Abigail Dutton - Thesis Seminar A Virus of the Mind: The Neurological Impact of Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Infection"
Colette L. Picard - University of California-Los Angeles “Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression and Genome Stability During Germline and Seed Development”
Lisa Akhtar, M.D., Ph.D. - Northwestern University Using Variation in Clinical Outcome to Understand Herpes Simplex Virus Virulence"
Joe Weygand, Ph.D. - Global Radiation Oncoilogy, Geisel Medical School "The Role of Medical Physicists in Global Health"
Hana Zand Karimi - Pfizer “Proteasomes in the Apoplast: New Players in Plant Defense Against Pathogens”
* Abigail Marshall - McKenna Lab, MSB * Hailie Soderholm - Huang Lab, CANB
Chloé Baron, PH.D. - Harvard Medical School "Clonal Expansion of Niche Cells Drives Selection of Leukemic and Normal HSC Clones"
* Armina Frederick - Dunlap/Loros Lab, MSB * Angus Johnson - Cramer Lab, MICR/IMM
Heeseon An, Ph.D. - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Comparative Degradomics Reveals Impaired Protein Degradation in Disease"
Noam Prywes - University of California "Rubisco Biochemistry In Vivio"
Kathleen A. McDonough, Ph.D. - NY State Department of Health Gene Regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Finding Efficiencies with Protein Splicing and Multi-Function Factors?
Ilana Cass, M.D. - Obstetrics and Gynecology, Geisel "BRCA1/2 and Related Genes and Ovarian Cancer: Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention"
Jennifer Effie Amengual, M.D. - Columbia University "Epigenetic Targeting of Key Drivers of Lymphoma"
* Zach Peters - Skopelja-Gardner Lab, MICR/IMM * Irma Vlasac - Christensen Lab, CANB
Afroditi Petsakou, Ph.D. - Harvard Medical School "The Neuro-Gut Axis in Intestinal Regeneration and Cancer-Induced Anorexia"
* Sharanya Sarkar - Stanton Lab, MICR/IMM * Beatriz Mercado - Kasper Lab, MSB
Ryoma Ohi, Ph.D. - University of Michigan "Secrets of Microtubule Biology that are Locked Behind its Conformational Code"
Jennifer Bomberger, Ph.D. - Geisel School of Medicine "Complex Communities: Decoding Microbial Interactions in the Respiratory Tract"
David Colognori, Ph.D. - University of California-Berkeley "Targeted Knockdown and Single-Molecule Imaging of RNA in Live Cells with CRISPR-Csm"
Vivek Mittal, Ph.D. - Weill Cornell Medical Center "Decoding Cancer Complexity to Develop New Treatment Paradigms"
Junghyun Kim - University of Texas-Austin "Molecular Communication Between Environment and Chromatin Remodeling in the 3D Landscape of Gene Regulation"
* Alex Turnquist - Usherwood Lab, MICR/IMM * Kerry Wang - Pioli Lab, MICR/IMM
Dana Klatt Shaw, Ph.D. - Washington University School of Medicine "Harnessing the Immune System to Drive Regeneration"
* Alex Fu - O'Toole Lab, MICR/IMM * Ghalia Siddiqui - Ahmed Lab, MSB
Colin Hartman - Thesis Seminar "Antibody and Protein Engineering for Cancer Immunotherapy: Advancing Targeted and Immune Modulation Therapies"
Laura Lee - New York University "Hidden Regulators: The Role of Metabolites in Plant Development and Regeneration"
Jeffrey Dvoriin, M.D., Ph.D. - Harvard Medical School One Ring to Rule Them All: Discovering Novel Cell Biology in Malaria Parasites"
Keynote Presentation: Luisa Escobar-Hoyos, M.Sc., Ph.D. - Yale University "RNA Switches in Pancreatic Cancer"
T. Jarrod Smith, Ph.D. MCB'18 - University of Oregon "Communication Breakdown: Mucin Glycan Signaling in Host-Microbe Symbiosis"
Caitlin Kowalski, Ph.D., MCB'20 - University of Oregon "Resident Fungi as Gatekeepers of Skin Health"
* Chinmay Vaidya - Ackerman Lab, MICR/IMM * Huijuan Yang - Sundrud Lab, MICR/IMM
* Thao Hyunh - Chang Lab, BCB