2021 Annual Meeting Materials
The 2021 Annual Meeting was held virtually from December 2-3.
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Meeting program
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“Welcome” slides
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Abstracts booklet
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P20 Exploratory Centers – Summaries
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U54 George M. O’Brien Centers – Summaries
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KUroEpi K12 Programs – Summaries
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KURe K12 Programs – Summaries
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Pet tournament
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Meeting scavenger hunt
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Speaker slides
Keynote speakers:
- Katherine Amato, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University
- Carl Kesselman, PhD, Dean’s Professor in the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Preventative Medicine at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
CAIRIBU investigators and trainees in scientific sessions on: (1) knowledge gaps in benign GU research; (2) research resources for benign GU research; (3) therapeutic advances in benign GU research; and (4) collaborative research efforts and initiatives
CAIRIBU K12 Scholar “Flash Talk” Session: K12 Scholars from various CAIRIBU KURe and KUroEpi Programs
Interactive learning opportunities: Allan Brasier, MD, Executive Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research; and Betsy Rolland, PhD, MLIS, Director of Team Science and Research Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Poster sessions: CAIRIBU trainees and early-stage investigators present and discuss their work
Animal models (2): Cassandra Kisby, MD, MS, K12 Scholar, Duke University KURe Program and Alexis Adrian, PhD student, UW-Madison U54 O’Brien Center
Inflammation (2): Michael Odom, PhD, K12 Scholar, Duke University KURe Program and Eduardo Mora, medical school student working with UW-Madison KURe Program K12 Scholar Matt Grimes, MD
Clinical: Emily Davidson, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin P20 Exploratory Center
Voiding (2): Diya Binoy Joseph, PhD, at University of Texas Southwestern (UW-Madison U54 O’Brien Center) and Casey Steadman, PhD, K12 Scholar, Duke University KURe Program
Congenital: Gregory Whittemore, medical school student, Columbia University P20 Exploratory Center
Urinary tract infection: Grace Morales, PhD student, Vanderbilt University P20 Exploratory Center
SESSION 1, Thurs., Dec. 2, 1:00 PM Eastern (12 noon Central | 10 AM Pacific) – (1) Odom, Michael; (2) Lim, Chae Hee; (3) Morales, Grace; (4) Wells, Shane; (6) Gonzalez, Eric; (7) Lim, Tze Yin; (8) Whittemore, Greg; (9) Miles, Hannah; (10) Sandhu, Jaskiran; (43) Liu, Teresa
SESSION 2, Thurs., Dec. 2, 3:15 PM Eastern (2:15 PM Central | 12:15 PM Pacific) – (11) Hayes, Byron; (12) Martino, Jeremiah; (13) Steers, Nicholas; (14) Chathurvedula, Thrishna; (15) D’Arcy, Quentin; (16) Advani, Sonali; (17) Ke, Juntao; (18) Madigan, Caroline; (19) Adrian, Alexis; (50) Binoy Joseph, Diya
SESSION 3, Thurs., Dec. 2, 5:00 PM Eastern (4 PM Central | 2 PM Pacific) – (20) Sarna-McCarthy, Marissa; (21) Kisby, Cassandra; (22) Gupta, Yask; (23) Hudson, Chandler; (24) Zhang, Han; (25) Peterson, Nelson; (26) Steadman, Casey; (27) Davidson, Emily; (28) Pascal, Laura
SESSION 4, Thurs., Dec. 2, 7:15 PM Eastern (6:15 PM Central | 4:15 PM Pacific) – (29) Townsend, Justin; (30) Lavery, Thomas; (31) Baker, Lauren; (32) Luebke, Marie; (33) Nnamdi, Ihejirika; (34) Schroeder, Elise; (35) Keil Stietz, Kimberly; (36) Mora, Eduardo; (37) Everett, Ross; (49) Igarashi, Taro
SESSION 5, Fri., Dec. 3, 12:30 PM Eastern (11:30 AM Central | 9:30 AM Pacific)– (5) Skalitzky, Kegan; (38) Jaumotte, Juliann; (40) Spiegelhoff, Audrey; (41) Grimes, Matthew; (42) Crivelli, Joe; (45) Stangis, Maggie; (46) Ruthig, Victor; (47) Maxwell, Sarah; (48) Flores, Viktor
Katherine Amato, PhD (12/02/2021, 4:30 PM Eastern). The human gut microbiome and health inequities. PNAS 2021;118(25): e2017947118.
Carl Kesselman, PhD (12/03/2021, 1:45 PM Eastern). Translating the grid: how a translational approach shaped the development of grid computing. J Comput Sci 2021;52: 101214.
Session 1: Knowledge Gaps in Benign Genitourinary Research
- Jill Macoska, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison U54 O’Brien Center, UMass Boston), Health disparities in benign urology: gaps and bridges
- Don DeFranco, PhD (University of Pittsburgh U54 O’Brien Center), Roles of mitochondria in BPH
- Wenkuan Xin, PhD (University of Tennessee Health Science Center P20 Exploratory Center), G protein-coupled bitter taste receptors suppress BK channels and enhance urinary bladder smooth muscle contractibility
- John Knight, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham P20 Exploratory Center), Sources of urinary oxalate: unknowns and future research directions
Session 2: Resources for Benign Genitourinary Research
- Kevin Wang, PhD (Duke University P20 Exploratory Center), Computational modeling of shockwave and laser lithotripsy
- Justin Ziemba, MD, MSEd (Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP)-University of Pennsylvania P20 Exploratory Center), The promise of machine learning analysis of diagnostic imaging to augment clinical decision making for the treatment of renal stone disease
Session 4: Therapeutic Advances in Benign Genitourinary Research
- Jonathan Barasch, MD, PhD & Cathy Mendelsohn, PhD (Columbia University U54 O’Brien Center), Repair of the healthy and diseased urothelium
- Naoki Yoshimura, MD, PhD (University of Pittsburgh U54 O’Brien Center), NGF-targeting therapy for prostatic inflammation and LUTS
Session 5: Collaborative Research in Benign Genitourinary Research
- Kristina Penniston, PhD (UW-Madison CAIRIBU U24 Interactions Core), Collaborative research in benign urology – challenges and potential
- Laura Pascal, PhD (University of Pittsburgh U54 O’Brien Center), Cdh1+/- mouse as a model for BPH and LUTS
- Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD (Columbia University P20 Exploratory Center),
- Grace Morales, PhD candidate (Vanderbilt P20 Exploratory Center), Collaboratively-developed pipeline for analysis of microbial genomes
- Joan Neuner, MD (Medical College of Wisconsin P20 Exploratory Center), Developing a women’s incontinence registry: collaboration between primary care, subspecialty, and informatics research
- Jonathan Pollack, MD, PhD (Stanford University U54 O’Brien Center), Stanford O’Brien Center update
Building Psychologically Safe Teams: Betsy Rolland, PhD, MLIS, MPH (Director of Team Science, UW-Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research),
Translational Teams: Allan Brasier, MD (Executive Director, UW-Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research), Translational teams: impact, developmental stages and leadership
What Does Benign Urology Research Need?
- James Brooks, MD (Stanford University U54 O’Brien Center), Benign GU research needs a clinical/translational approach to benign prostate research
- Gregory Whittemore, MD/MS Candidate (Columbia University P20 Exploratory Center), What does benign bladder research need?