The eighth annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Friday, May 14th, virtually, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. The symposium will be held on gather.town (https://gather.town/i/4tog0X3T). The 2021 symposium will feature Dr. Gregory Petsko 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:
Dr. Gregory Petsko, Professor of Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
"How Parkinson's Disease Starts - And How It Might be Stopped."
Registration Information
MBSB Symposium 2021 registration form and abstract submissions should be completed no later than April 23rd, 2021.
Completed forms should be emailed to Ananya Mukundan at Mukundan.Ananya@medstudent.pitt.edu
Registration Form: Click HERE to register
Abstract Template: Click HERE to download
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2021
9:00-9:10 Program Welcome
Morning Session 1:
Chaired by Ari Selzer
9:10 am Title TBA
Maria Kurnikova
Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, MBSB Training Faculty
9:35 am Peeking and Poking at Cells: Optochemical Control of Biological Processes
Alex Deiters
Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
10:00 am Parallel Session: Career Development session for Students
MBSB Faculty Meeting for Faculty
Morning Session 2:
Chaired by Ananya Mukundan
11:00 am Sub-Pocket EXplorer (SubPEx): a Weighted ensemble algorithm to sample protein conformations
Erich Hellemann Holguin
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB student
11:20 am Holding it Together: Contact Tracing within the NHEJ Synaptic Complex
Sean Carney
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Loparo Laboratory, Harvard University, MBSB Alumnus
Lunch Break: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Afternoon Session:
Chaired by Brittani Schnable
1:00 pm Activation of Tec family kinase Btk by HIV-1 Nef
Manish Aryal
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB Student
1:20 pm Tetramerization: a new paradigm for regulating SNX-BAR membrane interaction
Marijn Ford
Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
1:45 pm Pull yourself together! Mapping mechantransduction of cellular tension forces.
Kirill Lavernyuk
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, MBSB Student
2:10-3:15 Poster Session
Keynote Address:
Chaired by Ananya Mukundan
3:20 pm How Parkinson's Disease Starts - And how It Might be Stopped.
Gregory Petsko
Professor of Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
