FYI Seminar Series
2022-2023 Schedule
September 7, 2022 - Philip Ryan - "Talking Science: Designing and Delivering Successful Oral Presentations"
September 21, 2022 - Canceled
October 5, 2022 - In Kyu Yang - “Elucidating how HP1a and PTEN condense heterochromatin through structural studies with NMR and CryoEM”
October 19, 2022 - Xander Gottfried - “Identification of factors regulating cryptic intron splicing”
November 2, 2022 - Samuel Ricci - "Assessing toxicity and anti-tumor activity of CD-40 agonist mAb combined with mesothelin-directed immunotoxin in a murine pancreas cancer mode"
November 16, 2022 - Roxane Khoogar - "To Understand the Role of TET-mediated Post-transcriptional Modifications on tRNA Stability"
December 7, 2022 - Riley Metcalfe - "Structure and regulation of leucine-rich repeat kinase 1"
December 21, 2022 - Angela Kim - "A Novel Relationship Between Small G Protein ARF1 and Arf GTPase-activating Protein (ASAP1)" & Syed Muhammad Usama - "Using Optical Imaging to Assess Antibody–Drug Conjugate Linker Chemistry"
January 4, 2023 - Pradip Bajgain - “Targeting CD276 in Solid Tumors Using CAR Engineered T Cells” & Abbie Jolley - “Multimerization of interferon-induced transmembrane proteins is essential for broad spectrum antiviral activity”
January 18, 2023 - Kristen Fousek - "NK-based Therapy Provides Efficacy Against All Subtypes of Small Cell Lung Cancer"
February 1, 2023 - Chennan Li - "A novel methodology for reconstructing the clonal history of therapy-resistant prostate cancer"
February 15, 2023 - Ramesh Chingle - "Design and Synthesis of First-in-Class LGR5-Targeting R-spondin (RSPO1) Peptide-fluorophore Conjugates as Diagnostic Probes for Fluorescence-guided Imaging" & Juliana Martinez Fiesco - “Structural Insights Into the BRAF Monomer-to-Dimer Transition Mediated by RAS Binding”
March 1, 2023 - Hilda Jafarah - “The Role of SNAI2 in Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors (MPNST)”
March 15, 2023 - Andrew Perciaccante - “Studying Off-Target Effects of Small Molecule Covalent Cysteine Modifiers Using Thermal Proteome Profiling”
March 29, 2023 - Canceled
April 12, 2023 - Adam Capoferri - "Determinants of Varying Plasma Viremia Levels in Untreated People Living with HIV"
April 26, 2023 - Kenan Murray - "Investigating the Role of Dishevelled C-terminus Signaling in Developing Vertebrate Embryos" & Maria Orfanoudaki - “Chemical Investigations of Natural and Semisynthetic Discorhabdins from Latrunculia sp. and Their Cytotoxic Properties”
May 10, 2023 - Sadie Milhous - “Inhibitor of DNA Binding Protein-2 (ID2) is Required for Immune Cell Function During Inflammation” & Liping Yang - “Uncoupling Receptor-ligand Interactions Using a High Avidity CRISPR Activation Screening Platform”
May 24, 2023 - Rebecca Su - “A CRISPR-Cas9 Screen in gp78-knockout 4T1 Cells Elucidates Pathways in Breast Cancer” - Canceled
June 7, 2023 - Julianna King - “Genome-wide CRISPR Screening to Identify Factors Regulating ADAR-mediated RNA Editing”
June 21, 2023 - Enitome Bafor - "Chronic IFNγ Expression Alters T cell Responses to the Ovary and Uterus" & Isabella Church - "The Role of Intratumor Heterogeneity in Melanoma Plasticity and Immunotherapy Resistance"