Epithelial Biology Center 2017 Symposium

Epithelial Biology Center 2017 Symposium
Monday, May 15, 2017
1220 Medical Research Building III
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

AGENDA

10:00 Jim Goldenring, M.D., Ph.D.
  Welcome, opening remarks, and speaker introduction
   
10:15 Clotilde Théry, Ph.D. –  Keynote Speaker
  Exosomes and other extracellular vesicles in communication between tumors and the immune system
   
11:10 Aidan M. Fenix
 

Graduate Student (Dylan Burnette Lab), Cell and Developmental Biology
Evolutionary conserved mechanisms drive sarcomere assembly in cardiomyocytes
   
11:40 Meredith L. Weck
 

Graduate Student (Matt Tyska Lab), Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular basis of brush border assembly
12:15 Poster Session and Lunch (1st floor MRB III Lobby)
   
1:45 Amy C. Engevik, Ph.D.
 

Postdoctoral Fellow (Jim Goldenring Lab), Surgical Research
Deficits in Enterocyte Apical Transporters Associated with Loss of Myosin Vb
   
2:15 Yu-Ping Yang, Ph.D.
 

Research Instructor (Bob Coffey Lab), Department of Medicine
A Chimeric Egfr Protein Reporter Mouse Reveals Egfr Localization and Trafficking in Vivo
   
2:45 Peng Xu, Ph.D.
 

Postdoctoral Scholar (Todd Graham Lab), Department of Biological Sciences
A ubiquitin ticket is needed for an exocytic SNARE's return journey in the COPI carrier
   
3:15 Tara Archuleta, Ph.D. & Meredith Frazier
 

Postdoctoral Scholar & Graduate Student (Lauren Parker Jackson Lab), Department of Biological Sciences
Structures of the ENTH and VHS-like domains in the AP4 accessory protein, tepsin
   
3:45 Coffee Break
   
4:00

Bob Coffey, M.D.
  Speaker introduction
   
4:05 Margaret S. Robinson, Ph.D., FRS, FMedSci –  Keynote Speaker
  Adaptors for coated vesicles
   

 

Keynote Speakers

 

Clotilde Théry, PhD, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Institut Curie, Paris

Margaret S. Robinson, FRS, FMedSci, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge