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SUMO Modification of Human DNA Topoisomerase I by PIAS E3 Ligases
Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 2:00pm
Michael A. Fishman
Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Chairperson: Dr. David Eliezer
Major Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Lima
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Melinda Diver and Dr. John Petrini
Regulation of the Full-Length Soluble Adenylyl Cyclase Isoform
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 10:30am
Jacob J. Ferreira
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Pengbo Zhou
Major Sponsors: Dr. Lonny Levin and Dr. Jochen Buck
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Yueming Li and Dr. Minkui Luo
Intestinal Candida Albicans Colonization Stress Drives Compulsive Responses via Immune Regulation
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 1:00pm
Woan-Yu Lin
Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Chairperson: Dr. Francis Lee
Major Sponsor: Dr. Iliyan Iliev
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Sabine Ehrt and Dr. Anjali Rajadhyaksha
Additional Member: Dr. Daniel Mucida (The Rockefeller University)
Targeting Tumor Glycolysis Redirects Intratumoral Glucose Uptake and Improves Anti-Tumor Immunity
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 3:00pm
Svena Verma
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Steven Gross
Major Sponsors: Dr. Taha Merghoub and Dr. Jedd Wolchok
Minor Sponsors: Dr. John Blenis and Dr. Roberta Zappasodi
Endogenous Lineage Tracing and Phenotypic Profiling of Healthy and Malignant Human Cells by Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Somatic Microsatellite Mutations
Date: Monday, July 15, 2024 - 11:00am
Nathaniel D. Omans
Tri-Institutional Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology and Medicine (TPCBM)
Chairperson: Dr. Omar Abdel-Wahab
Major Sponsor: Dr. Dan Landau
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Anna Nam and Dr. Ruslan Soldatov
Harnessing the Immune Modulatory Properties of the Senescence Program to Treat Cancer
Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 11:00am
Caroline M. Broderick
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Andrea Schietinger
Major Sponsor: Dr. Scott W. Lowe
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Karuna Ganesh and Dr. Charles Rudin
Additional Member: Dr. Andrew Aguirre (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
Loss of the Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptor GPR52 in Breast Cancer: A Novel Regulator of Multicellular Organization
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 9:00am
Sarah Z. Hanif, M.D.-Ph.D. Student
Cell and Developmental Biology
Chairperson: Dr. Xin-Yun Huang
Major Sponsor: Dr. Kristy Brown
Minor Sponsor: Dr. Xin-Yun Ganesh
Additional Member: Dr. Gregory Alushin (The Rockefeller University)
Alzheimer’s Disease-Linked Risk Alleles Elevate Microglial cGAS-Associated Senescence and Neurodegeneration in a Tauopathy Model
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 10:00am
Gillian K. Carling
Neuroscience
Chairperson: Dr. Giovanni Manfredi
Major Sponsor: Dr. Li Gan
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Gary Gibson and Dr. Yueming Li
Fusobacterium Nucleatum Secretomes Rewire the Transcriptome and Metabolome of Colorectal Cancer Cells to Evade NK Cell Killing
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2024 - 11:00am
Wendy Lin
Pharmacology
Chairperson: Dr. Karuna Ganesh
Major Sponsor: Dr. Joao Xavier
Minor Sponsors: Dr. Andrew Intlekofer and Dr. Dawid Nowak
Additional Member: Dr. Joseph Sun (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)