PROGRAM
| 9:00 - 9:30 AM | Registration & Coffee, 2nd floor lobby LKS |
| 9:35 - 9:40 AM | Welcome address Zhadyra Yerkesh and Julia Peukes |
| Session 1: | Chairs: Chris Arp (Bautista & Lumpkin Labs), Varsha Rajshekar (Karpen Lab) |
| 9:40 - 9:50 AM | Corinne Pender (Dillin Lab) An immune response that couples detoxification to inter-tissue and intergenerational signaling |
| 9:50 - 10:00 AM | Preethi Thattai Ragunathan (Portnoy Lab) Remodeling Listeria monocytogenes isoprenoid biosynthesis leads to massive stimulation of human γδ T-cells |
| 10:00 - 10:10 AM | Jacob L Steenwyk (King Lab) Know the enemy: genome-scale diagnostics of cryptic fungal pathogens |
| 10:10 - 10:20 AM | Lucy Brennan (Karpen Lab) Spontaneous heterochromatin compartmentalization in a minimal in vitro system |
| 10:20 - 10:30 AM | Wren Kim (Ingolia lab) Calcium-dependent Protein Biotinylation Strategies for Functional Omics in Neuroscience |
| 10:30 - 10:40 AM | Hossein Amiri (Bustamante Lab) Fuel for fidelity: GTP hydrolysis in ribosomal translocation |
| 10:40- 11:10 AM | Coffee Break, 2nd floor lobby LKS |
| Session 2: | Chairs: Amir Bitran (Marqusee Lab & Bustamante Lab), Nicholas Lue (Nogales Lab) |
| 11:10 - 11:20 AM | Logan Ganzen (Kramer Lab) Retinal Bipolar Cell Synaptic Output is Diminished By Photoreceptor Degeneration |
| 11:20 - 11:30 AM | Kimberly Tsui (Dillin Lab) CRISPR screens and lectin microarrays identify novel high mannose N-glycan regulators |
| 11:30 - 11:40 AM | Jonathan Gropp (Nayak Lab) Using metabolic reaction network models and CRISPR to understand the isotopic composition of microbial methane |
| 11:40 - 11:50 AM | Francesca Burgos Bravo (Bustamante Lab) FACT promotes efficient Pol II transcription by modulating the topographic features of the nucleosomal barrier |
| 11:50 - 12:00 PM | Oscar Arenas (Lumpkin Lab) The origins of animal touch sensation: exploring mechanosensitivity in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi |
| 12:00 - 1:50 PM | Lunch & Poster Session*, 2nd floor lobby LKS |
| Session 3: | Chairs: Maria Flores (Nogales Lab), Julia Falo-Sanjuan (Eisen Lab & Garcia Lab) |
| 1:50 - 2:00 PM | Sankalp Shukla (Hurley lab) In vitro reconstitution of endolysosomal membrane repair by ESCRT-III machinery |
| 2:00 - 2:10 PM | Jiao Sima (Dan Lab) Restoration of locus coeruleus noradrenergic transmission in sleep |
| 2:10 - 2:20 PM | Akanksha Thawani (Nogales Lab & Collins Lab) Genetic Architects: How the LINE-1 Transposon Crafts Your Genome |
| 2:20 - 2:30 PM | Deepa Ramamurthy (Feldman lab) Reward history guides attentional selection in mouse sensory cortex |
| 2:30 - 2:40 PM | Thyago L Calvo (Urnov lab) CRISPR Epigenetic Reprogramming of Myokines as Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 2:40 - 3:00 PM | Coffee Break, 2nd floor lobby LKS |
| Keynote Session: | Chairs: Julia Peukes, Zhadyra Yerkesh |
| 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Christopher O Barnes (Asst. Prof., Stanford) Structure-guided approaches to mitigate emerging viral threats |
| Career Panel: | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM |
Christopher O Barnes, Asst. Prof., Stanford (Academia) |
| 5:00 - 5:10 PM | Concluding Remarks Zhadyra Yerkesh, Julia Peukes and Doug Koshland |
| 5:15 - 7:00 PM | Evening Postdoc Social Reception, GPB lawn |
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*Poster Presentations
| Hossein Amiri (Bustamante Lab) Fuel for fidelity: GTP hydrolysis in ribosomal translocation |
| Amir Bitran (Marqusee Lab & Bustamante Lab) Towards a detailed molecular picture of protein folding during real-time translation |
| Francesca Burgos Bravo (Bustamante Lab) FACT promotes efficient Pol II transcription by modulating the topographic features of the nucleosomal barrier |
| Helena Cantwell (Heald Lab) Molecular Basis of Spindle Morphology Changes at the Meiosis to Mitosis Transition |
| Laura Craciun (Saijo Lab) Deficiency of Psychiatric Risk Gene Tcf4 Causes Spontaneous Seizures in Mice |
| Julia Falo-Sanjuan (Eisen Lab & Garcia Lab) Optimizing base editing for high-throughput enhancer mutagenesis in vivo |
| Rui Jiang (Dernburg Lab) The Role of DNA Topology in Meiosis and Genome Integrity |
| Sindy Li (Brenner Lab) Evaluating the clinical utility of missense variant effect predictors: CAGI6 assessment |
| Anuradha Mukherjee (Heald Lab) Safeguarding sister chromatid biorientation and segregation in the absence of a spindle checkpoint during embryogenesis in Xenopus |
| Wayne Ngo (Doudna Lab) Structure of Lentiviral-like Particles Containing Cas9 |
| Varsha Rajshekar (Karpen Lab) Love thy neighbor: Understanding the relationship between Nucleoli and Heterochromatin |
| Raúl Ramos (Bautista Lab & Lumpkin Lab) Touch in Altered States of Perception: Sensory Processing Disorder & Psychedelics |
| Briana Van Treeck (Collins Lab) PRINT: Precise RNA-mediated INsertion of Transgenes |
| Kevin Wu (Park Lab) Substrate recognition mechanism of the endoplasmic reticulum-associated ubiquitin ligase Doa10 |