More than 275 alumni, faculty and students attended the UF College of Dentistry Second Annual Spring Synergy Weekend on April 8 – 10. The program included several continuing education programs, research poster presentations and awards, ASDA’s Annual Vendor Fair with entertainment courtesy of The Jawbreakers, the Annual ASDA Banquet and Golf Tournament. Since the event was scheduled the same weekend as the UF Orange and Blue Spring Football game, a pre-game tailgate and some phenomenal weather rounded out the experience and made it perfect.
Everyone looks forward to the research presentations that are part of the college’s Eighth Annual Research Day during which eight students gave oral and 38 gave poster presentations in morning and afternoon sessions.
Congratulations to the winners:
DMD Division
First Place ($300)
Andrew Corsaro, Oral
MicroRNA Regulation of ASC in Immunologically Active Human Monocytes
Mentors: K. Pauley, and S. Cha
Second Place ($200)
Jordan Hester, Poster
A Novel Mechanical Operant Assay for Assessment of Orofacial Pain
Mentors: T.A. Nolan, and J.K. Neubert
Third Place ($100)
Dennis Beliveau, Poster
Timing Effects of Systemic Antibiotics in Aggressive Periodontitis Treatment
Mentors: L. Shaddox, S.M. Wallet, I. Aukhil, and I. Magnusson
MS/Resident Division
First Place ($300)
Joseph Richardson, Oral
Comparative Hard and Soft Tissue Responses to Titanium and Polymer Healing Abutments
Mentors: T. Koutouzis, and T. Lundgren
Second Place ($200)
David Mansour, Poster
Class II Etiology and Its Effect on Treatment Approach and Outcome
Mentors: T.T. Wheeler, S.P. McGorray, and C. Dolce
Third Place ($100)
Allison Harris, Poster
Does an Altered Inflammatory Response Have a Role in Delayed Masseter Muscle Repair?
Mentors: J. Morris-Wiman, T.T. Wheeler, and C.G. Widmer
PhD/Post-doc Division
First Place ($300)
Andrea C. Knowlton, Poster
Chlamydia trachomatis Infection Causes Mitotic Spindle Pole Defects Independently From Its Effects on Centrosome Amplification
Mentors: H.M. Brown, T.S. Richards, L.A. Andreolas, R.K. Patel, and S.S. Grieshaber
Second Place ($200)
Dana Catalfamo, Poster
Altered Differentiation, Activation, and Function of Type 1 Diabetic-derived Osteoclasts in the Context of Periodontal Disease
Mentors: J. Gollwitzer, and S.M. Wallet
Third Place ($100)
Edgardo Toro, Oral
Bis-enoxacin: A Novel Anti-Bone Resorptive Bisphosphonate
Mentors: V. Bradaschia-Correa, D.A. Ostrov, T.J. Wronski and L.S. Holliday