Motivational Circuits in Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making

Speaker:                     Vincent Costa, PhD

Date | Time:              Tuesday,  November 29th, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Commons Conference Room

WebEx:    https://wakehealth.webex.com/wakehealth/j.php?MTID=me0f4c62dac35dca40ee6d1d259f35563

Updates on blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease

10:00am - 11:00am Tuesday, November 22th 2022

Commons Conference Room

WebEX: https://wakehealth.webex.com/wakehealth/j.php?MTID=me69a5e5631975eb07619f40b14c29a63

Dr. Amol Joshi

Wake Forest University School of Business 

How Do You Turn Your Science into a Business? 

Insights from My Entrepreneurial Journey and Empirical Research

Thursday September 22nd, 10-11:15 am in the NRC G Floor conference room

CPM Summer Internship Program Student Presentations

Date/Time:                Thursday, July 28th, 9:30 a.m.

                                     Awards 12:30 p.m.

                                    Reception 1:00 p.m.

  Location:                    Commons Conference Room 1, 2, 3, G-floor NRC

Translational Imaging

 Speaker:                    James Daunais, PhD                 

 Date/Time:                Thursday, July 21st, 10:00 a.m.

 Location:                   Genomics Conference Room, G-floor NRC

Translational Geroscience: new concepts in aging science

 Speaker:                     James Daunais, Ph.D.              

 Date/Time:                Thursday, July 14th, 10:00 a.m.

 Location:                    Genomics Conference Room, G-floor NRC

Guide to Posters and Presentations

 Speaker:                     Cynthia Van Horn, PhD                 

 Date/Time:                Thursday, July 7th, 10:00 a.m.

 Location:                    Genomics Conference Room, G-floor NRC

Understanding the aging musculoskeletal system with multi-omic analyses 

Speaker:                     Ellen Quillen, PhD               

 Date/Time:                Thursday, June 30th, 10:00 a.m.

 Location:                    Genomics Conference Room, G-floor NRC

Summer Intern Seminar

Intro to CPM and Data management/Record keeping

Speaker:                     Michael Olivier, PhD

                                    Laura Cox, PhD

Date/Time:                Thursday, June 16th, 10:00 a.m.

 Location:                    Genomics Conference Room, G-floor NRC

Genomics Conference Room, G-floor NRC

Speaker:   Johanna Elin Bolander

Date | Time:  Thursday, May 26th, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

CPM Collaborative Discussion Sequence-Dependent DNA topology for functional fine-mapping

Speaker:                     Hannah Ainsworth, PhD

Date | Time:              Thursday, May 12th, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Location                    Genomics Conference Room, G-floor NRC

“The Genetic Epidemiology of Obesity: The Cameron County Hispanic Cohort”

In-person: NRC Commons rooms (G floor)

“Phentermine – Time for a New Look at an Old Drug”

Thursday, November 18th     10:00 am – 11:00 am

In-person: NRC Commons rooms (G floor)

“Proteomic analysis of exosomes isolated from the brain’s interstitial fluid of live Alzheimer’s mice reflects changes in proteostasis and immunometabolism”

  “A View from Above: Working to Further Obesity Research, Treatment, Education, and Prevention.”

Summer Internship Program Student Presentations & closing Ceremony

July 29, 2021

2:30pm      Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dr. Michael Olivier, Director, Center for Precision Medicine

Dr. Laura Cox, Associate Director, Center for Precision Medicine

Dr. Michael Draelos, Draelos Science Scholars Program 

2:45pm      Meg Templeton, Clemson University

Victoria Uchman, The Early College at Guilford Mentor: Dr. Barb Nicklas “Circulating T Cell Biomarkers of Cell Senescence in Older Adults with Metabolic Syndrome via Caloric Restriction Intervention”

2:57pm      Ria Tilve, Case Western Reserve University Mentor: Dr. Andrew South “Association of Calcium Metabolism Homeostasis with NAFLD in Pediatric Hypertension” 

3:09pm      Sonia Noorani, Timothy Wingate Andrews High School Mentor: Dr. Andrew South “Characteristics of Young Patients Presenting to a Hypertension Clinic” 

3:21pm      Phillip Sojka, High Point Central High School Mentor: Dr. Tim Howard “DNA Methylation in Muscle from Middle-Aged and Old Adult Baboons” 

3:33pm      Haley Cook, North Carolina State University Mentor: Dr. Tim Howard “Association of Aging and Vertebral Bone DNA Methylation Patterns in Nonhuman Primates” 

3:45pm      Aditya Mulabagal, Cornerstone Charter Academy Mentor: Dr. Ellen Quillen “Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Decreases with Age and Gait Speed” 

3:57pm      Dymon Blango, East Carolina University Mentor: Dr. Ellen Quillen “VIPR2 Protein Abundance is Not Associated with Radiation Exposure in Bone” 

4:10pm      Break

4:25pm      Hana Kamran, Davidson College

Warner Vaughan, High Point Central High School Mentor: Dr. Shannon Macauley “Effect of Acute & Chronic Alcohol Exposure on the A/T/N Framework” 

4:37pm      Estefania Narvaez, Wake Forest University

Avery Underwood, Cornerstone Charter Academy Mentor: Dr. Michael Olivier “Optimization of Plasma Proteomics Using Offline Peptide Fractionation” 

4:49pm      Lucien Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology

Rebekah Kim, The Early College at Guilford Mentor: Dr. Andrew Bishop “Chemical Characterization of E-Cigarette Vapor by Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography Time- of-Flight Mass Spectrometry” 

5:01pm      Katerina Terwelp, Clemson University

Chandler Deese, Wesleyan Christian Academy Mentor: Dr. Kim Reeves “Microbiologic Profiling of Acellular Dermal Matrices Used in Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction” 

5:13pm      Haoqing (Donald) Wu, Wake Forest University

Manvi Gandla, Southwest Guilford High School Mentor: Dr. Tony Reeves “Using Molecular Modeling to Optimize Protein-Small Molecule Interactions” 

5:25pm      Aaron Batke, Aquinas College

Nicholas Koch, High Point Central High School Mentor: Dr. Matt Quinn “Itaconate is a negative regulator of lipid metabolism during inflammation” 

5:40pm      Awards Ceremony and Reception

“Epidemiology and Mechanisms of Hypertension across the Life Course: Focus on the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System” 

Thursday, May 6th (10 am  - 11 am) Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/2887710765?pwd=YlJpbDUvZWlsWTlvN2RVbGVzSmxiZz09 Meeting ID:  288 771 0765 Passcode: CPM2021

April 15th 2021 10:00AM-11:00AM “Regulation of Macrophage Immunometabolism in Acute and Chronic Inflammation”

Zoom Information: https://zoom.us/j/2887710765?pwd=YlJpbDUvZWlsWTlvN2RVbGVzSmxiZz09 Meeting ID: 288 771 0765 Passcode: CPM2021

Talk Title: “New Players in Cellular Lipid Accumulation”

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/2887710765?pwd=YlJpbDUvZWlsWTlvN2RVbGVzSmxiZz09

Meeting #: 288 771 0765 Passcode: CPM2021

Talk Title: “Multi-ancestral Genomic Approach to SLE Precision Medicine”

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/2887710765?pwd=YlJpbDUvZWlsWTlvN2RVbGVzSmxiZz09

Meeting #: 288 771 0765 Passcode: CPM2021

“MicroRNA Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets”

Thursday, March 4st, 2021 Zoom Information: https://zoom.us/j/2887710765?pwd=YlJpbDUvZWlsWTlvN2RVbGVzSmxiZz09

Meeting ID: 288 771 0765 Passcode: CPM2021

“Substance P: A Novel Treatment Strategy to Reverse Cardiac Fibrosis Associated to Diabetic Cardiomyopathy”

Thursday, February 18th Zoom Information: https://zoom.us/j/2887710765?pwd=YlJpbDUvZWlsWTlvN2RVbGVzSmxiZz09

Meeting ID: 288 771 0765 Passcode: CPM2021

CPM Fall Virtual Seminar Series (Zoom) Date/Time: Thursday, December 3rd , 12:00AM – 1:00PM    

Speaker: Nichole Allred, PhD

Associate Professor Biochemistry, WFSOM

Talk Title: “Genetic Approaches to Understand Cardiometabolic Disease”

Zoom Information:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83990781947?pwd=Q05vZlNheUgxMjNPODBvVGdyMkc0UT09

Meeting ID: 839 9078 1947 Passcode: 119631