Entry Year: 2003
Currently: M3
Email Address: gardiner@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Undergraduate: Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, BS, Biology
Laboratory: Dr. Alan Parrish
Research Interests: Kidney Disease; Structural Equation Modeling; Wound Repair; & Cardiovascular Physiology and Pathology
Thesis: "Novel Relationships in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Identified by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)"

Abstracts and Presentations

• Gardiner, L., Akintola, A., Trzeciakowski, J., Parrish, A. Structural Equation Modeling as a Tool for the Investigation of Chronic Kidney Disease. National MD/PhD Student Conference. Keystone, Colorado 2011.
• Gardiner, L., Akintola, A. Trzeciakowski, J., Parrish, A. Structural Equation Modeling identifies novel Chronic Kidney Disease biomarker, Kidney Injury Molecule-1, in rat Chronic Kidney Disease Model. Graduate Student Organization Symposium. College Station, Texas 2011.
• Gardiner, L., Akintola, A. Trzeciakowski, J., Parrish, A. Structural Equation Modeling identifies novel Chronic Kidney Disease biomarker, Kidney Injury Molecule-1, in rat Chronic Kidney Disease Model. American Physician Scientist Association. Chicago, Illinois 2011.
• Gardiner, L., A. Trache, Z. Sun, M. Guo, S.Y. Yuan, and G.A Meininger. "Demonstration of differences in adhesion to fibronectin after histamine in endothelial cells using the atomic force microscope". Experimental Biology 2003 San Diego, California.

Publications

• Trache, A., J.P. Trzeciakowski, L. Gardiner, Z. Sun, M. Muthuchamy, M. Guo, S.Y. Yuan, and G.A Meininger. "Histamine effects on endothelial cell fibronectin interaction studied by atomic force microscopy." Biophys. J. 89:2888-2898, 2005.
• L. Gardiner, A. Akintola, G. Chen, J. Catania, C. Caidya, R. Burghardt, J. Bonventre, J. Trzeciakowski, and A. Parrish. "Structural Equation Modeling Highlights the Potential of Kim-1 as a Biomarker for Chronic Kidney Disease". Am J Nephrol. 35:152-163, 2012

Awards

• 1st Place Best Poster for Senior Students at Graduate Student Organization Symposium 2011: “Structural Equation Modeling identifies novel Chronic Kidney Disease biomarker, Kidney Injury Molecule-1, in rat Chronic Kidney Disease Model”
• Recipient of the Presidential Scholarship - Texas A&M Corpus Christi