Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

Alec Smith, PhD Research Assistant Professor of Neurobiology & Biophysics "Modeling skeletal muscle proprioception using human iPSCs" Abby Nagle Predoctoral student in the Davis and Regnier labs "Genetically engineered stem cells differentially integrate adhesive forces to regulate cell shape"

Jenn Kong, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry "Mechanisms underlying signaling sensitivity: An exploration of membrane-tethered ubiquitin ligases" Cory Simpson, MD, PhD, FAAD Assistant Professor of Dermatology "Organelle Dynamics in Epidermal Differentiation and Skin Disease"

David Baker, PhD Professor of Biochemistry "Design of new protein functions using deep learning" Runrun Chen Predoctoral student in the Qu lab "Magnetic Microgels for Composite Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration"

Tom Reh, PhD Professor of Neurobiology & Biophysics "Harnessing glial cells to regenerate neurons: the eyes have it" Yu Jung Shin, PhD Postdoctoral scholar in the  Zheng lab "Perfusable Vascular Organoids For Modeling Hierarchical Cerebrovasculature"

Laura Crisa, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine/Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition "Driving stem cells commitment toward the pancreatic islets lineage by epigenetic editing" Arjune Dhanekula, MD Postdoctoral scholar in the Marcinek lab "Investigating the Interplay of Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Senescence in a Primary Aortic Smooth Muscle Cell Model"

Claudia Vásquez, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry "How cells build organs: Emerging insights from Drosophila renal development" Kat Powers Predoctoral student in Bermingham-McDonogh lab "Investigating the Role of EBF1 in the Development of the Organ of Corti"

Jeff Chamberlain, PhD Professor of Neurology, Biochemistry and Medicine/Medical Genetics "Gene therapy clinical trials for Duchenne muscular dystrophy" Corbin Johnson, PhD Postdoctoral scholar in the Jayadev lab "Investigating autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease in the peripheral immune system"

Devin Schweppe, PhD Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences "Molecular phenotyping of cells and organoids with quantitative proteomics" Morgan Bean Predoctoral student in Kueh Lab "A multiplexed CRISPR recorder for tracing immune cell lineage decisions"