2023 Duke Next Generation Leaders Symposium Agenda
Sponsored by the IDEALS Office and the Duke Cancer Institute
Location: Trent Semans Center for Health Education, The Great Hall
9-9:10am Opening Remarks Mary Klotman, MD, Dean of Duke University School of Medicine and
Johnna Frierson, PhD, Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the Basic Sciences
9:10-9:50am María Bravo Núñez, PhD Harvard University, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology
“The Role of Meiotic Factors in Ploidy Dynamics”
9:50-10:30am Chensu Liu, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology “Mechanosensation at the Nuclear Envelope in Oocyte Development”
10:30-10:50am Coffee Break
10:50-11:20am Jaye Gardiner, PhD Fox Chase Cancer Center
“Examining the Unconventional Role of Ang–Tie2 signaling in Pancreatic CAF/ECM Unit Function”
11:20-11:50am Luis Hernandez-Nunez, PhD, Harvard University, Dept. of Physics
“Functional Development of Motor and Sensory Cardiac Autonomic Circuits”
11:50-2:10pm Lunch break
2:10-2:50pm Shaneice Mitchell, PhD, Stanford University, Dept. of Pathology
“Utilizing Tractable Human Macrophage Models to Investigate Pathogenic Features of Clonal Hematopoiesis”
2:50-3:30pm Smriti Sangwan, PhD, University of California San Francisco, Dept. of Biochemistry/Biophysics
“Molecular Mechanisms of Translational Regulation”
3:30-4:10pm Adelita Mendoza, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, Dept. of Developmental Biology
"Lysosomes contain an expansion compartment that mediates zinc transporter delivery to promote zinc homeostasis in C. elegans"
4:10pm Closing Remarks
4:20-6:00 pm Reception on 6th floor of Trent Semans Center for Health Education
