CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to open the Research Day 2007 poster as a printable PDF.
UCSF School of Dentistry Research Day 2006
October 19, 2006
The UCSF School of Dentistry's Research Day 2006 took place on Thursday, October 19th, 2006, and was a tremendous success.
Featured on the agenda were keynote speaker Lawrence A. Tabak, Director of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) of the National Institutes of Health, and Faculty Research Award winner Nina Agabian, Professor in the departments of Cell & Tissue Biology, and Microbiology & Immunology, and Director of the Oral AIDS Center, UCSF.
Click here to open the Research Day 2006 program in a new browser window as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. The program includes the revised agenda, featured speaker information, and a complete list of abstracts.
Winners of Research Presentations for Research Day
Fall 2006
1st Place - Chi Viet: "Who put the Methyl Group in my DNA? Promoter Hypermethylation Quantification in Saliva of Oral Precancer and Cancer Patients"
2nd Place - Andre Guerrero: "Cannabinoids Attenuate Squamous Cell Carcinoma Induced Nociception"
3rd Place - Alice Goodwin: "Testing the Molecular Mechanism of pH Sensitive Talin-actin Binding Using a Talin Construct with a Histidine Substitution"
Graduate Students/Residents Category
Co-1st Place - Lisa Chung: "Oral Health Status of Kindergarten Children Attending San Francisco Public Schools, 2000-2005"
Co-1st Place - Diana Zeiger: "Infiltration of a Microparticulate Material into Etched and Bonded Dentin"
3rd Place - Cynthia Yee: "A 2006 Study of Tobacco Control Activities among U.S. Pediatric Dentists"
Post-doc/Research Associates
Co-1st Place - Venu Varanasi: "Dose Dependent Effect of Bioactive Glass Ions on Pre-Osteoblast Behavior"
Co-1st Place - Lawrence LeClaire: "The Arp2/3 Complex Requires Phosphorylation of the Arp2 Subunit to Nucleate Actin Filaments"
3rd Place - Amy Merrill-Brugger: "BMP Signaling and the Temporal Control of Mandibular Osteogenesis"
For More Information
For more information or to participate in a future Research Day, please contact:
Dr. John Greenspan
Dean for Research of the UCSF School of Dentistry
greenspanj@dentistry.ucsf.edu
(415) 476-2220.
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