SEssion 1: Cell biology, biochemistry, cellular physiology, structural biology

Friday, May 20th, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Questions? Email cmbgrad@umich.edu.

Odd numbered posters presenting from 1:30 PM — 2:45 PM

Even numbered posters presenting from 2:45 PM — 4:00 PM

Symposium Book

To read full poster abstracts, refer to the CMB Symposium Book (click "Document Outline" for easier navigation).

Poster Number, Abstract Title & Authors


1 — The Ciliary Transition Zone Protein, Tectonic1, Forms a Membrane Diffusional Barrier in Mouse

Rod Outer Segments

Hanh Truong*, Jason Willer, Jorge Martinez-Marquez, Amanda Travis, Jillian Pearring


2 — Female Reproductive Biology and Tissue Engineering

Jordan Machlin*, Ariella Shikanov


3 — Escherichia coli chromosome conformation mapping

Sonya Royzenblat*, Peter Freddolino


4 Understanding the role of RTL8 proteins in Ubiquilin-2 biology

Harihar Milaganur Mohan*, Hanna Trzeciakiewicz, Emily Crowley, Nathaniel Safren, Henry Paulson,

Lisa Sharkey


5 — Endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria contact sites (ERMCS) signal cellular epigenetic state to

lipid reprogramming

Brandon Chen*, Tito Cali, Jonathan Sexton, Costas Lyssiotis, Yatrik Shah


6 — N-terminal GTPase-mediated regulation of the outer-mitochondrial membrane protein Miro1

Emily Eberhardt*


7 — Motor-dependent transport of misassembled Nups to the endoplasmic reticulum

Madison Pletan*, Billy Tsai


8 — Structural analysis of Helicobacter pylori VacA's channel in membrane

Sarah M. Connolly*, Amanda Erwin, Megan Sabb, Georgia Caso, Timothy L. Cover, Melanie D. Ohi


9 — Polymerase-associated factor complex (PAFc) protects Notch-induced leukemia cells from

DNA damage and mitochondrial stress

Ashley Melnick*, Anna McCarter, Shannon Liang, Nicole Dean, Elizabeth Choe, Nicholas Kunnath,

Brain Magnuson, Qing Wang, Mats Ljungman, Mark Chiang


10 — Degradation of misfolded prohormones through two distinct routes of ER-coupled autophagy

Jefrey Knupp*, Yu-Jie Chen, Peter Arvan, Billy Tsai


11 Understanding the role of Keratin 16 in maintaining tissue homeostasis in response to stress

Amanda Orosco*, Pierre Coulombe


12 — FLAP mediates Signal Relay in Neutrophils during Chemotaxis

Sam Collie, Subhash Arya, Fatima Javed, and Carole A. Parent


13 — Deciphering the tubulin code: mechanisms of tubulin recognition by EML2

Nicholas Vangos*, Michael Cianfrocco


14 — Specification mechanisms for Keratin 17 during the DNA Damage Response

Christopher Pineda*, Raji Nair, Pierre A. Coulombe


15 — Structure-Aided Discovery of First-in-Class Small Molecule Adhesion GPCR Modulators

Alexander Vizurraga*, Gregory G. Tall


16 Defining the role of ferroptosis in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Wesley Huang*, Nupur Das, Yatrik Shah


17 Towards a Cell Biology Model of the Circadian Clock in Drosophila

Ye Yuan*, Yangbo Xiao, Dunham Clark, Swathi Yadlapalli


18 Traversing the secretory pathway in search of degradation signals

Jacqueline Forson*, Rachel Plumb, and Ryan Baldridge


19 Neuronal activity regulates MATR3 in a calcium and calmodulin dependent manner

Josephine Wu*, Ahmed Malik, Quinn Doctrove, Christie Gillies, Sami Barmada


20 The Structural Basis of Meiotic Prophase Chromosome Movements by the Linker of Nucleoskeleton and Cytoskeleton (LINC) Complex

Jonathan D. Williams*, Ritvija Agrawal, Kirsten Brenner and Jayakrishnan Nandakumar


Presenting author, *CMB Student, CMB faculty presenter