Thursday, October 27, 2022
Illini Union, Illini Rooms B & C
Urbana, IL
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Business Casual Attire
| 8:00am-8:30am | Registration, West side of Illini Room B & C |
| 8:30am-8:45am | Opening Remarks, Illini Room – C Dr. Claudio Grosman |
| 8:45am-10:00am | Student Talks, Illini Room – C Adam Nelczyk – Fried, cured bacon and histaminergic signaling: novel insights into the impact of diet on the dormant breast cancer microenvironment. Daniel Castro – Single-cell and Subcellular Analysis using Ultrahigh Resolution 21 T MALDI FTICR Mass Spectrometry. Jacob Reed – Transcription Factor Runx1 controls uterine angiogenesis by regulating the secretion of extracellular vesicles. Simon Lizarazo – Amyloid Beta Induces Fmr1-Dependent Translational Suppression and Hyposynchrony of Neural Activity. Baher Ibrahim – Microprism-based two-photon imaging of the lateral cortex of the mouse inferior colliculus reveals novel organizational principles of the auditory midbrain. |
| 10:00am-11:00am | Poster Session #1, Illini Room – B (Poster Numbers – 1 to 11) |
| 11:00am-12:00pm | Keynote Address #1, Illini Room – C Alumnus Dr. W. Lee Kraus “ADP-Ribosylation: From Discovery to Function” Introduction by graduate student Nicole Godellas |
| 12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch, Illini Room – B |
| 1:00pm-2:00pm | Student Talks, Illini Room – C Anushna Sen – Bile Acids Induce IQ Containing GTPase Activating Protein 1 to Alleviate Liver Injury. Gregory Tracy – Heterozygous Deletion of Epilepsy Gene KCNQ2 Has Negligible Effects on Learning and Memory. Xiyu Ge – Glycoprotein hormone subunit alpha 2 (GPHA2): a pituitary stem cell-expressed hormone regulated by Notch signaling. Ingrid Possa-Paranhos – Hypothalamic MC3R deletion causes severe hyperphagia and obesity in adult mice. |
| 2:00pm-3:00pm | Social Activity, Location – Illini Ballroom |
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | Poster Session #2, Illini Room – B (Poster Numbers – 12 to 22) |
| 4:00pm-4:30pm | Keynote Address #2, Illini Room – C Professor Dr. Benita Katzenellenbogen “The Fulfilling Journey of a UI Scientist” Introduction by graduate student Adam Nelczyk |
| 4:30pm-5:00pm | Awards and Closing Remarks, Illini Room – C |