Mackenzie Fourman, CCB Graduate Student, Dr. Chunyue Yin's Lab      Title: "MDR1 as a promising target for treating progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type II in children."

Caterina Bartolacci, PhD, Post-Doc, Dr. Pier Paolo Scaglioni's Lab        Title: "Targeting lipid metabolism of mutant KRAS Lung Cancer: a promising therapeutic strategy.”                                                  Moderators: Kyle Ferchen & Ayushman Dash

Julianna Korns, CCB Graduate Student, Dr. Vinita Takiar's Lab          Title: "Plk1 Signaling as a Therapeutic Target in Head and Neck Cancer."

Kangqiang Qiu, PhD, Post-Doc, Dr. Jiajie Diao's Lab                                  Title: "Ultra-Long-Term Super-Resolution Tracking of Lysosomes in Brain Organoids by Near-Infrared Noble Metal Nanoclusters."     Moderators: Devyani Sharma & Johnny Donovan

Scott J. Dixon, PhD                                                                                           

Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University            Title: “Defining and Overcoming Ferroptosis Resistance Mechanisms”                                             

Host: Dr. Pier Paolo Scaglioni                                                           Moderators: Bianca Ruffolo & James Bartram

Guillermina (Gigi) Lozano, PhD                                                         Hubert L. Olive Stringer Distinguished Chair in Oncology in Honor of Sue Gribble Stringer; Professor and Chair Department of Genetics; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center                   

Title: “Wild type and mutant p53 functions”                                               Host: Dr. Amanda Wasylishen                                                           Moderators: Joshua Bennett & Stan DeVore                             

Harmeet Malhi, MBBS                                   

Professor Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic         Title: “Liver Injury and Inflammation in NASH”                               Host: Dr. Chunying Du                                                                          Moderators: Chiharu Ishikawa & Zhixin Lu                                                                                                                                    

Xiang H. F. Zhang, PhD ("Shawn")                                                                Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology; The William T. Butler, M.D., Endowed Chair for Distinguished Faculty Associate Director, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center; McNair Scholar; Baylor College of Medicine   

Title: “The evolving cancer-niche interaction during bone metastasis.”             

Host: Dr. Yanbo Fan                                                                                        

Moderators: Mary Bedard & Austin MacMillan

Christopher Charles Oakes, PhD   

Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology, The Ohio State University 

Title: “Epigenetics underlie predictive multiomic signatures in acute myeloid leukemia.”

Host: Dr. Erin Hertlein (HEM/ONC)                                                                  Moderators: James Davis & Bibek Raj Karki                                                                                                                                                             

Qian Cai, MD, PhD                                                                                       Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 

Title: "Mitophagy Regulation in Alzheimer's disease."                           

Host: Dr. Chenran Wang                                                                       

Moderators: Philip Witcher & Emma Uible

Kelly Monk, PhD                                                                                            Professor, Co-Director and Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute Oregon Health & Science University, Director Neuroscience Grad. Program       

Title: “Molecular and genetic mechanisms of neuron-glial interactions"                  

Host: Dr. Chenran Wang                                                                            Moderators: Grant Hagedorn & Juliana Korns                                                                              

Mary Bedard, MSTP/CCB Student, Dr. Susa Wells’ Lab                                Title: "Translational Studies of Human Papillomavirus."

Gregory Bick, PhD Post-Doc, Dr. Xiaoting Zhang’s Lab 
Title: “MED1 function in patient derived models of breast cancer.”    Moderators: Dina Secic & Tanner Wherley

Stan DeVore, CCB Graduate Student, Dr. Gurjit Khurana Hershey’s Lab  Title: "The Role of CARD14 in Atopic Dermatitis."

Mingang Hao, PhD, Research Scientist, Dr. Jun-Lin Guan’s Lab              Title: "In vivo CRISPR knockout screen of autophagy-related genes for factors regulating breast cancer lung metastasis."                  Moderators: Xiaoqin Zhu & Zhiqi Tian

Josh Bennett, CCB Graduate Student, Dr. Daniel Starczynowski Lab        Title: “Dissecting the role of IRAK1 and IRAK4 in AML”

Aarti Nagayach, PhD, Post-Doc, Dr. Chenran Wang’s Lab                          Title: “Microglia heterogeneity in neurodevelopmental disorder of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex”                                                                  Moderators: Timothy Nixon & Levi Fox

Chiharu Ishikawa, CCB Graduate Student, Dr. D Starczynowski's Lab    Title: "Targeting an E2 conjugating enzyme, UBE2N in Acute Myeloid Leukemia."     

Xin Tang, PhD Post-Doc, Dr. Chenran Wang’s Lab                                      Title: "Functions of different autophagy genes in disease-associated microglia (DAM) to regulate postnatal neural stem cells maintenance."                                                                                   Moderators: Román Cáceres & Mary Nguyen