AZPS 2018

FRIDAY, October 5

10:00 – 10:30 am Registration/Set up Posters

10:30 – 10:45 am Welcome

10:45 – 11:45 am Session 1: Physiological Responses to Stress

Chairs: Taben Hale (UA-Phoenix) and Jordan Glass (ASU)

10:45-11:00am Trevor Fox, Graduate Student, ASU - School of Life Sciences

Aedes aegypti eggs likely require protected microclimates to survive desert southwest winters

11:00-11:15am Haley Owen, Graduate Student, MWU

Determining the prevalence of Rickettsia rickettsii in geographically

distinct populations of Rhipicephalus sanguineus in Arizona

11:15-11:30am George Brusch, Graduate Student, ASU - School of Life Sciences

A mechanistic approach to understanding the relationship between

dehydration and enhanced immune function

11:30-11:45am Stephanie Olzinski, Graduate Student, ASU - College of Health Solutions

Sun radiation in moderate environmental conditions does not affect fluid

balance in female collegiate soccer players

12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch with the Vendors and Raffle Entries

1:00 – 1:45 pm One-Minute Poster Session and Raffle

1:45 – 3:00 pm Session 2: Neuro and Cerebrovascular Physiology

Chairs: Ann Revill (MWU) and Claire DeLucia (UA-Tucson)

1:45-2:00pm Tyler Quigley, Graduate Student, ASU - School of Life Sciences

Focusing on the honeybee blood-brain barrier

2:00-2:15pm Wesley Tierney, Graduate Student, California State University Northridge

The long-term effects of human neural progenitor cells on a rat model of ataxia

2:15-2:30pm Yu-Jing Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona – Phoenix

Novel selective S1PR1 ligand attenuates hypoxia plus glucose

deprivation-induced inflammatory mediator levels in human brain

vascular smooth muscle cells

2:30-2:45pm Benjamin Rivera, Graduate Student, University of Arizona – Tucson

Impact of developmental nicotine exposure on cholinergic airway signaling

2:45-3:00pm Julia Lorence, Undergraduate Student, ASU - West Campus

Impact of sex differences and tumor location on survival outcomes in

glioblastoma patients

3:00 - 3:30 pm Break

3:30 - 4:30 pm Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Joyner, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Physiology: An antidote for excessive reductionism

4:30 - 5:00 pm Break

5:00 - 5:45 pm Session 3: Comparative Physiology

Chairs: Tinna Traustadottir (NAU) and Jill Azzolini (ASU)

5:00-5:15pm Anthony Basile, Graduate Student, ASU - School of Life Sciences

Mourning doves, Zenaida macroura, are resistant to metabolic and

vascular effects of a mammalian diabetogenic refined carbohydrate diet

5:15-5:30pm Jon Vimmerstedt, Graduate Student, Midwestern University

Which precise mechanisms set thermal limits in animals? Testing the OCLTT

hypothesis in Japanese quail embryos

5:30-5:45pm Christopher Olson, Assistant Professor, MWU

Black jacobins reveal a unique hummingbird solution to communicating

in a noisy tropical forest

6:00 - 7:00 pm Dinner

7:00 - 9:00 pm Poster Session, HS Teacher round table

SATURDAY, October 6

7:30 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 9:00 am Session 4: Undergraduate Research Symposium

Chairs: Scott Boitano (UA-Tucson) and Meli’sa Crawford (ASU – SOLS)

8:00-8:10am Elizabeth Hanson, ASU – Psychology

How hippocampal CA3 dendritic complexity is quantified using the

intermittent restraint stress paradigm

8:10-8:20am Andrew Alamban, University of Arizona – Tucson

Truncated isoform of Cx37 is not sufficient to suppress proliferation of

rat insulinoma cells

8:20-8:30am Christi Williams, NAU

The role of nitric oxide and CaMK gene expression on the heart

8:30-8:40am Sanna Rahman, University of Arizona – Phoenix

Hypoxia plus glucose deprivation increases NF-κB activation and

downstream pro-inflammatory enzyme levels in human brain VSM cells

8:40-8:50am John Son, ASU/Mayo Clinic – Center for Metabolic and Vascular Biology

Expression of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) mRNA isoforms in

muscle of humans with obesity

8:50-9:00am Kaylin Sweeney, ASU - West Campus

Autophagy markers in human skeletal muscle following acute aerobic and resistance exercise

9:00-9:10am Sarah Livingston, ASU

Pomegranate-derived nutraceuticals activate the vitamin D signaling pathway

9:15 - 10:15 am Arizona Distinguished Lecture, Dr. Janis Burt, University of Arizona, Tucson

An integrative* approach to defining the role of connexins in vascular

development and remodeling (*from proteins to systems)

10:30 - 11:45 am Session 5: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Exercise Physiology

Chairs: Michael Zawada (AT Still U) and Alexandra Garvin (UA-Phoenix)

10:30-10:45am Tia Alexander, Graduate Student, Midwestern University

Evaluation of the effects of combination of mild aerobic exercise and

angiotensin-II type-I receptor blocker, losartan, on aortic function and

structure in a mouse model of Marfan syndrome

10:45-11:00am Candy Rivas, Graduate Student, University of Arizona – Tucson

Development of a protease activated receptor-2 (PAR2) antagonist for

the treatment of asthma

11:00-11:15am Kraton Kras, Graduate Student, University of Arizona – Phoenix

Assessment of skeletal muscle mitochondrial metabolic flux and control

using polarographic and luciferase-based techniques

11:15-11:30am Corey Mazo, Graduate Student, ASU – College of Health Solutions

mTOR signaling in human skeletal muscle following acute aerobic and

resistance exercise

11:30-11:45am Ethan Ostrom, Graduate Student, Northern Arizona University

Aerobic exercise in older adults maintains Nrf2 signaling compared to

inactive controls

12:00 - 12:45 pm LUNCH

1:00 - 2:00 pm Business meeting/Award Ceremony