BAZaR 2025
Boston College (May 30, 2025)
Boston College (May 30, 2025)
Dartmouth College
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston College
Boston University & Boston Medical Center
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
Registration closed as of Monday, May26th
Late registration will be available, however lunch will not be provided for those who registe late. Please reach out to one of the organizers if you would like to register after the deadline.
To pay for registration, click here
Select "BIOLOGY" then "Biology Zebrafish"
Abstract submission deadlines
To be considered for a talk: April 25, 2025
Poster only: May 16, 2025
Registration costs
Position Cost
Faculty $50
Technician/Staff/Postdoc $30 *Instructors: Please also select this option
Graduate/Undergraduate student $20 *Post-bacs: Please also select this option
Industry reps $70
Please contact the meeting organizers if you have any concerns about the cost of registration and would like to apply for financial assistance.
Meeting organizers:
Kellee Siegfried (Kellee.Siegfried@umb.edu)
Juan Manuel Gonzalez Rosa (gonzaaml@bc.edu)
Gwen Beacham (gbeacha1@bu.edu)