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13th Annual Pathology Research Symposium

Friday, November, 14, 2014

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Departmental talks, a poster session and the keynote address will be held in the A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building located at 109 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI.

 

Keynote Speaker:
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D.

Distinguished NIH Investigator

Chief, Section on Organelle Biology

Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

National Institutes of Health
 

"Navigating the cellular landscape with new optical probes, imaging strategies and technical innovations"
 

 

Itinerary:

9:20 a.m.

Introduction by Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology

Molecular & Cellular Pathology Program Director

9:30 a.m.

Jon Pollock, B.S.
Doctoral Candidate, Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Mentors: Tomasz Cierpicki, Ph.D. and Jolanta Grembecka, Ph.D.

Targeting menin-MLL-LEDGF complex with small molecules

9:45 a.m.Andrew Muntean, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Cooperative mechanisms of leukemogenesis
10:10 a.m.Amy Han, M.S.
Doctoral Candidate, Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Mentor: Evan Keller, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Identifying genes that regulate bladder cancer progression and invasion
10:25 a.m.David Lombard, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Modulation of mitochondrial metabolism as an anti-cancer strategy
10:50 a.m.Break
11:00 a.m.Talha Anwar, B.S.
Doctoral Candidate, Molecular & Cellular Pathology & Medical Scientist Training Program
Mentor: Celina Kleer, M.D.
Non-canonical functions of EZH2 in triple-negative breast cancers
11:15 a.m.

Career panel

  *Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D. - National Institutes of Health

  *Neali Lucas, Ph.D. - Food and Drug Administration

  *Charlie Taylor, Ph.D. - Pfizer

  *Ed Pagani, Ph.D. - U of M Office of Technology Transfer

  *David Lombard, M.D., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, U of M Department of Pathology

12:15 p.m.Poster session and lunch
1:30 p.m.Keynote presentation – Navigating the cellular landscape with new optical probes, imaging strategies and technical innovations

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D.

Distinguished NIH Investigator

Chief, Section on Organelle Biology

Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

National Institutes of Health

2:30 p.m.

Rebekah Martin, B.S.

Doctoral Candidate, Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Mentor: Michael Bachman, M.D., Ph.D.
Identification of disease-associated genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates
2:45 p.m.Scott Tomlins, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Next generation sequencing and 'n of 1': maximizing discovery from extraordinary patients
3:10 p.m.

Break

3:20 p.m.

Anuska Andjelkovic-Zochowska, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Pathology

CCM3 in modulation of brain endothelial barrier integrity

3:45 p.m.
Associate Professor of Pathology
Ethics lecture
Right to try? Should patients have access to Phase I pharmaceutical drugs at the end of life?
4:10 p.m.Awards presentation and concluding remarks
  

  


Past Symposiums (Programs and photos):
11th Annual Pathology Research Symposium, October 2012
12th Annual Pathology Research Symposium, November 2013