May 22, 2010

Nine Ohio University students from biomedical engineering labs attended and presented at conferences in early 2010.

Six of them presented at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in April in Washington, D.C.

That group included three biomedical engineering master's program students: Karissa Henson and Matt Wood of Monica Burdick's lab and Amritha Venkatesh of Fabian Benencia's lab. Burdick is an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. Benencia is an assistant professor of biomedical sciences.

The others in Washington were doctoral student Venktesh Shirure and undergraduates Courtney Abram and Jocelyn Marshall, all of Burdick's lab.

Their abstracts:

• "Role of Breast Cancer Stem Cells in Bone Marrow Metastasis." Karissa Henson, Venktesh Shirure, Monica Burdick.

• "Characterization of Glycolipid Ligands for E-selectin." Jocelyn Marshall, Courtney Abram, Matt Wood, Monica Burdick, Leonardo Nimrichter (Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

• "Sialofucosylated Glycosphingolipids Expressed on Head and Neck Cancer Cells Mediate Adhesion to Endothelial Cells."  Matt Wood, Jocelyn Marshall, Courtney Abram, Monica Burdick.

• "Upregulation of Chemokines Including RANTES/CCL5 upon Toll-like Receptor 3 Activation in Breast Cancer: Association with Leukocyte Infiltration." Amritha Venkatesh, Michelle Pate, Fabian Benencia.

• "Breast Cancer Cells Express Glycoprotein and Glycolipid Ligands for E-selectin." Venktesh Shirure, Monica Burdick.

In February, three graduate students from the lab of Li Xu -- Ning Zhou, Heather Schultz, and Bethany Mendez -- presented at the Association for Research in Otolarynxology in Anaheim, Calif. Xu was the lead author on the paper, "Temporal Aspects of Sine-Wave Speech." Xu is an associate professor of hearing, speech, and language sciences.