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Assembly of Human Anatomy in Cancer: From Cells to Niches, Anatomical Structures, Organs and Beyond
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024 - 9:00am
Junbum Kim
Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Iman Hajirasouliha
Major Sponsor: Dr. Olivier Elemento
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Ashley Laughney and Dr. Robert Schwartz
From the Perception of Features to Representation of Objects
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024 - 10:30am
Suniyya A. Waraich
Neuroscience
Chairperson: Dr. Keith Purpura
Major Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Victor
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Amy Kuceyeski and Dr. Conor Liston
Modeling Glioma-Associated Macrophages Using Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Microglia
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024 - 3:00pm
Kelsey L. Hopland
Neuroscience
Chairperson: Dr. Li Gan
Major Sponsor: Dr. Viviane Tabar
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Josef Anrather and Dr. Lorenz Studer
Development and Mechanism of Autophagy Modulators for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 12:00pm
Jessica R. Falci
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Lonny Levin
Major Sponsor: Dr. Yueming Li
Minor Sponsors: Dr. John Blenis and Dr. Xuejun Jiang
Additional Member: Dr. David Scheinberg (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Decoding the Molecular Determinants for Target Selectivity and Cargo Traffic in the Functional Mechanism of the Cellular Sterol Transporter Stard4 with Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Machine Learning-Based Analysis
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 2:00pm
Hengyi Xie
Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Alessio Accardi
Major Sponsor: Dr. Harel Weinstein
Minor Sponsors: Dr. George Khelashvili and Dr. Frederick Maxfield
Engineered Il-18 Secretion and Multi-Antigen Targeting Enable Car T cells to Eliminate Multiple Myeloma With Low Antigen Expression in an Immunocompetent Mouse Model
Date: Friday, April 26, 2024 - 10:00am
Brandon D. Ng
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Monica Guzman
Major Sponsor: Dr. Marcel van den Brink
Minor Sponsors: Dr. David Scheinberg and Dr. Joseph Sun
Additional Member: Dr. Renier Brentjens (Roswell Park)
High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Single-Molecule Biophysics and Structural Biology
Date: Friday, April 26, 2024 - 3:00pm
Yining Jiang
Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Crina Nimigean
Major Sponsor: Dr. Simon Scheuring
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Olga Boudker and Dr. George Khelashvilli
Additional Member: Dr. Jeremy Dittman (Weill Cornell Medicine)
CD8 T cell Somatic Mutations Involved in the Progression of Human Autoimmune Myositis
Date: Monday, April 29, 2024 - 11:00am
Lorien Shakib
Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Carl Blobel
Major Sponsor: Dr. Laura Donlin
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Morgan Huse and Dr. Dan Landau
Epigenetic and Transcriptional Regulation of Anxiety Following Early Life Adversity
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 3:00pm
Anika Nabila
Neuroscience
Chairperson: Dr. Anjali Rajadhyaksha
Major Sponsor: Dr. Miklos Toth
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Christine Mayr and Hagen Tilgner
Type I Interferon Exacerbates Mycobacterium tuberculosis Induced Monocyte-Derived Macrophage Cell Death
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 1:00pm
Angela Lee
Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Chairperson: Dr. Sabine Ehrt
Major Sponsor: Dr. Carl Nathan
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Lionel Ivashkiv and Dr. Justin Perry