{"id":1839,"date":"2020-09-12T16:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/?page_id=1839"},"modified":"2020-09-18T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:56:35","slug":"2020-pdrd-speak4science-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/2020-pdrd-speak4science-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 PDRD Speak4Science Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1839\" class=\"panel-layout\">\n<div id=\"pg-1839-0\" class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\">\n<div id=\"pgc-1839-0-0\" class=\"panel-grid-cell\" data-weight=\"1\">\n<div id=\"panel-1839-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\">\n<div class=\"textwidget\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"btn btn-info\" href=\"https:\/\/uconn-cmr.webex.com\/uconn-cmr\/onstage\/g.php?MTID=eafa7bc250038e3b425143ce1098c18a5\">Join Event<\/a><\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 83.475%;height: 768px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Affiliation<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>1. Martina Capriotti<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>How marine suspension feeders capture food<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">Avery Point<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>2. Feyza Yilmaz<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>The impact of structural variants in canine disease<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">JAX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>3. Lichao Wang<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Cellular senescence and insulin resistance<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>4. Hasan Baig<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Biochemical simulation and synthesis tools<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>5. Rachael Norris<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Gap junctions transfer organelles<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>6. Yang Liu<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Deep learning lung CT images and COVID-19<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">JAX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>7. Ali Foroughi pour<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Deep learning feature interpretation of pathology slides<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">JAX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>8. Nizam Ud Din<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Multiplexed SH2 profiling of phosphoproteome<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>9. Jackie Jufen Zhu<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>C11orf95-RELA reprograms 3D epigenome<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">JAX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>10. Abhijit Rath<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>The challenges in diagnosis of Lynch syndrome<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>11. Frederick Varn<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Decoding immune crosstalk in glioma <\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">JAX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>12. Binsheng Wang<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Targeting p21<sup>high<\/sup> senescent cells<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>13. Meagan Cauble<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Intervertebral disc phosphotyrosine signaling patterns <\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>14. Takayoshi Otsuka<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Towards complex tissue regeneration<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>15. Lei Zhang<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Bioengineered<\/em> <em>ligament<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>16. 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Shyam Kishor Sah<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Functional analysis of keloid-assoc. genetic variants<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>23. Puja Kumari<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Hierarchical cell type-specific functions of caspase-11<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>24. Ju Chen<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>IL-17 signals to Treg cells in colorectal cancer<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>25. Xiaowen Chen<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>The source of epiallele diversity in AML<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">JAX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>26. Linda Archambault<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>Interspecies interactions in oral biofilms<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>27. Maria Rocha<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.8557%;height: 24px\"><em>MRSA persisters and polymicrobial niches<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 7.63712%;height: 24px\">UCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.6263%;height: 24px\"><strong>28. 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