2019 Research Presentations

“A Computational Approach for Constructing an Intracellular Signaling Pathway Mathematical Model with Application to Parkinson’s Disease.” Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore MD. January 19, 2019. Gilchrist E, Dougherty E. 

“A Computation Based Approach for Modeling the Efficacy of Neurostimulation Therapies on Neural Functioning.” 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, San Francisco CA. March 21, 2019. Lindberg K, Small A, Dougherty E. 

“A Mathematical Approach for assessing tDCS efficacy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore MD. January 18, 2019. Dougherty E, Small A. 

“A proposed pipeline for screening marine natural products as CNS drug candidates.” American Society of Pharmacognosy Annual Meeting, Madison WI. July 24-28, 2019. Kirk RD, Johnson S, Christian J, Costa S, Via CW, Kovoor A, Seeram NS, Bertin MJ. 

“AccesSARizing the teaching laboratory: A cradle-to-grave medicinal chemistry module.” 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Quebec City Canada. June 3-7 2019. Haubrich BA, John G, Reid CW.

“Age-dependent changes in neuronal architecture in a Drosophila model of ALS.” RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence RI. June 7, 2019. Agudelo A, St. Amand V, Grissom L, Achilli T, Lafond D, Reenan R, Stilwell G. 

“Antagonism of Quorum Sensing Phenotypes by Analogs of the Marine Bacterial Secondary Metabolite 3-Methyl-N-(2′-Phenylethyl)-Butyramide.” Northeast Regional IDeA Conference (NERIC), Bretton Woods NH. August 14-16, 2019. Meschwitz SM. 

“Anti-amebic Properties of Plant Extracts and their Derivatives.” VII ECOP-International Society of Protistology (ISoP) Joint Meeting, Rome, Italy, Aug 2, 2019. Espinosa A, Paz-y-Miño-CG, Santos Y, Ma H, Seeram N, Rowley D. 

Astrangia poculata as a model for studying symbiosis and microplastics pollution.” Invited Speaker Series, University of Massachusetts SMAST, Dartmouth MA. September 1, 2019. Rotjan RD, Sharp KH, Gauthier AE, Yelton R, Baron Lopez EM, Carilli J, Kagan JC, Urban-Rich J. 

“Cognitive effects of sociality: A longitudinal aging study.” Psychology Department Colloquium Series, Connecticut College, New London CT. April 19, 2019. Templer VL. 

“Cognitive effect of sociality: a longitudinal aging study.” RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence RI. June 7, 2019. Templer VL. 

“Cognitive effects of social housing: Dissociating acquisition of task-set and spatial memory.” 26th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3), Melbourne FL. April 19, 2019. Templer VL, Wise TB, Heimer-McGinn V.  

“Combination treatment with Ursodiol and Fenofibrate improves liver function in cholestatic liver diseases and reduces the toxicity of the bile acid pool.” Yale University School of Medicine, Liver, Center, New Haven CT. July 11, 2019. Ghonem NS, Auclair AM, Hemme C, Gallucci GM, de la Rosa Rodriguez R, Assis DN, Boyer JL. 

“Determining the Effects of N-terminal Acetylation on the Microtubule-associated Protein Tau.” Association of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Annual Meeting, San Diego CA April 18, 2019. Lally A, Holmes W. 

“Development of novel HIF-1a siRNA complexes for the treatment of uveal melanoma.” CRS Annual Meeting. Valencia, Spain, July 2019. Xie L, Shen J.

“Development of Pediatric Anti-HIV Formulations with Improved Dissolution Characteristics.” 2019 AAPS PharmSci360, San Antonio, TX, USA, November 2019. Ivone R, Fernando A, DeBoef B, Meenach S, Shen J. 

“Effects of social housing on cognitive decline due to aging: Reference and working memory.” 26th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition (Co3), Melbourne FL. April 19, 2019. Wise TB, Heimer-McGinn V, Templer VL. 

“Efficient Iterative Methods for Finite Element Based Neurostimulation Simulations.” Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore MD. January 16, 2019. Dougherty E, Turner J, Vogel F. 

“Efficient Nanog Knockdown by Novel Ternary siRNA Complexes for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Therapy.” 2019 AAPS PharmSci360, San Antonio, TX, USA, November 2019. Simmeth MP, Xie LX, Shen J. 

“Exploring the Metal Binding Affinities of the Metalloregulator KmtR from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.” Rhode Island Section of the American Chemical Society, Providence College, Providence RI. April 19, 2019. Lewis S, Higgins K. 

“Expression and purification of N-terminally acetylated Ssa1 Chaperone from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” Association of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, Orlando FL. April 19, 2019. Anderson J, Griffith AA, Holmes W. 

“Expression and purification of N-terminally acetylated Ssa1 Chaperone from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” Experimental Biology, Orlando FL. April 6-9, 2019. Griffith AA, Holmes W.

“Expression of Microtubule Associated Protein Tau (MAPT) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to Determine the Effects of N-terminal Acetylation.” Experimental Biology, Orlando FL. April 6-9, 2019. Anderson J, Holmes W. 

“Fabrication of novel porous polymeric microspheres as substrates for cancer spheroid culture.” Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia Convention Center, Philadelphia PA. October 1, 2019. Dhamecha D, Le D, Movsas R, Gonsalves A, Menon JU. 

“Fabrication of novel porous polymeric microspheres as substrates for cancer spheroid growth.” TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo, Boston MA. June 19, 2019. Dhamecha D, Menon JU. 

“Further Mechanisms Underlying Spatial Interaction in the Oral Microbiota.” Mark Wilson Conference of Oral Microbiology and Immunology, Duck Key FL. February 8, 2019. Ramsey MT., Almeida, E., Perera, D., Harder De Palma, T., Mark Welch, J. 

“Inoculum preparation conditions influence attachment, colonization and persistence of Salmonella enterica Serovars on red leaf lettuce.” Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology, South Hadley MA. July 14-19, 2019. Jackson E, LoCascio B, Szemreylo E, Szemreylo K. Reid AN. 

“Investigating Cellular-Level Effects of Neurostimulation Therapies with a Partial Differential Equation Based Mathematical Mode.” Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore MD. January 19, 2019. Lindberg K, Dougherty E. 

“Investigating metal binding to KmrT.” Northeast Regional IDeA Conference (NERIC), Bretton Woods NH. August 12-16, 2019. Higgins K, Lewis S, Mayoka B, Valiente S, Labrie G. 

“Investigating the Plastisphere: The Role of Plastic-Associated Microbes on Microbead Ingestion by the coral Astrangia poculata.” National Astrangia Research Conference, Bristol RI. May 1, 2019. Hintz L, Howard RD, Klein A, Schickle A, Rotjan RD, Sharp KH.

“Investigating the role of IDH in cell metabolism and cancer pathology.” American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting. Atlanta GA. March 29, 2019. Roberts S, DiDuca N, Sturtevant S, Tipping M. 

“Investigation of antibacterial activity in the Astrangia poculata microbiome.” National Astrangia Research Conference, Bristol RI. May 1, 2019. Zaccardi N, Klein A, Sharp KH.

“Investigation of the effect of hypoxia and oxygen supplement on cultured HeLa cells.” Experimental Biology, Orlando FL. April 19, 2019. Kraus A, Higgins J, Arunda D, Guo H, Chen A, Yao R, Yang D, Wan Y

“IVIVC of Complex Dosage Forms.” Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Marlborough MA. February 8, 2019. Shen J. 

“Lighting Up LytG with Differential Scanning Fluorimetry: Elucidating the LytG-diamide.” Interaction Sigma Xi National Meeting, Madison WI. November 14-17, 2019. Pepin M, Basu A, Reid CW. 

“Microplastics pollution in corals.” Invited Speaker, Perkin Elmer, University of Maryland. Baltimore MD. November 1, 2019. Rotjan RD, Sharp KH, Gauthier AE, Yelton R, Baron Lopez EM, Carilli J, Kagan JC, Urban-Rich J. 

“Modeling Metabolic Disregulation in Disease: A causative agent and therapeutic target.” 60th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Dallas TX. March 27, 2019. Neville KE, Arcand E, O’Connell K, Spinney M, Piatelli A, Tipping M. 

“Multimodal Evaluation of Mental Workload using a Hybrid EEG-fNIRS Brain-Computer Interface System.” 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. San Francisco CA. March 20, 2019. Borgheai B, Deligani RJ, McLinden J, Abtahi M, Ostadabbas S, Mankodiya K, Shahriari Y. 

“Multifunctional Metamateriala for Nanosensing.” Multifunctional Metamateriala for Nanosensing Seminar, Northeastern University, Boston MA. February 28, 2019. Zheng Y

“Nanoparticle-based drug delivery strategies for the management of pulmonary diseases.” Brown Pulmonary Research Seminar, Brown University, Providence RI. June 1, 2019. Menon JU. 

“Neural Alterations during Use of a P300-based BCI by Individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.” 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. San Francisco CA. March 20, 2019. Deligani RJ, Hosni SI, Vaughan TM, McCane LM, Zeitlin DJ, McFarland DJ, Krusienski DJ, Shahriari Y. 

“Novel Porous polymeric microspheres as scaffold for lung cancer spheroid growth.” AAPS PharmSci 360 Conference, San Antonio TX. November 1, 2019. Dhamecha D, Le D, Movsas R, Gonsalves A, Menon JU. 

“Novel Ternary siRNA Complexes for Efficient Inhibition of Uveal Melanoma.” Rhode Island NIH
IDeA Symposium, Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence RI. June 7 2019. Xie L, Shen J

“Orodispersible Pediatric formulations.” 3rd International Symposium on Pharmaceutical Engineering Research. Braunschweig, Germany, September 2019. Shen J.

“Patient-Derived Variants of DNA polymerase Theta Experience Altered DNA Repair.” RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence RI. June 7, 2019. Avalos L, Victorino J, Santos S, Headrick A, Wanchu S, Ray S, Towle-Weicksel J. 

“Patient and Provider Communication about Cancer-Work Management among Recently Diagnosed Employed Breast Cancer Survivors.” Work, Stress and Health Conference, Philadelphia PA. November 6-9, 2019. Swanberg J, Mimoso C, Palmer M, Wall E, Adetunji F, Murphy P, Al Kibria G, Tracy JK. 

“Purification, Isolation and Inhibition of Entamoeba histolytica’s bifunctional alcohol/aldehyde dehydrogenase (EHADH2).” American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meeting. Orlando FL. April 6, 2019. Gabrielle M, Rossi L, Espinosa A. 

“Scaffold-based Lung Tumor Cultures on Porous Microparticle Substrates SPhERe symposium.” Braunschweig Germany. September 1, 2019. Menon JU.

“Screening and characterization of diamide inhibitors of Streptococcus pneumoniae growth.” 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Quebec City Canada. June 3-7 2019. Nayyab S, Haubrich BA, Whitman A, Basu A, Reid CW. 

“Serovars of Salmonella enterica vary with respect to expression of cell-surface components and interactions with red leaf lettuce.” American Society for Microbiology MICROBE National Meeting, Atlanta GA. June 7, 2019. Beaton K, Donahue N, Kennedy H, LoCascio B, Marsocci C, Reid AN. 

“Stress Relief: Targeting bacterial cell wall GlcNAcases with small molecule inhibitors.” National Research Council, Human Therapeutics Directorate, Ottawa ON Canada. October 29, 2019. Reid CW. 

“Targeting proteases to reduce neuroinflammation.” RI NIH IDeA Symposium, Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence RI. June 7, 2019. Kirk RD, Via CW, Bertin MJ. 

“The role of flagella in persistence of Salmonella enterica on red leaf lettuce.” 20th Annual Boston Bacterioogy Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge MA. June 6-7, 2019. Jackson E, Reid AN. 

“Towards a Single Trial fNIRS-based Brain-Computer Interface for Communication 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering.” San Francisco CA. March 20, 2019. Borgheai B, Abtahi M, Mankodiya K, McLinden J, Shahriari Y.

“Transactivation of EGFR and mTOR pathway by H2S in cancer cells.” American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA. April 19, 2019. Higgins J, Kraus A, Arruda D, Guo H, Lautato M, Lautato C, DaCunha E, Chen A, Yao R, Yang D, Wan Y