The 48th Annual Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum
March 4, 2017
Creighton University Results Summary
There were a total of 96 student abstracts submitted for this year's meeting with 37 of them being Creighton students.
There are 4 award categories with 4 awards in each group, thus giving 16 awards total (there was one tie so actually 17 awards). This year, Creighton students won 9 of these awards (a 45% increase over last year) and are as follows:
1st Place Medical / Professional Student Oral Presentation - $500 + Plaque
Chelsea J. Klemetson 'Clinical Tests to Evaluate the Impact of Fatigue on Hop Performance in Healthy Individuals'
Advisor: Dr. Terry L. Grindstaff; Department of Physical Therapy, School of Pharmacy and Allied Health
2nd Place Medical / Professional Student Oral Presentation - $250 + Plaque
Samantha Banks 'Spiral Ganglion Morphology and Transcriptome Changes Observed in Microrna-183/96/182 Knockout Mice'
Advisor: Dr. Garrett Soukup; Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine
1st Place Medical / Professional Student Poster Presentation - $500 + Plaque
Aabra Ahmed 'Impact of Insurance On Survival of Stage III Colon Cancer Patients'
Advisor: Dr. Peter S. Silberstein; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
2nd Place Medical / Professional Student Poster Presentation - $250 + Plaque
Evan K Daugherty 'Collagen Type III Content of The Long Head of The Biceps Tendon as an Indicator of Glenohumeral Arthritis'
Advisor: Dr. Matthew F Dilisio; Department of Surgery, School of Medicine
3rd Place Medical / Professional Student Poster Presentation - $100 + Certificate
Hayden Z. Smith 'Development of a Real Time Assay for Imp Metallo-?-Lactamases Using a Bioinformatic Approach'
Advisor: Dr. Nancy D. Hanson; Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine
Sigmai Xi Award of Merit for Medical / Professional Student Poster Presentation [Tie]- $50 + Certificate
Sarah Budney 'Elucidating The Effects of Pparg2 Mediated by The Ketogenic Diet in Refractory Epilepsy'
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Simeone; Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine
Sigmai Xi Award of Merit for Medical / Professional Student Poster Presentation [Tie] - $50 + Certificate
Nicole Minalt 'Affects of Cigarette Smoke, Allergens, and Il-33 in a Murine Model of Asthma'
Advisors: Dr. Robert Townley; Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy/Immunology and Dr. Peter Abel; Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine
2nd Place Graduate Student Oral Presentation - $250 + Plaque
Jeff A. Shaw 'Transketolases in Salmonella Enterica Contribute to Resistance Against Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species'
Advisor: Dr. Travis J. Bourret; Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine
Sigmai Xi Award of Merit for Graduate Student Oral Presentation - $25 + Certificate
Lucas B. Harrison 'Phenotypic and Genomic Evaluation of Isogenic Mutants of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Hypersusceptible to Multiple Classes of Antibiotics'
Advisor: Dr. Nancy D. Hanson; Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine
