THIRTY-FIFTH SYMPOSIA
Challenges in Biomedical Sciences: Research from the Fellows’ Perspective
October 21,22,23, 2011Interlaken Inn, Lakeville, Connecticut
HOSTED BYDr. Bonnie Bassler and Dr. Richard Losick
The 2011 Symposium will consist of presentations by third year fellows:
Eftychia Apostolou
Genome-wide interactions of the Nanog locus in pluripotent stem cells
Konrad Hockedlinger, MGH and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Joshua Black
Understanding the role of the histone tri-demethylase
JMJD2A/KDM4A in cell cycle progression and DNA
replication
Johnathan Whetstine, MGH and Harvard Medical School
Bryan Davies
Co-operation between horizontally acquired elements
mediates pathogenesis of Vibrio cholerae
Johnathan Whetstine, MGH and Harvard Medical School
Robert Driscoll
Molecular dissection of the replication checkpoint
Karlene Cimprich, Stanford University School of Medicine
Andrew Elia
Quantitative proteomics for global mapping of
in-vivo lysine modifications
Stephen Elledge, Harvard Medical School
Liangcai Gu
Protein-Polony binary array for multiplex proteomic analysis
George M. Church, Harvard Medical School
Suzanne Komili
A whole-genome screen for factors affecting noise in
gene expression shows that noise regulation is largely
pathway specific and impacts signaling fidelity
Hiten Madhani, University of California, San Francisco
Claus D. Kuhn
PIWI proteins in planarian development
Leemor Joshua-Tor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Prabhat Kunwar
Genetic dissection of neuronal circuitry underlying fear behaviors in mice
David Anderson, California Institute of Technology
Vicki Losick
Polyploidy serves as a mechanism of tissue repair in
Drosophila
Allan C. Spradling, Carnegie Institution for Science
David Mets
The genetics of behavior and evolution in songbirds
Michael Brainard, University of California, San Francisco and The Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience
Brant Peterson
Less is more: targeting techniques to extend the reach
of next-generation sequencing in trait mapping and population genomics
Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University
Elizabeth Read
Immunological control of HIV: from statistical mechanics to clinical data
Arup Chakraborty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dragana Rogulja
Regulation of sleep by cell cycle genes
Michael Young, The Rockefeller University
June Round
A commensal bacteria coordinates host immunity to
establish symbiosis
Sarkis K. Mazmanian, California Institute of Technology
Edmund C. Schwartz
A light activated transcription factor
Richard Axel, Columbia University
Alina Vrabioiu
Dachsous/Fat-based intercellular communication is modulated by intracellular complex formation
Gary Struhl, Columbia University
Zhiping Wang
EBAX-1/PQN-55, a novel conserved Elongin BC-box protein, regulates Slit-and Robo-dependent axon guidance in C. elegans
Yishi Jin, University of California, San Diego
Zeba Wunderlich
A systematic approach to dissect species-specific gene
expression patterns in Drosophila embryos
Angela DePace, Harvard University
Oh-Kyu Yoon
Regulatory logic of alternative polyadenylation in
human B-lymphocytes
Rachel B. Brem, University of California, Berkeley
Roberto Zoncu
Inside-out sensing of amino acids activates mTORC1 at the lysosome
David Sabatini, Whitehead Institute
Saturday evening October 22nd Speaker
Dr. Peter Kim, President
Improving Human Health Through Translational Research
Merck Research Laboratories
North Wales, Pennsylvania
