2015 Hopkins C.A.R.E.S
Summer Symposium
July 30, 2015
Armstrong Medical Education Building
10:00-3:30 p.m.
Schedule
10:00- 11:00a.m. / WelcomeAMEB, 1st Floor Auditorium
Keynote Speaker
Peter Agre, M.D.
Background Stories
Branecia Bull, MERIT
Makayla Nicole Proctor, MCHC/RISE-UP
Andres Cordoba, Centro Sol
Nadeen Ibrahim, SURE
Kelcee Everette, INBT
11:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. / Poster Session 1
AMEB, 2nd Floor Lobby
12:00p.m.
12:30p.m.-2:00p.m. / Lunch
AMEB, 1st Floor Lobby
Oral Presentations
AMEB, 1st Floor Auditoriums (East and West)
2:00-3:00p.m. / Poster Session 2
AMEB, 2nd Floor Lobby
3:00- 3:30p.m. / Closing
AMEB, 1st Floor Auditorium
Outstanding Students Awards
Reception
AMEB, 1st Floor Lobby
Keynote Speaker
Peter Agre, M.D.
Nobel laureate Peter Agre, MD became the second director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in January, 2008, succeeding founding directorDiane E. Griffin, MD, PhD, who remains as chair of the department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology.
Dr. Agre received his BA in chemistry from Augsburg College in 1970, and his MD from Johns Hopkins in 1974. Following an Internal Medicine Residency at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals of Cleveland and a Hematology-Oncology Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Agre returned to Johns Hopkins as a postdoctoral fellow in cell biology. Dr. Agre joined the facultyin 1984 and has spent most of his professional life at Hopkins' School of Medicine, leaving in 2005 to go tobecomeViceChancellorforScienceandTechnologyatDuke University Medical Center.His return to Hopkins and JHMRI in 2008gives Dr. Agrethe opportunity to concentrate on an area in which he has always been interested - the problem of diseasein the developing world.
Dr. Agre's research in red-blood-cellbiochemistryled to the first known membrane defects in congenital hemolytic anemias (spherocytosis) and produced the first isolation of the Rh blood group antigens. In 1992,his laboratory became widely recognized for discovering the aquaporins, a family of water channel proteins found throughout nature and responsible for numerous physiological processes in humans— including kidney concentration, as well as secretion of spinal fluid, aqueous humor, tears, sweat, and release of glycerol from fat. Aquaporins have been implicated in multiple clinical disorders—including fluid retention, bedwetting, brain edema, cataracts, heat prostration, and obesity. Water transport in lower organisms, microbes, and plants also depend upon aquaporins. For this work, Dr. Agre shared the2003 Nobel Prizein Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon of Rockefeller University.
Not long after receiving the Nobel Prize, Dr. Agre was awarded a JHMRI pilot grant to extend his studies of aquaporins to malaria,addressing the question of whether or not aquaporins could be exploited as a means of treating or preventing the disease.Initial encouraging results have led to an NIH grant and a focus on malaria as the primary area ofstudy inDr. Agre's laboratory.
As President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Agre led science in diplomacy missions to Cuba, North Korea and Myanmar Burma. His honors include election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, the Institute of Medicine in 2005, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, and the American Philosophical Society in 2004.He has also received honorary doctorates from universities in Denmark, Japan, Norway, Greece, Mexico, Hungary, Poland and the United States.
2015 Hopkins C.A.R.E.S. Summer Programs
Biophysics Research for Baltimore Teens:
Biophysics for Baltimore Teens (BRBT) is a new initiative, which will give Baltimore city teens a chance to do basic biomedical research in Johns Hopkins biophysics labs on both the Homewood and JHMI campuses. BRBT is offered through the Johns Hopkins Program in Molecular Biophysics (PMB) and PMB graduate students on both campuses will mentor BRBT interns. The interns’ exposure to laboratory research will be augmented with a weekly course in basic laboratory skills taught by graduate students and overseen by PMB faculty.
CTY Center Scholars Program:
The Center Scholars Program, developed by the Center for Talented Youth and Dr. Andrew Feinberg's Center for Excellence in Genome Science (CEGS) is designed to encourage academically advanced, historically under-represented minority high school students to explore careers in scientific research, particularly the field of genomics.
CTY Summer Research Program:
This program, sponsored by the Simons Foundation, invites high achieving, academically advanced high school students to participate in a residential research experiences across disciplines at both the Johns Hopkins University and School of Medicine. This six week residential program pairs students with research mentors through a highly selective process which considers both student and mentor skills and interests. Students attend career and research seminars and participate in a journal club sponsored by each host lab.
Center for Computational Biology Summer Internship Program:
The CCB internship program (http://ccb.jhu.edu/internship.shtml) will provide you with hands-on research experience as part of ongoing research projects with bioinformatics and genomics faculty in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Biostatistics, and Biology, and in the Institute of Genetic Medicine. Current areas of research include analysis of high-throughput DNA sequence data to characterize genes and their variations, studies of the microbiome, assembly of whole-genome shotgun data from various species, and the development of new computational and statistical methods for other genome analysis problems. The program involves full-time research for 8-12 weeks between May and August. Note that in 2015, for the first time, the CCB Summer Internships are being organized jointly with the Summer Research Expeditions in the Computer Science Department at JHU. The program is open to college undergraduates and to exceptional high school students.
Centro SOL Programa de Verano para Jovenes:
Summer program for Spanish/English bilingual high school students in Baltimore City. The program’s goal is to expose bilingual high school students to the medical field by offering meaningful opportunities to work with JHU School of Medicine faculty in clinical settings that serve Latino patients with limited-English proficiency. Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) frequently have difficulties navigating the healthcare system, explaining their illness, understanding their providers’ recommendations, and participating fully in the development of a treatment plan. In this project, we want to capitalize on the strength of bilingual youth in our community. Students who are fluent in both Spanish and English will be invited to apply to the program. Following orientation, students will be placed in various clinical settings, where they can utilize their Spanish language skills to assist Latino patients with limited-English proficiency in various scenarios, such as registering for care, guiding them to various places in the hospital, greeting them and providing information at the entrance or information desks throughout Bayview Hospital. In addition, students will shadow Johns Hopkins Hospital Spanish language interpreters for a day a week. This experience will allow them to appreciate the importance of professional medical interpretation during clinical encounters and give them an opportunity to pursue further training in this area if they are interested. Students will meet weekly with faculty preceptors to reflect on their experiences and provide feedback to our program. We see bilingual youth as a unique resource with enormous potential to succeed in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers under the right guidance. Through this pilot program, we will expose motivated Baltimore youth to careers in medicine, mentor them at a leading medical institution, and empower them to pursue further training that capitalizes on their Spanish language skills, while improving services to our Latino patients.
Diversity and Academic Advancement Summer Institute (DAASI):
The Diversity and Academic Advancement Summer Institute (DAASI) is a partnership between Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Office for Student Diversity and Thread (formerly Incentive Mentoring Program). The goals are to three fold: (1) Academic Assistance: Provide a comprehensive, engaging curriculum to bolster participants’ academic self-confidence and capabilities; (2) Service, Life Skills, and Team Work: Create opportunities for participants to learn important life and professional skills through work opportunities and service learning experiences; and (3) Visualizing Success: Expose them to science and health educational pathways so that they may visualize the possibility of pursuing careers in science.
Institute for NanoBiotechnology Research Experience for Undergraduates (INBT):
The Institute for NanoBiotechnology at Johns Hopkins University offers undergraduate students from colleges and universities around the country a chance to participate in research projects in the exciting and rapidly growing area of Nanobiotechnology, a place where biology, medicine, and nanotech meet. For more information, visit http://inbt.jhu.edu/education/undergraduate/reu/.
The Johns Hopkins Internship in Brain Science Program (JHIBS): Project Pipeline Baltimore:
The long-term goal of the JHIBS program is to significantly increase the pool of qualified under-represented professional candidates from Baltimore in the neurosciences and mental health medicine through an eight-week summer research and enrichment experience that targets high school juniors and seniors. The program will provide the necessary exposure, knowledge, and career-long mentoring, to help propel students toward a trajectory as a STEM professional. The program has been in existence for seven years funded by the Cohen Foundation and jointly this year with a grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health.
Maternal Child Health Careers/Research Initiatives for Student Enhancement Undergraduate Program (MCHC/RISEUP) at Kennedy Krieger Institute:
The MCHC/RISE-UP is a 10-week summer public health leadership program designed for undergraduates in their junior and senior year and recent baccalaureate degree students (within 12 months of the MCHC/RISE-UP orientation) who are interested in learning more about preventing health disparities and promoting health equity and have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5 on a 4-point scale. MCHC/RISE-UP is a national consortium of institutions including the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI; lead institution), Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, University of Southern California, California State University-LA, and University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine Center for Disabilities. Three public health leadership tracks are offered: (1) clinical (KKI only), (2) research, and (3) community engagement and advocacy.
Medical Education Initiative for Teens (MERIT):
The Medical Education Resources Initiative for Teens (MERIT) aims to eliminate health care disparities by transforming underrepresented high school students into health care leaders. To accomplish these goals, MERIT provides seven years of academic, professional, and social support. Scholars are selected during their sophomore year of high school and participate in intensive MERIT programming until graduation including weekly Saturday sessions focused on academic enrichment and college admissions guidance, paid summer internships in hospitals and laboratories, and longitudinal mentoring. After high school, they become MERIT alumni and receive continued guidance throughout college. Health care disparities will only be eliminated if the workforce mirrors the communities we serve. MERIT Scholars’ voices are not represented now, but one day, they will be poised to influence critical decisions.
Psychiatry Summer Training and Research Program (P-STAR):
The Psychiatry Summer Training and Research (P-STAR) program offers undergraduates interested in Behavioral and Biological Sciences the opportunity to work for ten weeks under the guidance of a faculty member at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Through one-on-one work with a faculty mentor, students gain hands-on experience in academic research and clinical environments. To provide in-depth exposure to Translational Psychiatry, especially that on schizophrenia and related disorders, we will have students work in both a laboratory setting and in clinical rotations.
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Summer Internship Program:
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine hosts undergraduate students each summer as part of an NIH-funded program to enhance diversity in biomedical sciences. Students from around the United States and Puerto Rico join faculty for a ten-week, research-focused experience that extends from Memorial Day weekend through the first week of August. Students are matched with mentors based on their interests. Students work on specific research projects under the supervision of their mentor. Projects span a broad range of research, from the basic science of endothelial or epithelial cell biology to asthma epidemiology. In addition to the research experience, students participate in a weekly journal club, during which they present primary research articles to their peers and members of the faculty. Students also attend a seminar series featuring faculty members from Johns Hopkins and the NIH. This forum provides students with the opportunity to interact with faculty members and hear different perspectives on issues related to career development. Students interested in clinical medicine are given the opportunity to “round” with the Johns Hopkins Medicine residents, providing a glimpse of life in clinical medicine as a resident at an academic institution.
Stanley Summer Scholars Program:
The goal of the Stanley Summer Scholars Program of the Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Dept. Pediatrics, is to foster enthusiasm for the study of the etiology, pathology, immunology, prevention and treatment of serious psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. By offering students the opportunity to gain laboratory experience while working closely with a mentor from the Stanley Division, we hope to encourage the pursuit of careers in basic, translational or clinical research focusing on major mental illnesses. Research performed in the Stanley Division is interdisciplinary and projects are available in a number of fields including molecular biology, immunology, virology, parasitology, cell culture, animal behavior and neuroscience.
Summer Academic Research Experience (SARE):
SARE is an 8-week outreach program that seeks to develop exceptional high school students from the greater Baltimore area by introducing them to academic research with a secondary emphasis on STEM and health-related professions. We provide our scholars with a unique exposure to modern scientific research, combined with additional tutoring to fortify basic academic skills. Students spend 70% of the time working in research labs and 30% of the time working on academic skills, including science, writing, and mathematics. This is a paid internship and we request that ⅔ of the stipend be set aside for college.
Summer Internship Program Basic Science Institute:
The Summer Internship Program (SIP) provides experience in research laboratories to students of diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented minority students, students from economically disadvantaged and underserved backgrounds and students with disabilities that have completed one - two or more years of college. The purpose of this exposure to biomedical and/or public health research is to encourage students to consider careers in science, medicine and public health.