SEssion 4: Molecular mechanisms of disease, cancer biology, genetics of disease, non-human models of disease

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

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Poster Number, Abstract Title & Authors


37Gene silencing in SCA3 disease mice rescues spatiotemporal oligodendrocyte impairments

Kristen H Schuster, Annie J Zalon, Danielle DiFranco, Alexa Putka, Sabrina Jarrah, Nicolas

Stec, Arsal Naeem, Zaid Haque, Hongjiu Zhang, Yuanfang Guan, Hayley S. McLoughlin


38Multiomics analysis to uncover the mechanism of radiosensitization of androgen receptor-positive triple negative breast cancers with AR inhibition

Anna R. Michmerhuizen*, Andrea M. Pesch, Benjamin C. Chandler, Lynn M. Lerner

Connor Ward, Leah Moubadder, Stephanie The, Breanna McBean, Caleb Cheng, Lori J.Pierce,

Corey W. Speers


39Acetyl-CoA production by specific metabolites promotes cardiac repair after myocardial infarction via histone acetylation

Lenglam Lei, Shuo Tian, Wenbin Gao, Liu Liu, Yijing Guo, Paul C Tang, Y. Eugene Chen, Zhong Wang


40Leveraging Proteostasis for Niemann-Pick C Gene Therapy

Ruth Azaria*, Mark Schultz, Andrew Lieberman


41INCB090244 is a selective and orally bioavailable small molecule that potently inhibits PD-L1 and induces antitumor immunity

**Jonathan Rios-Doria, Alla Volgina, Prafulla C. Gokhale, Hao Liu, Christina Stevens, Nina Zolotarjova, Darlise DiMatteo, Kanishk Kapilashrami, Elham Behshad, Pramod Thekkat, Gengjie Yang, Leslie Hall, Chrysi Kanellopoulou, Mark Rupar, Christopher Maddage, April Horsey, Krista Burke, Yan-ou Yang, Maryanne Covington, Steve Wang, Phillip Liu, Richard Wynn, David A. Reardon, Holly Koblish

**CMB Alum


42 Overcoming Adaptive Resistance to MEK inhibition by activation of Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A) in KRAS-mutant cancers

Brynne Raines*, Goutham Narla


43 Reactivation of Gamma Globin Expression in β-Hemoglobinopathies

Ginette Balbin-Cuesta*, Rami Khoriaty


44 Deep Mutagenesis Scan of SERPINC1 to inform variants affecting thrombosis risk

Christopher Bidlack*, Krista Golden, Mary Underwood, and Karl Desch


45 Ankyrin-G in Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy

Carina Elvira*, Paul Jenkins


46 Combatting Cholesterol Accumulation in Niemann-Pick Type C Disease

Adele Correia*, Andrew Lieberman


47Targeting DNA Double Strand Break Repair in Homologous Recombination Proficient High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancers

***Erika Nakatsuka, MD, PhD, Lijun Tan, Caroline Foster, **Karen McLean, MD, PhD

*** Postdoctoral Fellow **CMB Alum


48CRTC1-MAML2 fusion translocation and transcription regulation in mucoepidermoid carcinoma

Gensterblum-Miller E*, Heft Neal M.E., Bhangale A.D., Brenner J.C.


49Ribosomal quality control in repeat-associated non-AUG translation of GC rich repeats

Yi-Ju Tseng*, Peter K. Todd


50MDM2 inhibition as a non-hormone dependent radiosensitizing strategy in p53 wild-type breast cancer models

Charles A. Nino*, Cassandra Lynne Ritter, Andrea M. Pesch, Anna R. Michmerhuizen*,

Benjamin C. Chandler, Nicole Hirsch, Tanner Ward, Yashmeet Kaur, Maria Fields, Lori J.Pierce,

Corey W. Speers


51 Microbiota metabolic exchange is critical for colorectal cancer redox homeostasis and growth

Hannah Bell*, Joshua Goyert, Yatrik Shah


52FIC-1/FICD-mediated AMPylation of HSP70 family chaperones modulates polyglutamine toxicity

Kate M. Van Pelt* , Matthias C. Truttmann


53 Evaluating shared molecular features and potential vulnerabilities of low-H3K27me3 pediatric brain tumors

Matthew Pun*, Sriram Venneti MD, PhD


54 RNA methylation influences TDP43 binding and disease pathogenesis in models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia McMillan M*, Gomez N*, Bekier M, Li X, Miguez R, Tank EM, Barmada SJ


55 Exogenous UPF1 corrects TDP-43-directed NMD-sensitization of the transcriptome in neuronal models of ALS

Nicolas Gomez*, Elizabeth Tank PhD, Sami Barmada MD PhD


56 Investigating the Mechanism of Estrogen Induced Thrombosis

Sylvia Emly*, Jordan Shavit


57 The role of PTEN in epigenetic and metabolic regulation of IDH-mutant gliomas

James Haggerty-Skeans*, Siva Kumar Natarajan,Drew Pratt, Sriram Venneti





Presenting author, *CMB Student, CMB faculty presenter