Orin Smith Auditorium & Zoom

Ying Zheng, PhD Professor of Bioengineering "In vitro models of vascular flow, and their inflammatory responses" Eimear O'Mahony Predoctoral student in Kelly Lab "Intestinal Enteroids: Predictive Models for Oral Drug Disposition"

Vincenzo Cirulli, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine/Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition "Cell-to-cell interactions and downstream signaling as gatekeepers of pancreatic islet cell identity, growth, transdifferentiation, and function" Michael Malone Predoctoral student in Sniadecki Lab "High Cell-Density Bioprinting of Tissues onto Posts: Strength, Survival, and Compaction"

Tim Cherry, PhD Principal Investigator, Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Seattle Children’s Research Institute "Higher Throughput Screening of Gene Regulatory Networks in Organoids" Erica Jonlin, PhD Regulatory Manager "Thoughts in a dish: Report from the 2025 Asilomar Conference on Ethical and Societal Implications of Neural Organoids, Assembloids, and Their Transplantation"

Rob Cornell, PhD Professor of Oral Health Sciences "Genes associated with risk for orofacial cleft risk encode highly ranked members of the transcriptional regulatory network governing periderm differentiation" John Bradford Predoctoral student in Robinson Lab "Deciphering Avascular Tissue Regeneration In The Human Knee Meniscus Via In Vitro Models"

Rong Tian, MD, PhD Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine "Mitochondria migration between cells: implication in cardiovascular diseases" Juyoung Seong Predoctoral student in Mack lab "FLUX: a sustained retinoic acid delivery platform enhancing transcriptomic and electrophysiology maturation of hiPSC derived motor neurons"

Ryan McCarthy, PhD Assistant Professor, Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute "Heterochromatin and the interplay of cell identity, genomic defense and innate immune signaling" Meagan Esbin, PhD Postdoctoral scholar in Yang lab "High-throughput arrayed CRISPR screening to identify regulators of human placental cell-cell fusion and differentiation"

Smita Yadav, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmacology “Cortical organoid models to understand neurodevelopmental disorders” Madison Girard and Laura Rosendo UW Medicine Advancement “Advancement 101”

Jessica Young, PhD Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology "Differential effects of X chromosome dosage and APOE alleles: Relevance for Alzheimer's disease" Julie Crudele, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology "Anti-dystrophin immune responses following AAV gene therapy"