The eleventh annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Wednesday, May 8^th from 8:30am to 5:00pm in the Assembly.  The 2024 symposium will feature Dr. Nancy Carrasco as the keynote speaker.  Other speakers will include MBSB faculty, current MBSB graduate students, and an MBSB alumnus.  Scroll down to see the schedule of events!

 

Keynote Speaker: 

Nancy Carrasco, M.D.
Vanderbilt University

"The tale of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS): From cloning to structure"   

 

Registration

 

 

Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2024

 

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:10 Program Welcome

 

Morning Session 1:

Chaired by Awishi Mondal

9:10 am           Small Molecule Allosteric Inhibitors for Src-Family Kinases in AML: Developing Novel

                     Inhibitors which Harness Natural Regulatory Networks
                          Ari Selzer

 

9:30 am             Recruitment and assembly of DNA damage checkpoint signaling factors
                          Emily Beckwitt, PhD

                     Postdoctoral Associate, The Rockefeller University

 

 

10:05 am           (Presentation Title)
                          Guillermo Calero, PhD
                          Associate Professor, Department of Structural Biology 

 

10:40 am           Break

 

Morning Session 2:

Chaired by Benjamin Wang

11:00 am          Characterizing an Alternate Conformation of the HIV-1 Capsid Protein CTD Dimer using 19F

                     NMR and Weighted Ensemble MD 
                         Darian Yang

 

11:20 pm             (Presentation Title)
                          Simone Brixius-Anderko
                          Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

 

12:00 pm            Lunch

12:45 pm           Parallel Sessions: Career Development session for Students (room B1610)

MBSB Faculty Meeting for Faculty

 

Afternoon Session:

Chaired by Victor So

2:00 pm             Thymine DNA glycosylase combines sliding and hopping to efficiently search for 5-

                      formylcytosine
                          Brittani Schnable

 

2:20 pm             (Presentation Title)
                          Huaying Zhang, PhD
                          Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

 

Keynote Address:

Chaired by Sophia Staggers

 

3:00 pm            The tale of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS): From cloning to structure
                          Nancy Carrasco, PhD
                         Joe C. Davis Chair in Biomedical Science, Vanderbilt University
                         Chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics 
                         Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
                          

4:00pm              Poster Session + Reception

 

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