Research Retreat
| 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. – 11:35 a.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. 1st Place Winner of Dean’s Excellence Award for Postdocs, Department of Internal Medicine |
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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. 2nd Place Winner of Dean’s Excellence Award for Postdocs, 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. Third Place Winner Dean’s Excellence Award for Postdocs, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy |
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| 11:35 a.m. – 1:35 p.m. | Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Session and Lunch (Willerson Discovery Hall) | ||
| 1:35 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. | Keynote Address Introduction by Dean Barbara Stoll, M.D. Dean McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
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| 2:35 p.m. – 3:05 p.m. | Break and Speaker Reception | ||
| 3:05 p.m. – 4:25 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 “
Banhu Priya Ganesh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology |
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| 4:25 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Winners of Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Competition Announced |