WSU Hosts Orthopaedic Research Forum

Wright State University will host Ohio Orthopaedic Research and Innovation Day on Thursday, June 2, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., in room 156 Student Union on the WSU main campus.

The program brings together engineers, orthopaedic clinicians and researchers to exchange ideas and foster innovation in orthopaedic devices that can spur economic development in Ohio. Medical students, residents and fellows, biomedical engineering students of all levels, students from biomedical sciences and advisors are invited to participate in this open forum to develop strong academic and industry partnerships within the state.

The forum will be led by Tarun Goswami, D.Sc., of the Department of Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering, and Richard T. Laughlin, M.D., of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation.

The event is free for all registrants, and box lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to Dr. Goswami (tarun.goswami@wright.edu ; 937.775.5120) by Friday, May 27.

Downloads (PDF): Program Flyer | Program Agenda | Submitted Abstracts

WSU Hosts Neuroscience Day on May 20

Mary Dallman, Ph.D. (left), professor of physiology at the University of California-San Francisco, will be the keynote speaker at OMV-SfN’s 2011 Neuroscience Day on Friday, May 20, at Wright State University. Dr. Dallman’s research studies the effects of chronic stress on brain-pituitary-adrenal interrelationships.

“Chronic stress has a variety of effects on the organism, including changes in energy balance, behavior and responsivity to new stimuli,” she says. “These effects of chronic stress are probably mediated in large part by the central corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neuronal system and glucocorticoids secreted from the adrenal gland in response to drive from hypothalamic CRF. Moreover, all of these are affected strongly by circadian rhythms.” Read more.

Neuroscience Day also will feature student presentations and a poster session. See more program details.

Registration for Neuroscience Day is free for 2011 OMV-SfN members. Please register in advance so the organizers can plan accordingly for the attendance. If you are not an OMV-SfN member for 2011, please join now. You can also join OMV-SfN at Neuroscience Day on May 20.

The Ohio Miami Valley Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (OMV-SfN) is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes neuroscience research and education in the southwest Ohio region. The chapter’s sponsoring institutions include Miami University, the University of Cincinnati, and Wright State University.

DAGMEC Resident Research Forum Scheduled April 28

The Dayton Area Graduate Medical Education Community (DAGMEC) will present its 12th annual Resident Research Forum on Thursday, April 28, from 5:00-7:00 p.m.  Fifty-eight posters will be on display highlighting original research projects conducted by residents and fellows from Dayton area training programs. Awards will be presented at 6:40 p.m. and appetizers and other refreshments will be available.

The event will be held at the Webster Street “Top of the Market” Banquet Center, 32 Webster Street, in Dayton.  Directions can be found at http://www.topofmarket.com/directions.html.

This event is open to residents, fellows, faculty, attending physicians, medical students and other health care professionals.  No RSVPs are necessary. DAGMEC encourages you to stop by and support these research efforts.

Scopus Database Workshop Scheduled April 20

Bette Sydelko, M.S.L.S., will present a workshop on “Trying Scopus: A Scholarly Database and Analytical Tool” on Wednesday, April 20. It includes a demonstration session/luncheon from 12:15-1:15 p.m. in 260 White Hall (BSOM Academic Affairs conference room) and a hands-on session from 1:15-1:45 p.m. in the 261 White Hall
computer lab.

The WSU Libraries, in cooperation with OhioLINK, is offering a three year trial of Scopus – a scholarly database and analytical tool. The trial will allow WSU faculty, students and staff to compare Scopus with other databases in their subject areas, particularly the ISI Citation Indexes.

In this workshop you will learn how Scopus indexes peer-reviewed literature and quality web sites in the sciences, engineering, medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. You will also learn about Scopus’s unique search analytics including author h-factors and search visualizations, which assists researchers interested in citation analysis. The first part of this workshop will be a demonstration of Scopus, followed by an optional 30-minute hands-on session at the computer lab.

Participants will learn how to use Scopus to:

• Publish institutional output statistics
• Create H-index and graphs/charts related to an individual author’s publications
• Get notifications when someone cites your work (citing alerts)
• Perform analytics of WSU publishing by subject
• Identify potential collaborating research partners and institutions

Register online at:
http://med.wright.edu/aa/facdev/registration/bonusregistration.html

Feb. 22 Lecture Surveys Medical Education Research

The next lecture in the 2010-2011 Translational Research Lecture Series is scheduled on Tuesday, Feb. 22, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in Room 120 White Hall. The series is presented by the WSU Medical Student Research Club. All BSOM faculty and students are invited to attend.

The lecture will survey “Medical Education Research at WSU” with a panel of faculty and medical student investigators led by Nicole Borges, P.H.D. (above left), associate professor of community health and assistant dean of medical education research and evaluation. Faculty presenters also include Gary Nieder, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience, cell biology and physiology; and Brenda Roman, M.D., professor and director of medical student education in psychiatry. Student presenters include Micah Prochaska (M4), Heather Rodabaugh (M4), and Adam Deardorff (M.D./Ph.D. student). Download the agenda (MS Word).

Dinner will be provided on Feb. 22. Please RSVP to Adam Deardorff (deardorff.2@wright.edu) if you plan to attend.

“Framing Answerable Research Questions” is the theme of the 2010-2011 Translational Research Lecture Series. Visit the Research Learning Community on MedU for the series schedule and links to videos and related reading for the lectures.

AHA Seeks Survey Participation

The American Heart Association seeks input regarding your scientific research interests and how private funders like the AHA can best support researchers and research administrators. Your opinions will help AHA to assess its research programs. See the survey:
http://www.ahasurveys.com/se.ashx?s=0B87B7ED3972F9DE.

The survey will take 15-20 minutes. Please respond by Feb. 17, 2011.  If you have questions about the survey, contact allison.groom@heart.org.

Nobel Laureate Will Present 2011 Varandani Lecture

Update 02/02/2011: With the closing of Wright State University today due to inclement weather, the Varandani lecture scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 2, has been canceled.

The 2011 Partab T. Varandani Memorial Lecture will be presented by Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D. (left), Nobel Laureate and president of the Royal Society of London. The title of his lecture is “Controlling the Cell Cycle.” The lecture begins at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 2, in room 156 Student Union on the WSU main campus. It is free and open to the public.

The Varandani Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry and molecular Biology in memory of the late Partab T. Varandani, Ph.D., who was professor and chief of the department’s  endocrinology section until his death in 1987. For more information, contact the department at 937-775-3041.

Dr. Nurse is internationally known for his experiments on the molecular mechanisms regulating the mitotic division cycle in eukaryotic cells. In 2001, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland Hartwell and Timothy Hunt, for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases.

Dr. Nurse has served as Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Oxford, Director of Research at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute), and President of Rockefeller University in New York City. In 2010 Dr. Nurse became President of the Royal Society of London, a fellowship of the world’s most eminent scientists, founded in 1660, and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.

It was announced in July 2010 that Dr. Nurse will also become the first Director and Chief Executive of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation beginning in 2011. The UKCMRI will be Europe’s largest biomedical research facility with funding of nearly a billion dollars provided by a range of government and charitable organizations including the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust and University College London. Around 1,250 biologists, clinical scientists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists will work alongside each other at the new facility. Key objectives to Dr. Nurse are to bridge the traditional barriers between different research teams and disciplines, and to improve the dialogue between scientists and the public. Read more (PDF).

Music and Medicine Symposium Scheduled Jan. 25-26

The Third Annual Music and Medicine Symposium will be held at Wright State University on Jan. 25-26. “Care of the Voice for the Music Performer and Teacher” will explore how the medical and music communities can work together to encourage wellness and promote healing.

The free event, co-sponsored by the WSU Department of Music and the Boonshoft School of Medicine, will open with a concert by international opera performers and PBS’s Hallelujah Broadway stars Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke on Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m., in Schuster Hall in the WSU Creative Arts Center. The two-day event will also include performances by school of medicine and music department faculty.

The symposium on Jan. 26 will feature Michael S. Benninger, M.D., chair of the Head and Neck Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, who will present “Caring for the Professional Voice.” A graduate of Harvard University, Benninger received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and completed his residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He has authored and edited several books, articles and chapters focusing on voice care. His most recent book is The Performer’s Voice. Benninger, Dixon and Burke will also participate in panel discussions along with local music professionals.

The symposium program also features speech pathologist Anita Marie Greer, program manager for acute therapy services at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, who will present “Rehabilitation and Exercises for the Strained Voice.” Greer specializes in the treatment of brain injury, neurological disorders, swallowing disorders and voice disorders. She holds degrees in voice performance, music therapy, vocal pedagogy and speech-language pathology.

The symposium is presented by CELIA (Collaborative Education, Leadership and Innovation in the Arts), a WSU Center of Excellence.

To register, or for more information on the symposium, including a full list of presenters, performers and topics as well as a daily schedule, visit www.wright.edu/music/music-med.

WSU Hosts Neuroscience Meeting on Jan. 28

Wright State University will host the 2011 Winter Meeting of the Ohio Miami Valley Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (OMV-SfN) on Friday, Jan. 28, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. in Room 101 White Hall (Gandhi Auditorium). The meeting will begin with 20-minute research presentations from faculty at OMV-SfN’s participating institutions:

• Zoe Hesp (Department of Zoology, Miami University)
  “Reinnervation of peripheral targets following axotomy of the superior cervical ganglion”
• Mark Baccei (Department of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati)
  “Pacemaker neurons in newborn spinal pain circuits.”
• James Lucot (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Wright State University)
  “Development of a novel anti-emetic”

The chapter’s annual business meeting will follow the presentations, and WSU’s Michael Hennessy, Ph.D., will be installed as president for 2011.

You do not have to be a member of OMV-SfN to attend the presentations, although membership is necessary to vote in the business meeting. Wright State also will host OMV-SfN’s 2011 Neuroscience Day in White Hall on Friday, May 20. Neuroscience Day is free to chapter members.

James Olson Wins SfN Science Educator Award

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has presented its Science Educator Award to James E. Olson, Ph.D., professor of emergency medicine and neuroscience, cell biology and physiology, at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. The award was presented at SfN’s annual meeting Neuroscience 2010, held recently in San Diego.

The Society for Neuroscience founded the Science Educator Award in 2003 to recognize an outstanding neuroscientist who has made significant contributions in promoting public education and awareness about the field.

According to SfN, Olson has worked diligently to promote the inclusion of neuroscience topics in state and national Science Olympiad competitions. His efforts have introduced grade-specific neuroscience education to over 5,000 middle schools and high schools across the United States. He currently helps define health science and anatomy events as a member of Science Olympiad’s Biological and Life Sciences Committee, ensuring that neuroscience topics will be included in the Science Olympiad curriculum.

Olson rarely misses an opportunity to promote the study of neuroscience. In addition to serving as a research mentor for students and resident physicians in the medical school, he has delivered lectures for general audiences through Wright State’s Mini-Medical School program. What he enjoys most, however, is introducing young learners around the country to the wonders of neuroscience through his work with Science Olympiad.

An international nonprofit organization, Science Olympiad strives to interest K-12 students in science and improve science education. Each year, an estimated 150,000 students from more than 14,000 schools participate in Science Olympiad activities. At the middle and high school level, students form teams to compete in 23 fun, yet challenging, science-based events during local, state, and national tournaments.

As a Science Olympiad coach, Olson has worked with local middle and high school students for several years teaching cell biology and genetics. In addition, he created a program called “Neuroscience (This is your brain)” that was used in regional competitions across Ohio and adopted as a national trial event.

The Society for Neuroscience is an organization of more than 40,000 researchers and clinicians who study the brain and nervous system.

“The science education awards are important for recognizing the outreach efforts of neuroscientists at all stages of their careers,” said Michael E. Goldberg, M.D., president of SfN.