Deadline Extended for Free, One-Day Conference at Stanley Hall
The deadline to register for Multisystem Approaches for Biological Discovery has been extended to July 30th. Sign up now to attend this free, one-day research conference. This symposium is hosted by QB3-Berkeley and organized and run entirely by postdoctoral scholars in QB3-Berkeley faculty labs. Information about the event as well as an agenda is below.
Multisystem Approaches for Biological Discovery
Multicellular organisms are inherently heterogeneous. Cells harboring similar genomes exhibit controlled yet different spatial and temporal phenotypes that uniquely lead to the development of diseases or adaptations to therapy. Join us and help build a growing community to shed light on this fascinating frontier! We aim to provide an open forum where scientists and engineers across different disciplines team up to develop innovative, next-generation approaches to discovering new biology across different system levels.
Friday, August 2 | 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Stanley Hall
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Agenda
8:30-9:00 Registration, breakfast and coffee
9:00-9:10 Welcome and opening remarks
Morning Session I, Chair: Anna Fomitcheva-Khartchenko, PhD
Innovations in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
9:10- 9:40 Keynote: Prof. Jennifer Rosenbluth
“Modeling tumor heterogeneity and patient response using breast organoids”
9:40- 9:55 Tommy Li, PhD (Bateup Lab, UC Berkeley)
“A Human Brain Organoid Model of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex”
9:55-10:10 Seung Won Shin, PhD (Clark Lab, UC-Berkeley)
“Utilizing High-Throughput Nucleic Acid Cytometry for Rare Cell Isolation and Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis”
10:10-10:25 Yongdeok Kim, PhD (Healy Lab, UC-Berkeley)
“Vascular microphysiological system testbed for biopreservation study and extended organ storage”
10:25-10:45 Coffee break, poster setup
Morning Session II, Chair: Jingxuan (Mimi) Guo, PhD
Advances in Sequencing and Omics
10:45-11:15 Keynote: Prof. Tomasz Nowakowski
“There and back again: a journey in single cell sequencing technologies and their applications to neural development.”
11:15-11:30 Fernanda Palominos, PhD (Martin Lab, UC-Berkeley)
“From devo to evo: unraveling the developmental genetics of extreme craniofacial divergence in Bahamian pupfishes”
11:30-11:45 Bear Xiong (Listgarten Lab, UC-Berkeley)
“Unlocking Guidance for Discrete State-Space Diffusion and Flow Models: A Conditional Generative Approach for Scientific Design Problems”
11:45-12:00 Flo Ramirez and Carie Rose Miller (QB3 Genomics)
“QB3 Genomics: The Remix”
12:00-1:30 Lunch and poster viewing
Afternoon Session I, Chair: Lu Ling, PhD
Next Gen Imaging for Structural Determination
1:30-2:00 Keynote: Prof. Güneş Parlakgul (UC-Berkeley)
“Endoplasmic reticulum architecture and metabolic regulation”
2:00-2:15 Charlotte Yiyi Wang, OD, FAAO (Tuten and Roorda Labs, UC Berkeley)
“Specialization in Adaptive Optics Imaging and Psychophysics in Retinal Disease”
2:15-2:30 Kimberly Tsui, PhD (Dillin Lab, UC-Berkeley)
“CRISPR screens and lectin microarrays identify novel high mannose N-glycan regulators”
2:30-2:45 Irene Liparulo, PhD (Stahl Lab, UC-Berkeley)
“Dissecting cellular dynamics of CoQ uptake and trafficking”
2:45-3:00 Shumpei Morita (Groves Lab, UC-Berkeley)
“Discrete LAT condensation events govern calcium signaling dynamics in T cell signaling”
3:00-3:20 Coffee Break
Afternoon session II. Chair: Trinh Lam, PhD
3:20-4:30 Career Developments: Moving towards industry & academia, panel Q/A
Panelists:
Anna Maurer, PhD.
Postdoc at UC-Berkeley, tjian+darzacq lab, in-coming professor at University of Michigan
Eric Qiao, PhD.
Scientist, Conception
Rosanne Lurie
Director of Postdoc and Graduate Career Development, QB3, UC-Berkeley
Charlotte Yiyi Wang, OD, FAAO
Assistant Clinical Professor at Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science, UC Berkeley
Incoming Research Scientist at CooperVision Inc
Incoming Optometrist at the Department of Ophthalmology, UC San Francisco
4:30-5:30 Reception and poster presentation
Nadine Goldhammer, PhD (Rosenbluth Lab, UCSF)
“Heterogeneity and Estrogen Receptor Activity in Tumor Organoids from the I-SPY Endocrine Optimization Protocol”
Marin Bont (Rosenbluth Lab, UCSF)
“Modeling estrogen response in patient-derived breast organoids to elucidate breast cancer risk and test endocrine therapy”
Kaitlyn Vitaingcol (Stahl lab, UC Berkeley)
“Investigating the role of genetic polymorphisms in PNPLA3 driving MASLD via the adipose tissue-liver axis”
Timothy J. Eisen, PhD (Kuriyan Lab, UC Berkeley)
“The Landscape of Src-Homology 2 Domain Regulation in Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase”
David Makoto McMullin. PhD (Schaffer Lab, UC Berkeley)
“An optogenetically-induced human gastruloid model achieves endoderm internalization and reveals a role for N-CADHERIN in germ layer segregation from Schaffer lab”
Julio Bernal-Chanchavac, PhD (Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley)
“The Influence of Membrane-associated Proteins on Neural Stem Cell Differentiation”
Jessica Ortiz (Stahl Lab, UC Berkeley)
“Establishing and Interrogation Functional Sexually Dimorphic Liver-Fat Microphysiological System”