Speakers

Keynote Address (read more…)
		Philipp Scherer, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Touchstone Diabetes Center UT Southwestern Medical Center “The adipocyte: Power of the underdog in metabolism”

Breakthrough Discovery Symposium I (read more…)
		Lillian Kao, M.D. Professor Division Director, Acute Care Surgery Department of Surgery “C-STEP: Stepping up the training of future clinician-scientists”
		Yi-Ping Li, Ph.D. Professor Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology “Deciphering the signaling mechanisms of cancer cachexia”
		Rodrigo Morales, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Neurology “Prions and amyloids: Common features and newly identified properties”

Postdoctoral Presentations (read more…)
		Elliot Murphy, Ph.D. The Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery “Meaning in the brain: Using intracranial recordings to map the neural basis of language”
		Shantanu Guhu, Ph.D. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics “Development of novel antifungals against Candida based on an antifungal peptide produced by E. faecalis“
		Eunju Kim, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology “Genetic and pharmacological dissection of the ROR receptors in circadian physiology”

Breakthrough Discovery Symposium II (read more…)
		Dung-Fang Lee, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology “Possibilities for patient-derived iPSCs in cancer modeling and targeted therapies“
		Allison Speer, M.D., FACS, FAAP Assistant Professor Department of Pediatric Surgery “Regeneration of a functional intestine for children with intestinal failure”
		Xiaoyi Yuan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology “HIF-dependent induction of alveolar miR-147 dampens SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion“