Department of Biology - Research Symposium

8:45 Coffee/Muffins, Broad Institute Lobby NE30-1154
9:10 Welcome, Chris Kaiser

Session One 9:15-11:00

9:15 Aaron Reinke, Graduate Student, Keating lab
Identifying and inhibiting viral bZIP transcription factor interactions

9:30 Huangming Xie, Graduate Student, Lodish lab
MicroRNAs in fat cell development and obesity

9:45 John Antos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ploegh lab
Protein Engineering through Sortase-Catalyzed Transpeptidation

10:00 Madhu Kumar, Graduate Student, Jacks lab
Global miRNA processing in transformation and tumorigenesis

10:15 Joel Neilson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sharp lab
A global decrease in expression of potential mRNA cis-regulatory elements associated with cellular proliferation

10:30 Irina Shapiro, Postdoctoral Fellow, Gertler lab
Analysis of gene expression and alternative splicing during Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition: implications for invasive breast cancer

10:45-11:00 Break

Session Two 11:00-12:30

11:00 Jeff Gore, Postdoctoral Fellow, van Oudenaarden lab
Games microbes play: The game theory behind cooperative sucrose metabolism in yeast

11:15 Jerry Chen, Graduate Student, Nedivi lab
Experience-dependent interneuron dendritic arbor remodeling in the adult visual cortex

11:30 Niels Ringstad, Postdoctoral Fellow, Horvitz lab
Novel biogenic amine receptors that are ligand-gated chloride channels

11:45 Asha Jacob, Postdoctoral Fellow, Walker lab
Intriguing biomedical implications for a newly discovered player in RNA processing: From antibiotics to Downs syndrome

12:00 Dena Cohen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Guarente lab
Investigating SIRT1 as a Therapeutic Target for Huntington’s Disease

12:15 Adam Drake, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chen lab
Development of Mice with Human Immune System

12:30-2:00 Lunch/Poster Session in 68-180 & 181

Session Three 2:15-4:00

2:15 Ligia Acosta, Graduate Student, King lab
The Human Lens αB-Crystallin Chaperone Suppresses The Aggregation Upon Refolding Of Its Physiological Substrates Human γD-, γC- And γS-Crystallin

2:30 Gordon Smith, Graduate Student, Bear lab
Role for AMPA receptor endocytosis in visual cortical plasticity

2:45 Steve Brohawn, Graduate Student, Schwartz lab
Structural evidence for a common ancestry of the nuclear pore complex and vesicle coats

3:00 Jon Morrow Madison, Research Scientist, Stanley Center at Broad
Disc1-GSK3beta interactions: implications for brain development and psychiatric disease

3:15 Break

3:30 Ido Amit, Postdoctoral Fellow, Regev lab
Reconstructing the regulatory circuits of pathogen sensing in mammals

3:45 Chia-Wei Lin, Graduate Student, Lois lab
Genetic manipulation of electrical activity in the brain:
insight into neuronal survival in adult neurogenesis

4:00 Mark Gill, Graduate Student, Page lab
Germ cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic factors govern meiotic initiation in mouse embryos