Annual Bioscience Symposium &
Don Summers Memorial Lectures
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Reseach Talks via Zoom
Please email the Bioscience Program Office for Zoom Links
In-person Poster Session/Social CANCELLED
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Welcome!
Morning Don Summers Memorial Lecture
Rebecca Goss
University of St. Andrews
Professor, School of Chemistry
"Blending Synthetic Biology and Synthetic Chemistry to Access Medicinally Interesting Natural Products and Their Analogues"
Red Session
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Maria Bettini (Microbiology & Immunology)
"Regulatory T cell control of autoimmunity"
Andrew Baessler (Microbiology & Immunology, Hale Lab)
"Tet2-mediated programing balances T follicular helper cell and T helper 1 cell differentiation"
Karen Hilgendorf (Biochemistry)
"The primary cilium organizes signaling pathways to regulate fat tissue expansion"
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Break
White Session
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Paul Sigala (Biochemistry)
"Unraveling the Metabolic Adaptations of Malaria Parasites"
Chris Reilly (Pharmacology & Toxicology)
"Role of transient receptor potential ion channels in particle recognition and airway
epithelial cell-associated inflammation and acute cytotoxicity"
Snigdha Sarkar (Medicinal Chemistry, Schmidt Lab)
"Cyanobactin Macrocyclases: Bridging the Gap between Linear and Cyclic Peptides"
"Cyanobactin Macrocyclases: Bridging the Gap between Linear and Cyclic Peptides"
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Afternoon Don Summers Memorial Lecture
Silvia Corvera
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Chair in Diabetes Research and Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine
“Energizing adipose stem cells for next-generation therapies”
Red Session
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bruce Edgar (Oncological Sciences)
"The Control of Regenerative and Adaptive Growth in the Drosophila Gut"
Nichole Link (Neurobiology)
"Decoding genetic and infectious microcephaly using Drosophila"
Katsu Funai (Nutrition & Integrative Physiology)
"How lipids interfere with bioenergetics to promote complex diseases"
White Session
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Michael Yu (Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
"Targeting Damaged Collagens for Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and Regenerative Medicine"
Gabe Nagy (Chemistry)
"Characterization of Human Milk Oligosaccharide Building Block Isomers with Cyclic
Ion Mobility Separations and Mass Spectrometry"
Amy Barrios (Medicinal Chemistry)
"Receptor Tyrosine Phosphatases: Chemical probes and potential therapeutic leads"
In-person Poster Session/Social CANCELLED
Due to the spike in COVID concerns and low RSVP numbers leadership has made the difficult decision to cancel the poster session. We hope to be back in person next year.