Dr. Tammy Greer, Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Telenutrition Center Investigator and Director of the Center for American Indian Research and Studies (CAIRS) at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), was recently awarded the Area/Regional Impact Award by the National Indian Health Board at the 39th annual National Tribal Health Conference held [...]
Mississippi INBRE Outreach Scholar (MIOS) Dakota Kilcrease recently won the Overall Best Poster award in the research poster competition at Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference 2022 in late July. We interviewed Kilcrease about his summer research experience. From Powderly, Texas, Kilcrease is a 29-year-old OMS-II student at the William Carey University College of [...]
Our 2022 class of Mississippi INBRE Outreach Scholars (MIOS) had a landmark year. They spent the summer conducting community outreach and research at our Telenutrition Center, headquartered at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) in Hattiesburg, Miss. The program concluded with three placements in the research poster competition at the inaugural Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference 2022 [...]
Having won first place in the Community-Based Poster Competition at Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference 2022 in late July, we interviewed Mississippi INBRE Service Scholar (MISS) Jaylen Sandifer about his summer research experience. A Jackson, Miss. native, Sandifer is a 22-year-old biology pre-medicine and music dual major at Jackson State University. He [...]
Congratulations to our 2022 class of Mississippi INBRE Service Scholars (MISS). Working with our partners at My Brother’s Keeper, Inc. (MBK), this year’s class conducted remarkable research this summer while providing the Mississippi community with public health education and health services. Concluding at the inaugural Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference 2022 in late July, the MISS Scholars [...]
As the Mississippi INBRE Research Scholar (MIRS) to place the highest in the undergraduate poster competition at Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference 2022, we interviewed Perriann Smith about her summer research experience. From Madison, Miss., Smith is 20 years old and attends The University of Southern Mississippi as an undergraduate biology major with a [...]
From their initial training at The University of Southern Mississippi to presenting at the inaugural Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference 2022, our 2022 class of Mississippi INBRE Research Scholars (MIRS) had a spectacular run this summer. Demonstrating strength and determination throughout their experience, this year’s class may be one of our best yet. MIRS is an 11-week [...]
Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Mississippi INBRE) funded researcher Dr. Wolfgang Kramer recently published an article in Photochem, an international, peer-reviewed photochemistry journal. A Professor of Chemistry at Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss., Dr. Kramer’s research paper is titled “Awakening a Molecular Mummy: The Inter-and Intramolecular Photochemistry of Pyromellitic Diimides with Alkyl Carboxylates” [...]
The Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), in conjunction with the Mississippi Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), hosted the inaugural Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference 2022 on July 28, 2022, at the Lake Terrace Convention Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The conference boasted over 400 attendees and 171 presentations in both oral and poster [...]
Mississippi INBRE funded researcher Dr. Debarshi Roy and his multi-university team of faculty researchers were recently published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, a major biochemical and biophysical research journal with an impact factor of 3.575 and acceptance rate of only 17%. An Associate Professor of Biology at Alcorn State University, Dr. Roy’s study is [...]
