The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) is hosting a Research Poster Presentation and Reception on December 4, 2019, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the 1899 Ballroom at the 1899 Bar and Grill. To register, visit the Research Poster Presentation and Reception events page.
The event will highlight 16 SHERC researchers who will present posters showcasing their important work in health disparities research.
There will be free parking for event attendees in the High Country Conference Center garage. For more information, contact Christine Smith at Christine.Smith@nau.edu.
Research poster presentations include:
PI: Fatemeh Afghah, assistant professor, Informatics, Computing & Cyber Systems
Project Title: “A Remote Health Monitoring System for Early Prediction of AFib for Rural Population”
Principal investigator: Ricky Camplain, assistant professor, Health Sciences
Project Title: “Physical Activity among Women Incarcerated in Jail”
Principal investigator: Emily Cope, assistant professor, Biological Sciences/PMI
Project Title: “Addressing Asthma Health Disparities Through Diet-based Manipulation of the Gut Microbiome-Airway Axis”
Principal investigator: Dirk de Heer, associate professor, Health Sciences
Project Title: “Addressing Health Disparities in Childhood Obesity, One Summer at a Time”
Principal investigator: Crystal Hepp, assistant professor, Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Project Title: “Characterization of Populations Linked to Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome”
Principal investigator: Andy Koppisch, associate professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Project Title: “Novel Ionic Liquid Formulations to Combat Diabetic Foot Ulcer Infections”
Principal investigator: Jason Ladner, assistant professor, Biological Sciences/PMI
Project Title: “High-Throughput Characterization of Health Disparities Related to Viral Infections”
Principal investigator: Naomi Lee, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Project Title: “Multivalent Display of HPV Antigens using Self-Assembling Peptides”
Principal investigator: Nanette “Gigi” Lopez, assistant professor, Health Sciences
Project Title: “Latino Fathers’ Stress and Their Children’s Obesity Risk”
Principal investigator: Rob Kellar, associate professor of practice, Biological Sciences and co-Investigator: Cathy Propper, professor, Biological Sciences
Project Title: “Elucidating the Effects of Arsenic and Estrogen on Wound Healing”
PI: Gerrick Lindberg, assistant professor, Applied Physics and Materials Science
Project Title: “Developing room temperature preservation and storage strategies for medicinally-relevant biological molecules”
PI: Talima Pearson, associate research professor, Biological Sciences/PMI
Project Title: “Do Pathogen Genotypes, Carriage, and Social Network Differences Lead to Health Disparities in MRSA/MSSA Infections?”
PI: Naren Rajasekaran, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Project Title: “Investigating the anti-tumor cytotoxicity of reovirus treated NK cells for cancer therapy”
PI: Matt Salanga, assistant professor, Biological Sciences
Project Title: “Synergistic toxicity of depleted uranium and UV radiation in a humanized zebrafish model of melanoma”
PI: Archana Varadaraj, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Project Title: “Fibrillogenesis mediated phenotype switching of breast cancer cells”
PI: Morgan Vigil-Hayes, assistant professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Project Title: “ARORA: Using Augmented Reality to Gamify a Universal Social Emotional Learning Intervention in Low-infrastructure Environments”
Community Campus Partnership
NAU Academic Partner: Laura Karnitschnig, assistant professor, College of Nursing
Community Partner: Sue Smith, M.Ed; Statewide Prevention Coordinator, Arizona Department of Child Safety (Maricopa County)
Project Title: “Plan for Developing Evaluation Methods to Define and Measure Successful Treatment Outcomes and to Determine Predicting Factors for Success in the SENSE Program”