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  • Monday – FUSION: Gabby Bais & Sherry Hsu

    FUSION Seminar Series
    G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

    Gabby Bais (Giudice lab) FXR1 may regulate the translation of many cardiomyocyte-specific proteins Expression of muscle-specific splice isoforms of FXR1 may impact the contractility of the adult heart     Sherry Hsu (Cohen lab) Tubulin acetylation and polyglutamylation increase early in neuronal differentiation, exhibit distinct distributions, and are important for maintaining neuronal morphology Tubulin acetylation … Read more

  • Monday – FUSION: Henry Uchenna, Meghan Anderman, & Ashlyn Laidman

    FUSION Seminar Series
    G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

    Henry Uchenna (Maddox lab) Capping Protein depletion accelerates furrowing and cytokinesis, likely due to increased F-actin in the contractile ring It also disrupts spindle dynamics, potentially through effects on the dynein-dynactin complex     Meghan Anderman (McCauley lab) Using human intestinal organoids to model gastrointestinal (GI) pathophysiology in cystic fibrosis Assessing the general role of … Read more

  • Monday – FUSION: Leo Bondel, Katie Holmes, & Jake Roetcisoender

    FUSION Seminar Series
    G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

    Leo Bondel (Zylka lab) Our goal is to identify guide RNAs targeting the UBE3A-ATS in human neurons, which allow for installation of a Poly(A) signal with cytosine base editors These edits have the potential to restore UBE3A expression, making this an attractive therapeutic strategy for Angelman Syndrome     Katie Holmes (Baldwin lab) White matter astrocytes maintain … Read more

  • Spring 2025 Seminar Series – Cocoa T. Dixon, PhD

    G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

    Cocoa T. Dixon, PhD Associate Department Head, Life Sciences Wake Technical Community College Talk focus Beyond the lecture hall: shaping a career in community college teaching Faculty host Natasha Snider, PhD   More about the speaker  Dr. Dixon is a passionate and innovative educator deeply committed to promoting and enhancing student success in higher education. … Read more

  • Spring 2025 Seminar Series – Sergiu Pasca, MD

    Invited speaker seminar series
    G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

    Sergiu Pasca, MD Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Research focus Understanding human brain assembly and the molecular mechanisms that lead to neuropsychiatric disease using neural organoids Faculty host Grégory Scherrer, PharmD, PhD   More about the speaker  Trained as a physician in Romania, Dr. Sergiu Pasca, came for postdoctoral … Read more

  • Monday – FUSION: Jack Bennett, Lauren Griffith, & Shenice Harrison

    FUSION Seminar Series
    G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

    Jack Bennett (Cook lab) Intracellular pH can be manipulated by inhibiting ion transporters, and these changes can be measured by flow cytometry pH manipulations may alter cell cycle progression, arresting cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle     Lauren Griffith (Williams lab) Explore how integrin-β1 and its adaptor protein Talin loss-of function … Read more

  • Monday – FUSION: Michelle LaBella & Mady Chlebowski

    FUSION Seminar Series
    G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

    Michelle LaBella (Yeh lab) TNIK is required to restrain tumor invasion in PDAC Clear difference in mechanism when compared to colorectal/lung cancer TNIK is a newly identified regulator of PLAT, tPA expression and ECM modulation through fibrin degradation New mechanism for PDAC invasion and metastasis, may be what restrains classical tumors     Mady Chlebowski … Read more

  • Monday: FUSION – Anna Beeson & Vickie Williams

    G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

    Anna Beeson (Caron lab) Adrenomedullin robustly increases both mouse fertility and pinopode formation Alternative model systems are allowing us to interrogate pinopode formation in novel ways     Vickie Williams (Cohen lab) Dimerization fluorescent proteins are a useful tool that can show increased ER-LD contacts under conditions of lipid droplet biogenesis Dimerization-dependent fluorescent proteins can … Read more

  • Rising Stars Program Seminar – Kendall Lough, PhD

    Virtual Event

    Kendall Lough, PhD CGIBD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Talk title Exciting contact: gut-brain circuits in early physiology and behavior   This seminar will be held virtually over Zoom. Link below https://zoom.us/j/95576307638?pwd=g5UvTCuaaaoFpfmMimAM3F4Jq4ZAWz.1 About the speaker  Dr. Kendall Lough is a CGIBD Basic Science Fellow with … Read more

  • Spring 2025 Seminar Series – I. Robert Nabi, PhD

    G202 MBRB 111 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill

    I. Robert Nabi, PhD Professor Cellular & Physiological Sciences The University of British Columbia   Talk Title Nanoscopy powered by machine learning: novel insight into subcellular structure   About the speaker  Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi earned his PhD in cancer metastasis from the Weizman Institute of Science. He is currently a professor in cellular and physiological … Read more