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Jun Ren, Program Director R. Scott Seville, Program Coordinator/Outreach Core Director

Wyoming IDeA Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) (National Institute for General Medical Sciences GM123456). Helping build Wyoming’s biomedical research and education infrastructure. Jun Ren, Program Director R. Scott Seville, Program Coordinator/Outreach Core Director

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Jun Ren, Program Director R. Scott Seville, Program Coordinator/Outreach Core Director

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  1. Wyoming IDeA Networks forBiomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)(National Institute for General Medical Sciences GM123456) Helping build Wyoming’s biomedical research and education infrastructure. Jun Ren, Program Director R. Scott Seville, Program Coordinator/Outreach Core Director Heywood, Sawyer, Assoc. Program Coordinator

  2. ORGANIZATIONAL CHART FY 2012-13 Wyoming INBRE Vice President for Research & Economic Development State EPSCoR/IDeA Chair Dr. William A. Gern INBRE Principal Investigator & Director of the Administrative Core Dr. Jun Ren Program Coordinator (PC) Dr. Scott Seville Associate PC Dr. Heywood Sawyer AAAS-RCP External Evaluation Consultant Internal Steering Committee- UW and CC members- UW and Wy Community College membership External Advisory Committee Outreach Core (K-16) Director Dr. Scott Seville Bioinformatics Core Director Dr. David Liberles Thematic Research/ RAs/Pilot Projects/ new faculty support Thematic Project Investigators Project 1: Dr. Machender Kandadi Project 2: Dr. Yinan Hua (S. Nair) Project 3: Dr. John Oakey Project 4: Dr. Christine McKibbin Project 5: Dr. Enette Larson-Meyer Community Colleges – PUI Network Casper College Central Wyoming College Laramie County Community College Northwest Community College Sheridan College Western Wyoming College

  3. INBRE Outreach Core • Outreach Videoconference Network • Biannual publication of the UW INBRE Newsletter and maintenance of the UW INBRE webpage • Administer K-12 and Wyoming Community College and UW undergraduate programs

  4. Wyoming INBRE Community College Undergraduate Programs • Wy CC Research Network- URD, Annual Fall Retreat • UW-CC Collaborative Grant Program • Supplemental Grant Program • Videoconference Seminar Series- 2-3/term • Transition Course Program- 8 courses (one graduate course) • Transition Scholarship Program

  5. CC Research Network Projects • Central Wyoming College- Serosurvey of a rural population for West Nile Virus IgG and IgM antibodies • Northwest College- A search for novel antibiotics produced by bacteria isolated from rotting wood/activity of prodigiosin from two bacterial species • Sheridan College- isolation and characterization of venom proteins from reptiles. • Univ. of Wyoming/Casper College- parasite-host coevolution in rodents/ isolation and characterization of spider silk protein genes • Western Wyoming Community College- parasite-host interactions in sagebrush lizards/ synthesis of amines using a Lewis-acid mediated approach/cardiac function in iron deficient rats • Laramie County Community College- selenium movement in trophic webs in Wyoming badlands/selenophilic plant-fungal associations

  6. Wy INBRE CC Network Retreat Fall, 2012 “…in our experience this is the best community college research network in the country…” AAAS-RCP site visit concluding remarks, spring 2012 “…I had no idea the quality of presentations would be what they were from the students.  Both students and the support of their mentors were impressive.  This is an incredibly important program, and one which I honestly did not know existed, especially at the community college level…” Mary Hunzicker-Dunn, Edward R Meyer Distinguished Professor, School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University

  7. Wyoming INBRE K-16 Programs • UW Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program • UW Summer Undergraduate Bioinformatics Program • K-12 Pipeline Programs- • Informational “UW Tube”, teacher conferences, Science Fairs • EPSCoR, McNair, NASA Collaborations- • Summer Symposium, Summer Research Day, Seminar Series, K-12 recruiting, Discovery Days, WiMSE • Mountain West Consortium UPN. • Summer programs in Idaho, Montana, New Mexico

  8. Competitive renewal proposal due June, 2013

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