2025 DSRB Program Retreat

Welcome to our annual gathering!

(Speaker times are approximate)

Thursday, September 11th, 2025

9:30-9:55 AM

Registration and Poster Setup

Welcome remarks

9:55 AM

Patrick Seale, PhD - DSRB Chair

Keynote talk - Moderated by Dominique Doyle

10:00 AM

Michael Herriges- Assistant Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston University

Durable engraftment of PSC-derived lung epithelial cells

Speaker Session 1 - Moderated by Kathleen Lee

11:00 AM

11:05

Daniel Yen- Speck Lab

Determining how Runx1 regulates neutrophil inflammation in RUNX1 Familial Platelet Disorder

11:25

Sweta Narayan - Kahn Lab

Angiopoietin 2 Regulates Uterine Vascular Development During Early Pregnancy

11:45

Jay Read

Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Two Truths and a Lie

Lunch

12:15 - 1:15

Speaker Session 2 - Moderated by Joan Donahue

1:15

1:20

Segovia Garcia- Bonasio Lab

Uncovering Novel Regulators of PRC2 establishment

1:40

Nick Holcomb- Vaughan Lab

Secreted IL1α from Ectopic Basal Cells Drives Inflammatory Fibroblast Activation

2:00

Reiko Tomizawa- Kamberov Lab

A genetic basis for the evolution of human fur loss

2:20

Dominique Doyle- Basil Lab

The DSRB Committee for Advancing Non-discrimination (DSRB CAN)

Mutant Fish and Nail Polish

Poster Session

2:40

Rising 3rd year students

Speaker Session 3- Moderated by Megan Guerin

3:40

3:45

Abigail Ridler- Gadue Lab

Investigating role of GATA6 during human pancreatic endocrine development using dTAG degron system

4:05

Daana Roach- Hamilton Lab

Determining the functional consequences of unique inflammatory cell states in chronic gastrointestinal disease

4:25

Faculty Blitz talks

Closing Remarks and Poster Prizes

4:45

Happy Hour and Appetizers

5:00 - 7:30

Science Olympics

5:45 - 6:30

Moderated by Megan Guerin and Joan Donahue

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