Tickets: There will be 3 total tickets in your welcome bag. The 2 yellow tickets are drink tickets for Saturday night, while the blue ticket is for food trucks on Saturday afternoon. Please reach out immediately if you are missing a ticket.
MIKIW 2026 Schedule of Events:
| Friday | ||
Time | Agenda Item | Location |
3:00 – 5:00 pm | Registration and Hotel Check-in |
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6:00 – 9:00 pm | Welcome Reception | Brown Deer Golf and Country Club 1900 Country Club Drive, Coralville, IA 52241 |
| Saturday | ||
8:00 – 8:50 am | Breakfast and Poster Set-up | CPB 180 S Grand Av. Iowa City IA, 52242 |
8:50 – 9:00 am | Opening Remarks | CPB 210 |
| Student Presentations – Session 1 | CPB 210, 110 Overflow |
9:00 – 10:00 am | Speakers 1-3 |
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9:00 – 9:20 am | Speaker 1: Rachel Crawford The University of Iowa Beyond H2O2: Carnosine scavenging and bioenergetic consequences of catecholamine metabolites in the heart |
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9:20 – 9:40 am | Speaker 2: Josephine Anderson The University of Wisconsin-Madison Maternally administered LSD rapidly reaches embryonic CSF and is associated with altered cortical development and adult behavior in mice |
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9:40 – 10:00 am | Speaker 3: Kelsey Holdaway The University of Minnesota Development of Covalent-Allosteric Inhibitors of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 |
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10:00 – 11:00 am | Poster Session 1 |
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11:00 – 12:00 pm | Dr. Joseph G. Cannon Keynote Lecture Keynote Speaker – Dr. Christopher McCurdy
| CPB 210, 110 Overflow |
12:00 – 1:30 pm | Lunch | CPB |
12:45 – 1:15 pm | Promega Product Presentation (Optional) | CPB 210, 110 Overflow |
| Student Presentations – Session 2 | CPB 210, 110 Overflow |
1:30 – 2:30 pm | Speakers 4-6 |
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1:30 – 1:50 pm | Speaker 4: Mario Alvarez The University of Illinois – Chicago Hybridization of Type II Proline-Rich Antimicrobial Peptides as a Strategy for the Evaluation of Translation Termination Inhibitors |
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1:50 – 2:10 pm | Speaker 5: Tristan Sprague The University of Kansas Cholesterol regulates γ-secretase catalysis by alleviating stalled enzyme-substrate complexes: Implications for Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis |
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2:10 – 2:30 pm | Speaker 6: Michael Garcia-Mares The University of Iowa Human-relevant PCB52 metabolites trigger mitochondria-dependent bioenergetic collapse in glia |
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2:30 – 2:45 pm | Break |
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2:45 – 3:45 pm | Poster Session 2 |
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3:45 – 4:25 pm | Speakers 7-8 |
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3:45 – 4:05 pm | Speaker 7: Julia Lee The University of Minnesota Design, Synthesis, And Evaluation of Small Molecule Leads for Diabetic Retinopathy |
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4:05 – 4:25 pm | Speaker 8: Ana Lopez-Hernandez The University of Illinois – Chicago Development of a Direct-to-Biology Pipeline for Aristoquinoline Analogues |
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6:00 – 6:45 pm | Faculty Mixer | Bread Garden Market 225 S Linn St, Iowa City IA, 52240 |
6:30 – 10:00 pm | Formal Dinner | Bread Garden Market 225 S Linn St, Iowa City IA, 52240 |
| Sunday | ||
8:00 – 8:50 am | Breakfast; Take down any remaining posters | CPB |
| Student Presentations – Session 3 | CPB 210, 110 Overflow |
9:00 – 10:00 am | Speakers 9-11 |
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9:00 – 9:20 am | Speaker 9: Farjana Afroj The University of Kansas PeptiDEL Technology: Synthesis of Peptide-Based DNA Encoded Library |
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9:20 – 9:40 am | Speaker 10: Kailey Said-Lathrum The University of Iowa Sorbs2 regulates vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype plasticity and vascular tone |
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9:40 – 10:00 am | Speaker 11: Yuan Zhao The University of Wisconsin-Madison LRP1-Targeting Chimeras for Degradation of Extracellular Secreted and Membrane Proteins |
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10:00 – 10:20 am | Break |
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10:20 – 11:20 am | Speakers 12-14 |
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10:20 – 10:40 am | Speaker 12: Laura Hirsch The University of Minnesota Development of Highly Potent and Selective Dual Degraders of Aurora Kinase A and N-Myc for Neuroblastoma Therapy |
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10:40 – 11:00 am | Speaker 13: Luke Harding The University of Illinois – Chicago Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel benzodiazepines as thioredoxin glutathione reductase inhibitors for the eradication of schistosomiasis |
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11:00 – 11:20 am | Speaker 14: Krishna Chaitanya Gurajala The University of Kansas Investigation of Glyoxal Induced DNA-Protein Crosslinking |
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11:20 – 12:00 pm | Award Ceremony, Announcements |
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12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch (Panera Boxed Lunches); Planning Session for MIKIW 2027 | CPB |
Poster Session Assignment:
| Session 1 | Session 2 |
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| 2. Jake Schmitt | 2. Anna Nguyen |
| 3. Jacob Cowley | 3. Grant Berkbigler |
| 4. Kelsey Holdaway | 4. Maria I. Quiros |
| 5. Jerrett Holdawway | 5. Natalia Makaro |
| 6. Bo Zhou | 6. Alexis M. Stoorza |
| 7. Margaret Hill | 7. Mya Fegaras |
| 8. Soumajit Gayen | 8. Cole Friederichs |
| 9. Richard Foster | 9. Thomas Pavey |
| 10. Leonardo Lugo | 10. Abigail C. Blatz |
| 11. Xuankun Chen | 11. Brandon B. Schuldt |
| 12. Raven Coil-Otto | 12. Emily L. Wells |
| 13. Ehfazul Haque | 13. Kate J. Dallmier |
| 14. Maryam Nazari | 14. Joseph Noel-Torres |
| 15. Noha Taher | 15. Ngoc Pham |
| 16. Tsering Tashi | 16. Yiming Nie |
| 17. Mackenzie R. Ringer | 17. Ameena Salim |
| 18. Isabella Jacobsen | 18. Sindhuja Rangisetty |
| 19. Juliet Jelu reyes | 19. Nina J. Hawkins |
| 20. Jacob Lee | 20. Jackson W. Berryman |
| 21. Trevor Dean | 21. Tanushree R. Pal |
| 22. Michael Garcia-Mares | 22. Ryan Friess |
| 23. Kostana Ligori | 23. Alexis Mann |
| 24. Shenell F. Brown | 24. Moyosore O. Orimoloye |
| 25. Kusha Sameeha Malpath | 25. Joshua A. Legaspi |
| 26. An T. Trinh | 26. Ju Hong |
| 27. Emmanuel Bonsu | 27. Alondra López Colón |
| 28. Kevin A. Kunz | 28. Sang Vo |
| 29. Mark C. Kelley | 29. Pranjali Pawar |
| 30. Zhe Wang | 30. Caroline M. Roach |
| 31. Srujana Mohanty | 31. Clarence Peiris |
| 32. Danielle Quindel | 32. Dana Sorensen |
| 33. Mandisa Timba | 33. Atonu Chakrabortty |
| 34. Megan J. Jurek | 34. Nusha Mikolchak |
| 35. Ebuka Onyeyilim | 35. Milo J. Garceau |
| 36. Tsung-Yu Yeh | 36. Joe McPherson |
| 37. Thao-Vy T. Nguyen | 37. Elliott Peterson |
| 38. Regina Stasser de Gonzalez | 38. Nathan Gentilman |
| 39. Sarah Torrence | 39. Farzana Kabir |
| 40. Sarah Preston | 40. |
Saturday Dinner Seating Assignments:
Table 1
Shenell Felicia Brown
Ameena Salim
Nicholas Kalogriopoulos
Nina Hawkins
Kusha Sameeha Malpath
Aneek Banerjee
Ngoc Pham
Dave Roman
Margaret Hill
Emily Wells
Table 2
Jacob Lee
Megan Jurek
Pavel Petukhov
Benjamin Quell
Jackson Berryman
Abigail Blatz
Tanushree Pal
Joanna Burdette
Carston R. Wagner
Yuan Zhao
Table 3
Andrew James Cipriano
Zebulon Gnida
Gunda I. Georg
William Pomerantz
Caroline Roach
Anjali Kaushal
Wayne Thomas Shier
Atonu Chakrabortty
Steven Bloom
Mauricio Bahena Garcia
Table 4
Juliet Jelu
Cody Wenthur
Bryan Magana
Jon Doorn
Leonardo Lugo
Farjana Afroj
Grant Berkbigler
Matthew Russolillo
Irina Zhilinskaya
Bryan Lampkin
Table 5
Farzana Kabir
Syrah Starnes
Luke Harding
Manan Kothari
Lauren Hanna
Srujana Mohanty
Christopher R. McCurdy
Soumajit Gayen
Weiping Tang
Nusha Mikolchak
Table 6
Kailey Said-Lathrum
Claire Dickson
Dave Martin
Isabella Jacobsen
Angela Nguyen
Moyosore Orimoloye
Sindhuja Rangisetty
Shifali Choudhary
Kelsey Holdaway
Bo Zhou
Table 7
Natalia Makaro
Kyle Hooper
Victor Fadare
Daniil Ahiadorme
Megan Dillman
Mackenzie Wyllie
Reinner Ochola Omondi
James Franke
Rachel Crawford
Jennifer E. Golden
Table 8
Cecilia Ezeanya
Laura Hirsch
Vishuka Pathirana
Kevin Lucio-Acero
Mya Fegaras
Elliott Peterson
Ethan Miranda
Shyam Sathyamoorthi
Nathan Gentilman
An Trinh
Table 9
Angelica Ramos
Debasmita Paul
Luke Erber
Zhe Wang
Thomas Pavey
Mackenzie Ringer
Ryan Richard Friess
Arthur Acuna
Jerrett Holdaway
Mandisa Timba
Table 10
Noha Taher
Kostana Ligori
Adam Duerfeldt
Van Vu
Danielle Quindel
Nathan Charles Dillman
Jared McLendon
Yelisbeth Santa Villafañe
Sarah Preston
Andrew Riley
Table 11
Daniel Harki
Thao-Vy Nguyen
Tristan Sprague
Maria Isabel Quiros
Maryam Nazari
Chloe Cox
Joe McPherson
Jake Schmitt
David Tampa
Hannah Zuschlag
Table 12
Paul Carlier
Pranjali Dinesh Pawar
Clarence Diluxan Peiris
Ana Lopez-Hernandez
Josephine Anderson
Sarah Torrence
Raven Coil-Otto
Regina Stasser de Gonzalez
Kiersten Buck
Alondra López Colón
Table 13
Cole Friederichs
Dana Sorensen
Olivia Hjelm
Ju Hong
Emmanuel Bonsu
Terry Moore
Yiming Nie
Cynthia Okafor
Muhammed Jamshad Kongath
Kevin Rice
Table 14
Lilly Duff
Guangyu Zhang
Trevor Dean
Theresa Rudick
Michael Wolfe
Mark Kelley
Milo Garceau
Francis Awa
Joshua Legaspi
Jacob Cowley
Table 15
Alexis Mann
Julia Lee
Joanna Burdette
Zhendong Jin
Krishna C Gurajala
Kate Dallmier
Michael Garcia-Mares
Tsung-Yu (Lucas) Yeh
Ehfazul Haque
Table 16
Alexis Stoorza
Mark P. Farrell
Tsering Tashi
Ramesh Mudududdla
Xuankun Chen
Sang Vo
Joseph G. Noel Torres
Dale Eric Wurster
Table 17
Anna Nguyen
Ethan J Anderson
Iredia David Iyamu
Richard Foster
Brandon Schuldt
Kevin A Kunz
Nate Petrikas
Mario Alvarez
Ebuka Leonard Onyeyilim