9/29-30/23
Heritage Hotel, 522 Heritage Rd. Southbury, CT
Day 1 Friday
Time Event Location
Friday 8:00 a.m Buses Depart 266 Whitney Ave.-YSB Marsh Hall Entrance
9 – 10 a.m. Check-in/Registration (Heritage Hotel Lower Foyer)
Bags to be stored in Washington Room
9 – 10 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Constitution Foyer)
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome by Lily, Enrique, and Carol (Constitution)
10:00 – 12:20 p.m. Session 1 Moderator- Ryan Stanton (Constitution)
10:17 – 10:34 Tony Koleske with Daisy Duan “A ribbon at a time: how Abl2 regulates microtubule nucleation and repair.”
10:34 – 10:46 Mark Solomon “My oh my, meiosis!”
10:46 – 10:58 Paulsen Lab-Avnika Bali and Justin Sanders “Molecular Mechanisms of TRPA1 Regulation.”
10:58 – 11:15 Kai (Jack) Zhang with Pengxin Chai “Visualizing Atomic Details of Dynamic Molecular Machines in Reaction in Their Cellular Environment.”
11:15 – 11:27 Steven Tang “Membrane fusion: from viral entry to fertilization.”
11:27 – 11:44 Franziska Bleichert with Olivia Hunker “Multiple mechanisms of loading replicative helicases during human replication initiation.”
11:44 – 11:56 De La Cruz Lab-Marisa Michalchik “Reaction kinetics of pyrophosphate (PPi) liberation by ENPP1: A small piece in the biomineralization regulation puzzle.”
11:56 – 12:13 Wendy Gilbert with Kyrillos “Cookie” Abdallah “End-less translation and other curiosities of the RNA world.”
12:20 – 1:20 p.m. Lunch (Timbers)
1:25 – 2:35 p.m. Session 2 Moderator – Christian Freniere (Constitution)
1:25 – 1:42 Matt Simon with Andreas Pitado-Urbanc “Insights into regulated gene expression from RNA and protein chemistry.”
1:42 – 1:54 Allison Didychuk “How to Build a Herpesvirus.”
1:54 – 2:06 Julien Berro “Molecular mechano-sensing and mechano-transduction – towards a new class of therapeutics.”
2:06 – 2:18 Kabeche Lab-Elizabeth Black “Novel regulation of mitotic PLK1 activity by Chk2.”
2:18 – 2:35 Joe Howard with Xiaoyi “Timo” Ouyang “Branching morphogenesis in neurons.”
2:40 – 4:30 p.m. Free time
4:30 – 5:15 p.m. Poster Session 1 (Lincoln Room)
5:15 – 6:00 p.m. Poster Session 2
6:00 – 6:45 p.m. Dinner (Garden Room & Timbers)
6:45 – 7:15 p.m. Poster Awards Announced (Timbers)
7:15 – 10:00 p.m. Mixer (Timbers and Outside Terrace & Tent)
Day 2 Saturday
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast (Garden Room & Timbers)
9:05 – 10:44 Session 3 Moderator – Pengxin Chai (Constitution)
9:05 – 9:17 Ron Breaker “Riboswitches for Lithium and Sodium.”
9:17 – 9:34 Michael Koelle with Halie Sonnenschein “Identifying proteins that opioids and other signals use to shut off neurons in the brain.”
9:34 – 9:46 Christian Schlieker “Aberrant phase separation during nuclear pore biogenesis causes movement disorders – can it be corrected?”
9:46 – 10:03 Nikhil Malvankar with Cong Shen “How do climate-controlling bacteria assemble and use protein nanowires to respire without oxygen-like soluble molecules?”
10:03 – 10:15 Kate Schilling “Recent updates to MB&B undergraduate laboratory and research training courses.”
10:15 – 10:27 Yong Xiong “It is very easy to answer many of these fundamental biological questions; you just look at the thing!
10:27 – 10:44 Karla Neugebauer with Jackson Gordon “Co-transcriptional RNA processing controls gene expression.”
10:45 – 10:50 Wrap up by Lily, Enrique, and Carol
10:50 – 11:05 a.m. Group Photo (Stone Garden)
11:15 a.m. Bus departs (Main Entrance of Hotel)
Faculty Advisors-Lily Kabeche and Enrique De La Cruz
Retreat Organizer-Carol Martin
Thank you!!!
Student Organizers- Isabel Romov and Camila Garcia
Student Volunteers: Dylan Poch, Jiaqi Li, Marisa Michalchik, Chris King, Yoon Ki (Ed) Joo, Matt Cook, Pengxin Chai, David Flesher, Chimere (Chi Chi) Nnatubeugo, Ryan Stanton, Christian Freniere, Yuekang Zhang, Yara Mustafa