October 15-16, 2026

University of Kansas Medical Center Campus
Health Education Building (HEB)
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, Kansas

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Health Education Building, B104

1:15 pm – Registration Opens

2:00 pm – Trainee Elevator Pitch Session

3:00 pm – Keynote Lecture: Humphrey Hung-Chang Yao, PhD

Reception and Poster Session to follow.

Friday, October 16, 2026

Health Education Building, B104

7:30 am – Breakfast

8:20 am – Session I

Hattie Chung, PhD

Devashrai Gandhi, MS

Xiaoqiu (Churchill) Wang, PhD

Shamsun Nahar, MS

Abdallah Abdelhady, MS

10:30 am – Session II

Min (Mia) Yang, PhD

Ashley Teate, BS

Alison Paquette, PhD

Sawyer Smith, BS

12:00 pm - Lunch and Awards Presentation

1:45 pm - Session III

Alexander J. Travis, VMD, PhD

Mumtarin Jannat Oisheet, MS

Christiana Joseph, BS

Sophie Petropoulos, PhD

3:30 pm - Meeting Adjourned