Four IMSD Scholars selected for Outstanding Poster Presentations at this year’s ABRCMS Conference!

Our IMSD Scholars recently returned from this year’s Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), hosted in Anaheim, California.  Twenty-three of the IMSD Scholars participated, with 18 presenting their research. We are pleased to announce that for the ninth year in a row, at least one IMSD Scholar from MU has been selected as an Outstanding Research Presentation Award Recipient in their category. The conference included over 2,500 undergraduate research presentations and only 395 presentations were selected for this award. While all of the students’ presentations were excellent, it was an honor to have four of them selected by the judges for recognition at the national conference.

The following MU IMSD students received an Outstanding Poster Presentation Award:

Benjamin Jones (Jr. Biological Sciences) – MU Faculty Mentor: Erika Boerman/Medical Pharmacology & Physiology

• Poster Title:  Decreased Metalloprotease Expression Contributes to Impaired Sensory Vasodilation in Mesenteric Arteries with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• ABRCMS Scientific Discipline Category: Physiology & Pharmacology

Dominique Joseph (Jr. Biological Sciences) – MU Faculty Mentor: Charlotte Phillips/Biochemistry

• Poster Title: Postnatal Inhibition of Myostatin and Activin-A in the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Murine (oim) Model
• ABRCMS Scientific Discipline Category: Biochemistry

Alisha Perry (Jr. Biological Sciences) – MU Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Parks/Nutrition & Exercise Physiology

• Poster Title: Hepatic Short Chain Fatty Acid Oxidation (SCFA) in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
• ABRCMS Scientific Discipline Category: Physiology & Pharmacology

Clayton Ivie (So. Secondary Education) – MU Faculty Mentor: Jaqueline Limberg/Nutrition & Exercise Physiology

• Poster Title: Sex Differences in the Effect of Intermittent Hypoxia on Sympathetic Baroreflex Control of Blood Pressure
• ABRCMS Scientific Discipline Category: Physiology & Pharmacology

Congratulations to all of the IMSD Students selected to present at the 2019 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students!

Kennedy Duncan (Jr. Biological Sciences – Faculty Mentor: Matthew Will / Psychological Sciences)
Esiri Emeje (Jr. Psychology – Faculty Mentor: Matthew Will / Psychological Sciences)
Ronel Ghidey (Sr. Biological Sciences & Public Health) – Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth King / Biological Sciences)
Nicole Greco (Jr. Biological Sciences – Faculty Mentor: Aaron Stoker / Orthopaedic Surgery)
Hamza Iqbal (Jr. Mathematics – Faculty Mentor: Ilker Ozden / Biological Engineering)
Clayton Ivie (So. Secondary Education – Faculty Mentor: Jacqueline Limberg / Nutrition & Exercise Physiology)
Andrew Jones (Jr. Biological Sciences – Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth King / Biological Sciences)
Benjamin Jones (Jr. Biological Sciences – Faculty Mentor: Erika Boerman / Medical Pharmacology & Physiology)
Dominique Joseph (Jr. Biological Sciences – Faculty Mentor: Charlotte Phillips / Biochemistry)
Paxton Kostos (Sr. Biochemistry – Faculty Mentor: Antje Heese / Biochemistry) * Outstanding Poster Presentation Award Recipient, ABRCMS 2018
Tyge Ortega (Jr. Biological Sciences – Faculty Mentor: Aaron Stoker / Orthopaedic Surgery)
Gilberto Perez (Sr. Biochemistry – Faculty Mentor: Kamlendra Singh / Biological Sciences)
Alisha Perry (Jr. Biological Sciences – Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Parks / Nutrition & Exercise Physiology)

Leticia Rivera (Sr. Biological Sciences – Faculty Mentor: Matthew Will / Psychological Sciences)
Candace Rowles (Sr. Nutritional Sciences & Biochemistry – Victoria Vieira-Potter / Nutrition & Exercise Physiology)
Mathew Sexton (Sr. Biological Sciences – Faculty Mentor: Adam Schrum / Molecular Biology & Immunology)
Mikella Vermaire (Jr. Biological Sciences & Psychology – Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Johnson / Psychological Sciences)
Christopher Zachary (Sr. Chemistry – Faculty Mentor: David Mendoza-Cózatl / Biological Sciences)