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Friday, October 6, 2023

Time and LocationActivity (italicized name is presenter)
9:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Seaview Restaurant
Breakfast
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Seaview Restaurant
Lunch
1:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 1 & 2
Opening Remarks, Introduction of First-Year Graduate Students
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 1 & 2
Session 1 - John F. Brooks II, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A
 Revealing the Dynamics of Germline Cyst Formation in Mammalian Ovaries
Ezra Levy, Isabella Leite, Stanislav Shvartsman, Eszter Posfai
 Spatial Transcriptomic Mapping Using a Microfluidic-Enabled, Deterministic Barcoding-Based Approach
Pengfei Zhang, Celeste Nelson* and Michelle Chan
 Spatial Heterogeneity of Matrix Production in Vibrio cholerae Biofilms
Grace Johnson, Bonnie Bassler 
 Diversity and Evolution of an Algal Endosymbiont
Laura P. Ioca, Jie Liu, Zhiyuan Li, Abhishek Biswas, Valerie J. Paul, Mohamed S. Donia
 Exploring the Effect of Temperature on Influenza Virus RNA Synthesis and Immune Responses
Karishma Bisht, AJ te Velthuis
 RNA Structure Can Inhibit Cas13 Activity and Enables SNP Detection
Benjamin Larsen, Ofer Kimchi, Owen Dunkley, AJ te Velthuis, Cameron Myhrvold
3:00 to 5:30 p.m.Free Time and Check-In
5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 1 & 2
Session 2 - Michelle Chan, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 The Paneth Cell-Intrinsic Circadian Clock Directs Daily Rhythms in Susceptibility to Gastrointestinal Infection
Talia Akoh-Arrey, Madison Spence, Urabshi Basu, Devin Simpkins, Ciara Sanders, Jillian Gullo, Hunter Dalton, John F. Brooks II
 A Transcriptome-Wide Approach Identifies Ovarian and Neuronal Targets of the Drosophila RNA-Binding Protein Glorund
Brooke Hull, Elizabeth R Gavis
 Toxoplasma Gondii Mitochondrion Fission and Pipeline for its Study Using cryo-ET
Erik Zupa, Nathan Fowler, John Jimah
 Maternal-Offspring Immune Crosstalk
Ai-Ing Lim
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 1 & 2
Dinner
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Beach
Beach Bonfire with S’mores!

 

 

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Time and LocationActivity (italicized name is presenter)
8:00 to 9:00 a.m.
Seaview Restaurant
Breakfast
9:00 to 10:30 a.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 1 & 2
Session 3 - Cameron Myhrvold, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 Characterization of Bone Marrow Niche in Breast Cancer Bone Metastatis
Yujiao Han, Hirak Sarkar, Yong Wei, Xiang Hang, Kim Tran, Yuri Pritykin, Yibin Kang
 An Introduction to the cryo-EM Facility
Jonathan Bouvette
 How the World’s Tiniest Soda Gets Carbonated: Tubule Biogenesis in the Algal Pyrenoid
Eric Franklin, Edward Renne Cruz, Keenan Duggal, Haoyu Wu, Martin C. Jonikas
 ER Encapsulations of Peripherally Fragmented Mitochondria Enhance Bioenergetics During Infection
William A. Hofstadter, Katelyn C. Cook, Elene Tsopurashvili, Robert Gebauer, Vojtech Prazak, Emily A. Machala, Ji Woo Park, Kay Grunewald, Emmanuelle R.J. Quemin, Ileana M. Cristea
 Chromosome Structure Impacts Gene Function
Wenfan Ke, Miki Fujoka*, James B. Jaynes*, Paul Schedl
*Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
10:30 to 10:45 a.m.Break
10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 1 & 2
Session 4 - AJ te Velthuis, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 Mapping the Genetic Interaction Network Of PARP-Inhibitor Response
Danny Simpson*, Jia Ling*, Yangwode Jing, Britt Adamson
 Investigating the Generation of Asymmetry in the Vertebrate Heart
Vanessa Gonzalez, Meagan Grant, Makoto Sakzuki, Adrienne Chang, Rebecca Burdine
 Imaging Cell Fate Choices
Alison G. Simpkins, Jodi Schottenfeld-Roames, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman
 Variable Mutation Rate Leads to Efficient B-Cell Affinity Maturation
Andrew G. T. Pyo, Ned S. Wingreen
 Regulatory Convergence in the EMX2 Locus Underlies the Independent Evolution of Mammalian Gliding Membranes
Jorge Moreno, Ricardo Mallarino
12:15 to 3:00 p.m.
Seaview Restaurant, Beach

Lunch and Free Time/Activities

  • Beach Volleyball
  • Horseshoes & Cornhole
  • Beach Yoga
3:00 to 4:15 p.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 1 & 2
Session 5 - Ricardo Mallarino, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 Defining the Interactome of a Membrane Tethering Complex
Halley Washburn, Frederick Hughson
 Visualizing Melanocyte Transit Across the Basement Membrane
Rebecca A. Jones, Danelle Devenport
 Understanding Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging - From Single-Nucleus Transcriptomics to Behaviors
Yifei Weng, Jonathan St. Ange, Morgan Stevenson, Rachel Kaletsky, Shiyi Zhou, Katherine Morillo, Coleen T. Murphy
 Characterizing the Mechanism of the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Host Range Restriction in Mice
Stephanie Maya, Peter Metzger, Mansi Totwani, Brigitte Heller, Yongzhen Liu, Abhishek Biswas, Keith A. Berggren, Sebastian Carver, Ileana M. Cristea, Alexander Ploss
 Programming Collective Cell Movement via Optogenetic RTK Stimulation
Richard Thornton, Kevin Suh, Daniel Cohen, Jared Toettcher
4:15 to 4:30 p.m.Break
4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 1 & 2
Session 6 - Eszter Posfai, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 Bacterial Adhesion in Flow: Divergent Roles for Transport and Microcolony Shape
Kelsey Hallinen, Zemer Gitai
 All the Buzz: Investigating the Effects of Repetitive Brain Trauma in Drosophila
Nicole Katchur, Jess Yeager, Lisa Schneper, Daniel Notterman
 ERK Signaling Regulates Nuclear Divisions in the Fly Embryo
Audrey Zhu, Liu Yang, Javed Aman, David Denberg, Alex Johnson, Eyan Yeung, Alexey Veraksa, Mona Singh, Martin Wühr, Stanislav Shvartsman
 Astrocytes Respond to Local Stimuli to Control Extracellular Matrix Deposition During Tissue Repair
Yu Sun, Jean Schwarzbauer
 Evolutionary Origins of Neural Crest Using the Sea Squirt Ciona intestinalis
Lauren Todorov, Laurence Lemaire, Michael Levine
 Molecular Insights into How the Protein HURP Facilitates Spindle Microtubule Formation
Venecia Valdez, Collin McManus, Bernardo Gouveia, Jodi Kraus, Sabine Petry
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 3, 4 & 5
Poster Session
7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 1 & 2
Dinner and Announcement of Prize Winners
9:00 to 11:00 p.m.
Atlantic Ballroom 1 & 2
Social with DJ'd Music

 

 

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Time and LocationActivity
8:00 to 10:00 a.m.Breakfast
By 11:00 a.m.Check-out
 Safe travel home

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