* Joe Field, DDS Class of 2008, is a busy man.  In addition to being named vice-chair of the ADEA Council of Students, Field has been appointed to the ADEA's Presidential Task Force for Meetings and Conferences; was recently made president-elect of the Student Research Group; was named co-president of the Alpha Omega dental fraternity; was appointed student director of Ayuda; and will take over as president of the Academic Dentistry Organization here at the School of Dentistry.  Congratulations, now get some rest.

* The Health Sciences Libraries honored the Wilson Dental Library’s Sylvia Flores with the Outstanding Staff Recognition Award.  The award is given annually to a staff member who has gone above and beyond in carrying out their duties.  Flores has been at the School of Dentistry since 1997.

* The School of Dentistry was well represented at this year’s American Dental Education Association and American Association for Dental Research's joint Annual Session and Exhibition in Orlando. 

Senior doctoral dental student Chad Foster was elected chair of the Council of Students and junior Joe Field was named vice-chair.  Field was also honored as ADEA Regional Representative of the Year for his work as the Pacific Region's student representative.

Faculty members Yang Chai and Jorgen Slots served as keynote speakers.  Chai was keynote speaker for the AADR’s craniofacial biology section, and Slots addressed the viral pathogens and periodontitis section.

The following faculty and staff presented at the joint meeting:

Julia Reyna, Stephen Harper, Hong Moon, Margarita Zeichner-David; Expression of DSPP in Reparative Dentin During Orthodontic Tooth Movement

S. Oka, Kyoko Oka, Yang Chai; Cell autonomous requirement for TGF-beta signaling during odontoblast differentiation

Jason Shapiro, Xin Wen, Malcolm Snead, Michael Paine; Endocytosis and Amelogenesis

Jane Forrest, J. Dylla; Reports of Musculoskeletal Pain in Dental Hygiene and Dental Students

Larry Eisenberg, Charles Shuler; Learning Needs: Web-Based System for Tracking PBL Curriculum Content

A. Ngan, V.G. Miklus, Wen Luo, Michael Paine, Malcolm Snead, S.N. White; Dentin Sialoprotein (DSP) Overexpression Can Harden Murine Enamel

Xin Wen, Jason Shapiro, Hong Wang, Malcolm Snead, Michael Paine; Generation of a Fluorescent Amelogenin to Study Ameloblast Endocytosis

A.E. Valdes de Hoyos, Li Chen, Margarita Zeichner-David; Immunolocalization of DLX3 During Crown and Root Development

V.G. Miklus, A. Ngan, Michael Paine, Malcolm Snead, S.N. White; DEJ Intefacial and Zonal Toughness Differ in Col1-2oim Defect Mice

Jun Han, Xun Xu, Yang Chai; Genetic Interaction Between Msx1 and Dlx5 in Regulating Craniofacial Development

Marina Jiminez; Quality Assurance and Prescription Reporting via the Digital Chart

Randy J. Phillips; Integrating CAD/CAM Technology into the Undergraduate Dental Curriculum

Rita Chuang, Dan Nguyen, David Crowe; Understanding the Genetic Basis of High-Grade Oral Spindle Cell Carcinoma

Tony Ku, Dan Nguyen, David Crowe, A New Oral Cancer Transgenic Mouse Model Develops Nodal Metastasis

Mona Habibian, Hezam Seirawan, Diane Melrose, Roseann Mulligan; The Attitudes of Dental Hygiene Students Toward Underserved Populations

Stanley Heifetz, Abraham Yaari; Anticaries Effectiveness of Fluoride and Non-Fluoride Sealant after sealant loss 2

Xun Xu, Jun Han, Yang Chai; Tgfbr2 is Required for Disappearance of MEE in Palatal Fusion

Michael Paine, S.N. White; Kallikrein-4 Overexpression in Developing Murine Enamel Reduces Hardness