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New Students Talks

May 27, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Please join us in welcoming our 16 new Pharmacology students as they give their first talks to the department on Thursday, May 27th. The talks will be given in two parts. The first at 11 AM and the second at 2 PM. Thank you in advance for giving our new students your support and encouragement as they start their journey with us!

The talks are by zoom, please check your emails for the links.

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2021 New Students Talks 

May 27th, in two sessions: 11 AM and 2 PM

11 AM Session

  • Devin Effinger,
    joining the lab of Dr. Melissa Herman
    talk title:  Sex Differences in the Effects of Psilocin on Central Amygdala Reactivity to an Aversive Stimulus
  • Aditi Kothari,
    joining the lab of Dr. Natalia Isaeva
    talk title: Investigating a crosstalk between NF-κB and NRF2 in HPV-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
  • Mariaelena Nabors
    joining the lab of  Dr. Jen Jen Yeh
    talk title:  PDAC PDX cell line response to different media conditions
  • Michael Sturdivant
    joining the lab of Dr. William Kim
    talk title: APOBEC Induced Mutagenesis and Differentiation in Urothelial Carcinoma
  • Amy Aponte
    joining the lab of  Dr. Michael Emanuele
    talk title: Regulation of the prototypical pRb tumor suppressor in cell cycle arrest
  • Tania Bellinger
    joining the lab of  Dr. Kathryn Reissner
    talk title: The Effects of Rat Cocaine Self-Administration on Microglial Activation in the Brain
  • Gray Gereau
    joining the lab of Dr. Zoe McElligott
    talk title: The role of PBN neurons that receive input from CeA CaMKIIa neurons in ethanol consumption
  • Coral Del Mar Alicea Pauneto
    joining the lab of  Dr. Tim Gershon
    talk title: Myeloid directed immunotherapy for medulloblastoma with TLR7/8 agonist Resiquimod and MERTKi UNC2371

2 PM Session

  • Cole Martin
    joining the lab of  Dr. John Morris
    talk title: p53 directs YAP/TAZ accumulation
  • Elise Edgar
    joining the lab of Dr. Juan Song
    talk title: Regulation of neuroinflammation by G9a in Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Jacob Pantazis
    joining the lab of  Dr. Adam Palmer
    talk title:  Biomarker Discovery in Non-Hodgkins T Cell Lymphoma
  • Ryan Sheehy
    joining the lab of Dr. Juan Song
    talk title:  Regulation of neuroinflammation by G9a in Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Brandon Pratt
    joining the lab of  Dr. Hyejung Won
    talk title: 3-D Chromatin Structure in ALS
  • Runfan Yang
    joining the lab of Dr. John Sondek
    talk title: Rho GTPases, PLCg1, and cancer
  • Claire Gates
    joining the lab of Dr. Kristen Bryant
    talk title: Investigating the Link Between Mitochondrial Morphology and Autophagy in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
  • Ryan Robb
    joining the lab of  Dr. Kristen Bryant
    talk title: Elucidation of the interplay between autophagy and macropinocytosis in ERK MAPK inhibited pancreatic cancer

Details

Date:
May 27, 2021
Time:
11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Venue

Via Zoom

Organizer

Nicole Cornett
Email
ncornett@email.unc.edu