Research Retreat
Research Retreat Agenda
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration |
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am Welcome John Byrne, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research |
| 9:05 am - 9:15 am Remarks John Hancock, MA, MB,BChir, Ph.D., ScD, Executive Dean, McGovern Medical School |
| 9:15 am - 10:35 am Breakthrough Discovery Symposium I |
| Wen Li, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Sensory Systems Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Fear in the sensory cortex: Its role in fear and anxiety disorders |
| Jeff Temple, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Clinical Research, School of Behavioral Health Sciences at UTHealth Houston, Betty and Rose Pfefferbaum Chair in Child Mass Trauma and Resilience, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Violence is preventable: Using research to create safer relationships, schools, and communities |
| Pamela Wenzel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology Mechanometabolism in cell fate determination |
| 10:35 am - 10:50 am Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:50 am Ernst Knobil Distinguished Lecture and Keynote Address: Introduction by: Vasanthi Jayaraman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D. 2022 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Baker Family Director of Stanford Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Radiology Therapeutic opportunities in glycoscience |
| 11:50 am - 12:35 pm Postdoctoral Symposium |
| Guillermo Aquino-Miranda, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy Corticothalamic circuits regulating reward-approach and threat avoidance behavior in rats |
| Elham Rategari, Ph.D., Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology The role of transcription factor Pdp1 in regulating mitochondrial homeostasis |
| Victor Banerjee, Ph.D., Department of Neurology Insights into Zoonotic risks: Structural analysis of infectious chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions |
| 12:35 pm - 2:35 pm Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Session and Lunch |
| 2:35 pm - 3:55 pm Breakthrough Discovery Symposium II |
| Alexis Bavencoffe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology Targeting the MIF signaling to alleviate chronic pain after spinal cord injury |
| Juneyoung Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology The gut microbiome and host metabolism in social isolation |
| Diana Proctor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Candida auris and the full ESKAPE: The skin as a reservoir for antibiotic resistance and transmission |
| 3:55 pm - 4:15 pm Presentation of Awards for the Poster Competition Sponsored by the Graduate Student Education Committee |