Shared Facilities Colloquium Celebrates World-Class Services for Investigators
Post Date: October 25, 2024 | Publish Date:
The Research Shared Facilities Colloquium, held annually since 2013, returned Oct. 15 and 16 for two days showcasing the high-end resources and specialized services available to investigators at Cincinnati Children’s. Moving from the traditional poster session highlighting the facilities, the colloquium offered speaker sessions, a poster showcase, and awards.
The first day featured two sessions and six speakers. Tafadzwa Chihanga, PhD, associate staff scientist, Oncology, Leah Kottyan, PhD, associate professor and researcher in the Department of Eosinophilic Disorders and the Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, and Sherry Thornton, PhD, field service professor, Rheumatology, and Research Flow Cytometry Facility director, led the day with a panel on Women in Science. Another session on AI in Science was led by Surya Prasath, PhD, assistant professor, Biomedical Informatics, Judith Dexheimer, PhD, professor, Biomedical Informatics, and Mehdi Keddache, PhD, former director of the DNA Sequencing and Genotyping Facility who now works at biotechnology research company Illumina.
The second day included the traditional Shared Facilities poster session. As a new element this year, researchers were invited to take part by submitting a poster featuring research they completed using one of the 30 Cincinnati Children’s Shared Facilities. The posters were judged, and two winners were announced at the event.
Several additional awards were presented to honor the employees of Shared Facilities and to announce the winners of the Shared Facilities Discovery Award, a funding award that was re-launched this year to help develop services that can be implemented into a Shared Facility.
Shared Facilities Colloquium Poster Awards
Research posters:
- Mya Michelle Bligen, CuSTOM research assistant, “Establishing Humanized Rat Models: Genotypic Characterization and Immune Profile Optimization”
- Yuka Milton, graduate student, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, “Investigating the impact of fluid shear stress on hepatoblast migration in regulating early liver morphogenesis”
Shared Facility poster:
- Discover Together Biobank, “Discover Together Biobank, Enabling World Class Research Through High-Quality Biospecimens and Infrastructure”
Shared Facility Employee Awards
- Angie Cummins, AS, RVT, Veterinary Services: Outstanding Support of Comparative Medicine and Collaboration in a Shared Facility
- Yinhuai Chen, PhD, Transgenic Animal and Genome Editing Facility: Outstanding Cell and Molecular Expertise and Customer Service in a Shared Facility
- Yin Zhang, MS, Data Management and Analysis Collaborative: Outstanding Support of Data Science and Collaboration in a Shared Facility
- Lori Miller, Integrated Pathology Research Facility: Outstanding Technical Expertise and Customer Service in a Shared Facility
- Amanda Rainey, Bio-Imaging Analysis Facility: Exemplary Imaging Expertise and Customer service in a Shared Facility
Shared Facility Discovery Awards
Awards ($25,000 each) are encouraged to collaborate with an existing Shared Facility. This year’s recipients are:
- Yueh-Chiang Hu, PhD, director of the Transgenic Animal and Genome Editing Core and associate professor, and Hassan Chaib, PhD, director of the Genomics Sequencing Facility and associate professor, for their project, “Establishing Nanopore Long-Read Sequencing Services to Identify Randomly Integrated Transgenes in Mice and Assess the Integrity of the Knock-In Allele in hPSCs”
- Charlotte Walter, MD, assistant professor, Department of Anesthesia, for her project, “Clinical Feasibility of Thebaine Urine Mass Spectroscopy Drug Testing”
- Kohta Ikegami, PhD, assistant professor, Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, for his project, “Single-molecule sequencing to investigate nuclear lamina-DNA interactions in Laminopathies”
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