2011 Research Day
Research Days 2011
This year's event was a great success, with nearly 60 trainees presenting their research. Great number of our alumni returned to the College to judge the posters. Large audiences assembled to listen to two seminars: Dr. Mark Ratain discussed the topic of “Building a Genomic Prescribing System”, while Dr. Bonnie Bassler spoke about “Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity”. Return to this site in the future to see more pictures from the days' events.
Poster Competition Winners
Pre-doctoral Category
1st place (2-way tie)
Chaitanya Aggarwal
Identifying quorum sensing pheromones that regulate virulence in Streptoccocus pyogenes
Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Federle Lab
Krishna Kannan
Novel mechanisms of action of clinically important macrolides
Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Mankin Lab
2nd place (3-way tie)
Ryan Pearson
Facilitated Self-Assembly of Novel Dendron-Based Copolymers
Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
Hong Lab
Bethany Perez White
Overexpression of PKC in T47D breast cancer cells induces migration via p120-catenin transcriptional downregulation
Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
Tonetti Lab
Lawren VandeVrede
A New Class of Disease-Modifying Agents for Alzheimer’s Therapy From Molecular Refinement of a Clinical GABA-Mimetic Neuroprotective Agent
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Thatcher Lab
3rd place
Sapna Rao
A Decision Modeling Approach to Evaluate the Cost-effectiveness of Prasugrel vs. Clopidogrel in Patients with Planned Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Department of Pharmacy Administration
Touchette Group
Post-doctoral Category
1st place
Yue-Ting Wang
Reversible trapping of a catechol estrogen quinone by GSH: Problematic detoxification of 4-hydroxyequilenin and reversible protein modification
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Bolton Lab
2nd place
Lauren Mashburn-Warren
A Novel Double-Tryptophan Peptide Pheromone Controls Competence in Mutants and Pyogenic Streptococci via an Rgg Regulator
Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Federle Lab
3rd place
Shelby King
Ovulation Generates Oxidative Stress that Induces DNA Damage in Tubal Epithelial Cells
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Burdette Lab
Student Choice Award
Hyung Sup Lee
Kinetic assay using transformed M. tuberculosis
Institute for Tuberculosis Research
Franzblau Lab
Graduate Student Award Ceremony
This year, fifteen graduate students received Scholarships and Awards. For complete listing, download the program here.
Vahlteich Award
Dr. James Fischer, chair of this year Vahlteich selection committee, introduced and presented 2011 Vahlteich Awards to 2 faculty recipients: Dr. Maria Barbolina and Dr. Douglas Thomas. For more information, go
here.
Sister Margaret Wright Award
Sister Margaret Wright presented the 2011 Award to the COP Pharmacy Administration alumn, Dr. Robert Valuck. In his absence, the award was accepted by Dr. Nicholas Popovich.
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College of Pharmacy Research Days
Program |  |
Thursday, February 24
| 12-2:30 pm | Vendor Booths (Clinical Vendors) 1st Floor Lobby, COP | |
12:30-1:30 pm | Seminar
Mark J. Ratain, MD (University of Chicago) "Building a Genomic Prescribing System" Room 134-1 COP | |
| 1:30-4pm | Posters on display Judging for Student Choice Award 1st Floor Lobby and hallways, COP |  |
Friday, February 25
| 10 am | Vendor Booths (Vendors/Student Tables) | |
| 10 am-Noon | Posters on display 1st Floor Lobby and hallways, COP | |
| 12:00 pm | Seminar Bonnie Bassler, PhD (Princeton University) "Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity" Room 134-3 COP |  |
| 1:00-2:00 pm | Student and Faculty Luncheon | |
| 2-4 pm |
Posters
on display with presenters in attendance | |
| 5 pm | Award Presentations: Graduate Student Awards Scientific Poster Awards Vahlteich Awards Sister Margaret Wright Award |  |
| 6 pm | Reception Lobby, COP |  |
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Poster Competition and Information for Poster Presenters |
| All College of Pharmacy trainees are invited to present their research during the Research Days. Posters will be divided into two categories: pre-doctoral trainees (MS, PhD and PharmD students) and post-doctoral trainees (post-PhD or post-PharmD fellows and residents). A panel of scientists composed of our alumni and current faculty members will award three prizes in each category, as indicated below. In addition, all students are invited to select best poster in “Student Choice Award” category. Everyone submitting their vote (1 vote/person) for Student Choice Award will be entered into raffle for small prizes. | |
| Prizes in each category 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Student Choice Award | $750 |
| Deadline to submit abstract is January 20, 2011. | Access online abstract submission and information for poster presenters here. |