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2019 Work-In-Progress Meetings

Date	Presenter	Project Title	Presentation Title
1/17/19	Dr. Michael Garrett Professor Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology	Genomics, Animal Models and Advanced Phenotyping	Genomics, Animal Models and Advanced Phenotyping
	Dr. Seth Lirette Assitant Professor Department of Data Science	Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Research Design (BERD Core)	Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Research Design (BERD Core)
2/21/19	Dr. Heather Drummond Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics	Bioanalytical, Mass Spec., Imaging & Histology (Core B)	Bioanalytical, Mass Spec., Imaging & Histology (Core B)
	Deepti Patki Research Navigator Office of Sponsored  Research	Research Service Center (RSC Core)	Research Service Center (RSC Core)
3/21/19	Dr. Brad Dufrene Professor School of Psychology University of Southern Mississippi	Hard to Reach Populations in Community Engaged Research	Hard to Reach Populations in Community Engaged Research
	Dr. Denise Cornelius Assistant Professor Departments of Medicine & Pharmacology & Toxicology	Mechanisms linking platelets to lung injury and renal dysfunction in sepsis	Sepsis, Platelet Activation, and Multi-organ Injury
4/18/19	Dr. Hannah Copeland Assistant Professor Department of Surgery	Patient Perceptions of and Attitudes toward a Weight Management Program Offered by Community Pharmacies	Adipose Tissue Effects on Cardiac Surgery Outcomes (ATECO)
	Dr. Alexandre da Silva Scientist IV Department of Physiology & Biophysics	CNS mechanisms of cardiac protection in heart failure	Mechanisms of cardiac protection by the brain leptin-melanocortin-4 receptor axis
Meeting cancelled due to weather
5/16/19	Dr. Alexandre da Silva Scientist IV Department of Physiology & Biophysics	CNS mechanisms of cardiac protection in heart failure	Mechanisms of cardiac protection by the brain leptin-melanocortin-4 receptor axis
	Dr. Susan Mayfield-Johnson Assistant Professor Public Health Universty of Southern Mississippi	Effectiveness of Community Health Workers in Reducing Cardiovascular Disease in the Mississippi Delta	Effectiveness of Community Health Workers in Reducing Cardiovascular Disease in the Mississippi Delta
6/20/19	Dr. Joshua Speed Assistant Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics	Adipocyte Endothelin-1 and Insulin Resistance	Endothelin in Obesity and Insulin Resistance
	Dr. Hannah Copeland Assistant Professor Department of Surgery	Adipose Tissue Effects on Cardiac Surgery Outcomes (ATECO)	Adipose Tissue Effects on Cardiac Surgery Outcomes (ATECO)
7/18/19	Dr. Meagen Rosenthal Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacy Administration University of Mississippi	Patient Perceptions of and Attitudes toward a Weight Management Program Offered by Community Pharmacies	Building a patient-centered weight management program: patients’ information needs and ideas for program structure
	Dr. Romain Harmancey Assistant Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics	Molecular Basis of Postischemic Maladaptation in the Insulin Resistant Heart	Role of UCP3 deficiency in the development of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
8/15/19	Dr. Zhen Wang Assistant Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics	Role of TRPC6 channels in mediating cardiac injury in hypertension combined with diabetes	Role of TRPC6 channels in mediating cardiac injury in hypertension combined with diabetes
	Dr. Matthew Kutcher Assistant Professor Department of Surgery-Trauma & Critical Care	Obesity-Associated Hypercoagulability in Trauma Patients	Mitochondrial DNA in the pathogenesis of post-injury coagulopathy
9/19/19	Dr. David Stec Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics	Role of Bilirubin in Protection against cardiometabolic Syndrome in obesity	Bilirubin and Biliverdine Reductase in NAFLD
	Dr. Xiuquan Wang Professor, Mathematics Tougaloo College	Uncovering and Understanding Population Differences with Topological Methods	Uncovering and Understanding Population Differences with Topological Methods
10/17/19	No meeting due to External Advisory Board Meeting the following week
11/21/19	Dr. Abigail Gamble Assistant Professor Department of Preventive Medicine	Exploring exercise behavior in pregnant and postpartum adolescents in Mississippi	A multiphase mixed-methods approach to tailoring a mHealth intervention for African American pregnant and postpartum adolescents in Mississippi
	Dr. Fan Fan Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology	Diabetes, cerebral vascular dysfunction and cognitive impairments	Role of mural cells in impaired cerebral autoregulation and dementia in diabetes
12/19/19	Dr. Sarah Sterling Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine	The Chronic State of Obesity and the Acute Response to Sepsis	The Chronic State of Obesity and the Acute Response to Sepsis
	Dr. Chad Washington Assistant Professor Department of Neurosurgery	Slidenafil for the treatment of cerebral vasospasm associated with SAH	Inflammatory Profile in Ischemic Stroke