2022 DNGL Symposium Agenda
Trent Semans Center
9-9:10– Opening Remarks (Dr. Mary Klotman, Dean of Duke School of Medicine)
9:10-10:00– Dr. Frankie Heyward, Harvard
“Hunger state-dependent transcriptional regulation in AgRP neurons”
10:00-10:50– Dr. Aileen Fernandez, Yale
“Employing spatially-conserved gene expression for improved selection of patients for immunotherapies”
10:50-11:10– coffee break
11:10-12:00– Dr. Cassandra Hayne, NIEHS
“Biochemical breakthroughs in human tRNA splicing”
12:00-12:50– Dr. Khoa Tran, University of Pennsylvania
“Spatial Regulation of Chromatin Associated Proteins during Cellular Senescence”
12:50-2:30– lunch break
2:30-3:20– Dr. Krishna Mudumbi, Yale
“Understanding EGFR interactions in live cells using single-molecule microscopy”
3:20-4:10– Dr. Erica Washington, Duke
“Using cryo-electron microscopy to investigate the trehalose biosynthesis pathway in Cryptococcus neoformans”
4:10– concluding remarks
