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<\/a>Dr. Kristian M. Hargadon ’01, President of the Longwood University\/Hampden-Sydney College Sigma Xi Chapter<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>H-SC President, Dr. Christopher Howard, delivering the Symposium’s opening remarks<\/p><\/div>\n
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Following these opening remarks, keynote speaker Dr. Timothy Bullock, Associate Professor of Pathology and Microbiology in the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research and Human Immune Therapy Center at the University of Virginia, delivered his address entitled “United We Stand: Synergy Between Conventional and Immune-based Therapies for Cancer Treatment.”\u00a0 This energetic talk highlighted cutting edge strategies for combining chemotherapy and immunotherapy in the treatment of melanoma and other cancers.\u00a0 While these approaches were once thought to be at odds with one another (immune therapies promote replication of a patient’s immune cells, while chemotherapy attacks cancerous and non-cancerous cells undergoing replication), recent evidence now suggests that optimizing the delivery of these different therapies may lead to enhanced anti-tumor activity.\u00a0 That is, certain chemotherapies have been shown to induce a specialized type of tumor cell death that triggers immune cell stimulation, and subsequent administration of immune-based therapies may lead not only to further eradication of tumor cells that escaped chemotherapeutic destruction but also to long-lasting immune protection from tumor recurrence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/a>Dr. Timothy Bullock delivering the keynote address<\/p><\/div>\n
The keynote address was followed by a poster session in which Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood University students presented research conducted through Honors\/Independent Study Projects and Summer Research Programs.\u00a0 The work of 22 students ranging from freshmen to seniors was showcased at the event and represented work conducted in various fields of science, including biology, chemistry, and physics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Jefferson Thompson and James Hughes discussing their research with Chemistry Professors Dr. Sipe and Dr. Deifel<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Drake Bishop presenting his cancer research to Longwood University tumor immunologist, Dr. Amorette Barber<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Davis Carter and Erik Kellogg discussing their research on Ranavirus infection in local herpetofauna and invasive plant species<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Biology major David Coe presenting his research on antibiotic resistance of ocular bacterial pathogens to Chemistry major John Dekarske<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Biology major Carter Guice’s poster (Carter not shown), showing his summer research on HIV conducted at Louisiana State University<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n We are so excited by the enthusiasm for scientific research at Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood University generated by this symposium, and our newly reactivated Sigma Xi chapter has significant momentum moving forward.\u00a0 To follow up on the success of the symposium, an initiation ceremony will be held in Spring 2014 for the induction of new student and faculty members to the Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sigma Xi, the international multidisciplinary scientific research society, was founded in 1886 to honor excellence in scientific investigation and encourage collaboration among researchers in all fields of science and engineering. \u00a0The Society consists of over 500 chapters at academic, industrial, … Continue reading <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>