Summer 2008
Dr. Virginia Rider is the first winner of the Sidney A. McNairy, Jr. Mentoring Award given through the National Institutes of Health. The award, which will be given to one professor in the nation every two years, honors faculty for their dedication and focus mentoring students. For more, read the PSU blog.
The Sixth Annual K-INBRE Student Research Symposium
This symposium was held at the Intercontinental Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri, January 19-20, 2008. Attendees included Drs. Brooker, Chung, Zurek, Rider and eight undergraduate students. Emily Walters gave an oral presentation titled "An Estrogen Receptor Antagonist, Faslodex, Improves Disease Activity and Increases Foxp3 Expression in Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus." Emily received an Award of Excellence for her presentation. She also gave an poster presentation titled "Microarray Profiling of Estrogen-Dependent Genes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus." Rhonda Egidy gave an oral presentation titled "Determination of Factors Involved in the MicroRNA Biogenesis Pathway". Eric Bluml received an Award for his poster presentation titled " Halogenated Coumarin Derivatives As Novel Fungicides." Nolan Williams presented a poster titled "Tumor Cell Resistance to Macrophages". Nathan Woodward presented a poster titled "An Estrogen Receptor Antagonist, Faslodex, Improves Disease Activity and Increases Foxp3 Expression in Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus." Chad Stewart and Nathan Woodward presented a poster titled "Analysis of an Antibiotic Glucanase Protein From Soybean." Carrie McDowell and Kylie Quick attended the conference. There were excellent research presentation by scientists working in Kansas. The next K-INBRE Symposium will be held at K-State in Manhattan, KS.