26th Annual Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group Symposium
We're excited to invite the CAMB community to our 26th Annual Symposium on October 19th from 2pm-4:15pm and October 20th from 8am-6:30pm.
As we gather information we will post our program below with virtual links and schedule information!
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2023 Program (check back soon!)
Registration Deadlines!
With Abstract: September 22, 2023
(required for 4th & 5th year PhD and 5th & 6th year Combined Degree students)
All Others: October 6, 2023
Our 26th Annual Symposium will be held via Zoom on October 19th, and in Houston Hall - Hall of Flags, and Bodek Lounge, on October 20th, 2023. Please see the schedule laid out below with our great list of speakers, and our detailed program (PDF) for more information.
Thursday, October 19th - Alumni Career Panels via Zoom
2:00pm-3:00pm Career Panels 1 & 2 (check back soon for links!)
3:15pm-4:15pm Career Panels 3 & 4
Friday, October 20th - Student Speakers, Keynote Talks, and Poster Sessions
Houston Hall
8:00am-9:00am Check-in, Breakfast, and Poster Preview
9:00am-10:00am Opening Remarks, followed by Student Speakers Coral Kasden and Maya Hale
10:00am-11:10am Poster Session A
11:10am-11:55am Racial Equity and Action Keynote: Eugenia South, MD, MSHP
Dismantling Structural Racism from Within Academic Medicine: My Journey from Stress and Shame to Self-Trust, Boundaries, and the Career of My Dreams
11:55am-1:10pm Lunch Break
1:10pm-2:00pm Student Speakers Clayton Otter and Jesse Lee
2:00pm-3:10pm Poster Session B
3:10pm-4:00pm Student Speakers Dan Ju and Anna Garcia Whitlock, MD, PhD
4:10pm-5:10pm Alumni Keynote: Marcus D. Goncalves, MD, MSE, PhD
Developing a Translational Research Program for Cachexia
5:10pm-5:20pm Closing Remarks and Announcement of Awards
5:20pm-6:30pm Reception
Alumni Keynote Speaker
Marcus D. Goncalves, MD, MSE, PhD
Ralph L. Nachman, M.D. Research Scholar
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Developing a Translational Research Program for Cachexia
Racial Equity and Action Keynote
Eugenia South, MD, MSHP
Faculty Director, Penn Medicine Center for Health Justice
Associate Vice President of Health Justice
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Dismantling Structural Racism from Within Academic Medicine: My Journey from Stress and Shame to Self-Trust, Boundaries, and the Career of My Dreams
Student Speakers
Anna Garcia Whitlock, MD, PhD
CPM Program
Alum of Paul Titchenell's lab
From the Bay to the Bench: Elucidating the Drivers of Stress-Induced Hyperglycemia After Trauma and Hemorrhage
Maya Hale
DSRB Program
Greg Bashaw's lab
Nedd4 Family Interacting Proteins and E3 Ubiquitin Ligases Coordinate Axon Guidance in the Embryonic Mammalian Spinal Cord
Dan Ju
G&E Program
Iain Mathieson and Sarah Tishkoff's labs
Investigation of the genetic architecture of height in sub-Saharan Africans
Coral Kasden
GTV Program
Hansell Stedman lab
Micro-utrophin gene therapy is protective against cardiac injury in the muscular dystrophy mdx mouse heart
