Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

Mike Regnier, PhD Professor of Bioengineering "Multi-disciplinary studies of a myosin variant associated with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy" Vinay Jani Predoctoral student in Moussavi-Harami and Regnier labs “Biophysical mechanisms of dysfunction for the cardiac troponin C G34R and G34S variants"

Ted Gross, PhD Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine "An Update on Two Tortuous Translational Projects" Zukai Liu, PhD Postdoctoral scholar in Shendure and Hamazaki labs "Reconstituting human embryogenesis in the dish: Models & Technologies"

Olivia Bermingham-McDonogh, PhD Professor of Neurobiology & Biophysics "Ebf1 and sensory development in the inner ear" Yuxuan Wang Predoctoral student in Berndt Lab "Engineering of Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Sensors for Detecting Opioids in vivo"

Niclas Bengtsson, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology "Targeting muscle stem cells for sustained gene therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy" Tyler Jordan Predoctoral student from the Sakiyama-Elbert lab "Harnessing Astrocyte-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Spinal Cord Injury"

David Marcinek, PhD Professor of Radiology "Using primary myoblasts to study skeletal muscle aging" Lei Gao Predoctoral student in the Kong lab "Molecular Regulation of the MOSMO/MEGF8/MGRN1 Complex in Axon Guidance"

Sylvia Qu, VMD, PhD Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine and Mechanical Engineering "Molecular and mechanobiological regulation of composite musculoskeletal regeneration" Tim Martins, PhD Director of HTS Core "State of the Quellos HTS Core 2026: A Research Core Facility Update"

Daniel Yang, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine/Cardiology "High-throughput functional characterization of MYH7 variants to predict cardiomyopathy risk" Clara McCurdy Predoctoral student in the Ruohola-Baker and Baker labs "Integrin-Independent Activation of Tie2 Ameliorates ARDS"