Epithelial Biology Center & Center for Stem Cell Biology
Symposium
Thursday, April 4, 2019 | 214 & 208 Light Hall
Poster session and luncheon at noon
Register Now: https://is.gd/2019symposium
9:15 Welcome by Mark A. Magnuson, M.D.
Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Medicine and Cell &
Developmental Biology
9:20 “Powering neural development: Mitochondria in stem cell fate and early neurogenesis”
Vivian Gama, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
9:50 “Cellular heterogeneity and dynamics of active Kras-induced dysplastic lineages from mouse stomach"
Eunyoung Choi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
10:20 Break
10:30 "Metabolic Feedback Exchanges Drive the Evolution of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer"
Oliver McDonald, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
11:00 Keynote Speaker
Introduction by Sabine Fuhrmann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Cell & Developmental Biology
“Using human pluripotent stem cells to study development, diabetes and digestive disease”
Jim Wells, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Basic Research, Division of Endocrinology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
12:00 Lunch and Poster Session (North Lobby of Light Hall)
1:30 “Beyond Transcription Factors: Dissecting Signaling Activity in the Neural Stem Cell Niche”
Rebecca Ihrie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology and Neurological Surgery
2:00 “Effects of serotonin signaling on development of sacral autonomic neural progenitors that innervate the lower urinary tract”
Michelle Southard-Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Cell & Developmental Biology
2:30 Break
2:45 "ATAC-Me reveals a continuum of epigenetic states driving gene regulatory diversity among cell types"
Emily Hodges, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
3:15 The diversity of single-cell landscapes among models of colonic tumorigenesis
Ken Lau, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
3:45 Break
4:00 Keynote Speaker
Introduction by Robert J. Coffey, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Cell & Developmental Biology
“Organoids to model human disease”
Hans Clevers, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor in Molecular Genetics
University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands