Members of the Cox lab represented the UMKC School of Dentistry’s Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics & Developmental Biology, held at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center on October 10 – 12.
In attendance were: Shiva Daneshmehr, DDS, a current OCS PhD student; Andrea Osorio Osorno, DDS, a current PhD student at the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia but currently working in the Cox lab under a 1 year visit; Andrés Mauricio Murillo, DDS, a visiting faculty member in the Cox lab from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia; Talia Thambyrajah, a first year dental student who worked in the Cox lab full time last year as a research assistant; Shivani Gargvanshi, PhD, a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab who completed her PhD at the UMKC School of Pharmacy; Soumya Rao, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Cox lab; Ryan Anderson, Research Associate; Liza Cox, PhD, Senior Research Associate; and Timothy Cox, PhD, Endowed Professor in Dental & Musculoskeletal Tissue Research.
Dr. Timothy Cox, a keynote speaker, presented: “Facing reality: the challenges of elucidating the genetics of common craniofacial anomalies”.
Talia Thambyrajah (left) and Shiva Daneshmehr (right) co-presented a poster: “The ontogeny of craniofacial microsomia in a mouse model”.
(Authors included: Shiva Daneshmehr, Talia Thambyrajah, Dr. Akiko Suzuki, Ryan Anderson, Dr. Andres Mauricio Murillo, James Cox, Esra Camci, Liza Cox and Timothy Cox.)
Pictured from left to right: Soumya Rao (poster presenter) Ryan Anderson and Shivani Gargvanshi, with poster titled: “Novel gene mutations discovered in new orofacial cleft syndromes”.
Authors: Soumya Rao, Alanna Strong, Liza Cox, Rolf Stottmann, Cynthia Prows, Laurie Seaver, George McGillivray, Michael Buckley, Tony Roscioli, Mathieu Tremblay, Maxime Bouchard and Timothy Cox.
Pictured from left to right: Andrés Mauricio Murillo, Andrea Osorio Osorno, Liza Cox, Ryan Anderson, Soumya Rao, Shengping Huang, Shiva Daneshmehr and Timothy Cox
Pictured from left to right: Ryan Anderson, Andrea Osorio Osorno, Liza Cox, Shivani Gargvanshi, Shiva Daneshmehr, Talia Thambyrajah, Soumya Rao and Andrés Mauricio Murillo.