Agenda
- 8:15-9 a.m. Light Breakfast and Check-In
9-9:30 a.m. Welcome Remarks
Chair: Rueyling Lin, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Biomedical Research Recruitment and Advancement, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern
- Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D.
President, UT Southwestern - Joseph Goldstein, M.D. | A Trailblazing Journey of Discovery: From St. Louis to Houston to Dallas, but Not to Durham
Chair and Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics
UT Southwestern - Dennis McKearin, Ph.D. | Reflections on Molecular Biology and UT Southwestern
Senior Scientific Officer
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Eric Olson, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
Session 1
Chair: Chun-Li Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern
- 9:30-10 a.m. Change of Heart: From Genetics to New Therapeutics
- Deepak Srivastava, M.D.
President, Gladstone Institutes
- 10-10:15 a.m. Pathogens: Hijacking Tools From Another
- Kim Orth, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigator
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
- 10:15-10:30 a.m. Curious Cases of Pluripotent Stem Cell Adaptations
- Jun Wu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
10:30-10:50 a.m. Break & Molecular Biology Faculty Group Photo
Session 2
Chair: Steven Kliewer, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, UT Southwestern
- 10:50-11:05 a.m. Tu-be or Not Tu-be: Making and Maintaining Vascular Tubes
- Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
- 11:05-11:20 a.m. Ribosomes: Decoding Life’s Messages
- Michael Buszczak, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
- 11:20-noon Exploration of Biological Diversity
- Feng Zhang, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigator
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering, MIT
Core Member, Broad Institute
Noon-1:15 p.m. Lunch Break
Session 3
Chair: Jenna Jewell, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern
- 1:15-1:55 p.m. Recent Progress in iPS Cell Research and Application
- Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes
Director Emeritus and Professor, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
- 1:55-2:10 p.m. Exploring the Dark Matter of the Genome
- Joshua Mendell, M.D. Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
- 2:10-2:25 p.m. New Targets in Lung Cancer: The Cell Surface and Beyond
- Kathryn O’Donnell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
- 2:25-3:05 p.m. Pathogenesis Studies of Neurodegenerative Diseases: The Rare Informs the Common
- Huda Zoghbi, M.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience, and Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine
Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital
3:05-3:25 p.m. Break
Session 4
Chair: Thomas Carroll, Ph.D., Professor, Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern
- 3:25-3:40 p.m. How Two Cells Become One
- Elizabeth Chen, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
- 3:40-3:55 p.m. Making Sense of Lipid Sensing
- Peter Douglas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
- 3:55-4:10 p.m. Breathing Life Into Dead Enzymes
- Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
- 4:10-4:50 p.m. Igniting an Immune Response with cGAS
- Zhijian “James” Chen, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
4:50-5 p.m. Closing Remarks
- Eric Olson, Ph.D. | Gratitude Is the Attitude
Chair and Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern