Black Excellence in the Legal Field

The evening began with introductory remarks by BLSA president Miranda Turner (3L), who welcomed attendees before yielding the podium to Emani Johnson (3L), BLSA Black History Month Chairperson, who served as the panel’s moderator. Johnson introduced the evening’s speakers: Krystal J. Brumfield, Associate Administrator for the Office of Government-wide Policy at the General Services Administration; Marjorie Fields Harris ’95, Assistant Director of External Affairs for the Office of State and Community Energy Programs; Carl Hobbs ’16, Senior Employment Counsel for the Housing and Urban Development Office of the Inspector General; Melanie Howard-Price, External Affairs Specialist and Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia; and Erica Wright, Assistant General Counsel for the University of the District of Columbia. In addition to discussing career paths, each panelist expanded upon methods to overcome potential feelings of imposter syndrome after entering the legal profession. They also explored the value of both internships and mentorships and how they each relate to expanding a law student’s social and career networks

Black Excellence in the Legal Field

The evening began with introductory remarks by BLSA president Miranda Turner (3L), who welcomed attendees before yielding the podium to Emani Johnson (3L), BLSA Black History Month Chairperson, who served as the panel’s moderator. Johnson introduced the evening’s speakers: Krystal J. Brumfield, Associate Administrator for the Office of Government-wide Policy at the General Services Administration; Marjorie Fields Harris ’95, Assistant Director of External Affairs for the Office of State and Community Energy Programs; Carl Hobbs ’16, Senior Employment Counsel for the Housing and Urban Development Office of the Inspector General; Melanie Howard-Price, External Affairs Specialist and Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia; and Erica Wright, Assistant General Counsel for the University of the District of Columbia. In addition to discussing career paths, each panelist expanded upon methods to overcome potential feelings of imposter syndrome after entering the legal profession. They also explored the value of both internships and mentorships and how they each relate to expanding a law student’s social and career networks

An animal model of endocardial fibroelastosis

BACKGROUND: Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is one of the most common severe congenital cardiac anomalies, characterized by marked hypoplasia of left sided structures of the heart which is commonly accompanied by a thick layer of fibro-elastic tissue, termed endocardial fibroelastosis (EFE). Because human EFE develops only in fetal or neonatal hearts, and often in association with reduced blood flow, we sought to mimic these conditions by subjecting neonatal and 2-week-old rat hearts to variations of the heterotopically transplanted heart model with either no intracavitary or normal flow, and compare endocardium with human EFE tissue. METHODS AND METHODS: Hearts obtained from neonatal and 2-week-old rats were heterotopically transplanted in young adult Lewis rats in a working (loaded) or non-working (unloaded) mode. After 2 weeks survival, hearts were explanted for histological analysis by staining for collagen, elastin and cellular elements. These sections were compared to human EFE tissue from HLHS. RESULTS: EFE, consisting of collagen and elastin with scarce cellular and vascular components, developed only in neonatal unloaded transplanted hearts and displayed the same histopathologic findings as EFE from patients with HLHS. Loaded hearts and 2-week-old hearts did not show these alterations. CONCLUSIONS: This animal model for EFE will serve as a tool to study the mechanisms of EFE formation, such as fluid forces, in HLHS in a systematic manner. A better understanding of the underlying cause of EFE formation in HLHS will help develop novel treatment strategies to better preserve growth of the hypoplastic left ventricle

Proceedings of the 15th Annual UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2016 : Cadiz, KY, USA. 8-10 April 2016

I1 Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual UT- KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2016 Eric C. Rouchka, Julia H. Chariker, Benjamin J. Harrison, Juw Won Park P1 CC-PROMISE: Projection onto the Most Interesting Statistical Evidence (PROMISE) with Canonical Correlation to integrate gene expression and methylation data with multiple pharmacologic and clinical endpoints Xueyuan Cao, Stanley Pounds, Susana Raimondi, James Downing, Raul Ribeiro, Jeffery Rubnitz, Jatinder Lamba P2 Integration of microRNA-mRNA interaction networks with gene expression data to increase experimental power Bernie J Daigle, Jr. P3 Designing and writing software for subtractive hybridization of large eukaryotic genomes Deborah Burgess, Stephanie Gehrlich, John C Carmen P4 Tracking the molecular evolution of Pax gene Nicholas Johnson; Chandrakanth Emani P5 Identifying genetic differences in thermally dimorphic and state specific fungi using genomic comparison Stephanie Gehrlich, Deborah Burgess, John C Carmen P6 Identification of conserved genomic regions and variation therein amongst species using next generation sequencing Kalpani De Silva, Michael P Heaton, Theodore S Kalbfleisch P7 Mining physiological data to identify patients with similar medical events and phenotypes Teeradache Viangteeravat, Rahul Mudunuri, Oluwaseun Ajayi, Fatih Şen, Eunice Y Huang P8 Smart brief for home health monitoring Mohammad Mohebbi, Luaire Florian, Douglas J Jackson, John F Naber P9 Side-effect term matching for computational adverse drug reaction predictions AKM Sabbir, Sally R Ellingson P10 Enrichment vs robustness: A comparison of transcriptomic data clustering metrics Yuping Lu, Charles A Phillips, Michael A Langston P11 Deep neural networks for transcriptome-based cancer classification Rahul K Sevakula, Raghuveer Thirukovalluru, Nishchal K. Verma, Yan Cui P12 Motif discovery using K-means clustering Mohammed Sayed, Juw Won Park P13 Large scale discovery of active enhancers from nascent RNA sequencing Jing Wang, Qi Liu, Yu Shyr P14 Computationally characterizing genomic pipelines and benchmarking results using GATK best practices on the high performance computing cluster at the University of Kentucky Xiaofei Zhang, Sally R Ellingson P15 Development of approaches enabling the identification of abnormal gene expression from RNA-Seq in personalized oncology Naresh Prodduturi, Gavin R Oliver, Diane Grill, Jie Na, Jeanette Eckel-Passow, Eric W Klee P16 Processing RNA-Seq data of plants infected with coffee ringspot virus Michael M Goodin, Mark Farman, Harrison Inocencio, Chanyong Jang, Jerzy W Jaromczyk, Neil Moore, Kelly Sovacool P17 Comparative transcriptomics of three clinical isolates with different antibiotic resistance patterns Leon Dent, Mike Izban, Sammed Mandape, Shruti Sakhare, Siddharth Pratap, Dana Marshall P18 Metagenomic assessment of possible microbial contamination in the equine reference genome assembly M Scotty DePriest, James N MacLeod, Theodore S Kalbfleisch P19 Molecular evolution of cancer driver genes Chandrakanth Emani, Hanady Adam, Ethan Blandford, Joel Campbell, Joshua Castlen, Brittany Dixon, Ginger Gilbert, Aaron Hall, Philip Kreisle, Jessica Lasher, Bethany Oakes, Allison Speer, Maximilian Valentine P20 Biorepository Laboratory Information Management System Naga Satya V Rao Nagisetty, Rony Jose, Teeradache Viangteeravat, Robert Rooney, David Hain