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Spit Camp I

Spit Camp provides an open forum environment, scientific lectures, and carefully constructed hands-on lab experiments, in which you will learn both basic and advanced strategies for incorporating saliva into your research. Gain practical knowledge/experience in salivary bioscience, while building relationships, collaborations, sharing ideas and getting valuable feedback. At Spit Camp, you will become a confident salivary bioscience researcher, capable of using saliva analysis to increase value and overall impact of your research.

Spit Camp I – Salivary Analyte Basics & Lab Training

Training Mug This two-day, fee-based workshop, led by Dr. Douglas Granger and the IISBR laboratory staff, was designed for faculty, post-doctoral scholars and fellows. The lecture component covers theoretical perspectives; use of oral fluid as biological specimen; practical aspects of sample handing, collection, and study design; basics of immunoassay used for assaying saliva; and strategies for writing papers, presentations, and proposals. The laboratory component includes hands-on, supervised training on sample processing, salivary immunoassay and kinetic reaction assays. Samples will be collected and assayed, then data will be generated for group discussion and analysis. The optional third day of Spit Camp I picks up where day two ended with a detailed discussion of salivary biomarker pre-analytic data processing and cleaning procedures. Dr. Jenna Riis will lead the group in lecture and guided practice with real salivary data. Best practice recommendations for addressing issues of data reliability, missingness, and skewed distributions will be discussed. Using salivary cortisol data, Campers will learn practical skills for interpreting and examining their data, including how to compute and analyze composite measures such as area under the curve and diurnal slopes. Workshop attendance is limited to five to ten participants per camp session, as this small size is ideal for allowing in-depth, individualized discussion and instruction.

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Current Schedule

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all workshops have been postponed until further notice. Please feel free to Contact Us with any additional questions or concerns.

*Note: 3rd day is optional.

Current Schedule

Mar 24-26*, 2020 Register
May 13-15*, 2020 Register
Jul 29-31*, 2020 Register
Sep 16-18*, 2020 Register
Oct 28-30*, 2020 Register

*Note: 3rd day is optional.

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Recent Publications

  • Kimonis, E. R., et al. (2018). Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its ratio to cortisol moderate associations between maltreatment and psychopathology in male juvenile offenders. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
  • Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., et al. (2018). Magnitude and Chronicity of Environmental Smoke Exposure Across Infancy and Early Childhood in a Sample of Low-Income Children. Nicotine Tob Res.
  • Pisanic, N., et al. (2018). Minimally Invasive Saliva Testing to Monitor Norovirus Infection in Community Settings. J Infect Dis.
  • Affifi, T. D., et al. (2018). Testing the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) in families with type I diabetes. Health Commun.
  • Wheelock, M.D., et al. (2018). Psychosocial stress reactivity is associated with decreased whole brain network efficiency and increased amygdala centrality. Behav Neurosci.
  • Kornienko, O., et al. (2018). Associations Between Secretory Immunoglobulin A and Social Network Structure. Int J Behav Med.
  • Kuhlman, K. R., et al. (2018). Interparental conflict and child HPA-axis responses to acute stress: Insights using intensive repeated measures. J Fam Psychol.
  • Kuhlman, K. R., et al. (2018). HPA-Axis Activation as a Key Moderator of Childhood Trauma Exposure and Adolescent Mental Health. Journal of abnormal child psychology.
  • Corey-Bloom, J., et al. (2018). Salivary levels of total huntingtin are elevated in Huntington’s disease patients. Sci Rep.
  • Martinez, A. D., et al. (2018). Household fear of deportation in Mexican-origin families: Relation to body mass index percentiles and salivary uric acid. Am J Hum Biol.
  • Lucas, T., et al. (2018). Justice for all? Beliefs about justice for self and others and telomere length in African Americans. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol.
  • Woerner, J., et al. (2018). Salivary uric acid: Associations with resting and reactive blood pressure response to social evaluative stress in healthy African Americans. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
  • Riis J.L., et al. (2018). The validity, stability, and utility of measuring uric acid in saliva. Biomark Med.

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