Research Retreat
| 7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Registration | |
| 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Graduate Student Education Committee Research Poster Competition, Session I and Breakfast (Willerson Discovery Hall) | |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. | Welcome John Byrne, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research, Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, UTHealth Medical School |
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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. – 10:40 a.m. | Breakthrough Discovery Symposium I Chaired by Fabio Triolo, D.d.R., M.Phil., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Program in Regenerative Medicine, Director, cGMP Facilities |
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| “Inter-kingdom microbial interactions and new ideas for anti-infective development”
Danielle Garsin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics |
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| “Circadian mechanism and intervention against metabolic disease and aging”
Jake Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
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| “Ras and the plasma membrane: A complicated relationship“
John Hancock, MA, MB, BChir, Ph.D., ScD, MRCP (UK), FRACP., Professor, Chair, Vice Dean for Basic Research, Executive Director Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine |
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| 10:40 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. | Break |
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| 10:55 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. | Postdoctoral Symposium Chaired by John O’Brien, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences |
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| “Cancer and the heart – Oncometabolic dysregulation of cardiac metabolism”
Anja Karlstaedt, M.D., Ph.D., 1st Place Winner of Dean’s Excellence Award for Postdocs, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology |
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| “AMPA receptor modulation by auxiliary proteins”
Sana Shaikh, Ph.D., 2nd Place Winner of Dean’s Excellence Award for Postdocs, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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| “Heterogeneity of translational errors in single bacterial cells”
Yongqiang Fan, Ph.D., 3rd Place Winner of Dean’s Excellence Award for Postdocs, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine |
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| 11:35 a.m. – 1:35 p.m. | Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Session II and Lunch (Willerson Discovery Hall) | |
| 1:35 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. | Keynote Address Introduction by Naoki Nakayama, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Hiromitsu Nakauchi, M.D, Ph.D., |
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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 Ba-Bie Teng, Ph.D., FAHA, Professor, Center for Human Genetics |
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| . | “Dissecting novel genetic elements in cancer from The Cancer Genome Atlas”
Leng Han, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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| “Orchestrating oncogenesis: Ras and inflammation promote intratumoral cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer”
Jennifer Bailey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology |
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| “Neural mechanisms balancing fear and reward-seeking responses”
Fabricio Do Monte, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy |
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| 4:25 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Winners of GSEC Poster Competition Announced |