8:15-8:30
Welcome: Keck Center Overview and Conference Overview
Nancy Huang, Isaac Hilton, and Xiaotian Zhang
8:30-9:20
Xin Chen, PhD
Professor
Department of Biology
Johns Hopkins University
A “Sweet Spot” to Boost Cellular Plasticity
9:20-9:35
Katherine Wozniak, PhD, postdoctoral trainee
Baylor College of Medicine
Antimicrobial Resistance Training Program in the Texas Medical Center
Acquisition of a Gene Cluster in Clostridioides difficile PCR Ribotype 023 Strains Confers Xylitol Utilization Ability, Affecting Toxin Production and Swimming Motility
9:35-9:50
Jared Slone, predoctoral trainee
Rice University
NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Predicting TCR-pHLA Binding With Protein Language Models and Modeled 3D Structures
9:50-10:45
Poster Session and Coffee Break
10:45-11:35
Benjamin Sabari, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Deciphering the Language of Transcriptional Condensates in Health and Disease
11:35-11:50
Larissa Tavizón, predoctoral trainee
UT Health Science Center at Houston
Molecular Basis of Infectious Diseases Training Program
Investigating Ubiquitin-Mediated Regulation of SKN-1 During Pathogen Response in C. elegans
11:50-12:05
Xing-Han Zhang, predoctoral trainee
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Training in Precision Environmental Health Sciences Program
Exploring the Conditional Pathogenicity of BRCA1 Mutations Through HSP90
12:05-12:20
Keck Center Appreciation
Kathy Matthews and Monte Pettitt, Keck Center founders
12:20-1:00
Lunch Break
1:00-1:50
James Nuñez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California Berkeley
Editing the Epigenome of Human Cells with CRISPR
1:50-2:05
Peyton High, predoctoral trainee
UT Health Science Center at Houston
Training Interdisciplinary Pharmacology Scientists Program
Evaluation of EGFR and LGR5 Antibody-Drug Conjugate-Based
Dual-Targeting Therapeutic Strategies for the Improved Treatment of Colorectal Cancer
2:05-2:20
Yuepeng Ke, PhD, postdoctoral trainee
Institute of Biosciences and Technology
Cancer Therapeutics Training Program
Development and Preclinical Evaluation of Novel CAR-T Cell Therapy for Prostate Cancer
2:20-3:15
Poster Session and Coffee Break
3:15-4:05
Hui Shen, PhD
Professor
Department of Epigenetics
Van Andel Institute
Cancer Epigenetics: From Genes to Cells
4:05-4:55
Andrew Stergachis, MD PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine and Genome Sciences
University of Washington
A Single-Cell and Haplotype-Resolved View of Normal and Pathogenic Gene Regulation
4:55-5:05
Awards and Closing
Nancy Huang, Isaac Hilton, and Xiaotian Zhang
5:05
Reception