{"id":1309,"date":"2019-09-24T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2019-09-24T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:16:11","slug":"members-of-the-center-for-molecular-epidemiology-attend-2019-neric-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/2019\/09\/24\/members-of-the-center-for-molecular-epidemiology-attend-2019-neric-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of the Center for Molecular Epidemiology Attend 2019 NERIC Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><div id=\"galleria-1309\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Epi-postdocs-Megan-Romano-1024x681.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"Faculty and students from the Dartmouth College Center for Molecular Epidemiology and the University of New Hampshire network at the NERIC Welcome Reception the evening of Wednesday, August 14th.\" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Epi-postdocs-Megan-Romano-83x55.jpg\" data-big=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Epi-postdocs-Megan-Romano-1024x681.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/William-Green-1024x683.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"Dartmouth College Vice Provost for Research, Dean Madden, and Principal Investigator of the New Hampshire INBRE, Bill Green, welcome NERIC participants the evening of Wednesday, August 14th. \" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/William-Green-83x55.jpg\" data-big=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/William-Green-1024x683.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Dinner-1024x681.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"Dartmouth College Vice Provost for Research, Dean Madden, and Principal Investigator of the New Hampshire INBRE, Bill Green, welcome NERIC participants the evening of Wednesday, August 14th. \" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Dinner-83x55.jpg\" data-big=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Dinner-1024x681.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Margaret-Karagas-Megan-Romano-1024x681.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"Margaret Karagas, PI of the COBRE-funded Center for Molecular Epidemiology at Dartmouth College catches up with Megan Romano, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and project leader in the Center for Molecular Epidemiology. \" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Margaret-Karagas-Megan-Romano-83x55.jpg\" data-big=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Margaret-Karagas-Megan-Romano-1024x681.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Behnaz-Abdollahi-1024x681.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"Behnaz Abdollahi, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Biomedical Data Science Department at Dartmouth College presents her poster, \u201cDeep Learning for Classification of Colorectal Polyps on Histopathology Slides.\u201d \" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Behnaz-Abdollahi-83x55.jpg\" data-big=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Behnaz-Abdollahi-1024x681.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Hannah-Laue-1024x681.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"Hannah Laue, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Dartmouth College Department of Epidemiology, presents her research \u201cInfant Toenail Metal Concentrations Associated with Gut Microbial Diversity and Specific Taxa Abundance.\" \" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Hannah-Laue-83x55.jpg\" data-big=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Hannah-Laue-1024x681.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Kwame-Wiredu-1024x681.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"Kwame Wiredu, PhD student in the Dartmouth College Graduate Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, presents \u201cSerologic Analysis of Human Papillomavirus \u2013 16 and Bladder Cancer Incidence in a Population-Based Case-Control Study.\u201d \" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Kwame-Wiredu-83x55.jpg\" data-big=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Kwame-Wiredu-1024x681.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Thomas-Palys-1024x681.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"Tom Palys, manager of the Biorepository Laboratory in the COBRE-funded Dartmouth College Center for Molecular Epidemiology presents \u201cThe COBRE Center of Molecular Biorepository Core at Dartmouth: Comprehensive Support for Large Scale, Integrated Multidimensional \u201cOmics\u201d Research.\u201d \" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Thomas-Palys-83x55.jpg\" data-big=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/epidemiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Thomas-Palys-1024x681.jpg\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 2019 North East Regional IDeA Conference (NERIC) hosted by the New Hampshire IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) and Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) gathered August 14-16 at the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Attendees included more than 300 students, faculty, scientists and administrators from Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>The group was welcomed by Dartmouth College Vice Provost for Research, Dean Madden, and Principal Investigator of the New Hampshire INBRE, Bill Green, during a reception the evening of August 14th.\u00a0 Sessions on August 15th and 16th included presentations by five faculty and staff from the Department of Epidemiology and COBRE-funded Center for Molecular Epidemiology.\u00a0 Talks on their recent work were delivered by Saeed Hassanpour, <i>Histopathological Characterization of Whole-Slide Images Through Deep Learning;<\/i> Annie Hoen, <i>Multi-<\/i><i>Omic<\/i><i> Analysis of the Gut Microbiota During Normal Development: Results from the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study<\/i><i>; and,<\/i> Lynn Foster-Johnson and Thomas Palys, <i>Program Evaluation: Strategic Planning<\/i><i>.<\/i> Brock Christensen, who also co-chaired the conference session on Cancer, presented his research, <i>Accurate Immune Phenotyping and Tumor Cytometry using DNA Methylation<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In addition, twelve students, postdocs and staff of the Department of Epidemiology and Center for Molecular Epidemiology presented their research during poster sessions the evenings of the 14th and 15th. Behnaz Abdollahi presented \u201cDeep Learning for Classification of Colorectal Polyps on Histopathology Slides\u201d; Kathryn Crawford presented \u201cPredictors of Breastfeeding Duration in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study\u201d Hannah Laue presented \u201cInfant Toenail Metal Concentrations Associated with Gut Microbial Diversity and Specific Taxa Abundance\u201d; Rebecca Lebeaux presented \u201cIntrapartum Antibiotic Use and Antibiotic Resistance in the Developing Infant Gut Microbiome\u201d; Reno Leeming presented \u201cBladder Cancer Susceptibility Polymorphisms and Mortality from Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer\u201d; Quang Nguyen presented \u201cPredictive Metabolomic Profiling of Microbial Communities from Taxonomic Abundance Using Machine Learning Models\u201d; Thomas Palys presented \u201cThe COBRE Center of Molecular Biorepository Core at Dartmouth: Comprehensive Support for Large Scale, Integrated Multidimensional \u201cOmics\u201d Research\u201d; Devin Parker presented \u201cEvaluating the Utility of Biomarkers to Improve Predication of One-Year Readmission or Mortality after Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery\u201d; Iben Rickett presented \u201cConsumer Data and Risk Stratification for Coronary Heart Disease\u201d; Qingyuan Song presented \u201cA Machine Learning Approach for Long-Term Prognosis of Bladder Cancer Based on Clinical and Molecular Features\u201d; Kwame Wiredu presented \u201cSerologic Analysis of Human Papillomavirus \u2013 16 and Bladder Cancer Incidence in a Population-Based Case-Control Study\u201d; and, Ronnie Zipkin presented \u201cInfluence of physician peer network properties on the diffusion of a novel cancer technology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 North East Regional IDeA Conference (NERIC) hosted by the New Hampshire IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) and Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) gathered August 14-16 at the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. 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