Annual Bioscience Symposium &
Don Summers Memorial Lectures
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House
Please Register Here
Directions to the Alumni House
The University of Utah research community is invited to the Symposium - Faculty, students, and postdocs across multiple colleges and departments along with our new classes of graduate students!
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (OC Tanner Ballroom, 2nd Floor, via remote broadcast)
Welcome & Don Summers Memorial Lecture
Leonard Zon
Grousbeck Professor of Pediatric Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Stem Cell Clonality and the Niche"
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Box Lunches at the Alumni House
Red Session
OC Tanner Ballroom, 2nd Floor
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Daniel Leung (Microbiology & Immunology, Internal Medicine)
"MAITs for B cells: a potential target for mucosal vaccines"
"Losing to Win: How gene loss can contribute to species adaptations"
White Session
Henriksen Room, 1st Floor
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Andrew Roberts (Chemistry)
"Synthesis of bioactive natural product-inspired cyclic peptides"
Yue Lu (Molecular Pharmaceutics)
"Digital Pharmaceutics: From Smart Drug Delivery to Systems Biology"
Jeffrey Mensah (Pharmacology & Toxicology, Wilcox Lab)
"Development of Clinical Relevant Combination Therapy Paradigms for Dravet Syndrome"
2:15 - 2:30
Break
Red Session
OC Tanner Ballroom, 2nd Floor
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Qian Xue (Biochemistry, Roh-Johnson Lab)
"Environmental control of cell-matrix interaction during single cell migration"
Anna Beaudin (Microbiology & Immunology, Hematology)
"Defining developmental origins of health and disease: a (hematopoietic) stem cell perspective"
White Session
Henriksen Room, 1st Floor
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Tamara Bidone (Biochemistry, Molecular Pharmaceutics)
"Understanding the relationship between protein motions and conformation through the
development of bottom-up coarse-graining approaches"
TingTing Hong (Pharmacology & Toxicology)
"T-tubule Membrane Remodeling in the Heart – from Mechanisms to Therapy Development
for Chronic Heart Failure"
Peter Shen (Biochemistry)
"How cells unfold proteins"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (OC Tanner Ballroom, 2nd Floor)
Closing Don Summers Memorial Lecture
Ruma Banerjee
Vincent Massey Collegiate Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School
"A mitochondrial paradigm for sulfide signaling"
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Poster Session & Social (In-Person)
Posters from graduate students, faculty, and postdocs!
RSVP by Tuesday, September 6th to reserve a board and easel.