Amber Gomez (Milner and Baldwin labs) Understanding the molecular regulators of CD8 T cell exhaustion Kayla Mason (Conlon lab) Ddx3x is required in female cardiomyocytes of mice for cardiac development Identifying DDX3X translationally dependent cardiomyocyte specific mRNA targets underlying sex differential congenital heart disease
Garrett Sessions (Purvis & Diekman labs) Aggregate analysis of cellular senescence fails to identify the effect of key subpopulations Senescence induction is heterogeneous over time, making time point selection critical for designing future experiments Anca Frasineanu (Gupton lab) TRIM9 deletion decreases mitochondrial translation and increases nuclear speckle proteins in the PSD proteome of 6-month-old … Read more
Jocelyn Alvarado (Campbell lab) Characterizing the effect of increasing levels of metavinculin on force transmission in MEFs at the general cellular level and at local focal adhesions Max Hockenberry (Bear and Legant labs) Developing a method to quantitatively measure the traction forces produced by cells migrating in any arbitrary 3D geometry Applying this methodology … Read more
Kristy Welshhans, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences University of South Carolina Research focus Axonal protein synthesis in neurodevelopment and Down syndrome Faculty host Stephanie Gupton, PhD More information on speaker Kristy Welshhans received her Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Agnes Scott College and her PhD in neurobiology and behavior from … Read more
Francisco Laurindo, MD, PhD Professor, Heart Institute (Incor) & Director, Vascular Biology Laboratory University of São Paulo President, Society for Redox Biology and Medicine Research focus An endoplasmic reticulum-centered model for redox-dependent intercellular communication Faculty hosts Edward Bahnson, PhD and Sharon Campbell, PhD More information on speaker Francisco Laurindo is pioneer in redox signaling … Read more
Samir Parikh, MD Ruth W. and Milton P. Levy, Sr. Chair in Molecular Nephrology Robert Tucker Hayes Distinguished Chair in Nephrology Professor & Chief of the Division of Nephrology, Dept. of Internal Medicine University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Research focus Turning back kidney frailty by targeting metabolism Faculty host Lori O'Brien, PhD More … Read more
Danielle Schmitt PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles Research focus Illuminating compartmentalized metabolic regulation in single cells Faculty host Whitney Edwards, PhD More information on speaker Danielle Schmitt obtained her Bachelor of Science in chemistry and biochemistry from Ball State University, where she was a Lewis Stokes … Read more
Matt Zimmerman (Miller lab) FRb inhibits macrophage survival and suppresses anti-tumor functions in vitro FRb ablation decreases tumor growth in preliminary experiments Nicole Hondrogiannis (Deshmukh lab) Neurons are long-lived post mitotic cells Exploring if the apoptotic pathway in neurons becomes activated in response to sublethal DNA damage
Juliet King (Williams lab) Alex Powers (Cohen lab)
Ian McCabe (Yeh lab) Identifying two clinically relevant populations of CAFs in PDAC: tumor promoting (proCAF) and tumor restrictive (restCAF) These CAF subtypes are distributed spatially and may play distinct functional roles Mark Hazelbaker (Bear lab) The Arp2/3 complex is required for the turnover of clathrin plaques ACK regulates the recruitment of the Arp2/3 complex … Read more