
2025 Iowa LEND Research Poster Symposium
The 2025 Research Poster Symposium will take place Tuesday, May 6. Please see the schedule of presenters and their research projects below. Posters and abstracts will be available for viewing online on May 2. If you are unable to attend the symposium in person, you can watch via Zoom.

Zoom Meeting Link Meeting ID: 953 5757 1822
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Poster Symposium Schedule
Dianne McBrien, M.D. - Introduction
Group 1
3:00-3:30 Project presentations
- Jake Brown, Ali Dykstra, Morgan Leach
- Uzi Ahmed
- Kaitlyn Fuerst, Haley Sharp
- Asana Mohamad
- Ben Kelvington, Casey Wilkinson
- Nick Hofmaier
- Lani Brown, Eden Conroy, Megan Mindy
- Kaitlyn Harvey
3:30-4:00 Individual poster Q&A for group 1
Group 2
4:05-4:30 Project presentations
- Sauda Abdullahi, Ryan Elhag, Branycia Mitchell
- Joyce An
- Grace AbouAssaly, Kristi Brinck, Danelys Narvaez-Ramos, Alyssa Thompson
- Ted Rico
- Idong Essien, Tim Fairbanks
- Michaela Mathews
- Matthew Hayes, Nadya Trinidad Negron, Bethany Walczak
- MaKenzie Boersma, Esther Huston, Britney McDonald
4:30-5:00 Individual poster Q&A for group 2
Current Trainees

Front row, above, left to right: Jake Brown, Kaitlyn Fuerst, Nima Odowa, Sauda Abdullahi, Maggie Rizor, Sara Escudero, Ryan Elhag, Casey Wilkinson, Branycia Mitchell, Kristi Brinck, Tim Fairbanks, Britney McDonald, Ben Kelvington, Matthew Hayes
Second row, above, left to right: Alli Dykstra, Makenzi Zikas, Kylie Scott, Grace AbouAssaly, Haley Sharp, Morgan Leach, Lani Brown, Eden Conroy, Megan Mindy, Bethany Walczak, MaKenzie Boersma, Allison Darling, Alyssa Thompson, Idongesit Essien
Check out previous research presented by ILEND Trainees:
- 2024 LEND Research Poster Session
- 2023 LEND Research Poster Session
- 2022 LEND Research Poster Session
- 2021 LEND Research Poster Session
- 2020 LEND Research Poster Session