BAZaR 2026 Schedule

9:00 – 9:30 AM             Registration and Breakfast

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

Talk Session I

Chair:                          Hannah Moran, Postdoc, Brigham and Women's Hospital, HMS

09:45 – 10:05 AM          Matt Harris, PhD, Faculty (Boston Children's Hospital): Latency and the interstitial darkness

10:05 – 10:20 AM John Gabelmann, Graduate Student (Boston College): Central rays of the zebrafish caudal fin have a       distinct transcriptomic identity that can be reprogrammed in early development

10:20 – 10:40 AM Sam Wattrus, PhD, Faculty (Massachusetts General Hospital): A tissue-specific Calreticulin code      mediates macrophage interactions in regeneration of multiple organ systems 

10:40 – 10:55 AM      BREAK

Talk Session II

Chair:                              Lu Yue, PhD, Postdoc (Boston Children’s Hospital)

10:55 – 11:15 AM      Dionna Kasper, PhD (Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth): Sexual dimorphism in the adult zebrafish marrow regulates blood cell composition and immune response

11:15 – 11:30 AM Maura C Dodge, Graduate Student (Boston University and Boston Medical Center): Endothelial gene      expression in the hematopoietic niche is regulated by oxygen-independent mechanisms of blood flow 

11:30 – 11:45 PM Anna Moyer, Postdoc (UMass Chan School of Medicine): Overexpression screen of chromosome 21       orthologs establishes erg as a potent regulator of neurodevelopment 

11:45 – 12:00 PM           Gwen Beacham, Postdoc (Boston University and Boston Medical Center): The endothelial scavenger               receptor Stab2 facilitates accumulation of blood-borne nanoplastics in the hematopoietic niche 

12:00 – 12:50 PM          LUNCH

Talk Session III

Chair:                           Brent Hawkins, PhD, Postdoc (Boston Children’s Hospital

1:00 – 1:40 PM             Andrew Gillis, PhD, Faculty (Marine Biological Laboratory): Ancient skeletons, modern cures: bio-inspired tissue  engineering for cartilage repair

1:40 – 1:55 PM Maggie Chasse, PhD, Postdoc (Boston Children’s Hospital): Chromatin compartment             reorganization drives a MITF-decoupled therapeutically vulnerable resistant state in melanoma 

1:55 – 2:10 PM Yueyang Wang, PhD, Postdoc (Massachusetts General Hospital): Genotypeless immune-deficient                 zebrafish for human cell transplantation 

2:10 – 2:30 PM            BREAK

Talk Session IV

Chair:                             Damien Laouteouet, PhD, Postdoc (Massachusetts General Hospital) 

2:30 – 2:50 PM             Ann Poduri, MD PhD, Faculty (Boston Children’s Hospital): Modeling Candidate Epilepsy Genes in Zebrafish—Focusing on the Key Phenotypes

2:50 – 3:05 PM Zeguan Wang, PhD,  Postdoc (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Voltage imaging of neurons                 distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish 

3:05 – 3:20 PM Brandon Bastien, PhD, Postdoc (UMass Chan School of Medicine), Behavioral screen reveal autism and intellectual       disability genes influence working memory in zebrafish  

3:20 – 3:30 PM               FLASH TALKS

                                       Baylor Goldthwaite (Undergraduate Student, Boston College) 

Zewde Ingram (Graduate Student, Boston University School of Medicine) 

Olivia Weeks (Postdoc, Boston Children’s Hospital) 

Tho Nguyen (Undergraduate Student, Boston College) 

Azlan Shahzad (Undergraduate Student, Boston College) 

3:30 – 5:00 PM             Poster Session

5:00 – 6:00 PM             Awards & Community Meeting