PROGRAM
| 9:00 - 9:30 AM |
Registration & Coffee: Sutardja Dai Hall, Kvamme Atrium |
| 9:30 - 9:40 AM | Welcome Address: Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium |
| Session 1: | Postdoc Talks: Chairs Julio Bernal-Chanchavac (Schaffer Lab) & Yumi Koga (Cate & Doudna Labs) |
| 9:40 - 9:50 AM | Neta Gazit Shimoni (Lammel Lab) Changes in neurotensin signaling drive hedonic devaluation in obesity |
| 9:50 - 10:00 AM | Predrag Jevtic (Rapé Lab) Dynamics of gene repression in development and disease |
| 10:00 - 10:10 AM | Joe Lobel (Ingolia Lab) Deciphering disordered regions controlling mRNA decay in high-throughput |
| 10:10 - 10:20 AM | Pankaj Dubey (Klinman Lab) Dynamically Interacting Protein Networks Provide a Mechanism to Overcome the Enormous Intrinsic Barrier to Orotidine 5'-Monophosphate Decarboxylation |
| 10:20 - 10:30 AM | Bree Bohannon (Feldman Lab) Biophysical and molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity in cortical somatostatin interneurons |
| 10:30 - 10:40 AM | Yeara Jo (Raulet Lab) Elucidating molecular mechanisms of NK cell function from the studies of NK cell desensitization and exhaustion for improved anti-cancer therapies |
| 10:40- 11:10 AM | Coffee Break: Sutardja Dai Hall, Kvamme Atrium |
| 11:10 - 12:00 PM | Career Panel Introductions: |
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Alexandra Colón-Rodriguez, former Fellow, California Council on Science & Technology; Postdoctoral Program Manager, Genentech (Science & Policy + Industry) |
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| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| Career Panel: | |
| 1:00 -2:00 PM | Career Panel Q&A |
| 2:00 - 3:30 PM | Poster Session* & Coffee Break |
| Session 2: | Postdoc Talks: Chairs Chad Stein (Glaunsinger Lab) & Julia Falo Sanjuan (Eisen & Garcia Labs) |
| 3:30 - 3:40 PM | Yaoyukun Jiang (Klinman Lab) Multi-Microsecond Molecular Dynamics-Based Computation Reveals the Solvent to Active Site Energy Transfer Networks in Lipoxygenase |
| 3:40 - 3:50 PM | Katy Ong (Bilder Lab) An interorgan wound response is hijacked by tumors to promote chronic, lethal intestinal inflammation |
| 3:50 - 4:00 PM | Honglue Shi (Doudna Lab) Rapid two-step target capture ensures efficient CRISPR-Cas9-guided genome editing |
| 4:00 - 4:10 PM | Da Xu (Nuñez Lab) Programmable epigenome editing by transient delivery of CRISPR epigenome editor ribonucleoproteins |
| 4:10 - 4:20 PM | Lara Busby (Martik Lab) Investigating the transcriptional control of Twist1 in ectomesenchymal neural crest |
| 4:20 - 4:30 PM | Meghan Wynne (Fu Lab) Defining the cytoskeletal architecture of astrocytes |
| 4:30 - 5:00 PM | Awards Ceremony & Concluding Remarks |
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM | Evening Postdoc Social Reception |
*Poster Presentations
| Oscar Arenas (Lumpkin Lab) The origins of animal touch sensation: exploring mechanosensitivity in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi |
| Julio Bernal-Chanchavac (Schaffer Lab) The Influence of Membrane-associated Proteins on Neural Stem Cell Differentiation |
| Caitlin Carmody (Staller Lab) Functionally Characterizing Genetic Variants in the Activation Domains of Autism Spectrum Disorder Associated Transcription Factors |
| Burak Cetin (Yildiz Lab) The regulation of kinesin-3 by microtubule-associated protein MAP9 |
| Nikita Divekar (Nuñez Lab) DNA methylation interplays with RNA m6A factors to establish heritable epigenetic silencing in human cells |
| Erin Doherty (Doudna Lab) A novel signaling paradigm in antiviral defense |
| Julia Falo Sanjuan (Eisen & Garcia Labs) Targeted mutagenesis of specific genomic DNA sequences in animals for the in vivo generation of variant libraries |
| Michael Heider (Rapé Lab) Reductive stress response regulation in AML |
| Rosanne Lurie (QB3-Berkeley) Graduate student and postdoc career development programs/resources |
| Anuradha Mukherjee (Heald Lab) Investigating the prevalence of embryonic aneuploidy using Xenopus |
| Rakesh Sarkar (Glaunsinger Lab) YTHDF2 Is a Novel Host Regulator of the Bifunctional KSHV SOX Nuclease |
| Chad Stein (Glaunsinger Lab) Developing tools for mechanistic dissection of a hybrid host-virus transcription complex in the oncogenic herpesvirus KSHV |