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Pathways to Research

UCSF SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY RESEARCH DAY 2003

Approximately 300 students, faculty and staff of the UCSF School of Dentistry gathered in UCSF's Cole Hall to celebrate "Pathways to Research," the school's first annual research day on March 6, 2003. Classes were cancelled and clinics and laboratories were closed in the School of Dentistry in observance of the day.

UCSF Chancellor and Nobel Laureate J. Michael Bishop delivered his presentation "Becoming a Scientist," which underlined the theme of the day: celebration of the School's accomplishments in research and the presentation of career options in dentistry that include research, academia and applications of scientific advances in clinical practice.

Guest speaker Kenneth M. Hargreaves, chair of the Department of Endodontics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, spoke on his research in the field of pain management.

Students were awarded $350 each in three categories for their research.

PreDoctoral
Rob Jones: Fundamental Optical Property Measurements of 1310nm and 1550nm Laser Light through Dental Enamel

Phuong Quang (honorable mention): Noxious Stimulus-Induced Antinociception Is Mediated by Spinal Inhibitory Receptors

Victoria Le (special merit award): Fluoride & Lead Concentrations Related to pH in Drinking Water

Graduate
Guive Balooch: Calcified Tissue Interfaces: Evaluation by a New Modulus-mapping Technique

Anastosios Karydis (honorable mention): Loss of Cytotokeletal Anchoring by the Na-H Exchanger NHE1 Impairs Fibronectin Production

PostDoctoral
Gervald Kohler: Analysis of ABC Transporter Gene Function in Candida albicans Using DNA Microarrays

Sunita Ho (honorable mention): Ultrastructure & Nanomechanical Properties of Cementum Dentin Junction

Faculty Research Lecturer John D. B. Featherstone, professor and chair of the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, spoke about his research in the field of dental caries.

Special donors and sponsors of the event were: The John O. Butler Company; GlaxoSmithKline; the Procter & Gamble Company; the Parnassus Club/School of Dentistry Annual Fund; and the John C. Greene Society, UCSF's chapter of the Student Research Group of the American Association for Dental Research. (The society is named for School of Dentistry Dean Emeritus John C. Greene.)

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