PROGRAM
| 9:00 - 9:30 AM | Registration & Coffee: LKS, 1st floor lobby |
| 9:30 - 9:40 AM | Welcome Address |
| Session 1: |
Postdoc Talks: Chairs, Luis Galan Palma (Nuñez Lab) & Naznin Jahan (Fu Lab) |
| 9:40 - 9:50 AM | Rui Jiang (Dernburg Lab) Insights into Chromatin Organization through Tissue-specific Chromatin Profiling in C. elegans |
| 9:50 - 10:00 AM | Jessica Hung (DuPage Lab) T cell Regulation of MHC-II+ Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in Pancreatic Cancer |
| 10:00 - 10:10 AM | Gabriel Cavin-Meza (Heald Lab) Ran-regulated proteins drive microtubule spindle tolerance of polyploidization |
| 10:10 - 10:20 AM | Anna Elleman (Kramer/Brohawn Labs) Designing Tension TRAAKer: a chemigenetic fluorescent membrane tension reporter |
| 10:20 - 10:30 AM | Shashank Gandhi (Harland Lab) Making or breaking the heart: how BMP signaling shapes cardiac development |
| 10:30 - 10:40 AM | Dania Nanes Sarfati (Cleves Lab) Single-cell transcriptional landscapes of heat-stress driven symbiosis loss reveals symbiont-dependent host responses in a sea anemone model for coral bleaching |
| 10:40 - 11:00 AM | Poster Flash Talks |
| 11:00- 12:00 PM | Poster Session* & Coffee Break: LKS, 2nd floor lobby |
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch: LKS, 2nd floor lobby |
| Career Panel: | |
| 1:00 -2:30 PM | Career Panel Q&A |
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Max Adrian, Senior Scientist, Center for Advanced Light Microscopy & EM (CALM-EM), Pathology, Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED) (Industry) |
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| 2:30 - 3:00 PM | Coffee Break: LKS, 1st floor lobby |
| Session 2: |
Postdoc Talks: Chairs, Bel Esain Garcia (Doudna Lab) & Beti Ressnerova (Wilson Lab) |
| 3:00 - 3:10 PM | Leanna Owen (Drubin Lab) The molecular choreography of actin-generated force in budding yeast endocytosis: from quantitative measurements in a regular pathway |
| 3:10 - 3:20 PM | Julia Falo-Sanjuan (Eisen/Garcia Labs) Targeted mutagenesis of specific genomic DNA sequences in animals for the in vivo generation of variant libraries |
| 3:20 - 3:30 PM | Robert Lu (Hockemeyer Lab) Uncovering dynamics of telomere length control in ALT and novel function of TRF1 in suppressing ALT |
| 3:30 - 3:40 PM | Amir Bitran (Marqusee/Bustamante Labs) Towards a detailed molecular understanding of nascent protein folding during real-time translation |
| 3:40 - 3:50 PM | Julio Bernal-Chanchavac (Schaffer/Kumar Labs) Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule regulates 3D mechanosensitive neural stem cell fate commitment |
| 3:50 - 4:00 PM | Wolfram Seifert Davila (Lucas Lab) Visualizing the Nucleolar Organization of Ribosome Assembly in Budding Yeast |
| 4:00 - 4:20 PM | Outstanding Postdoc Awardee Talk |
| Erin Doherty (Doudna Lab) Mechanisms of oligonucleotide signaling in cell health and disease |
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| 4:20 - 4:45 PM | Awards Ceremony & Concluding Remarks |
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM | Evening Postdoc Social Reception |
*Poster Presentations
| Maria Clara Avendaño Monsalve (Merchant Lab) Mapping protein localization and the subcellular compartments of Auxenochlorella spp |
| Rishika Baral (Stanley Lab) PPE3 is a potential shuttle for lactate into M. tuberculosis |
| Amir Bitran (Marqusee/Bustamante Labs) Towards a detailed molecular understanding of nascent protein folding during real-time translation |
| Evan Carpenter (Schekman Lab) Quantifying Cytoplasmic Delivery of Extracellular Vesicle Protein Cargo Using a Human Fusogen |
| Gabriel Cavin-Meza (Heald Lab) Ran-regulated proteins drive microtubule spindle tolerance of polyploidization |
| Megan Chong (Welch Lab) Probing the contribution of actin network architecture and cortical mechanics in bacterial-induced host cell fusion |
| Jessica Ciesla (Cleves Lab) Transcription Factor JUN Influences Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Endosymbiosis through Non-Cell Autonomous Mechanisms |
| Erin Doherty (Doudna Lab) Divergent viral phosphodiesterases for immune signaling evasion |
| Anna Elleman (Kramer/Brohawn Labs) Designing Tension TRAAKer: a chemigenetic fluorescent membrane tension reporter |
| Bel Esain (Doudna Lab) Editing Genome Architecture for Long-term Epigenetic Memory |
| Luis Galan Palma (Nuñez Lab) How epigenetics is established and maintained during early human development |
| Priya Gatti (Lewis Lab) VPS35 loss is associated with altered mitochondrial DNA localization and mitochondrial organization in human astrocytes |
| Hao-Hsuan Hsieh (Martin Lab) Proteasome assembly chaperones shape the conformational landscape to guide the assembly of its AAA motor |
| Rui Jiang (Dernburg Lab) Insights into Chromatin Organization through Tissue-specific Chromatin Profiling in C. elegans |
| Alexandra Kent (Cate Lab) A mutation to the rRNA within the exit tunnel of the E. coli ribosome improves translation of prolines and unnatural monomers |
| Zengwei Liao (Martin Lab) Faf1 enhances ubiquitinated subtrate engagement of p97 |
| Yuliia Lihanova (Merchant Lab) Development of a recyclable marker system in the emerging reference organism Auxenochlorella |
| Chandrima Majumdar (Cate Lab) Deep mutational scan of Domain V of the Escherchia coli ribosome to expand the substrate scope of translation |
| Vashi Negi (Harris Lab) Structural Basis for Differential Neutralization of Dengue Virus Serotypes by Clonally Related Monoclonal Antibodies |
| Leanna Owen (Drubin Lab) The molecular choreography of actin-generated force in budding yeast endocytosis: from quantitative measurements in a regular pathway |
| Alzbeta (Beti) Ressnerova (Wilson Lab) Modular, self-delivering CRISPR RNP platform for in vivo genome editing across multiple tissues |
| Petr Skopintsev (Doudna Lab) Structure and evolution-guided design of minimal RNA-guided nucleases |
| Silvan Spiri (Brar Lab) A role for selective autophagy of the ER in gametogenic rejuvenation revealed by microfluidics-based lifespan profiling |