37th Annual Genetics Day
37th Annual Genetics Day
Keynote Speaker
23rd Annual Fred Sherman Lecture
Cori Bargmann
Torsten N. Wiesel Professor, The Rockefeller University
Head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior
Vice President of Academic Affairs
Distinguished Fellow and Head of Science Emerita, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
| # | Poster Title | Authors | Department / Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graduate Students | |||
| 1 | EVOLUTION OF A TELOCENTRIC CENTROMERE IN DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA | LEILA LIN, Amanda Larracuente | Biology |
| 2 | INSIGHTS INTO THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF RNA USING EXTRACELLULAR-LIKE FOLDING STABILITY | OLIVIA HILTKE, Elzbieta Kierzek, Ryszard Kierzek, Martina Prochota, Marta Rachwalak, Megan Miaro, Thandolwethu Shabangu, and David | Biomedical Genetics |
| 3 | GENETIC BLOCK OF CAV1.1 CONDUCTANCE IN A SEVERE DM1 MOUSE MODEL RESCUES MUSCLE WEAKNESS. | SAKURA HAMAZAKI, Lily Cisco, Matthew Sipple, Rachel Knebel, Katherine Lupia, John Lueck | Biology |
| 4 | APOLIPOPROTEINS FROM THE MICROENVIROMENT PROMOTE AGGRESSIVE MYELOID LEUKEMIA PROGRESSION | CHRISTINA KASZUBA, Sonali Sharma, Benjamin J. Rodems, Edgardo I. Franco, Cameron D. Baker, Francisco A. Chaves, Yi Zhang, Philip Rock, W. Richard Burack, John M. Ashton, Jane L. Liesveld & Jeevisha Bajaj | Biomedical Genetics |
| 5 | THE EFFECT OF INTEGRATOR SUBUNIT 11 MUTATIONS ON INTEGRATOR FUNCTION AND NEURONAL DEVELOPMENT | ALISSA C. BEAM, MaryClaire Haseley, Kai-Lieh Huang, Eric J. Wagner | Biochemistry & Biophysics |
| 6 | ELUCIDATION OF GLUTATHIONE-RELATED DIPEPTIDE METABOLISM IN CANCER | FATEMEH ALIMOHAMMADI, Fabio Hecht, Marco Zocchi, Emily Tuttle, Nathan Ward, Gina DeNicola, Joshua Munger, Christopher Chidley, Isaac Harris | Biomedical Genetics |
| 7 | THE ROLE OF IMPORTIN ALPHA 2 IN ACTIN ACTIN ORGANIZATION DURING DROSOPHILA OOGENESIS AND EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS | ALICIA SHIPLEY, Roger White, Michael Welte | Biology |
| 8 | The role of STING S358 in aging and cytosolic DNA response | JING GUO, Alice Lin, Lerah Pfeiffer, Olivia Krimin, Valeria Rivera Almodovar, Anatoly Korotkov, Vera Gorbunova | Biomedical Genetics |
| 9 | FROM GONAD TO NEURON: REPRODUCTIVE STATE CONTROLS SENSORY GENE EXPRESSION AND BEHAVIOR IN C. ELEGANS | JIARUI ZHANG, Douglas S. Portman | Biology |
| 10 | SPT5 REGULATES ERYTHROPOIESIS THROUGH MTOR SIGNALING | CARL A. BERGGREN, Salome Ghvinephadze, Patrick R. Hodgson, Marlies P. Rossmann | Biomedical Gentics |
| 11 | A ROLE FOR DHODH-MEDIATED FERROPTOSIS SUPPRESSION IN ERYTHROPOIESIS | SALOME GHVINEPHADZE, Carl A. Berggren, Patrick R. Hodgson, Kathleen E. McGrath, Paul D. Kingsley, James Palis, Marlies P. Rossmann | Biomedical Genetics |
| 12 | QUIET ORIGINS OF METABOLIC FATE: GESTATIONAL VITAMIN B6 DEFICIENCY REPROGRAMS PANCREATIC BETA-CELL DEVELOPMENT AND GLUCOSE METABOLISM IN THE MALE OFFSPRING | NEHA BIJU, Madeline O'Connell, Philip Spinelli, Hannah Van Scoy, Jessica Shaw, Peining Jimmy Xu, Clementina Mesaros, and Martha Susiarjo | Biomedical Genetics |
| 13 | EXAMINING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE KDM5 DEMETHYLASES IN LUMINAL BREAST CANCER | ZACHARY SMITH, Sijun Cheng, Christina Davidson, Ching-hua Shih, Paula Vertino | Biochemistry |
| 14 | IDH2 MUTANT HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS PROMOTE ENDOTHELIAL NICHE REMODELING | EDGARDO FRANCO, Christina Kaszuba, Benjamin Rodems, Sonali Sharma, James McGrath, and Jeevisha Bajaj | Biomedical Engineering |
| 15 | THE MECHANISM OF STARVATION-INDUCED LIPID DROPLETS (SI-LDS) IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER | MINHAO CHEN, Michael Welte | Biology |
| 16 | STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS OF THE HUMAN UBIQUITINOME | ANUSHKA JAIN, Naiyareen Mayeen, Michael Meadow, Nino Kalandadze, Kyle Swovick, Kevin Welle, Jennifer Hryhorenko, Sina Ghaemmaghami | Biology |
| 17 | TARGETED EDITING OF PERICENTROMERIC SATELLITE DNA ALTERS SENSITIVITY TO MEIOTIC DRIVE | JABALE RAHMAT, M. Lindsay, J. Bowers, N.J. Fuda, and A.M. Larracuente, D.G. Eickbush | Biology |
| 18 | NEAREST NEIGHBOR PARAMETERS FOR ESTIMATING THE STABILITY OF RNA SEQUENCES INCLUDING PSEUDOURIDINE | THANDOLWETHU SHABANGU, Elzbieta Kierzek, Sebastian Arteaga, Gregory S. Orf, Julia Stone, Olivia M. Hiltke, Megan Miaro, Elizabeth A. Jolley, Marta Soszyńska-Jóźwiak, Philip C. Bevilacqua, Brent M. Znosko, Sharon Aviran, Ryszard Kierzek, and David H. Mathews | Biophysics and Biochemistry |
| 19 | NOVEL AUTOPHAGY REGULATOR, SFT2, AND ITS POTENTIAL ROLE IN TERMINAL ERYTHROPOIESIS | JACQUELINE MORIN, Ruisi Qin, Jake Romley Murias, Caroline Liu, Ning Wang | Biomedical Genetics |
| 20 | MATING EXPERIENCE AS AN INTERNAL STATE THAT MODULATES BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES IN C. ELEGANS MALES | XI KUANG, Chance Bainbridge, Douglas S. Portman | Biology |
| 21 | PREDICTION OF NON-CANONICAL BASE PAIRS USING STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS FROM SEQUENCE COMPARISON | MEGAN MIARO, David H. Mathews | Biochemistry & Biophysics |
| 22 | IGE MEDIATED ALLERGIC STIMULATION SUPPRESSES MEMORY CD4 T CELL ACTIVATION AND EFFECTOR FUNCTION | JINGYI WU, Bailey Matthews, Regina K. Rowe | Biomedical Genetics |
| 23 | OXIDATIVE STRESS EFFECT ON ASTROCYTE TAU UPTAKE | DOMINIC BUNN, Tyler Hancock, Andrew Wojtovich, Gail Johnson | Neuroscience |
| 24 | DETECTING INTER-NUCLEOSOME INTERACTIONS IN A NOVEL TRI-NUCLEOSOME ARRAY | ELIZABETH LUCAS, Jeffrey Hayes | Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| 25 | TRANSIENT SPRR1A EXPRESSION DEFINES A PERSISTENT BORDER ZONE CARDIOMYOCYTE POPULATION | EMILY H. MARSHALL, Daniel A. Zuppo, Kimberly N. Burgos Villar, Adwiteeya Misra, Deanne M. Mickelsen, Ronald A. Dirkx, Jr., and Eric M. Small | Genetics |
| 26 | POTENTIAL ROLE OF VIRAL LATENCY PROTEIN U94A IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | AMELIA HINES, Garrick Salois, Jadon Schlierf, Chris Proschel, Margot Mayer-Proschel | Neuroscience |
| 27 | DANP32 FUNCTIONS WITH JABBA TO PROMOTE EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT | NOAH REGER, Patrick Murphy, Michael Welte | Biology |
| 28 | DROSOPHILA IPO9 PROMOTES H2AV EXCHANGE BETWEEN LDS AND H2AV IMPORT INTO THE NUCLEUS | M. NADUNI DE SILVA, Asmita Dutta, Pakinee Phromsiri, Alicia Shipley, Michael A. Welte | Biology |
| 29 | CIRCADIAN PROTEIN BMAL1 DECREASES ACROSS HISTOLOGICAL GRADE IN LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA | CODY NACCARATO, Moises Velez, Bradley Mills, Brian J Altman | Pathology |
| 30 | OPTIMIZING THE PRODUCTION AND SPLICING SITES OF NOVEL OBELISK RNA ELEMENTS THROUGH AN INDUCIBLE T4 TD INTRON SPLICING SYSTEM | LISHA MA, Mike Lutz, Maedeh Aghahosseini, Keegan Proctor, Andrew Varble | Biology |
| 31 | BMAL1 AND CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SUPPORT ANTI-TUMOR IMMUNE SIGNALING IN LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA | WEIJIA ZHANG, Juliana Cazarin, Noah A Salama, Scott A Gerber, Brian J. Altman | Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| 32 | INTEGRATIVE PAN-TISSUE SCORECARD MAPS VARIANT-TO-GENE RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS TISSUES | DEAN ZHANG, Hongbo Liu | MSTP |
| 33 | DIVERGENT MECHANISMS OF HUNGER MODULATION IN DROSOPHILA SUGAR AND BITTER SENSORIMOTOR CIRCUITS | GLADYS LEITCH, Gabriella Sterne | Biomedical Genetics |
| 34 | KI-67 REGULATES EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX GENE EXPRESSION IN MYOFIBROBLASTIC CANCER-ASSOCIATED FIBROBLAST-LIKE CELLS IN AN INFLAMMATORY ENVIRONMENT | GRETCHEN STENNETT, Min Yee, Michael O'Reilly | Biomedical Genetics and Genomics |
| 35 | NEURAL CIRCUITS UNDERLYING VALUE-BASED DECISION MAKING IN DROSOPHILA OVIPOSION | JIAWEN TIAN, Sarah Chiaradonna, Gabriella R. Sterne, Yoshinori Aso | Biomedical Genetics |
| 36 | TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX 2 ASSOCIATION WITH RELA/P65 IS CRITICAL FOR NF-κB ACTIVATION AND ENDOTHELIAL CELL INFLAMMATION | IMRAN TAHIR, Rauf A. Najar, Arshad Rahman | Pediatrics and Biology |
| Postdocs | |||
| 37 | INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA INDUCES HIF-1-DEPENDENT ADULT LIFESPAN EXTENSION IN C. ELEGANS | ANNIKA MUELLER-EIGNER, Andrew Wojtovich | Anesthesiology |
| 38 | THE ONCOGENE MYC DRIVES CIRCADIAN CLOCK DISRUPTION AND REGULATES CELL PLASTICITY IN EARLY LUNG CARCINOGENESIS | JULIANA CAZARIN, Jacob Cody Naccarato, Jamison Burchett, Siti Noor Ain Binti Ahmad Shahidan, Min Yee, Michael A. O'Reilly, Brian J. Altman | Biomedical Genetics |
| 39 | STING KO MICE BENEFIT FROM EXTENDED LONGEVITY AND RESIST AGE-ASSOCIATED LIVER DAMAGE | JOHN C. MARTINEZ, Sei Joong Kim, Joseph Cutting, John Sedivy, Andrei Seluanov, Vera Gorbunova | Biology |
| 40 | INVESTIGATING THE CIRCUIT LOGIC OF DIRECTED REACHING | ATTILIO CERETTI, Gabriella R. Sterne | Biomedical Genetics |
| 41 | ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF TCF21+ EPICARDIAL CELLS IN CORONARY ARTERY PATTERNING | DANIEL A. ZUPPO, Pearl Quijada, Cameron D. Baker, Emma G. Norris, Benjamin Fisler, Ronald A. Dirkx Jr., Eunice Han, V. Kaye Thomas, John M. Ashton & Eric M. Small | CVRI |
| Undergraduate Students | |||
| 42 | NETRIN-1 PROMOTES LIVER METASTASIS IN PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS | CHRISTINA WANG, Mitchell Breitenbach, Wade Narrow, Jennifer Becker, Darren Carpizo, and Chris Harris | Biology |
| 43 | INVESTIGATING THE BEHAVIOR OF IMPORTIN ALPHA 2 IN FRUIT FLY EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT | ZOE STANLEY, Alicia Shipley, Asmita Dutta, Michael Welte | Biology |
| 44 | ELUCIDATING THE IMPACT OF srd-59 SEX-REVERSAL MUTATIONS ON THE C. ELEGANS SEX-SHARED NERVOUS SYSTEM VIA SEX-SPECIFIC REPORTERS | EMBER JOHNSON, Zachary Ward, Douglas S. Portman | Biomedical Genetics |
| 45 | MAPPING AN X-SUPPRESSOR OF THE SELFISH MEIOTIC DRIVE SYSTEM SEGREGATION DISTORTER IN D. MELANOGASTER | TYLER HANDLER, Emiliano Marti, Amanda Larracuente | Biology |
| Staff | |||
| 46 | GENE TRANSFER-BASED DELETION OF MTOR IN TYPE I EPITHELIUM: A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC APPROACH TO CONTROL ACUTE LUNG INJURY | MOHAMMAD SHADAB, Rauf A. Najar, Imran Tahir, Fabeha Fazal, David A. Dean, Arshad Rahman | Pediatrics |
| 47 | THE PROLIFERATION MARKER KI-67 AMPLIFIES INTERFERON SIGNALING DURING INFLUENZA VIRUS INFECTIONS | MIN YEE, Gretchen Stennett, Andrew Dylag, Paige Lawrence, Daniel Fisher, and Michael A. O'Reilly | Pediatrics |
| 48 | A SIRT6 ACTIVATOR FUCOIDAN EXTENDS HEALTHSPAN AND LIFESPAN IN AGED WILD-TYPE MICE | ALI BIASHAD1, Eric Hillpot1, Francesco Morandini1, Cheyenne Rechsteiner1, Victoria Paige1, Gregory Tombline1, Minseon Lee1, Zhizhong Zheng1, Yuan Liang1, John Martinez1, Natasha Sieczkiewicz1, Zhihui Zhang1, Valentin Volobaev1, Denis Firsanov1, Matthew Simon1, Annette Sebrell1, Miraz A. Sadi1, Joseph A. Cutting1, Xiaoyan Liao2, Lei J. Zhang3, Paul D. Robbins3, Andrei Seluanov1,3, Vera Gorbunova | Biology |
| 49 | SEX DIFFERENCES IN CONTEXT-DEPENDENT BEHAVIORAL FLEXIBILITY TO NUTRIENT STRESS IN C. ELEGANS | CHANCE BAINBRIDGE, Portman Douglas | Biomedical Genetics |
| 50 | CATABOLISM OF EXTRACELLULAR GLUTATHIONE SUPPLIES CYSTEINE TO SUPPORT TUMORS | FABIO HECHT, Marco Zocchi, Emily Tuttle, Fatemeh Alimohammadi, Zhuoran Zhou, Yuhan Gan, Sara K. Blick-Nitko, and Isaac S. Harris | Biomedical Genetics |
| 51 | THE ROLE OF GENOMIC IMPRINTING IN PLACENTAL SEROTONIN SYNTHESIS | VARSHINI MURUGESH, Neha Biju, Madeline OConnell, and Martha Susiarjo | Environmental Medicine |
| 52 | CPG HYPERMETHYLATION AT THE DMPK LOCUS CORRELATES WITH CTG REPEAT LENGTH IN A NOVEL KNOCK-IN MOUSE MODEL OF MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY TYPE 1 | HSIN YA HUANG, BSc; Martha Susiarjo, PhD; Charles A. Thornton, MD; Samuel J. Mackenzie, MD, PhD | Neurology |