Research Retreat
| 8:45 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 John Hancock, MA, MB, BChir, PhD, ScD Executive Dean, McGovern Medical School |
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| 9:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. | Breakthrough Discovery Symposium I Chaired by Sonia Robazetti, M.D., CCRC, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences |
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| “C-STEP: Stepping up the training of future clinician-scientists”
Lillian Kao, M.D., M.S., Professor, Division Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Jack H. Mayfield Chair, Department of Surgery |
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| “Deciphering the signaling mechanisms of cancer cachexia”
Yi-Ping Li, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology |
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| “Prions and amyloids: Common features and newly identified properties“
Rodrigo Morales, Ph.D., Associate Professor, 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/Ernst Knobil Distinguished Lecture Introduction by: Mikhail Kolonin, Ph.D. , IMM, Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases
Philipp Scherer, Ph.D. |
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| 11:50 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. | Postdoctoral Symposium Chaired by Gabriel Fries, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
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| “Meaning in the brain: Using intracranial recordings to map the neural basis of language”
Elliot Murphy, Ph.D., The Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery |
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| “Development of novel antifungals against Candida based on an antifungal peptide produced by E. faecalis”
Shantanu Guhu, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics |
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| “Genetic and pharmacological dissection of the ROR receptors in circadian physiology”
Eunju Kim, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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| 12:35 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. | Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Session and Lunch | |
| 2:35 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. | Breakthrough Discovery Symposium II Chaired by Kristin Eckel-Mahan, Ph.D., Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine |
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| “Possibilities for patient-derived iPSCs in cancer modeling and targeted therapies”
Dung-Fang Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology |
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| “Regeneration of a functional intestine for children with intestinal failure”
Allison Speer, M.D., FACS, FAAP, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Director, STAR |
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| “HIF-dependent induction of alveolar miR-147 dampens SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion”
Xiaoyi Yuan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology |
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| 3:55 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Winners of the Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Competition Announced | |
