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Student Awards and Publications

Graduate School Achievement Award Winners

2019-2020 Awards

Dustyn Barnette (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)Third Place, Poster presentation at the GSA Symposium Keisha Cawley (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)                                     ASBMR Young Investigator Award at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting in September Melissa Clemens (Pharmacology & Toxicology )Travel Award, Society for Toxicology for the annual meeting in March 2020Finalist, Carl C. […]

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2018-2019 Awards

Samantha J. McClenahan (Pharmacology and Toxicology)Ruth L. Kirschstein (F31) NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship, NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse First Place Oral Presentation, 5th Annual GSA Research Symposium Binyam A. Belachew (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)First Place Poster Presentation, 5th Annual GSA Research Symposium Chris Bolden (Pharmacology & Toxicology)Travel Award, Oral presentation at the International Conference […]

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2017 – 2018 Awards

Bradford MartinsNIH F30 NRSA Predoctoral FellowshipMentor: Dr. Andrew James  Julia TobacykPharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Predoctoral FellowshipMentor: Dr. Lee Ann MacMillan Crow Chris Bolden1st Place Poster Presentation in the 2018 UAMS Student Research DayGraduate Student Division and Overall DivisionSouthern Regional Educational Board Dissertation FellowshipSociety for Neuroscience (SfN) Neuroscience Scholars Program Associate AwardASPET Mentoring Network Travel […]

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2016 – 2017 Awards

Stephen Shrum (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences) American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship Brittany Beasley (Nursing Science) Recognized as one of the Arkansas Action Coalition’s 40 Nurses Under 40 Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar Program 2016-2018 Laura Hays (Nursing Science) 2016 Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation/Astellas Heart Health Through the Age Span Award Anuj Shah (Pharmaceutical Sciences) American Center for Healthcare Improvement 2016-17 fellowship […]

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Student Publications

2022-2023 Publications

Bioinformatics Larrey, E. K., & Pathak, R. (2022, Nov 2). Radiation-Induced Intestinal Normal Tissue Toxicity: Implications for Altered Proteome Profile. Genes (Basel), 13(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13112006 Biomedical Informatics Abram, K. Z., Udaondo, Z., Nookaew, I., Robeson, M. S., & Jun, S.-R. (2022). Genomic Distance-based Rapid Uncovering of Microbial Population Structures (GRUMPS): a reference free genomic data cleaning […]

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2021-2022 Publications

Bioinformatics Chappell, K., Manna, K., Washam, C. L., Graw, S., Alkam, D., Thompson, M. D., Zafar, M. K., Hazeslip, L., Randolph, C., Gies, A., Bird, J. T., Byrd, A. K., Miah, S., & Byrum, S. D. (2021). Multi-omics data integration reveals correlated regulatory features of triple negative breast cancer. Mol Omics, 17(5), 677-691. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1mo00117e Manna, […]

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2020-2021 Publications

Bioinformatics Balasubramaniam, M., Mainali, N., Bowroju, S. K., Atluri, P., Penthala, N. R., Ayyadevera, S., Crooks, P. A., & Shmookler Reis, R. J. (2020). Structural modeling of GSK3beta implicates the inactive (DFG-out) conformation as the target bound by TDZD analogs. Sci Rep, 10(1), 18326. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75020-w Bowroju, S. K., Mainali, N., Ayyadevara, S., Penthala, N. R., […]

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2018 – 2019 Publications

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Antoszczak, M., Urbaniak, A., Delgado, M., Maj, E., Borgstrom, B., Wietrzyk, J., Huczynski, A., Yuan, Y., Chambers, T., & Strand, D. (2018). Biological activity of doubly modified salinomycin analogs – Evaluation in vitro and ex vivo. Eur J Med Chem., 156, 510-523. Barnette, D., Davis, M., Dang, N., Pidugu, A., Hughes, […]

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