Florida A&M University

Fourth Annual Principal Investigators’ Appreciation

and 2013 Researchers of the Year Awards Luncheon

Theme: “In Recognition of Research Excellence With Caring”

Dr. Larry Robinson Interim President KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Oghenekome U.

Onokpise

Dr. R. Renee Reams (right) Dr. Mehboob B. Sheikh

Dr. Kalayu Belay (stding)

Dr. Selina F.

Darling-Reed

Foster-Tanner Band Rehearsal Hall * 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, 2013

Dr. Mehboob B. Sheikh Dr. Kalayu Belay

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Florida A&M University

Honors ALL Principal Investigators (PIs) for your innumerable contributions

to the research, education, service, training and development achievements

of our institution!

We proudly and purposefully

Salute the 2013

Researchers of the Year Awardees!!

Distinguished Researcher Award Recipient

Oghenekome U. Onokpise, Ph.D. College of Agriculture and Food Sciences

Research Excellence Award Recipients

Kalayu Belay, Ph.D.

College of Science and Technology

R. Renee Reams, Ph.D. College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Mehboob B. Sheikh, Ph.D.

College of Agriculture and Food Sciences

Emerging Researcher Award Recipient

Selina F. Darling-Reed, Ph.D. College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Florida A&M University

In Recognition of Research Excellence With Caring

Fourth Annual Principal Investigators’ Appreciation and 2013 Researchers of the Year Awards Luncheon Program

Presiding: Dr. Narayan B. Persaud

Professor of Sociology and President of the Faculty Senate

Opening Remarks Dr. K. Ken Redda Professor and Acting Vice President, Division of Research Musical Selection Dr. James L. Moran, Jr. (“No Weapon” Fred Hammond) Assistant Director, Advancement and Alumni Affairs College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Occasion Dr. Lewis Elgin Johnson 2012 Research Excellence Award Recipient Associate Professor, Department of Physics Invocation and Grace Minister Ola Sylvia Lamar Sheffield Research Communications Director, Division of Research

LUNCH IS SERVED

Musical Selection Soloist Agnes D. Coppin (“You’ll Never Walk Alone” R. Rodgers/ O. Hammerstein)

Student Affairs Coordinator, Graduate Studies and Research Introduction of Speaker Interim Provost and Vice President Rodner B. Wright Office of Academic Affairs Speaker Dr. Larry Robinson Interim President Presentation of Awards Dr. Bettye A. Grable Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Graphic

Communication Recording Secretary, 2013 Faculty Senate Research Awards Selection

Committee Closing Remarks Dr. Narayan B. Persaud

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Distinguished Researcher Award Recipient

Oghenekome U. Onokpise, Ph.D. Professor of Agronomy, Forestry, and Natural

Resources/Associate Dean College of Agriculture and Food Sciences (CAFS)

Dr. Onokpise recently released his new book entitled, Rubber Seed: An African Scientist in the Amazon Basin, at a Book-Signing and Reception in his honor, and he is co-inventor (with James Muchovej, Ph.D.) of the U.S. Patent #8,278,248, Mycoherbicide for Controlling Cogongrass, issued Fall 2012 semester. In 2008, Onokpise received the Stephen Spurr Award from the Florida Division of the Society of American Foresters for technical contributions to forestry in Florida. His photo by Stephanie Lambert, Office of Communications.

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Iowa State University (Ames), Tree Breeding and Forest Genetics, 1984

RESEARCH INTERESTS/AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Tree Improvement, Plant Breeding and Genetics; Germplasm Collection, Evaluation and Utilization; Invasive Species Management, Feedstock Development for Biofuels, Agroforestry Systems, Ecological Restoration and Gene Flow Patterns; Biotechnology and International Development with Emphasis in Sub-Saharan Africa

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS: 1. Onokpise, O.U. and A.O. Akinyele. 2012. Mediation of gene flow in tropical trees of Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Forest Science 28: (1):1-7. 2. Reid, L.D., O.U. Onokpise, J.J. Muchovej, C.J. Louime and B.G. Brown. 2011. Evaluation of extracts

of native and non-native plant species for the suppression of Cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica L). Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology B1:347-352.

3. Louime, C., J. Lu, O. Onokpise, H.K.N. Vasanthaiah,, D. Kambiranda, S.M. Basha and H.K. Yun. 2011. Resistance to Elsinoe ampelina and expression of related resistant genes in Vitisrotundifolia Michx. Grapes. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 12:3473-3488; doi: 10.3390/ijms12063473.

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Research Excellence Award Recipient

Kalayu Belay, Ph.D. Professor of Physics

College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics

EDUCATION: Ph.D., University of Delaware (Newark); Condensed Matter Physics, 1994

RESEARCH INTERESTS/AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Dr. Belay’s group’s research involves the synthesis, characterization and integration of carbon nanotubes for potential applications as nanocomposite materials. Their effort is focused onto infusing carbon nanotubes into polymers so as to create a sensory network that can detect damage in the polymer matrix. The main objective of this research activity is to develop highly sensitive distributed sensor systems to monitor strains and to detect initiating damage in polymeric and composite materials at a microscopic level without altering the integrity of the structure.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS: 1. “Rapid Growth of Long, Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes through Efficient Catalyst Optimization Using Metal Film Gradients.” NANOLETTERS, Vol.4, No.10, 1939- 1942 (2004). This article was cited 71 times on related articles. 2. “Translocation of Cell Penetrating Peptide Engrafted Nanoparticles across Skin Layers.” Journal of Biomaterials, 2010 July 31(21):5598-607. This article was cited 24 times on related articles. 3. “The thermal conductivity of polycrystalline diamond films: Effects of isotope content.” Journal of Applied Physics 79(11), 1, June1996. This article was cited 14 times on related articles.

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Dr. Belay (standing) and colleague conduct physics research in fine focusing of the

microscope for data acquisition.

Dr. Belay is mounting and securing an end cap onto quartz inside a furnace which is used for growing new carbon

based materials.

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Research Excellence Award Recipient

R. Renee Reams, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry and Chair, Medicinal Chemistry Section

College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah), Biochemistry, 1984 RESEARCH INTERESTS/AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Global Health emphasizing transnational approach studying prostate cancer health disparity with African researchers; Genomics of Prostate Cancer Health Disparity using genomics and proteomics to look for genes/protein signatures in human prostate tumors that explain aggressive prostate cancers in African American Males and in men of African descent; Metal Neurotoxicity research focus is to determine if a common molecular mechanism exists by which di-valent metals (such as Pb and Mn) cause death of neurons. Dr. Reams’ laboratory has studied metal mixtures( Pb, Mn) and the effect of individual metals (Pb) on neurite outgrowth and effect of Mn on DNA damage in neurons.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS: 1. Microarray genomic profile of mitochondrial and oxidant response in manganese chloride treated PC12 cells. Taka E, Mazzio E, Soliman KF, Renee Reams R. WT Smith1 Neurotoxicology. 2012 Jan 18;33(2):162-168. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:22281203. 2. Clinical Cultural Competency and Health Disparities Knowledge among Pharmacy Students in Florida Public Institutions, ON Okoro1, FT Odedina1, RR Reams American Journal Pharm Educ., Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida (Gainesville) and 2College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida A&M University (Tallahassee).

3. Taka E, Mazzio E, Soliman KF, Renee Reams R. Microarray genomic profile of mitochondrial and oxidant response in manganese chloride treated PC12 cells. Neurotoxicology. 2012 Mar;33(2):162-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuro.2012.01.001. Epub 2012 Jan 18.PMID:22281203.

The 2013 Researcher of the Year Award Recipients

Dr. Reams, Ph.D. Degree Advisor (right) observes Jennifer Green (PhD candidate) as she prepares agar plates for the culture and selection of bacterial cultures containing plasmids for androgen receptor mutants. The androgen receptor is thought to be involved in the switch from androgen-dependent to androgen- independent tumors making ablation treatment ineffective in some prostate cancer patients.

Dr. Reams (left) and former graduate

student, Mark Higginbotham, Ph.D., strike

a pose in front of his “Genomics of

Pb_Induced Neurite Outgrowth in PC12.”

Dr. Reams (left) and Adrienne P.

Stephenson , PhD candidate at FAMU

Student Research Forum; which she has

facilitated since 2009—sans interruption.

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Research Excellence Award Recipient

Mehboob B. Sheikh, Ph.D. Professor of Plant Biotechnology, Center for Viticulture and Small Fruit Research

College of Agriculture and Food Sciences

EDUCATION: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma (Norman), Botany, 1974 RESEARCH INTERESTS/AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Developmental Biology, Biotic and abiotic stresses, Plant based nutraceutical components, Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS: 1. Katam Ramesh, Sheikh MB. (2012). Identification and Characterization of Differentially Expressed Leaf Proteins Among Vitis Species. Annals of Applied Biology, 160: 273–290. 2. Sheikh MB, Vasanthaiah HKN and Devaiah Kambiranda. (2012). Genetic variation in sugar

accumulation among Vitis species. International Journal of Wine Research 2012:4 15–23. 3. Devaiah Kambiranda, Hemanth

Vasanthaiah., Sheikh M. Basha (2011). Relationship between acid invertase activity and sugar content in grape species Journal of food biochemistry; DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-4514.2010.00483.x.

The 2013 Researcher of the Year Award Recipients

Dr. Sheikh evaluates food products

prepared from muscadine grapes.

Dr. Sheikh uses High Performance Liquid Chromatography for

fractionation of sugars, amino acids. and phenolics.

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Emerging Researcher Award Recipient

Selina F. Darling-Reed, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pharmacology/Toxicology

College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences Division

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 2001 RESEARCH INTERESTS/AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Prevention of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon induced breast cancer using natural products, in particular the organosulfur components of garlic, i.e., breast cancer as a health disparity, breast cancer initiation and metastasis;

Natural products as chemopreventive agents; Role of the AhR Receptor in prostate cancer cell cycle regulation in cancer; and Elucidating the mechanisms involved in the neurotoxic effects of cocaine, especially related to

cocaine’s effects on fetal brain development

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

1. Nkrumah-Elie YM, Reuben JS, Hudson AM, Taka E, Badisa R, Ardley T, Israel B, Sadrud-Din SY,

Oriaku ET, Darling-Reed SF. The attenuation of early benzo(a)pyrene-induced carcinogenic insults by diallyl disulfide (DADS) in MCF-10A cells.Nutr Cancer. 2012;64(7):1112-21. doi: 10.1080/01635581.2012.712738. Epub 2012 Sep 24.

2. Nkrumah-Elie YM, Reuben JS, Hudson A, Taka E, Badisa R, Ardley T, Israel B, Sadrud-Din SY, Oriaku E, Darling-Reed SF. Diallyl trisulfide as an inhibitor of benzo(a)pyrene-induced precancerous carcinogenesis in MCF-10A cells. Food Chem Toxicol. 2012 Jul;50(7):2524-30. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.04.010. Epub 2012 Apr 16.

3. Odewumi CO, Buggs R, Badisa VL, Latinwo LM, Badisa RB, Ikediobi CO, Darling-Reed SF, Owens MA. Mitigative action of monoisoamyl-2,3-dimercaptosuccinate (MiADMS) against cadmium-induced damage in cultured rat normal liver cells. Toxicol In Vitro. 2011 Dec;25(8):1733-9. doi: 10.1016/j.tiv.2011.08.013. Epub 2011 Sep 3.

The 2013 Researcher of the Year Award Recipients

Dr. Darling-Reed (front and center, third L-R) with some of her pharmaceutical sciences’ research

team.

Dr. Darling-Reed (front) guides her research group by example.

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Dr. Karam F.A. Soliman, Distinguished Researcher Award Recipient

Dr. Seth Ablordeppey, Research Excellence Award Recipient Dr. Gokhan Hacisalihoglu, Research Excellence Award Recipient Dr. David H. Jackson, Jr., Research Excellence Award Recipient Dr. Mandip S. Sachdeva, Research Excellence Award Recipient

Dr. Barack O. Abonyo, Emerging Researcher Award Recipient

Dr. Karunya K. Kandimalla, Emerging Researcher Award Recipient Dr. Nelly N. Mateeva, Emerging Researcher Award Recipient

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Dr. Charles A. Weatherford, Distinguished Researcher Award Recipient

Dr. Lamberth H. B. Kanga, Research Excellence Award Recipient Dr. Nazarius S. Lamango, Research Excellence Award Recipient

Dr. Jiang Lu, Research Excellence Award Recipient

Dr. Musiliyu R. Musa, Emerging Researcher Award Recipient Dr. Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Emerging Researcher Award Recipient

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Dr. Bidhan C. Saha, Distinguished Researcher Award Recipient

Dr. Violetka Colova, Research Excellence Award Recipient

Dr. Lewis Elgin Johnson, Research Excellence Award Recipient Dr. Hong Xiao, Research Excellence Award Recipient

Dr. Ramesh Katam, Emerging Researcher Award Recipient

Failure is just another opportunity to more intelligently begin again. Henry Ford

If you don't like something, change it; If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

Previous FAMU Researchers of

the Year Award Recipients

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Distinguished Researcher Award Recipient

Some of Dr. Oghenekome U. Onokpise’s Shared Collaborations: University of Florida, Florida State University, Tuskegee University, Alabama A&M University, USDA-Forest

Service, USDA-PMC-NRCS, Mosaic Fertilizer and Food Producing Company, Coastal Plywood Company, and the International Paper Company

Research Excellence Award Recipient

Some of Dr. R. Renee Reams’ Shared Collaborations: African Caribbean Consortia, Camille Ragin, Ph.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center; Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta,

Ogun State, Nigeria (Titilola Akinremi, Medical Pathologist); Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (Krishna Kalari, Ph.D., Medical Informatics); MD Anderson Orlando Health ( Charles J. Rosser, M.D.; MBA, Urologist and Academic

Physician); Moffitt Cancer Center, Jong Y. Park, Ph.D., Cancer Epidemiology; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bryant Nelson, Ph.D., NanoGenotoxicology Project Leader; Scott & White Medical Center, Temple, Texas/Alexzander Asea, Ph.D., Immunologist, Cancer Researcher); Tuskegee University ( Clayton Yates, Ph.D.,

Cancer Biologist); Vanderbilt University, Michael Aschner, Ph.D., Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Department

Research Excellence Award Recipient

Some of Dr. Mehboob B. Sheikh’s Shared Collaborations: Sixue Chen (University of Florida), Barbara Smith (USDA, ARS, Poplaville, MS), Stephen Stringer (USDA, ARS,

Poplaville, MS), Frank Matta (Mississippi State University), Clyde T. Young (N.C. State University), John P. Cherry (USDA-ARS), S. Palanki (Florida State University), Umesh Reddy (West Virginia State University), Anand Yadava

(Fort Valley State University), K. Prakash (Tuskegee University), Corley Holbrook (USDA-ARS), Marc Burow (Texas Tech University), Joe Dorner (USDA-ARS), Roy Pittman (USDA-ARS), Wayne Hunter (USDA-ARS), Tim Sanders

(NC State University), S.P. Tallury, He (Tuskegee University)

Research Excellence Award Recipient Some of Dr. Kalayu Belay’s Shared Collaborations:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, TN collaboration began in the summer of 2004. The following two years graduate student (Jeremy Jackson) accompanied as they worked in the ORNL condensed matter division, supervised by Dr. David Geohegan. Jeremy Jackson, Ph.D., was hired as a post doc at ORNL; mentor-protégé maintain a close collaboration, and their friends at ORNL share substrates for processing new materials for research at FAMU. Relationship building with the Catholic University of America (CUA), stems from our point effort on work we have been doing for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). CUA was a subcontractor of the AFOSR grant, with contact person is Dr. Jando About in mechanical engineering. The University of Delaware was also through a subcontract on the AFOSR during the first term of the year. University of Delaware took my undergraduate student (Kevin Jones) for graduate school. Kevin is progressing towards his doctorate in mechanical engineering, with contact Dr. Robert Opila.

Emerging Researcher Award Recipient Some of Dr. Selina F. Darling-Reed’s Shared Collaborations:

Dr. Agnes Day, Microbiology Department Chair and Associate Professor, Microbiology, Howard University; Dr. Marti Jett, Molecular Pathologist, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Fort Detrick, Virginia; Dr. Lekan Latinwo,

Biology Department Chair and Professor, Biology, Florida A&M University; Dr. Gokhan Hacisalihoglu, Associate Professor, Biology, Florida A&M University; Dr. Deanna Burney, Associate Professor, Psychology, Florida A&M

University; Dr. Sally Williams, Professor, Animal Science Department, University of Florida; Dr. Jayne S. Reuben, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina Medical Center at Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina; Dr.

Karam Soliman, Distinguished Professor, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Florida A&M University; Dr. Carl Goodman, Professor, Pharmacology, Florida A&M University; Dr. Hernan Flores-Rosas, Assistant Professor,

Pharmacology/Toxicology, Florida A&M University

Research EXCELLENCE WITH CARING is COLLABORATIVELY focusing at

FAMU—marching toward $100 million by 2020!

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Name Academic Unit

Dr. Narayan Persaud (Advisory Capacity) Faculty Senate President

Dr. Lekan Latinwo Committee Co-Chair

College of Arts & Sciences Department of Biological Sciences

Dr. Martha Perryman Committee Co-Chair

School of Allied Health Sciences

Dr. Michael Campbell School of Business and Industry

Ms. Wanda Ford Division of Research Office of Sponsored Programs

Dr. Maurice Edington College of Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry

Dr. Gokhan Hacisalihoglu College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biological Sciences

Dr. Bettye Grable Recording Secretary

School of Journalism and Graphic Communication

Dr. David Jackson College of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Art (Department of History)

Dr. Elijah Johnson School of the Environment

Dr. Lambert Kanga College of Agriculture and Food Sciences

Dr. Nazarius Lamango College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dr. Ivette Lopez College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Institute of Public Health)

Dr. Marcia Owens School of the Environment

Dr. Subramanian Ramakrishnan FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

Dr. Elizabeth Davenport College of Education

Pharmacophore Alignment of 26 Tetrahydro Isoquinolines of Model

ADHRR.4 from the Medicinal Chemistry laboratory of K. Ken Redda, Ph.D., professor, CoPPS and Acting Vice

President for Research.

Florida A&M University appreciates the 2013 Faculty Senate Research Awards Selection Committee

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