FYI Seminar Series
2021-2022 Schedule
September 1, 2021 - Philip Ryan - "Talking Science: Designing and Delivering Successful Oral Presentations"
September 22, 2021 - CANCELLED
October 6, 2021 - Todd Golden - "Trends in cancer care in the COVID-19 era" and Yunlong He - "Single cell sequencing: unraveling the heterogeneity of life"
October 20, 2021 - Sophia Lookingbill - “Characterization of PIM1 PROTACs as a New Targeting Strategy”
November 3, 2021 - Knicki Bergman - “Targeting Leucine Zipper-Bearing Kinase for the Treatment of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma”
November 17, 2021 - Xiuxiu Lu - "Development of structure-guided hRpn13-targeting bifunctional molecules as an anti-cancer strategy"
December 1, 2021 - Meredith Ramba - "Impact of Chronic Inflammation on Regulatory T Cells in a Model of Systemic Lupus (SLE)" and Jonathan Motley - "Technology Transfer at NCI: Engaged Partnerships Benefiting Research, Innovation, and Public Health"
December 15, 2021 - Yuta Hikichi - “Mutations in the HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein Reduce the Susceptibility of the Virus to Antiretrovirals”
January 5, 2022 - Jienyu (Jenny) Ding - "One sequence, many structures: Direct visualization of RNA conformations by AFM" and Haley Wilt - "Alteration of PD-1 expression for cancer immunotherapy using a riboswitch device"
January 19, 2022 - Lindsey Adams - “Investigating the Differential Decay Rate of HIV-Infected Cells During Combination Antiretroviral Therapy” and Yun-Tzai Lee - "Visualizing and Recapitulating Individual RNA Topological Structures in Solution"
February 2, 2022 - Mary-Elizabeth Zipparo - "Characterizing the Proviral Landscape of HIV Infected-Cells during Combination Antiretroviral Therapy"
February 16, 2022 - Matthew Brown - "Development of a System to Simultaneously Express Two Forms of Gag Using HIV-1 Frameshifting"
March 2, 2022 - Adam Capoferri - “Determinants of the Plasma Viral Set Point in Untreated People Living with HIV”
March 16, 2022 - CANCELLED
March 30, 2022 - Hyun Kyung Lee - "Photo-activated solid-to-solid phase transition in adenine riboswitch aptamer RNA crystals"
April 13, 2022 - Sneha Anmalsetty - "COX2, NOS2, and the Spatial Organization of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in an in vitro model of a Hypoxic Tumor Microenvironment" and Mary Grace Katusiime - “HIV-1 persistence in perinatally infected individuals”
April 27, 2022 - Vibha Dwivedi - "Using RNA Devices to modulate PD-1 gene expression for Cancer Immunotherapy"
May 11, 2022 - Eva Agostino - "Inhibition of Neutral Sphingomyelinase 2 Blocks HIV-1 Maturation and Replication"
May 25, 2022 - Timothy Kung - "Evaluating a CAIX/CD3 Bispecific Antibody as an Immunotherapy Against Glioblastoma" and Thea Spindel - "An Inert Micro-Diamond Conjugated to IFN-γ as a Novel Vaccine Adjuvant"
June 8, 2022 - Raisa Glabman - "Targeting Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in the Tumor Microenvironment" and Suraj Joshi - “Detecting Clonal Evolution through Single-cell (Hairy Cell Leukemia) and Multi-Region Bulk (Breast Cancer) Sequencing Data”
June 22, 2022 - John Fenimore - “IFN-g-induced Mitochondrial Defect in Male Mouse Model: An Overlooked Complication in Autoimmune Disease” and Idris Barakat - “Application of Sulfur-fluoride Exchange (SuFEx) Click Chemistry in the Development of Covalent Tyrosyl-DNA Phosphodiesterase 1 (TDP1)-binding Ligands”