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 Michael Blackburn, Ph.D. Executive Vice President & Chief Academic Officer, UTHealth Houston and Dean of Research, ad interim, McGovern Medical School, and Dean, MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences |
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| 9:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. | Breakthrough Discovery Symposium I Chaired by Rodrigo Morales, Ph.D., Department of Neurology |
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| “Breaking barriers in central nervous system drug delivery”
Rachel Sirianni, PhD., Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery |
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| “Fungi of the human gut microbiota: Roles and significance”
Christian Perez, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics |
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| “Complement system, stress and neurobehavior“
Anilkumar Pillai, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
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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: Holger Eltzschig, M.D., Ph.D., Chair Department of Anesthesiology
Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| 11:50 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. | Postdoctoral Symposium Chaired by Funlola Are, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
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| “Gut metabolites: How the microbiota regulate host immunity and behavior in aging and after stroke”
Juneyoung Lee, Ph.D., Department of Neurology |
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| “Antibody immunotherapy of infection and cancer”
Zhiqiang Ku, Ph.D., IMM Texas Therapeutics Institute |
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| “A distinct population of heterogeneously color tuned neurons in macaque visual cortex”
Sunny Nigam, 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 | |
| 2:35 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. | Breakthrough Discovery Symposium II Chaired by Holly Holmes, M.D., MS, AGSF., Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine |
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| “Periviable birth: The enormous challenge of medicine’s smallest patients”
Matthew Rysavy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology |
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| “A high-resolution window on the regulation of gene transcription”
Kuang-Lei Tsai, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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| “To beat or not to beat: Regulation of the cardiac conduction system”
Jun Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pediatrics Research Center |
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| 3:55 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Winners of Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Competition Announced | |
