Basic Sciences Research Symposium
October 26, 2023
9:45 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks
Tamara Thomas, MD
Dean, School of Medicine
Penelope Duerksen-Hughes, PhD
Associate Dean, Basic Sciences
10 a.m. - 11 a.m. Panel Discussions
Moderated by Johnny Figueroa, PhD
Associate Professor, Basic Sciences, Physiology Division
Yangming Ou, MD
Associate Professor, Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Affiliated Faculty, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP), Boston Children's Hospital
Marcelo Febo, PhD
Assistant Professor and Director of Translational Research Imaging, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of Florida, College of Medicine Gainsville
Florida
Shiri Gur-Cohen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California San Diego
11 a.m. - 11 :30 a.m. Flash Poster Presentations
Vivian Mao, MD
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Vendor Show
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Poster Presentation and Judging
Olivia Francis-Boyle, PhD, Chair of the Poster Presentation and Judging
(odd numbered posters)
1:30 p.m - 2:30 p.m. Poster Presentation and Judging
Olivia Francis-Boyle, PhD, Chair of the Poster Presentation and Judging
(even numbered posters)
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Nano Talks
Moderated by Juli Unternaehrer, PhD
Associate Professor, Basic Sciences, Biochemistry Division
Isaac Kremsky, PhD
Assistant Professor, Basic Sciences,Biomed Engineering Science
"Spaceflight-Induced Gene Expression Profiles in the Mouse Brain Are Attenuated by Treatment with the Antioxidant BuOE"
Sajad Khazal, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine
"Next-Generation Sequencing Minimal Residual Disease (NGS-MRD) evaluation of B-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL) in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients"
Thomas Stahovich, PhD
University of California, Riverside
"AI – Beyond the Hype"
3:30 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. Keynote Speaker
Matthew D. Ringel, MD
Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Ohio State University
4:50 p.m. - 5 p.m. Poster Winners/Closing Remarks
Salma Khan, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Basic Sciences, Biochemistry Division
Olivia Francis-Boyle, PhD, Research Professor, Basic Sciences, Biomed Engineering Science