North Dakota INBRE

October 9, 2011 - Plan to attend the 2011 INBRE Annual Meeting on Thursday, Oct. 27 at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the American Indian Health Research Conference on Friday, Oct. 28.

On the Saturday following the meeting, Oct. 29, in cooperation with the Northern Plains Native American Research Center for Health, we are sponsoring the 1st Annual Native Health Career Student Development Conference and Career Fair. This meeting will include breakout sessions for students to learn about financial aid, opportunities and obstacles in pursuing health careers, application to graduate/professional school, and a resume writing workshop. Recruiters from UND, NDSU, USD, SDSU, Arizona State University, University of Minnesota, and the University of Nebraska Medical Center will be available to meet with students.

April 19, 2011 - The UND American Indian Student Services will hold its first annual Transfer Stars Project campus visit April 7th, 8th, and 9th. Students attending are prospective transfer students from Tribal Colleges throughout the state. The agenda includes presentations by Indian Related Programs on campus. This coincides with Time Out Week (April 4-8th) and the beginning of the Wacipi (Pow Wow) April 8-10th, organized by the UND Indian Association. For schedules of these events, see Time Out Week (PDF) and Wacipi (PDF).

AISS Contact: Kristy Parisien
Program Coordinator/Recruiter
kristy.parisien@und.edu
777-2949

December 22, 2010 - Enjoy these photos from the 2010 NDINBRE Meeting held in October. Thank you all for attending and hope to see you next year! Click here to see the full album.

December 15, 2010 - Jason Champagne and Sierra Davis and Kyle Hill will attend the Center for American Indian Health 2011 Winter Institute at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md., on Jan. 10-14.

Jason Champagne is a senior majoring in community nutrition and Indian studies. He is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa and a past recipient of the Alan J. Allery Undergraduate American Indian Health Researcher of the Year award. Sierra Davis is a senior majoring in psychology with minors in Indian studies and nonprofit leadership. She is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. Kyle Hill is a doctoral student in the clinical psychology program and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. All three students are doing research with Dr. Jacque Gray.

The Center for American Indian Health 2011 Winter Institute courses are designed to introduce indigenous health leaders to public health approaches that address health disparities in tribal communities.

June 14, 2010 - Chandra Bathula, a graduate student in Dr. Scott Garrett's lab at UND won a travel award to attend the 2010 National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) in Bethesda, MD, June 16-18. The title of Chandra's abstract is "Regulation of Cell Differentiation by Metallothionein-3 (MT-3) in Human Proximal Tubule Cells." Chandra has a Masters in Biochemistry and will complete his Ph.D. this December.

June 5, 2010 - Dr. John Shabb, UND Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, hosted the ND INBRE Proteomics Core Workshop, June 2-4, 2010. Attending were Amanda Roise (Keller lab) and Amanda Kraft (Beachy lab) from Minot State; Hardy DeLong and Allison Alland with Dr. Khwaja Hossain (Mayville State). In addition, Dr. Shabb's students participated: Jason Brule, Melissa Pytlik, Tanner Anderson and John Reidinger. In the workshop, participants learned the basics of mass spectrometry and its application to the study of protein structure; prepared a purified protein sample and used mass spec to determine intact mass, peptide mass fingerprint, and peptide sequence. Training also included interpreting MS and MSMS data using fundamentals of manual spectral analysis and database searching. Wallace Muhonen, M.S., Core Research Specialist was also a workshop leader.

May 3, 2010 - In March, six students from Valley City State University visited the North Dakota Metal Analysis Core (MAC) at NDSU for training. Under the direction of Drs. Marinus Otte and Donna Jacob, the MAC provides analytic capability, as well as expertise and training in ionomics to faculty and students in the ND INBRE network. Over their spring break, the students from Dr. Jerzy Bilski's group learned the following techniques: sample homogenization, soil pH measurement, plant and soil sample microwave acid digestion, and ICP-OES analysis, including the importance of sample randomization, the correct use of automatic pipettors and laboratory safety. The interest level, even from the non-biology majors, was impressive.

March 9, 2010 - Jessica Meier, Paul Jilek and Jennifer Murray, undergraduates in Dr. Lynn Burgess' lab, won competitive travel awards to accompany Dr. Burgess to the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. They will attend a special program March 6-8, 2010. This award recognizes promising undergraduate science majors and informs them about the discipline of toxicology, opportunities in toxicology, and the preparation necessary for a research career. Other benefits of the program include participation in a scientific meeting and interaction with SOT member mentors and peers.