Congrats, Sophia!
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Best Poster Award at the Kinetoplastid Molecular Cell Biology Meeting in Woods Hole, MA
Sophia Staggers, a fourth-year student in the MBSB Program mentored by Dr. Stella Sun, presented a poster and received the Best Poster Award at the Kinetoplastid Molecular Cell Biology Meeting in Woods Hole, MA. In her poster titled “Elucidating the Spatial Organization of Intraflagellar Transport at the flagellum base in Trypanosoma brucei”, she presented on the dynamics of flagellar protein complexes in the T. brucei parasite revealed by cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and ultrastructure expansion microscopy.
Congratulations, Sophia
Please check the student and faculty websites;
https://www.mbsb.pitt.edu/index.php/site-map/articles/85-students/340-sophia-staggers
https://www.mbsb.pitt.edu/index.php/site-map/articles/81-faculty/359-stella-sun
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MBSB Symposium 2024
The eleventh annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Wednesday, May 8th from 8:30am to 5:00pm in the Assembly. The 2024 symposium will feature Dr. Nancy Carrasco as the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include MBSB faculty, current MBSB graduate students, and an MBSB alumnus. Scroll down to see the schedule of events!
Keynote Speaker:
Nancy Carrasco, M.D.
Vanderbilt University
"The tale of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS): From cloning to structure"
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2024
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-9:10 Program Welcome
Morning Session 1:
Chaired by Awishi Mondal
9:10 am Small Molecule Allosteric Inhibitors for Src-Family Kinases in AML: Developing Novel
Inhibitors which Harness Natural Regulatory Networks
Ari Selzer
9:30 am Recruitment and assembly of DNA damage checkpoint signaling factors
Emily Beckwitt, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, The Rockefeller University
10:05 am 42 Years in the Making: Molecular Movies of GTP Hydrolysis by NRAS and its Oncogenic Mutants
Guillermo Calero, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Structural Biology
10:40 am Break
Morning Session 2:
Chaired by Benjamin Wang
11:00 am Characterizing an Alternate Conformation of the HIV-1 Capsid Protein CTD Dimer using 19F NMR and Weighted Ensemble MD
Darian Yang
11:20 am Of HEMEs and HETEs: Targeting fatty acid metabolizing cytochrome P450 enzymes to treat human disease
Simone Brixius-Anderko
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
12:00pm Lunch
12:45 pm Career Development session for Students (Auditorium)
Afternoon Session:
Chaired by Victor So
2:00 pm Thymine DNA glycosylase combines sliding and hopping to efficiently search for 5-
formylcytosine
Brittani Schnable
2:20 pm Coarsening of nuclear condensates is governed by the interplay between condensate material properties and chromatin heterogeneity
Huaiying Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Keynote Address:
Chaired by Sophia Staggers
3:00 pm The tale of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS): From cloning to structure
Nancy Carrasco, PhD
Joe C. Davis Chair in Biomedical Science, Vanderbilt University
Chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
4:00pm Poster Session + Reception
MBSB Symposium 2022
The ninth annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Friday, May 6th from 9:00am to 5:00pm in the Frick Fine Arts Building. The 2022 symposium will feature Dr. Yifan Cheng as the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include MBSB faculty, current MBSB graduate students, and an MBSB alumnus. Scroll down to see the schedule of events!
The 2022 symposium will feature Dr. Yifan Cheng as the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include MBSB faculty, current MBSB graduate students, and an MBSB alumnus. Scroll down to see the schedule of events!
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Yifan Cheng
"Single particle cryo-EM studies of TRPV1: from atomic structures to mechanism of channel gating"
Registration Information
MBSB Symposium 2021 registration form and abstract submissions should be completed no later than April 22rd, 2022.
Completed forms should be emailed to Ari Selzer at ars289@pitt.edu
Registration Form: Click HERE to register!!
Abstract Template: Click HERE to download
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2022
9:00-9:10 Program Welcome
Morning Session 1:
Chaired by Anna Belford
9:10 am Investigating the activity of G-quadruplex binding protein BG4.
Samuel Johnson
9:30 am Characterization of the ABC methionine transporter from Neisseria meningitidis reveals that lipidated MetQ is required for interaction.
Naima Sharaf
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University
10:15 am Parallel Session: Career Development session for Students
MBSB Faculty Meeting for Faculty
Morning Session 2:
Chaired by Michael Dalton
11:30 am Watching DNA repair in real time: from cells to single molecules.
Ben Van Houten
Richard M. Cyert Professor of Molecular Oncology and is in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology.
12:05 pm Parasitic Adaptation of a CCP-Scaffold to Mimic TGB-Beta Immunosuppressive Signaling
Ananya Mukundan
Lunch Break: 12:25pm - 1:15pm
Afternoon Session:
Chaired by Brittani Schnable
1:15 pm Nanoscale Imaging of Biological systems using Molecule Anchorable Gel-enabled Nanoscale In-situ Fluorescence Microscopy.
Yongxin (Leon) Zhao
Eberly Family Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
1:50 pm Developing Spin-labels for In-Cell Measurements and Orthogonal Labelling Schemes.
Zikri Hasanbasri
2:10 pm Atomic-level characterization of SARS-CoV-2 spike activation.
Lillian Chong
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
2:45-3:45 Poster Session
Keynote Address:
Chaired by Ari Selzer
3:45 pm Single particle cryo-EM studies of TRPV1: from atomic structures to mechanism of channel gating
Yifan Cheng
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco
4:45 pm Reception
Check back for schedule details
MBSB Symposium 2023
The tenth annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Friday, May 12th from 8:30am to 5:00pm in the Frick Fine Arts Building. The 2023 symposium will feature Dr. Clifford Brangwynne as the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include MBSB faculty, current MBSB graduate students, and an MBSB alumnus. Scroll down to see the schedule of events!
Keynote Speaker:
Clifford P. Brangwynne, PhD
"Living Droplets: A liquid phase paradigm for biological organization”"
Registration Information
MBSB Symposium 2023 registration form and abstract submissions should be completed no later than April 21st, 2023.
For any questions, please contact: MBSBsymposium@gmail.com
All students, faculty and staff welcome. Register today at: https://forms.gle/8wsuZAiBE62Q6Sir5
Abstract Template: Click HERE to download
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2023
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-9:10 Program Welcome
Morning Session 1:
Chaired by Sophia Staggers
9:10 am Structural basis for biosynthesis of monomeric BMP-9 and BMP-10
Tristin Schwartze
9:30 am Why biomembranes find lipid asymmetry pretty stressful
Markus Deserno, PhD
Professor, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
10:05 am Break
10:20 am Parallel Sessions: Career Development session for Students
MBSB Faculty Meeting for Faculty
Morning Session 2:
Chaired by Victor So
11:30 am Structural biology of the TGF-betas: new insights into mechanism to novel therapies for human disease
Andy Hinck, PhD
Professor, Department of Structural Biology
12:05 pm Structural Impacts of Homodimerization Interface Mutations on HIV-1 Nef
Kasia Thomas
12:25pm Lunch
Afternoon Session:
Chaired by Anna Belford
1:15 pm SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Development
Ryan Slack, PhD
1:50 pm Development of Novel Gene Delivery Vehicles
Yu Hong Wang
2:10 pm Molecular mechanisms of synaptic vesicle transport proteins
Jonathan Coleman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Structural Biology
2:45-3:00 Break
Keynote Address:
Chaired by Michael Dalton
3:00 pm Living Droplets: A liquid phase paradigm for biological organization
Clifford P. Brangwynne, PhD
June K. Wu 92’ Professor in Engineering, Princeton University
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Director, Princeton Bioengineering Initiative
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
4:00pm Poster Session + Reception
MBSB Symposium 2021
The eighth annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Friday, May 14th, virtually, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. The symposium will be held on gather.town (https://gather.town/i/4tog0X3T). The 2021 symposium will feature Dr. Gregory Petsko as the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include MBSB faculty, current MBSB graduate students, and an MBSB alumnus. Scroll down to see the schedule of events!
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Gregory Petsko, Professor of Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
"How Parkinson's Disease Starts - And How It Might be Stopped."
Registration Information
MBSB Symposium 2021 registration form and abstract submissions should be completed no later than April 23rd, 2021.
Completed forms should be emailed to Ananya Mukundan at Mukundan.Ananya@medstudent.pitt.edu
Registration Form: Click HERE to register
Abstract Template: Click HERE to download
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2021
9:00-9:10 Program Welcome
Morning Session 1:
Chaired by Ari Selzer
9:10 am Title TBA
Maria Kurnikova
Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, MBSB Training Faculty
9:35 am Peeking and Poking at Cells: Optochemical Control of Biological Processes
Alex Deiters
Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
10:00 am Parallel Session: Career Development session for Students
MBSB Faculty Meeting for Faculty
Morning Session 2:
Chaired by Ananya Mukundan
11:00 am Sub-Pocket EXplorer (SubPEx): a Weighted ensemble algorithm to sample protein conformations
Erich Hellemann Holguin
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB student
11:20 am Holding it Together: Contact Tracing within the NHEJ Synaptic Complex
Sean Carney
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Loparo Laboratory, Harvard University, MBSB Alumnus
Lunch Break: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Afternoon Session:
Chaired by Brittani Schnable
1:00 pm Activation of Tec family kinase Btk by HIV-1 Nef
Manish Aryal
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB Student
1:20 pm Tetramerization: a new paradigm for regulating SNX-BAR membrane interaction
Marijn Ford
Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
1:45 pm Pull yourself together! Mapping mechantransduction of cellular tension forces.
Kirill Lavernyuk
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, MBSB Student
2:10-3:15 Poster Session
Keynote Address:
Chaired by Ananya Mukundan
3:20 pm How Parkinson's Disease Starts - And how It Might be Stopped.
Gregory Petsko
Professor of Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
