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34th Annual Genetics Day

Monday, April 17, 2023
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Class of '62 Auditorium and Sarah Flaum Atrium

Genetics Day Poster Registration for 2023
 

20th Annual Fred Sherman Lecture

 

 

Featuring Keynote Speaker: Julius Brennecke, Ph.D.
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria

His talk is entitled “Evolution of endogenous retroviruses in Drosophila”.

Visit Dr. Brennecke's Lab Webpage

Poster Prizes

Cash prizes will be awarded to a select group of Genetics Day Poster presenters. Details on these cash prizes will be released in the coming weeks. 

To be eligible for the award competition and included in the poster session, abstracts must be submitted via our poster registration form by 5pm on Monday, April 3rd.

 

Genetics Day Schedule

34th ANNUAL GENETICS DAY

Monday, April 17th, 2023
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Class of '62 Auditorium & Sarah Flaum Atrium
 

9:30 – 9:40 a.m.
Michael Welte, Ph.D. –
Department of Biology
Welcome

 

9:40 – 10:05 a.m.
Amanda Larracuente, Ph.D. –
Department of Biology
“Rapid centromere reorganization in Drosophila”

 

10:05 – 10:30 a.m.
Bin Zhang, Ph.D. –
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
“Neocentromere for Chromosome Writing”

 

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.

Jessica Ciesla – Graduate Student, Biochemistry.

“Proximity labeling reveals human cytomegalovirus ul26 protein interacts with innate immune system regulator pias1 to support viral replication.”

 

10:45 – 11:00 a.m.

Emiliano Martí – Graduate Student, Biology.

“Derepression of r1 and r2 non-ltr retrotransposons causes hybrid incompatibility in drosophila”

 

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Coffee Break

 

11:30 – 11:55 a.m.
John Martinez, Ph.D. Candidate –
Translational Biomedical Science
“Contributions of LINE1 Elements to Healthy Aging”

 

11:55 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Patrick J. Murphy, Ph.D. –
Department of Biomedical Genetics
“Endogenous repetitive elements compete for epigenetic factors during early vertebrate development.”

 

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Poster Session, Flaum Atrium

 

3:004:00 p.m.
20th Annual Fred Sherman Lecture
Welcome by Dirk Bohmann, Ph.D. –
Department of Biomedical Genetics

Featuring: Julius Brennecke, Ph.D. Austrian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
Vienna, Austria

“Evolution of endogenous retroviruses in Drosophila”

 

4:15 p.m.
Poster Award Ceremony

Poster Submissions


GRADUATE STUDENTS
 
1.

DETERMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIRCADIAN GENE EXPRESSION AND LUNG CANCER

JAMISON BURCHETT, Julianna Cazarin de Menezes, and Brian Altman
Biomedical Genetics.

2.

PROXIMITY LABELING REVEALS HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS UL26 PROTEIN INTERACTS WITH INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM REGULATOR PIAS1 TO SUPPORT VIRAL REPLICATION

JESSICA CIESLA, Catherine Seying, Joshua C. Munger
Biomedical Genetics, Biochemistry.

3.

THE REPLICA SET METHOD: A ROBUST, ACCURATE, AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT APPROACH TO QUANTITATIVELY MEASURE CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS LIFESPAN

ADAM CORNWELL, Jesse R. Llop, Peter Salzman, Juilee Thakar, And Andrew V. Samuelson
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

4.

TRMT1 IS NEEDED FOR TRNAS TO MAINTAIN THEIR FUNCTION WHICH HELP ORGANISM TO DEVELOP PROPERLY

Kejia Zhang, CHENHONG DENG, Dr. Dragony Fu
Biology

5.

THE INFLUENCE OF DNA STRUCTURE ON POLYMERASE PAUSING

MCKAYLA FORD, Ching-Hua Shih, Paula Vertino
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

6.

HOST TATSF1 PROMOTES HIV INFECTIVITY BY UHM/ULM INTERACTIONS WITH THE VIRAL REV PROTEIN

JUSTIN W. GALARDI, Steven Horner, Jordan Hurlbut, Justin R. Leach, Jeffrey M. Chamberlain, Jermaine L. Jenkins, Mary J. Pulvino, Stephen Dewhurst, Clara L. Kielkopf
Center for RNA Biology, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

7.

LONGEVITY-ASSOCIATED REGULATION OF SIRT6 BY AMPK TILTS THE BALANCE OF GROWTH VS STRESS RESPONSE

JONATHAN GIGAS, Michael Meadow, Gregory Tombline, Eric Hillpot, Xiaoyu Wu, Max Zacher, Andrei Seluanov, Vera Gorbunova
Biology

8.

IDENTIFICATION OF THE Z3 MODULE AS A MODULE OF THE INTEGRATOR COMPLEX

MARYCLAIRE HASELEY & Eric Wagner
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

9.

3D-PRINTED BACILLUS NRRL B-14911 FOR THE DEGRADATION OF BIOPLASTICS IN MARINE ENVIRONMENTS

LUYING HE, A. Meyer
Biology

10.

ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR ACTIVATION ALTERS MONOCYTIC CELL RESPONSES DURING CORONAVIRUS AND INFLUENZA A VIRUS INFECTION

ALICIA HEALEY, Kristina Fenner, Colleen O'Dell, B. Paige Lawrence
MBI

11.

THE 1.9 Å BEAVER SIRTUIN6 CRYSTAL STRUCTURE

ERIC HILLPOT, S. Ramachandran, A. Wolfe, A. Seluanov, V. Gorbunova
Department of Biochemistry

12.

H2A.Z REGULATION OF CTCF BINDING AND HIGHER-ORDER CHROMATIN STRUCTURE

SHAN HUA, Kristin Murphy, Fanju Meng, Patrick Murphy
Biology

13.

MODELING CDK12 AND CDK13 LOSS-OF-FUNCTION TO INVESTIGATE THEIR ROLES IN ALTERNATIVE POLYADENYLATION AND NEOANTIGEN EXPRESSION

MOLLY HULVER, Paul Boutz
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

14.

IDENTIFICATION AND STRUCTURAL BASIS OF A POTENTIAL LICENSING FACTOR OF THE INTEGRATOR CLEAVAGE MODULE

MADELINE K. JENSEN, Min-Han Lin, Nathan D. Elrod, Kelsey Williams, Christöph Proschel, Liang Tong, Eric J. Wagner
Department of Biochemistry

15.

THE ROLE OF SLC6A6 (TAUT) IN BONE FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE

Benjamin J. Rodems, CHRISTINA KAZSUBA, Sonali Sharma, Emily R. Quarato, Takashi Ito, Roman Eliseev, Laura M. Calvi, and Jeevisha Bajaj
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

16.

THROMBOCYTOPENIA INDEPENDENTLY LEADS TO MONOCYTE IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION

CHEN LI, Sara Ture, Benjamin Nieves-Lopez, Sara Blick-Nitko, Preeti Maurya, Alison Livada, Tyler Stahl, Minsoo Kim, Anthony  Pietropaoli, Craig Morrell
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology

17.

DEREPRESSION OF R1 AND R2 NON-LTR RETROTRANSPOSONS CAUSES HYBRID INCOMPATIBILITY IN DROSOPHILA

EMILIANO MARTÍ, Christina A. Muirhead, Beatriz Navarro Dominguez, Benjamin E. Goulet, Lori Wright, Daven C. Presgraves
Biology

18.

ULTRASENSITIVE CAS13A-BASED DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS AND NEW DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM DETECTION

ADRIAN M. MOLINA VARGAS, Raven Osborn, Andrew Cameron, Dwight Hardy, Souvik Sinha, Pablo R. Arantes, Giulia Palermo, Mitchell R. O'Connell
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

19.

EARLY HETEROCHROMATIN FORMATION ON REPETITVE ELEMENTS IS ESSENTIAL FOR PRECISE DEVELOPMENTAL TIMING

DUY NGUYEN, Patrick Murphy
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

20.

MITIGATING ONSET OF CONGENITAL MYOPATHY WITH EXERCISE

THOMAS N. O'CONNOR, N. Zhao, M. He, L. Groom, L. Pietrangelo, C. Liang, H. Orciuoli, S. Malik, F. Protasi, R. T. Dirksen
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

21.

INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHEMOSENSORY NEURONS AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN THE MAIN OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM (MOE)

R.E. OWENS, V. Haran, C. Chu, JP Meeks, and RK. Rowe
Toxicology

22.

4-AMINOPYRIDINE IS A POTENTIAL THERAPY FOR MULTIPLE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF PACLITAXEL

LUDIA PACK, M. Demagistris, D. Milek,  J. Leckenby, M. Noble
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

23.

NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO INVESTIGATE RNA-CHROMATIN INTERACTIONS

BRANDON PARK, Brandon Davis, Dr. Zamira Guerra Soares, Dr. Stephano Mello, Dr. Mitchell O'Connell, Dr. Patrick Murphy
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

24.

THE ROLE OF PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR AND ARYL-HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR SIGNALING IN TED PATHOGENESIS

CHARKIRA PATRICK, Dr. Collynn Woeller
Immunology, Microbiology, & Virology

25.

CARDINAL IS A NUCLEAR LNCRNA THAT REPRESSES TCF-SRF-MEDIATED GENE TRANSCRIPTION BY CO-OCCUPYING SRF-BOUND GENE PROMOTERS IN THE HEART

JESSICA PERCIACCANTE, Fnu Priyanka, Pornthida Poosala, Xiaorong Xu Parks, Tamlyn Thomas, and Douglas M. Anderson
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

26.

ATAC-CLOCK: AN AGING CLOCK BASED ON CHROMATIN ACCESSIBILITY

Francesco Morandini, CHEYENNE RECHSTEINER, Kevin Perez, Viviane Praz, Guillermo Lopez Garcia, Laura Hinte, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Alejandro Ocampo
Biology

27.

NEUROGENETIC MECHANISMS UNDERLYING SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC BEHAVIORAL STATES IN C. ELEGANS

GREGORY REILLY, C. Bainbridge, J. Wang, D. Portman
The Department of Neuroscience

28.

LOSS OF ATAXIA-TELANGIECTASIA MUTATED EXACERBATES MOTOR COORDINATION DEFECTS  FOLLOWING OXIDATIVE INSULT

MALEELO SHAMAMBO, Sheona Fujimori, Lauren Suh, Mark Noble, Chris Proschel, and Margot Mayer-Proschel
The Department of Neuroscience

29.

THE MECHANISM OF HISTONE EXCHANGE BETWEEN LIPID DROPLETS

ALICIA SHIPLEY, Asmita Dutta, Pakinee Phromsiri, Michael Welte
Biology

30.

OPTICOLI: SELF-ASSEMBLED BACTERIAL MICROLENSES FOR OPTICAL APPLICATIONS

LYNN M. SIDOR, A. Meyer
Biology

31.

REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION BY HISTONE DEMETHYLASE KDM5B IN BREAST CANCER

ZACHARY SMITH, McKayla Ford, Christina Davidson, Ching-Hua Shih, Paula Vertino
Department of Biochemistry

32.

TRANSCIPTION FACTOR NFIL3 REGULATES THE CD8 T CELL IMMUNE RESPONSE IN INFLUENZA

MIKE SPORTIELLO, Allison Ryan, Cooper Sailer, David Oleksyn, Yuhang Shi, Jim Miller, Ruth Serra-Moreno, Taylor Jones, Adam Geber, David Topham.
Microbiology and Immunology.

33.

TORC1 INACTIVATION LIMITS VIRAL INFECTION THROUGH THE ALTERED REGULATION OF AGING-RELATED EFFECTOR PATHWAYS IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS

IAN STONE, Yun Zhang, Andrew Samuelson
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

34.

DRUG-INDUCED P53 ACTIVATION INHIBITS PRECANCEROUS TRANSFORMATION

JENNIFER TWARDOWSKI, Stephano Spano Mello
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

35.

PHOSPHOPROTEOMIC STRATEGY TO IDENTIFY TARGETS OF THE KINASE HPK-1 IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS

ZACHARY WARD
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

36.

MONITORING FATTY ACID TRAFFICKING IN FOLLICLES REVEALS A CRITICAL ROLE FOR DGAT1/MIDWAY IN PROTECTING MITOCHONDRIAL INTEGRITY

ROGER WHITE and Michael Welte
Biology

37.

EFFECTS OF IGE-MEDIATED ALLERGIC STIMULATION ON VIRUS-SPECIFIC CD4+ T CELL ACTIVATION

JINGYI WU, Bailey Matthews, Regina Rowe
Biomedical Genetics and Genomics

38.

THE SUMO PROTEASE ULP-1 IS A KEY REGULATOR OF STRESS RESPONSE, PROTEOSTASIS, AND LONGEVITY IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS

SIFAN YANG, Andrew V Samuelson
Biology, Biomedical Genetics & Genomics

39.

T CELL SUBSETS ALTERED IN A MURINE ALZHEIMER'S MODEL SUPERIMPOSED WITH LATENT U94A

JUSTIN YOUNGYUNPIPATKUL, Chris Pröschel, Margot Mayer-Pröschel
Biomedical Genetics & Genomics

40.

MECHANISM OF SEXUAL MATURATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE C. ELEGANS MALE

JIARUI ZHANG, Carlos Diaz-Balzac, Maria Lazaro-Pena, Douglas S. Portman
Biology


POSTDOC STUDENTS
 
41.

 

SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC NUTRIENT-DEPENDENT BEHAVIORAL PRIORITIZATION IN C. ELEGANS

CHANCE BAINBRIDGE, Gregory Reilly, Douglas S. Portman
Department of Biomedical Genetics

42.

THE MYC ONCOPROTEIN DRIVES CIRCADIAN CLOCK DISRUPTION IN THE LUNG: IMPLICATIONS EARLY IN LUNG CARCINOGENESIS.

JULIANA CAZARIN, Siti Noor Ain Binti Ahmad Shahidan, Rachel E. DeRollo, Brian Altman
Department of Biomedical Genetics

43.

INVESTIGATING ENHANCER AND PROTEIN DIVERGENCE AT FOLLISTATIN PARALOGS UNDERLYING GENETIC ASSIMILATION OF WING PLASTICITY

KEVIN DEEM, H. Asma, M. Halfon, J. Brisson
Biology

44.

AN IMMUNGLOBULIN CELL ADHESION JUNCTION MODULE MAINTAINS EPITHELIAL INTEGRITY

TARA M FINEGAN, Christian Cammarota, Dan T Bergstralh
Biology

45.

EXTRACELLULAR GLUTATHIONE CATABOLISM AS AN ALTERNATIVE CYST(E)INE SOURCE IN CANCER

HECHT F, Zocchi M, Tuttle E, Asantewaa G, Scales T, Alimohammadi F, Ward N, Denicola G, Harris IS
Department of Biology, River Campus U of R.

46.

LONGEVITY IN BATS: EFFICIENT DNA REPAIR IS LINKED TO CHROMATIN REMODELING

ANATOLY KOROTKOV, Nalani Miller, Emerson Jenen, Zhizhong Zheng, Fathima Athar, J Yuyang Lu,  Julia Ablaeva, Gregory Tombline, Emma Teeling , Richard A. Miller, Andrei Seluanov, Vera Gorbunova.
Department of Biology.

47.

COMPETITION FOR H2A.Z BETWEEN GENES AND REPETITIVE ELEMENTS SENSITIZES DEVELOPING EMBRYOS TO INNATE IMMUNE STIMULATION

FANJU MENG, K. Murphy, C. Makowski, P. Murphy
Department of Biomedical Genetics

48.

MULTIPLE GENES OF CANDIDA ALBICANS INFLUENCING ECHINOCANDIN SUSCEPTIBILITY IN CASPOFUNGIN-ADAPTED MUTANTS

SUDISHT K. SAH, Soumyaroop Bhattacharya, Anshuman Yadav, Farha Husain, Aissatou B. K. T. Ndiaye, Michael D. Kruppa, Jeffrey J. Hayes, Elena Rustchenko
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

49.

C19ORF12 ORTHOLOG NAZO - AN NBIA ASSOCIATED GENE IS REQUIRED FOR LIPID HOMEOSTASIS IN DROSOPHILA GUT.

PERINTHOTTATHIL SREEJITH, Sara Lolo, Kristen R. Patten, Maduka Gunasinghe1, Rajnish Bharadwaj
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

50.

REDUCTION OF SATELLITE DNA TRANSCRIPTION ENHANCES DRIVE IN SEGREGATION DISTORTION

XIAOLU WEI, Amanda Larracuente
Biology

51.

CANDIDA ALBICANS STRAINS ADAPTED TO CASPOFUNGIN DUE TO ANEUPLOIDY BECOME HIGHLY TOLERANT UNDER CONTINUED DRUG PRESSURE

FARHA HUSAIN, Anshuman Yadav, Sudisht K. Sah, Jeffrey J. Hayes And Elena Rustchenko
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

52.

SUMO PEPTIDASE ULP-4 REGULATES THE ANTIVIRAL INNATE IMMUNITY BY  DESUMOYLATION OF RIG-1 HOMOLOG DRH-1 IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS

YUN ZHANG, A. Samuelson
Department of Biomedical Genetics

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

53.

PROTEIN COEVOLUTION PREDICTS KNOWN AND NOVEL NUCLEAR-MITOCHONDRIAL INTERACTIONS

ALEC KINGSLEY and John H. Werren
Biology

54.

CENTROMERE POLYMORPHISMS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

MIRAZ SADI, Cécile Courret, Amanda Larracuente
Biology

55.

DO PROTEINS WITH CORRELATED EVOLUTIONARY RATES HAVE SHARED FUNCTIONS?

SIMONE SPANDAU, Moran Guo, Dr. John H. Werren
Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences

56.

INVESTIGATING MUD: ISOFORM EXPRESSION AND FUNCTION

XUKE WANG, T. Finegan, K. Deem, N. Lowe, R. Tan, D. Bergstralh
Department of Biology, University of Rochester


STAFF
 
57.

SPLICING REGULATION AS A MOLECULAR DRIVER OF BASAL PANCREATIC CANCER

ZAMIRA GUERRA SOARES, Dakarai Esgdaille, Wenjia Wang, Jennifer Twardowski, Emily Berry, Aram Hezel, Stephano Mello.
Department of Biomedical Genetics

58.

IDO1 IS A NOVEL IMPRINTED GENE THAT PLAYS A ROLE IN PREGNANCY MAINTENANCE

PHILIP SPINELLI, Sierra Falcone, Martha Susiarjo
Department of Environmental Medicine

59.

THE FUNCTION OF HEAT SHOCK FACTOR IN DROSOPHILA DEVELOPMENT

JINGHONG (JAMES) TANG, M. Welte
Biology


FACULTY
 
60.

AT LEAST 10 GENES ON CHROMOSOME 5 OF CANDIDA ALBICANS ARE DOWNREGULATED IN CONCERT TO CONTROL  CELL WALL AND TO CONFER ADAPTATION TO CASPOFUNGIN

Sudisht K Sah, Anshuman Yadav, ELENA RUSTCHENKO
Biochemistry and Biophysics


ORGANIZATIONS
 
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