BAZaR 2025 Schedule

9:00 – 9:30 AM             Registration and Breakfast

9:30 – 9:45 AM             Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Talk Session I

9:45 – 10:05 AM          Megan Insco (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)

10:05 – 10:20 AM Nicolas Cumplido (Postdoc, Boston College): Heterochrony as a Developmental Mechanism of Thyroid-Dependent Pectoral Fin Remodeling

10:20 – 10:35 AM Felicia Wranitz (Graduate student, Harvard University/Boston Children's Hospital): Reptin is required to maintain cardiomyocytes in the diploid proliferative state

10:35 – 10:50 AM Nicola Blum (Postdoc, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School): It’s all about the context: deciphering permissive conditions and constraints in somatic mosaic disorders

10:50 – 11:10 AM      BREAK

Talk Session II

11:10 – 11:30  AM      Mark Hahn (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

11:30 – 11:45 AM Lu Yue (Postdoc, Boston Children's Hospital): Inflammatory Lipid Mediators Regulate Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Expansion through Modulating CysLTR1 Signaling in Niche Endothelial Cells

11:45 – 12:00 PM Ella Kim (Undergraduate, Harvard University): Botulinum Toxin-Induced Mechanical Unloading Attenuates the Innate Immune Response to Impair Regeneration in Adult Zebrafish

12:00 – 1:00 PM          LUNCH (included in registration)

Talk Session III

1:00 – 1:20 PM             Lauren Walker (Dartmouth College)

1:20 – 1:35 PM James Allen (Postdoc, Massachusetts General Hospital): In Vivo Screening for oncogenic collaboration and cancer initiation in pediatric leukemia

1:35 – 1:50 PM Daria (Dasha) Perminova (Graduate student, Boston College): Determining the role of the immune system during zebrafish heart regeneration

1:50 – 2:05 PM Sandeep Basu (Postdoc, BIDMC-Harvard Medical School): Selective Estrogen Receptor Degraders (SERDs) Induce Bradycardia by Modulating Nuclear Estrogen Signaling

2:05 – 2:25 PM            BREAK

Talk Session IV

2:25 – 2:45 PM             Xubo Niu (Instructor, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School): A conserved transcription factor regulatory program promotes tendon fate

2:45 – 3:00 PM Rikki Garner (Postdoc, Harvard Medical School): Functional roles for random cell motility in early embryonic patterning

3:00 – 3:20 PM Hazel Sive (Northeastern University): Gene dosage of the 16p11.2 disease-risk homolog tlcd3b is associated with tissue-specific phenotypes and gene expression via pparg regulation Functional roles for random cell motility in early embryonic patterning

3:20 – 3:30 PM FLASH TALKS - 

Mackenzie Urbano (Post-bac, Boston University)

Hakan Coskun (Postdoc, Boston Children's Hospital)

Anna (Yuchen) Zhou (Undergraduate, Boston College)

Morgan Walcheck (Postdoc, Boston Children's Hospital)

Lily Parrott (Undergraduate, Boston College)

3:30 – 4:30 PM             Posters

4:30 – 5:00 PM             Awards & Community Meeting