February 26, 2019
Great Hall, Trent Semans Center
10am - 4pm
Learn more about shared resources and their contributions to groundbreaking research, hear about new shared resources and capabilities, and browse posters and meet with shared resource staff.
Agenda
| 9:15am | Registration opens, morning snacks served |
| 10:00-10:05am | Opening remarks - Colin Duckett, PhD Vice Dean for Basic Science, School of Medicine |
| 10:05-10:25am | Close Encounters with Lysosomes of the Large Kind Michel Bagnat, PhD |
| 10:25-10:45am | A Bacterium with a Sweet Tooth: Mucin Utilization by the Beneficial Gut Microbe Akkermansia muciniphila Raphael Valdivia, PhD |
| 10:45-11:00am | New core highlight: Cellular Metabolism Analysis Shared Resource Nancie MacIver, MD, PhD |
| 11:00-11:20am | Regulation of Cell Polarity Daniel Lew, PhD |
| 11:20-11:40am | Application of Single-Cell RNA-Seq to Unravel the Significance of Microglial Niches Daniel Saban, PhD |
| 11:40-11:55am | Getting at the Core: The Integral Role of Shared Resources in Promoting Integrity Geeta Swamy, MD |
| 11:55am-1:10pm | Lunch provided, poster browsing |
| 1:15-1:35pm | The 1000 Patient Project: High Dimensional Integration of Patients, Researchers, and Data Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH |
| 1:35-1:55pm | Breadth of Antibody Binding to Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein Antigens Georgia Tomaras, PhD and Richard H.C. Huntwork |
| 1:55-2:10pm | New core highlight: Microbiome Shared Resource Holly Dressman, PhD |
| 2:10-2:40pm | Afternoon break, poster browsing |
| 2:45-3:05pm | Evaluation of Zika Virus Pathogenesis in Pregnant Rabbits Herman Staats, PhD |
| 3:05-3:25pm | Microstructural MRI in the Human Brain: Technologies and Applications Allen Song, PhD |
| 3:25-3:55pm | Keynote Talk - Genome and Epigenome Editing for Gene Therapy, Cell Programming, and Functional Genomics Charles Gersbach, PhD |
| 3:55-4:00pm | Closing remarks - Colin Duckett, PhD Vice Dean for Basic Science, School of Medicine |