Research Retreat
TO BE RESCHEDULED FOR A LATER DATE
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Registration | |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. | Welcome John Byrne, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Research, Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy |
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| 9:05 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. | Remarks from the Dean Barbara J. Stoll, M.D. H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professor in the Medical Sciences and Dean McGovern Medical School |
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| 9:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. | Breakthrough Discovery Symposium I Chaired by Theresa Koehler, Ph.D. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics |
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| “Insights into language from cortical recordings”
Nitin Tandon, M.D. Professor, Department of Neurosurgery |
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| “Genetic dissection of brain dysfunction in obesity development”
Qingchun Tong, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Disease |
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| “Age related dysbiosis and stroke outcome”
Louise McCullough, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Neurology |
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| 10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:50 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. | Keynote Address Introduction by Dean Barbara Stoll, M.D. Dean McGovern Medical School at UTHealthPaul Offit, M.D. Director of the Vaccine Education Center Professor of Pediatrics Division of Infectious Diseases Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania “Vaccine Wars” |
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| 11:50 a.m. – 12:35 p.m | Postdoctoral Symposium Chaired by Consuelo Walss-Bass, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
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| “A novel role for smooth muscle α-actin in the nucleus of smooth muscle cells”
Callie Kwartler, Ph.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics |
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| “Bacterial outer membrane vesicles provide an alternative pathway for trafficking of type III-secreted effectors into epithelial cells”
Natalie Sirisaengtaksin, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
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| “Inhibiting sphingosine kinase 2 mutant-Huntingtin-induced neurodegeneration in neuron models of Huntington disease”
Jose Felix Moruno-Manchon, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy |
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| 12:35 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. | Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Session and Lunch (Willerson Discovery Hall) | |
| 2:35 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. | Breakthrough Discovery Symposium II Chaired by Mandy Hill, DrPH, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine |
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| “Electrocardiographic QT interval: From GWAS to molecular mechanisms”
Ashish Kapoor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Human Genetics |
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| “The noncoding regulome in human health and disease”
Wenbo Li, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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| “Gut-brain axis in relation to amyloid-β aggregation”
Bhanu Priya Ganesh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology |
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| 3:55 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Winners of Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Competition Announced | |