Frank Low Research Day winners named
We want to thank all of you who participated in making the 31st Annual Frank Low Research Day a success. We appreciate the participation of students and faculty at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, UND Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences Joshua Wynne, and UND Vice President for Research and Economic Development Phyllis Johnson.
We also had strong attendance from UND’s College of Nursing and the School of Engineering and Mines, the Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, the Department of Biochemistry at North Dakota State University, the School of Engineering at the University of Manitoba, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. We had two excellent speakers, Michael Holick, who discussed vitamin D, and Fugate-Woods, who spoke on translational research.
The 115 posters presented this year beat last year’s record of 82 (in 2009 there were 75; in 2008, 62). Special thanks to Joann Johnson, Dani Stramer, Julie Dahlman, and Rebecca Lessard for ensuring that the event went off without a hitch.
The winners of the best poster awards were, by category,
Allied Health Sciences:
- First Place: Ana Sobolik and Laura Gunderson. “Living with a spinal cord injury: A workshop for parenting and play”
- Second Place: Tina Nybladh and Jennalee O’Keefe. “The role of occupational therapy in the treatment of autism: a survey of occupational therapists employed in pediatric practice settings”
Basic and Clinical Sciences:
- First Place: Amy Moritz, James D. Foster, and Roxanne A. Vaughan. “Kinetic regulation of DAT transport capacity by reciprocal phosphorylation and palmitoylation.”
- Second Place: Jason Askvig, David Lo, Laura Leiphon, and John Watt. “The role of the Jak-STAT pathway in magnocellular neuron survival.”
Honorable Mention:
- Elizabeth Freidel, Megan Larson, and Anne Haskins. “Antecedent Techniques Used to Regulate Aggressive Behavior in Patients with Brain Injuries: A Teaching Module.”
- Jennifer Teiken, Bryon Grove, Paul Epstein, and Edward Carlson. “Production of a new transgenic mouse (Jtmt) that specifically overexpresses the antioxidant metallothionein in endothelial cells.”
- Maureen Soh, Scott H Garrett, Chandra Bathula, Don A. Sens, Seema Somji, and Mary Ann Sens. “Expression of Enolase 2 in Cd+2-, As+3-transformed human breast epithelial cells (MCF10A) and human breast tumors.”
- Vanessa Armstrong, Sharlene Rakoczy, and Holly M. Brown-Borg. “Differential Expression of DNA Methylation Enzymes in the Ames Dwarf Mouse.”
- Danielle Jessen and Matthew Nilles. “A Small Molecule Inhibitor of the Type 3 Secretion System Targets the Translocon of Y. Pestis.”
For more information, contact the Office of Research Affairs, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, at 777-6266 or edward.sauter@med.und.edu.
