Speakers

Keynote Address (read more…)
Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Brigham Young University
Social connection and health: Past, present, and future
Breakthrough Discovery Symposium I (read more…)
Askar Akimzhanov, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dynamic protein S-acylation in T cell signaling 
Tatiana Barichello, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Impact of infection and inflammation on neuropsychiatric disorders
Rachel Miller, Ph.D.
Department of Pediatrics
Insights into kidney development and congenital anomalies: “Ribbeting” perspectives from the frog model

 Postdoctoral Presentations (read more…)
Abhijnan Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Medical Genetics
A novel pathway drives atherosclerosis by augmenting phenotypic modulation of smooth muscle cells in the absence of traditional risk factors
Kyrylo Pyrshev, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Life under pressure: regulation of Piezo1 activity in renal collecting duct
Sarah Surrain, Ph.D.
Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Learning Institute
Identifying caregiver behaviors that promote optimal outcomes for emergent bilinguals with language difficulties
Breakthrough Discovery Symposium II (read more…)
Matthew DeBerge, Ph.D.
Department of Anesthesiology
Inflammatory links between cardiovascular disease and neurodegeneration  
Junchen Liu, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
KRAS spatiotemporal dynamics: Sphingolipid as a novel therapeutic target
Zhenfu Wen, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Neural representation of threat and safety in the human brain
Xiaotian Zhang, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Transcription hijacking in acute myeloid leukemia – The interplay of biological condensate and developmental genes