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New Students’ Welcome to the Department Talks
May 29, 2020 @ 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Please join us as our new Pharmacology graduate students give their Welcome to the Department talks!
Talks will be via Zoom. Check your email for links to the sessions.
PROGRAM
9 AM – 10 AM
Mingyu Choi
Lab: Hahn Lab
Talk: Creating an optogenetic tool to control cellular traction force
Sarah Cooper
Lab: Palmer Lab
Talk: Cancer Immunotherapy: Personalized Vaccine Development
Gabriella Gentile
Lab: Nicholas Lab
Talk: Using recombineering to make omam mutants in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Alexandra “Sasha” Goriounova
Lab: Tarran Lab
Talk: The A6 peptide decreases Orai1-STIM1 oligomerization and calcium influx into HEK293T cells.
Amanda Graboski
Lab: Redinbo Lab
Talk: IgA Nephropathy and the Gut Microbiome
11 AM – 12 PM
Megan Hinkle
Lab: Emanuele lab
Talk: Investigation of the use of enolase inhibition to reduce glycolytic flux in medulloblastoma
Madigan Lavery (Bedard)
Lab: McElligott Lab
Talk: Effects of opioid withdrawal on plasticity of A2 noradrenergic neurons in the NTS and BNST
David Lee
Lab: Scherrer Lab (Greg Scherrer)
Talk: The role of TrpM8 channel activation in open-field, anxiety-like behavior
Peyton Sandroni
Lab: Jensen Lab
Talk: Examining the effects of alpha-1A adrenergic receptor stimulation on cardiac cell death in vitro
Kaitlan Smith
Lab: Schisler Lab
Talk: CHIP mutations promote sensitivity to RIPK- mediated necroptosis
1 PM – 2 PM
Mariah Stewart
Lab: Schisler Lab
Talk: Role of CHIP in Cancer Cell Proliferation
Yue Wang
Lab: Wang Lab
Talk: Targeted delivery of antibodies and immunomodulation of tumor microenvironment
Kaeli Welsh
Lab: Brown Lab
Talk: Molecular Mechanisms of Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Silencing
Zhiyuan “Zoey” Yao
Lab: Kuhlman Lab
Talk: Engineering Dual Targeting scFv of CD19 and CD20 to mitigate tumor antigen escape during CAR T-cell therapy
Eden Zewdie
Lab: Earp Lab
Talk: TAM Receptor Metabolic Reprogramming of Dendritic Cells