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MCB Postdocs Research Showcase
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PROGRAM
Day 1 | Thursday, March 24th 2022
| 1:00 – 1:10 PM | Helena Cantwell (Heald Lab) and Varsha Rajshekar (Karpen Lab) Welcome address |
| 1:10 – 2:00 PM | Needhi Bhalla, Professor, UC Santa Cruz Keynote Talk: A Tale of Two Checkpoints |
| Session 1: Molecules | Chair: Stephanie Gates (Martin Lab) |
| 2:00 – 2:15 PM | Allison Didychuk (Glausinger Lab) Mechanistic dissection of an enigmatic accessory factor required for herpesvirus genome packaging |
| 2:15 – 2:30 PM | Subu Subramanian (Kuriyan Lab) The evolutionary design of protein machines |
| 2:30 – 2:45 PM | Renzo Adilardi (Dernburg Lab) Robust, versatile DNA FISH probes for chromosome-specific repeats in Caenorhabditis elegans and Pristionchus pacificus |
| 2:45 – 2:50 PM | Maria Lukarska (Savage Lab) Flash Talk: Engineering of a minimal base editor for highly efficient genome editing |
| 2:50 – 2:55 PM | Julia Falo Sanjuan (Eisen and Garcia Labs) Flash Talk: Predicting enhancer function from sequence through in silico evolution and high-throughput screening |
| 3:00 – 3:40 PM | Coffee Break |
| Session 2: Cells | Chairs: Kanika Khanna (Welch Lab) and Francesca Burgos Bravo (Bustamante Lab) |
| 3:40 – 3:55 PM | David Kern (Browhan Lab) Structure and function of an ion channel activated by cell swelling |
| 3:55 – 4:10 PM | Rick Hooy (Hurley Lab) Flash Talk: Cryo electron tomographic structure of a virally hijacked vesicle coat |
| 4:10 – 4:15 PM | Shenjie Wu (Schekman Lab) Flash Talk: Unconventional secretion of alpha-synuclein mediated by palmitoylated DNAJC5 oligomers |
| 4:15 – 4:30 PM | Kevin Mark (Rapé Lab) Quality control of transcription factor complex composition |
| 4:30 – 4:45 PM | Tina Sing (Ünal Lab) Leveraging gametogenesis-specific rejuvenation pathways to counteract cellular aging |
| 4:45 – 4:50 PM | Oshri Afanzar (Kuriyan Lab) Flash Talk: Mitotic waves start from the nucleus |
| 4:50 – 4:55 PM | John Smolka (Lewis Lab) Flash Talk: Human Mitochondrial Genome Maintenance |
| 5:15 – 6:30 PM | Postdocs - Faculty Mixer, Barker Lawn |
Day 2 | Friday, March 25th 2022
| 1:00 – 1:10 PM | Helena Cantwell (Heald Lab) and Varsha Rajshekar (Karpen Lab) Opening remarks |
| 1:10 – 2:00 PM | Lauren Popov, Director of Translational Biology, Novome Biotechnologies Keynote Talk: Genetically Engineered Microbial Medicines |
| Session 3: Cellular Interactions | Chair: Tim Eisen (Kuriyan Lab) |
| 2:00 – 2:15 PM | Mariela Moreno Ayala (DuPage Lab) Role of CXCR3+ T regulatory cells in cancer |
| 2:15 – 2:30 PM | Congyan Zhang (Schekman Lab) Syncytin-mediated tunneling membrane tubes facilitates the intercellular transfer of cargos including Cas9 protein |
| 2:30 – 2:35 PM | Abby Stahl (Doudna Lab) Flash Talk: Non-viral delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 to treat degenerative brain diseases |
| 2:35 – 2:40 PM | Xiao Liu (Heald Lab) Flash Talk: Effects of neuron size on neural development |
| 2:40 – 2:55 PM | Raz Bar-Ziv (Dillin Lab) Activation of the Mitochondrial Stress Response in Four Glial Cells Improves Lifespan, Stress Resistance, and Neurodegeneration |
| 2:55 – 3:10 PM | Marta Gajowa (Adesnik Lab) Rapid learning of monosynaptic connectivity using two-photon holographic neural ensemble stimulation |
| 3:10 – 4:15 PM | Poster Session*, 2nd Floor Lobby LKS |
| Session 4: Organisms | Chair: Flora Rutaganira (King Lab) |
| 4:15 – 4:30 PM | Valle Ojeda (Merchant Lab) A redox chemoproteomic approach to the Chlamydomonas diurnal cycle |
| 4:30 – 4:45 PM | Alain Garcia De Las Bayonas (King Lab) An adhesion GPCR controls aggregative multicellularity in the closest unicellular relatives of animals |
| 4:45 – 4:50 PM | Brandon Schlomann (Garcia Lab) Flash Talk: Pocket watches and fire alarms: live imaging of genetic circuits in development and immunity |
| 4:50 – 5:05 PM | Deepa Ramamurthy (Feldman Lab) Studying the neurobiological basis of attentional selection in the mouse whisker system |
| 5:05 – 5:20 PM | Priyanka Joshi (Titov Lab) Towards systematically uncovering mechanisms of calorie restriction mediated lifespan and healthspan extension in C. elegans aging |
| 5:20 – 5:30 PM | Prof. Susan Marqusee Concluding remarks |
| 5:30 – 6:30 PM | Postdocs Pizza Social, Gladys and Wayne Plaza |
*Poster Presentations
| Rory Craig (Merchant Lab) Rates and spectra of de novo structural mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii |
| Logan Ganzen (Kramer Lab) Physiological Remodeling of Retinal Bipolar Cells during Photoreceptor Death |
| Esther (Jeong Yoon) Kim (Robey Lab) ECM-integrin adhesion guides cellular position-sensing during embryonic patterning |
| Azra Lari (Glausinger Lab) Viral infection-induced retrotransposon activation drives mRNA isoform switching |
| Joe Lobel (Ingolia Lab) Principles and properties of intrinsically disordered regions in post-transcriptional control |
| Maria Lukarska (Savage Lab) Next-generation base editors for improved precision, efficiency and delivery |
| Radhika Mehta (Merchant Lab) Mechanistic insights in the Copper response regulator CRR1 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii |
| Leanna Owen (Drubin Lab) Force-regulated actin tethers in clathrin-mediated endocytosis |
| Janneke Peeters (DuPage Lab) Does an Ezh2 gain of function mutation give Tregs a “gain of function”? |
| Preethi Ragunathan (Portnoy Lab) Molecular mechanisms defining the synthesis and role of the Listeria metabolite HMBPP in activating human γδ T-cells |
| Flora Rutaganira (King Lab) Choanoflagellate Kinase Chemical Genetics |
| Sankalp Shukla (Hurley Lab) Mechanistic studies of Tau escape prevention from endolysosomal membranes by ESCRT III machinery |
| Jiao Sima (Dan Lab) Locus Coeruleus noradrenergic neurons as a mediator for sleep pressure |
| Oliver Vanderpoorten (Bustamante Lab/Nanoscopy Lab, Norway) Hybrid 2-photon lithography for water-scale nanofluidic chip fabrication |
COVID PROTOCOLS
Following UC Berkeley policy, masks are required indoors for anyone who is not fully vaccinated. Masks are strongly recommended, but not required, indoors for anyone who is fully vaccinated. Outdoors, masks are optional for everyone. All food will be served outdoors.