2006 Central Research Forum at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine

2006 Central Research Forum - Thursday, February 9

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Scenes from the poster session.. Click photo to see enlarged image and caption.

The Office of Research Affairs hosted the 2006 Central Research Forum on Thursday, February 9, in the Wright State Student Union. This year's CRF brought together investigators from the Boonshoft School of Medicine, the College of Science and Mathematics, and the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

CRF included two speaker sessions. Molecular and Cell Biology Update featured the work of new faculty from four WSU departments. Capabilities in Medical Information Processing highlighted potential research collaborations with four faculty from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. (See Program for details) Special thanks go to Madhavi Kadakia, Ph.D., for organizing the speaker sessions.

"The talks were truly exciting and stimulating and filled with magnificent data," says Robert E.W. Fyffe, Ph.D., associate dean for research affairs. "The prospects for developing these projects and for cross-fertilization of the areas represented bodes well for the research enterprise at Wright State."

New at this year's CRF was a poster competition sponsored by the Wright State chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. To learn more about the poster winners, follow this link or click the photo at left. Thanks go to the faculty who judged the competition: Steven Berberich, Ph.D.; James McDougal, Ph.D.; and Mark Rich, M.D., Ph.D. See an MS Word version of the complete poster list, including presenters and coauthors.

Program

12:00-4:00 p.m. Multipurpose Room	Poster Set-up
1:00-3:00 p.m. E156 Student Union	Welcome: Howard Part, M.D. Dean, Boonshoft School of Medicine Speaker Session 1: Molecular and Cell Biology Update Paula A. Bubulya, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Visualizing nuclear proteins in living cells Oleg Paliy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Bacterial Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology: Studying Escherichia coli networks Kathrin L. Engisch, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology Individual transmitter release events in mice expressing a mutant synaptic protein Courtney Sulentic, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology Immunoglobulin gene regulation and modulation by exogenous chemicals
3:00-3:15 p.m.	Break
3:15-4:15 p.m. E156 Student Union	Speaker Session 2: Capabilities in Medical Information Processing Forouzan Golshani, Ph.D. NCR Distinguished Professor and Chair of Computer Science and Engineering Medical Information Processing Ardy Goshtasby, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Medical Imaging Thomas Wischgoll, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Medical Data Visualization Natsuhiko Futamura, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Bioinformatics
4:15-5:00 p.m. E156 Student Union	Data Blitz Moderator: Harold F. Stills Jr., D.V.M. Director, Laboratory Animal Resources Chair, SOM Research Committee
5:00-7:00 p.m. Multipurpose Room	Reception and Poster Session See an MS Word version of the poster list.
6:45 p.m. Multipurpose Room	Sigma Xi Poster Awards Presentation

More Information

Contact Mark Willis (775-3814; mark.willis@wright.edu) or Kathleen Friedman (775-3018; kathleen.friedman@wright.edu) in the Office of Research Affairs.