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Friday, September 27, 2024

Time and LocationActivity (italicized name is presenter)
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Frick Atrium
Retreat Registration (no luncheon)
1:00 to 1:45 p.m.
Taylor Auditorium
Opening Remarks and Introduction of First-Year Graduate Students and Scholars
1:45 to 2:45 p.m.
Taylor Auditorium
Session 1 - Michelle Chan, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 Quantitative Live Imaging Reveals Stochastic and Systematic Components of Epiblast and Primitive Endoderm Segregation in the Preimplantation Mouse Embryo
Rebecca Kim-Yip, David Denberg, Denis Faerberg, Hayden Scott Nunley, Lisa Brown, Madeleine Chalifoux, Bradley Joyce, Jared Toettcher, Bin Gu, Eszter Posfai
 Eosinophils Promote Long-Term Intestinal Remodeling and Host Defense Upon Reproduction
Chenyan Huang, Jojo Reyes, Amanda Sun, Yujie Qiao, Yuri Pritykin, Ai Ing Lim
 Dissecting a Cytoplasmic Protein’s Contribution Towards Establishment of Planar Cell Polarity 
Parijat Sil, Debra Ouyang, Katherine Little, Danelle Devenport
 Exploring Non-Canonical Viral RNAs Through Cas13
Caitlin Lamb, Emmanuelle Pitré, Sean Ajufo, Charlotte Rigby, Karishma Bisht, Michael Oade, Benjamin Nilsson-Payant, Hamid Jalal, Cameron Myhrvold, AJ te Velthuis
2:45 to 3:00 p.m.Break
3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Taylor Auditorium
Session 2 - Ai Ing Lim, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 A Prime Editing-Based Platform Enables High-Throughput Screening of DNA Mismatch Repair Inhibitors
Yangwode (Wode) Jing, Jun Yan, Yanjin Chen, Yuri Pritykin, Brittany Adamson
 Quorum Sensing and Surface Association Modulate φVP882 Lysis-Lysogeny Transitions     
Francis J. Santoriello, Bonnie L. Bassler
 Tracking Differentiation Pathways in Mammalian Early Development Using High-Throughput Lineage Tracing
Anqi Zhao, Benjamin K. Law, Pengfei Zhang, Adriano Bolondi, JoAnne Villagrana, Maximillian J. Carlino, Jason Hou, Zachary D. Smith, and Michelle M. Chan
 Discrete Motifs in the Nanos 3'UTR Regulate RNA Accumulation in Drosophila Germ Granules
Kira Mitchel, Anita Donlic, Elizabeth Gavis
4:00 to 4:15 p.m.Break
4:15 to 5:30 p.m.
Taylor Auditorium
Session 3 - Brittany Adamson, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 Enhancer Sharing and Ancestral Gene Cluster Duplication Shape Marsupial Immune Defense
Jongbeom Park, Wenfan Ke, Aellah Kaage, Charles Y. Feigin, Yuri Pritykin, Mohamed S. Donia, Ricardo Mallarino
 Efficient Genome Engineering with Chimeric Oligonucleotide-Directed Editing
Long T. Nguyen, Noah R. Rakestraw, Brianna L.M. Pizzano, Cullen B. Young, Yujia Huang, Kate T. Beerensson, Anne Fang, Sydney G. Antal, Katerina V. Anamisis, Coleen M.D. Peggs, Jun Yan, Yangwode Jing, Rebecca D. Burdine, Britt Adamson, Jared E. Toettcher, Piyush K. Jain, Cameron Myhrvold
 Advances in Cryo-EM Heterogeneity Analysis
Ryan Feathers, Ellen Zhong, Frederick Hughson
 Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Organelle Fission in Malaria Parasites
Abdur Rahman, Amanda A. Riccio, MacKenzie Cassity, John Jimah
 From Regeneration to Aging: Understanding Niche-Specific Macrophage Dynamics in 4D
Kai Mesa
5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Frick Atrium
Poster Session 1 - Last names beginning A-L and Scholars
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Frick Atrium
Dinner and Trivia Contest

 

 

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Time and LocationActivity (italicized name is presenter)
9:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Frick Atrium
Breakfast
9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Taylor Auditorium
Session 4 - John Jimah, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 The Impact of Dietary Protein Digestibility on Gut Microbiome Metabolism
Jenna A. AbuSalim, Mike M. MacArthur, Salma Youssef, Mahta Moussavi, Meera Gupta, Craig J. Hunter, Lori Y Matlock, Javad Barouei, Mohammed S. Donia, Joshua D. Rabinowitz
 The Unappreciated Metabolic Roles of IL-17 Family Members 
Brenneth Stevens, Aaron Douglas, Lydia Lynch
 The Role of Protein Turnover in Embryogenesis
Edward Cruz, Alex Titleist Johnson, Felix Keber, Michael Neinast, Argit Marishta, Aleigha Reynolds, Joshua Rabinowitz, Eric Wieschaus, Martin Wühr
 Host MTDH Orchestrates Liver Lipid Metabolism and CD8+ T Cells Function to Suppress Antitumor Immunity
Yong Tang, Yong Wei, Hirak Sarkar, Asael Roichman, Ziqing Chen, Cao Fang, Zihong Chen, Ji Woo Park, Ileana M. Cristea, Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Yibin Kang
10:30 to 10:45 a.m.Break
10:45 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.
Taylor Auditorium
Session 5 - AJ te Velthuis, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 A Novel Small RNA-C. elegans Target Identifies a Neuronal VAB-1/MACO-1/DAF-7 Axis Regulating Bacterial Small RNA-Mediated Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance of Pathogen Avoidance 
Renee J. Seto, Rachel Brown, Rachel Kaletsky, Lance R. Parsons, Rebecca S. Moore, Julia M. Balch, Zemer Gitai, Coleen T. Murphy
 Last But Not Least: Roles for XMAP215's C-Terminal TOG Domains in γ-TuRC Mediated Microtubule Nucleation
Collin T. McManus, Sophie M. Travis, Philip D. Jeffrey, Rui Zhang, Sabine Petry
 Temporal Requirement for Hedgehog Signaling in Asymmetric Gene Expression
Cullen B. Young, Billie Reneker, Vanessa Gonzalez, Rebecca D. Burdine
 From Telomeres to Transposons: The Structural Mechanisms of Retrotransposition
George Ghanim
11:45 to 1:00 p.m.
Frick Atrium
Lunch
1:00 to 2:15 p.m.
Taylor Auditorium
Session 6 - Ricardo Mallarino, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 The Molecular Basis for the Attenuation of the Yellow Fever 17D Vaccine
Jiayu Zhang, Elizabeth Chavez, Melina Winkler, Jianche Liu, Sebastian Carver, Aaron E. Lin, Abhishek Biswas, Tomokazu Tamura, Anna Tseng, Aaron Benhamou, Danyang Wang, Brittany Adamson, Ralph E. Kleiner, Benjamin Burwitz, Nicholas A. Crossland, Florian Douam, Alexander Ploss
 A Meta-Analysis of the Gut Microbiome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Identifies Disease-Associated Small Molecules
Moamen M. Elmassry, Kohei Sugihara, Pranatchareeya Chankhamjon, Yeji Kim, Francine R. Camacho, Shuo Wang, Yuki Sugimoto, Seema Chatterjee, Lea Ann Chen, Nobuhiko Kamada, Mohamed S. Donia
 Kinase KEY1 Controls Number, Size, and Phase Transitions of Pyrenoid Condensates
Shan He*, Linnea Lemma*, Alejandro Martinez-Calvo, Guanhua He, Jessica H. Hennacy, Lianyong Wang, Sabrina Ergun, Colton Wang, Luke Bunday, Angelo Kayser-Browne, Quang Wang, Clifford P. Brangwynne, Martin C. Jonikas, Ned S. Wingreen
 Capturing De Novo Protein-Protein Interaction Dynamics During Viral Infections
Tavis Reed, Peter Metzger, Matthew Tyl, Laura Haubold, Alicja Tadych, Olga Troyanskaya, Ileana Cristea
 Introducing the Auxodrome
Denis F. Faerberg, Changyuan Wang, Robert A. Marmion Jr., Stanislav Y. Shvartsman 
2:15 to 2:30 p.m.Break
2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Taylor Auditorium
Session 7 - Cameron Myhrvold, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 Social Isolation and Sex Differences: Insights from Transcriptomic and Behavioral Analyses in Drosophila melanogaster
Elisabeth Tawa, Lisa Schneper, Katherine Cho, Eve Schoeffler, Daniel Notterman
 Capturing Chromosome Interactions with DNase-Hypersensitive-C (DHS-C)
Wenfan Ke, Yuri Pritykin, Paul Schedl
 Design and Optimization of a Kinase-Controlled Allosteric Switch
Qinhao Cao, Jared E. Toettcher
 Circadian Clock Regulation of Antiviral Immunity
Temitope Oshinowo, Hunter Dalton, Robert Maples, Mikal Woods Acevedo, Julie Pfeiffer, John Brooks 
3:30 to 3:45 p.m.Break
3:45 to 4:45 p.m.
Taylor Auditorium
Session 8 - John Brooks, chair
(Talks are 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for Q&A)
 Enhancing Photosynthesis by Engineering an Algal CO₂-Fixing Organelle
Ashwani K. Rai, Yana Kazachkova, Micah Burton, Aastha Garde, Rory Craig, Sean Gallaher, Marco Duenas, Dimitrios Camacho, Martin C. Jonikas
 Chromosome-Level Organization of the Regulatory Genome in the Drosophila Brain
Xiao Li, Michael Levine
 Dual M3-Seq: A Novel Method for Investigating Intracellular Bacterial Infections
Jiayi Yuan, Bruce Wang, Zemer Gitai
 Alterations in Tenascin-C Alternative Splicing and Extracellular Matrix Incorporation in a Model of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis 
Aaron Hamlin, Yu Sun, Jean Schwarzbauer
4:45 to 5:15 p.m.
Taylor Auditorium
Awards Presentation
5:15 to 6:30 p.m.
Frick Atrium
Poster Session 2 - Last names beginning M-Z
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Frick Atrium
Dinner and Announcement of Poster and Talk Prize Winners
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Frick Atrium & Back Deck
Social

 

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