Program/Schedule

All times are listed in Central Time (CT)

Thursday, March 7

8:30 am 
Continental Breakfast
Room: Center for Medical Education Cafe

9:00 am
Welcome/Introductions
Room #1307 - Assembly 2

Oral Presentations Session 1 - Cardiopulmonary & Metabolic Disease
Room #1307 - Assembly 2

9:15 am - 9:35 am
Presentation #1 - Mabruka Alfaidi, MD, PhD (LSU Health Shreveport)
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology

9:40 am - 10:00 am
Presentation #2 - Diana Cruz, PhD (LSU Health Shreveport)
Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

10:05 am - 10:25 am
Presentation #3 - Elizabeth Bowdrige, PhD (West Virginia University)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology & Toxicology

10:25 am - 10:45 am
Break

10:45 am - 11:05 am
Presentation #4 - Andrew Wojtovich, PhD (University of Rochester)
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Physiology

11:10 am - 11:30 am
Presentation #5 - Paul Chantler, PhD (West Virginia University)
Professor, Human Performance - Exercise Physiology
Professor, Neuroscience
Professor, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (SOM)

11:45 am
Lunch (Center for Medical Education Cafe)

1:00 am
Keynote Talk 1 
Room #2315 - Rasberry Auditorium
Serpil Erzurum, MD (Cleveland Clinic)
Chief Research and Academic Officer
Alfred Lerner Memorial Chair in Innovative Biomedical Research
Professor of Medicine

2:00 pm
Trainee Pitch Talks 1
Room #1307 - Assembly 2
2:00 pm - Nicole Colussi
2:15 pm - Ashton Jorgensen
2:30 pm - Emily Reed
3:00 pm - Suryamin Liman, BM, M.Phil

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Poster Session 1 - Light hor d'oeuvres, beer and wine served
Room: Center for Medical Education Cafe

5:00 pm
Social at Seventh Tap
2640 Linwood Ave, Shreveport, LA 71103
 

Friday, March 8

8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Room: Center for Medical Education Cafe

9:15 am
Group Photo (Center for Medical Education Staircase)

9:30 am
Day 2 Welcome / Intro Expert Panel
Rasberry Auditorium - Room #2315

9:45 am
Expert Panel

10:30 am 
Keynote Talk 2
Rasberry Auditorium - Room #2315
Cristina M. Furdui, PhD
Professor, Molecular Medicine / Co-director, Center for Redox Biology and Medicine, Wake Forest University

11:30 am 
Lunch (Center for Medical Education Cafe)

12:30 pm
Poster Session 2
Room: Center for Medical Education Cafe

2:30 pm
Trainee Pitch Talks 2
Room #1307 - Assembly 2
2:30 pm - Erika Reece, PhD
2:45 pm - Adesewa Akande
3:00 pm - Gowtham K. Annarapu, PhD
3:15 pm - Shafiul Alam, PhD

[20 minute break]

Oral Presentations Session 2 (Assembly 2 - Room #1307)
3:40 pm
Presentation #1 - Gopi Kolluru, PhD (LSU Health Shreveport)
Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology

4:05 pm
Presentation #2 - Tarek Magdy Mohamed, PharmB, PhD (LSU Health Shreveport)
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology

4:30 pm
Presentation #3 - Aditi Gurkar, PhD (UPMC Aging Institute)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine

4:55 pm
Presentation #4 - Erika Palmieri, PhD (National Cancer Institute)
Staff Scientist, Cancer Innovation Laboratory

5:20 pm
Closing Remarks and Award Ceremony
Room: Assembly 2 - Room #1307

5:30 pm
Crawfish Boil & Fish Fry
Room: Center for Medical Education Cafe