2019 North Dakota INBRE Annual Symposium Schedule

7:30 - 8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast (First Floor East Atrium)
Poster Set-Up (Second Floor W202) 

8:30 - 8:45 am

Welcome and Introductions (First Floor Auditorium E101)
Dr. Don Sens, Principal Investigator ND INBRE
Dr. Marc Basson, Sr Associate Dean, UND School of Medicine/Research; Professor, Surgery & biomedical Sciences 

8:45 am

Student Presentation - University of North Dakota
Nick Bergum – “Arsenic-Induced Bladder Cancer Molecular Subtype Transformation”     

9:10 am

Student Presentation - Minot State University      Alexandria Hamm – “Rapid synthesis of N-(2-methoxybenzyl)-N-ethylformamide”

9:35 am

Student Presentation - University of  Mary      Benjamin Ahlbrecht – “Information Transfer in Lac and Gal Protein-DNA complexes”

10:00 am

Student Presentation - Cankdeska Cikana Community College                                                Alexis Lohnes - “Decreased Expression of Schlafen 12 in Arsenic and Cadmium-induced Urothelial Cancer”                              

10:25 am

Student Presentation - Minot State University  Mariia Mikhova –“The Role of ASK1 in Cellular Senescence”

10:50 am

Student Presentation - Mayville State University
Sean Pollack - “Crop Plant for Human Health Management”

11:15 am

Student Presentation - Dickinson State University
Colten Hondl and Jessica Goetz – “Volatile Organic Compounds Regulate the Growth and Demise of Tumor Cells and Arabidopsis”

11:40 am

Student Presentation - University of Mary
Anastasia Nagle- “Immune suppression of pro-inflammatory cytokines by non-pathogenic Staphylococcus species”

12:05 pm - 1:30 pm

Lunch and Networking  (First Floor East Atrium)

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Medical School Admissions                                Joyceln Dorscher,  MD, Associate Dean, Student Affairs and Admissions, UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Graduate School Admissions                              Dwight Bergles, Ph.D., Professor, Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University

2:30 - 5:00 pm

Poster Session (Second Floor W202)

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Dinner (Second Floor E222) 
Keynote Speaker - Dwight Bergles, Ph.D.    Professor, The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University                  “Creating new myelin in the adult brain, a mechanism to allow plasticity and regeneration.”  

 7:45 - 8:15 am

Continental Breakfast (Fourth Floor outside W415)

8:15 am - Noon

Workshops (Fourth Floor Pathology labs)

Immunohistochemistry (10 spots available)

Confocal Microscopy (8 spots available)

Flow Cytometry (7 spots available)

Parentheses are maximum students per workshop.

All workshops are composed of a brief overview of the technique, an actual demonstration of all steps involved in the technique, and "hands-on" experience as time permits. All workshops can be expanded for an enhanced "hands-on" experience if requested by the partners of the ND INBRE on weekdays or weekends during the academic year.
Workshops will be filled with a 1st priority of one faculty member at each institution, followed by senior through freshman students at each institution. Individuals interested in the workshops should prioritize their choices since only one can be attended on Sunday