PROGRAM
Day 1 | Thursday, March 30, 2023
| 1:00 – 1:05 PM | Cory Pender (Dillin Lab) and Xiao Liu (Heald Lab) Welcome address |
| Session 1: Molecules | Chair: Joe Lobel (Ingolia Lab) |
| 1:05 - 1:20 PM | Varsha Rajshekar (Karpen Lab) A Tale of Two Condensates: Dynamic interplay between heterochromatin and nucleoli |
| 1:20 - 1:25 PM | Briana Van Treeck (Collins Lab) ⚡️Harnessing the unique properties of a eukaryotic retroelement for site-specific transgene supplementation of the human genome |
| 1:25 - 1:40 PM | David Morgens (Glaunsinger Lab) Coding and non-coding features controlling transcription in herpesvirus |
| 1:40 - 1:45 PM | Julia Falo-Sanjuan (Eisen & Garcia Labs) ⚡️Generating enhancer variability and testing activity in a high throughput manner |
| 1:45 - 2:00 PM | Chandrima Majumdar (Cate Lab) Cryo-EM structures of the WT E. coli ribosome with aminobenzoic acid monomers |
| 2:00 - 2:05 PM | Anna Maurer (Tjian & Darzacq Labs) ⚡️High-content and live-cell imaging approaches to study rAAV vector biology |
| 2:05 - 2:20 PM | Diane Haakonsen (Rapé Lab) Molecular mechanism and functional importance of stress response silencing |
| 2:20 - 3:15 PM | Poster Session & Coffee Break, 2nd Floor Lobby LKS |
| Session 2: Cells | Chair: Tim Eisen (Groves Lab) |
| 3:15 - 3:30 PM | Connor Arkinson (Martin Lab) Nub1 unfolds and delivers FAT10 for 26S dependent degradation |
| 3:30 - 3:35 PM | Janneke Peeters (DuPage Lab) ⚡️Does an Ezh2 gain of function mutation give Tregs a “gain of function”? |
| 3:35 - 3:50 PM | Mangyu Choe (Titov Lab) Function of allostery in regulation of glycolysis |
| 3:50 - 3:55 PM | MeeJung Ko (Kaufer Lab) ⚡️Understanding the psychedelic-mediated plasticity of glial cells for treating PTSD |
| Keynote Talk | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | Adam Frost, PI, Altos Labs Pattern Formation in Biological Membranes: Making MD Predictions Better with CryoEM Constraints |
| 5:15 – 6:30 PM | Postdocs - Faculty Mixer, Barker Lawn |
Day 2 | Friday, March 31, 2023
| 1:00 – 1:05 PM | Cory Pender (Dillin Lab) and Xiao Liu (Heald Lab) Opening remarks |
| Session 3: Cellular Interactions | Chair: Congyan Zhang (Schekman Lab) |
| 1:05 - 1:20 PM | Han Chin Wang (Feldman Lab) Tuning instability of non-columnar neurons in the salt-and-pepper whisker map in somatosensory cortex |
| 1:20 - 1:25 PM | Suifang Mao (He Lab) ⚡️Hybrid Cilia in Choroid Plexus Gate Cerebrospinal Fluid In and Out |
| 1:25 - 1:40 PM | Koning Shen (Dillin Lab) Inter-tissue signaling of the mitochondrial unfolded protein response is mediated through the germline |
| 1:40 - 1:45 PM | Logan Ganzen (Kramer Lab) ⚡️Retinoic acid weakens synaptic transmission between ON cone bipolar cells and RGCs in mouse models of retinitis pigmentosa |
| 1:45 - 2:45 PM | Poster Session* & Coffee Break, 2nd Floor Lobby LKS |
| Session 4: Organisms | Chair: Kathleen Pestal (Barton Lab) |
| 2:45 - 3:00 PM | Laurits Skov (Moorjani Lab) Reconstructing the history of archaic introgression in modern humans: Insights from whole genome sequences of worldwide populations |
| 3:00 - 3:05 PM | Amir Bitran (Marqusee & Bustamante Labs) ⚡️Cotranslational formation of disulfides guides folding of the SARS COV-2 receptor binding domain |
| 3:05 - 3:20 PM | Alain Garcia De Las Bayonas (King Lab) An adhesion GPCR controls the shift from asexuality to gametogenesis in choanoflagellates |
| 3:20 - 3:25 PM | Elise Wolf (Nguyen Lab) ⚡️Characterization of variants of unknown significance in the PRF1 gene in patients with familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis |
| 3:25 - 3:40 PM | Neta Gazit Shimoni (Lammel Lab) Neurotensin mediated regulation of hedonic feeding behavior and obesity in mesolimbic circuits |
| 3:40 - 3:55 PM | Helena Cantwell (Heald Lab) Molecular basis of spindle morphology changes at the meiosis-to-mitosis transition |
| Career Panel | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | Claudio Ciferri, Executive Director, Genentech Florentine Rutaganira, Assistant Professor, Stanford Lenny Teytelman, Co-founder & CEO, protocols.io |
| 5:00 - 5:10 PM | Susan Marqusee Professor & Faculty lead, MCB Postdoctoral Affairs Office Concluding remarks |
| 5:30 – 6:30 PM | Postdocs Pizza Social, Gladys and Wayne Plaza |
*Poster Presentations
| Amir Bitran (Marqusee & Bustamante Labs) Cotranslational formation of disulfides guides folding of the SARS COV-2 receptor binding domain |
| Gabriel Cavin-Meza (Heald Lab) Testing microtubule spindle adaptation to polyploidy using multiple Xenopus species |
| Tim Eisen (Groves Lab) BTK Dimerization Tunes B-cell Signaling |
| Julia Falo-Sanjuan (Eisen & Garcia Labs) Generating enhancer variability and testing activity in a high throughput manner |
| Jessica Hung (DuPage Lab) Mass Spectrometry-based Immunopeptidome Screening on Murine Bone Marrow-Derived Dendritic Cells upon Toll-like Receptor Activation |
| Yeara Jo (Raulet Lab) Molecular mechanisms of NK cell desensitization |
| Azra Lari (Glaunsinger Lab) Viral infection-induced retrotransposon activation drives mRNA isoform switching |
| Joe Lobel (Ingolia Lab) Principles and properties of disordered regions in post-transcriptional control |
| Anna Maurer (Tjian & Darzacq Labs) DNA Damage Repair Pathways Have Opposing Effects on Concatenation and Expression from rAAV Vectors |
| Sankalp Shukla (Hurley Lab) In vitro reconstitution of calcium-dependent recruitment of the human ESCRT machinery in lysosomal membrane repair |
| Tina Sing (Ünal Lab) Leveraging gametogenesis-specific rejuvenation pathways to counteract cellular aging |
| Elena Zavala (Moorjani Lab) Impact of Degraded DNA on Genotyping Accuracy for Forensic Applications |