Research Retreat
PRE-REGISTRATION NOT REQUIRED. PARTICIPANTS CAN REGISTER THE DAY OF THE EVENT VIA WEBEX : https://go.uth.edu/VirtualResearchRetreat
| 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. Interim Dean of Research, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Dean, MDACC UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer University of Texas Health Science Center Houston |
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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., Professor, Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Disease |
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| “Double-stranded DNA breaks and genomic reorganization in the pathogenesis and treatment of heart failure”
Ali J. Marian, M.D., Professor and Director, Center for Cardiovascular Genetic Research |
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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: Cesar Arias, M.D. MSc., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases Director, Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics (CARMiG), McGovern Medical School Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at the School of Public Health, UTHealth Margaret and Herbert Dupont Chair in Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, UTHealth Paul Offit, M.D. |
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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., MDACC UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences |
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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 Neurology |
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| 12:35 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. | Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Session https://go.uth.edu/VirtualResearchRetreat
Semi-Finalist, Fellows and Medical School Student Poster Review https://med.uth.edu/researchaffairs/additional-posters-visit-breakout-sessions-from-1235-p-m-235-p-m/Graduate Student Education Committee Poster Session |
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| 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 | |