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
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