October 2009
Student Advocate Association is sponsoring a shoe drive through Dec. 1 to collect 333,333 pounds of shoes - enough to raise $50,000 to make hospice rooms more comfortable for veterans at the Robert J. Dole Veterans Administration Hospital in Wichita, Kan. You can donate new, used, or well-worn shoes, and all types of shoes (sneakers, loafers, heels, tap, roller skates, flip-flops) with soles, except Jellies are accepted. They will be resold or recycled to raise money. Collection boxes are located by the book store, both elevators and in the break room of OSU-CHS.
Abstract Published
“Additions to the Earliest Paleocene Multituberculate Mammals of Garfield County, Montana,” Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 41, No. 7, p. 160l. Anne Weil, Ph.D. co-authored with Alanna Bolwahnn-Barfoot, MSI student).
Grants Awarded
Cancer Sucks, Liver Cancer Research, $10,000, also NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Award ($7,500) and the NIH IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) award ($7,500).Total $15,000 Rashmi Kaul, Ph.D.
Guest Speaker
“A Role for Phosphate-Activated Glutaminase in Chronic Pain,” presented at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Kansas City, Kan. Ken Miller, Ph.D.
Paper Presentation
“Bacterial Colonization of Normal and Diseased Human Livers and its Impact on Inflammatory Markers TLR 4 and IKK Alpha Activation,” presented at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) The Henry M. and Lillian Stratton Basic Research Single Topic Conference, Atlanta, Ga.
Rashmi Kaul, Ph.D. – presenter.
Poster Presentations
16th Symposium – Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience on Sept. 17, in Oklahoma City:
“Hypovolemia, Serotonin, and the Caudal Nucleus Tractus Solitarius,” poster presented at the 16th Annual Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience Symposium - EPSCoR student Michael Anderson, presenter; Kathleen Curtis, mentor; “Corneal Afferents Contain Synaptic Vesicle Proteins: Snap 25, Synaptophysin I and Synaptophysin II,” presented at the 16th Symposium – Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience (Graduate Student Yinka Ibitokun, presenter; Ken Miller, Ph.D., advisor; “Temporal Response of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide and Glutaminase in Rat Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons During Peripheral Inflammation,” Graduate Student Zijia Zhang, presenter; Ken Miller, Ph.D., advisor.
Manuscript review
For American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Kathleen Curtis, Ph.D.
For FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology and the Journal of Microbiological Methods, Gerwald Köhler, Ph.D.
Invited presentation
Speaker for AMWA, Robin R. Dyer, D.O.
Plenary presentation to RHAO Conference, Norman, Okla., William J. Pettit, D.O.
News media and publications
Publication of chapter in a recently-released book as part of the Weil Integrative Medicine Library: Carine A, Mills M, Frymann F. “A Pediatric Perspective on Osteopathic Medicine”, Integrative Pediatrics, (ed. Culbert TP and Olness K.), Oxford University Press, New York, 2010, Miriam Mills, M.D.
Quoted in Tulsa World by Kim Archer, World Staff Writer, in article “Officials Call Swine Flu Widespread”, Stanley E. Grogg, D.O.
Co-authored “Immunization Programs for Infants, Children, Adolescents and Adults: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (ISDA)”; Clinical Infectious Diseases 2009: 49:817-40, Stanley E. Grogg, D.O.
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