SESSION 2 - Wednesday, 4/9/2025 1:30p - 2:30p

1. 1:35p - 1:40p

Ling Tian, Ph.D. candidate, Tulane’s Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, focus - biosocial determinants cardiovascular outcomes, note - dissertation award candidate.

Title of Talk: Comparison of Associations of Food Security Instruments and Mediators with Premature All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Death in US Adults.

2. 1:40p - 1:45p

Savannah Baus, MPH student, Tulane’s Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Environmental health sciences, focus - disaster education for adolescents, youth resilience, reducing climate anxiety, school systems response and community preparedness, note - focus of integrative learning experience with Disaster Management Program.

Title of Talk: Disaster Education Leadership and Training for Adolescents (DELTA): An Analysis of the Efficacy of a Disaster Education Program as a Strategy for Adolescent Engagement in School-Based Community Preparedness.

3. 1:45p - 1:50p

Brigham Walker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management at Tulane’s Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, focus - mobile tech interventions for chronic conditions, note - KL2 awardee.

Title of Talk: Optimizing Telehealth in Caring for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions.

4. 1:50p - 1:55p

Samuel Kakraba, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, focus - AI/data science and neurogenerative diseases, note - Faculty in the Tulane Center for Aging.

Title of Talk: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Revolutionize Diagnostics and Drug Discovery for Neurodegenerative and Other Diseases.

5. 1:55p - 2:00p

Brian Deskin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Medicine, Tulane School of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Diseases Critical Care Environmental Medicine.

Title of Talk: The Alveolus: what it is and why it’s important.

6. 2:00p - 2:05p

Kislay Parvatiyar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Tulane's School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology & Immunology.

Title of Talk: Mechanisms of Aging Dependent Inflammation via Cytosolic DNA Sensing Pathways

7. 2:05p - 2:10p

Jia Fan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Tulane's School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology & Immunology.

Title of Talk: Proteomic Insights into Disease Biomarkers and Precise Detection.

8. 2:15p - 2:20p

Alexandra McNally, MS, BMS Ph.D. Candidate, Tulane’s School of Medicine, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Microbiology Department

Title of Talk: Gamma Delta (γδ) T Cell Subsets and Tissue Immunity in Rhesus Macaques.

9. 2:20p - 2:25p

Heather Adkison, Postdoc Fellow, Tulane’s School of Medicine, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Immunology Department.

Title of Talk: Immune-Coupled Antibiotic Therapy: An Innovative Approach to Lyme Disease Treatment.

10. 2:25p - 2:30p

Tabitha Manuel, Ph.D. Candidate, Tulane’s School of Medicine Biomedical Sciences Program, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Immunology Department.

Title of Talk: Immunologic and pathologic outcomes in a novel rhesus macaque model of primary congenital cytomegalovirus infection.