson

Jessica Snowden, MD, MS, MHPTT

Division Chief, Pediatric Infectious Disease

Chair for Research

Horace C. Cabe Endowed Chair in Pediatric Infectious Disease

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

Co-Chairpersons

Carlos Luciano, MD

MPI, Hispanic Alliance CTR

University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, P.R.

Marcia Cruz Correa, MD

MPI, Hispanic Alliance CTR

University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, P.R.

• Speaker 1: Dr. Jessica Snowden, PI-IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Data Coordinating Center

"A new kind of adaptive trial design: Staying flexible in clinical research"

• Junior Investigator Flash Talk:

Abigail Gamble

"Changes in perinatal adolescent physical activity and TV viewing from pre-pregnancy through pregnancy in a population with health disparities"

• Panel: "Collaborations in Clinical Research"

Panelists:

Jan Sullivan

Lori Devlin

Paul Darden

Marcia Cruz Correa

• Junior Investigator Flash Talk:

Nicole Garrison

“Report on the First Annual WV-INBRE Bioinformatics Bootcamp”

• Speaker 2: Maria Gonzalez-Pons - Junior Investigator

"Host-genetic susceptibility to COVID-19 sympton severity and pandemic-related stressors"

• Junior Investigator Flash Talk: Edgardo Rosado

"Overcoming the barriers of COVID-19 through training and elective courses in clinical and translational research (CTR): Experience of the Title V Cooperative Project (Title V Coop) between University of Puerto Rico - Medical Sciences Campus (UPR-MSC) and Universidad Central del Caribe (UCC)"

• Session Wrap Up: Marcia Cruz Correa

Networking Lunch, General Audience

Location: Palmar Ballroom A-C

Plenary Speaker

Jorge Almodovar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and

Ray C. Adam Chair in Chemical Engineering

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

“Cell Behavior Enhancement by Collagen / Heparin Layered Coatings”

Poster Sessions

Poster Session I (In-Person)

Poster Session II (Virtual)

IDeA Post Award Management

Location: Verde Luz

Moderator: Irma E. Roman, Assistant Director, UPR-MSC Post Award

Speaker: Christy Leake, Grants Management Team Leader NIGMS

Cultural Activity and Reception

Location: Pool East

Dinner on your own