WISC 2022 Program

WISC 2022 Schedule

8:45 – 9:00 Opening Remarks by Dr. Thenkurussi Kesavadas (VPR)

Session 1: Systems (Chairs: Annalisa Scimemi, Damir Janigro)

9:00 – 9:20 Supriya Mahajan (UBuffalo) - Blood Brain Barrier Systems and Neurotherapeutics

9:25 – 9:45 Jonathan Lovell (UBuffalo) - Nanostructured Porphyrins for Biomedical Imaging Applications

9:50 – 10:10 Prerana Shrestha (Stony Brook U) - Role of Protein Synthesis in Prefrontal-amygdala Network During Consolidation of Emotional Memories

10:15 – 10:55 Keynote: Ed Boyden (MIT) - Tools for Seeing and Controlling Biological Systems.

11:00 – 11:10 Break

Session 2: Cells (Chairs: Paolo Forni)

11:10 – 11:30 Alex Valm (UAlbany) - Structure and Assembly of the Human Oral Microbiome.

11:35 – 11:55 Yubing Xie (SUNY Poly) - Regenerative Engineering: From Cellular Imaging to Functional Outcome Assessment.

12:00 – 12:20 Josh Dubnau (Stony Brook U) - Retrotransposons in Neurodegenerative Disorders.

12:25 – 1:45 Lunch Break and Poster Session

1:45 – 2:25 Keynote: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (HHMI) - Navigating the Cellular Landscape with New Imaging Technologies.

Session 3: Molecules (Chairs: Alan Chen)

2:30 – 2:50 Alexander Khmaladze (UAlbany) - A Novel Method to Study Protein Changes in Drug-Induced Cellular Apoptosis: Raman Spectroscopy and Phase Imaging

2:55 – 3:15 Brian Callahan (Binghamton U) - Reprogramming Enzyme Specificity with Small Molecules

3:20 – 3:40 Rabi Musah (UAlbany) - Small Molecule Interrogation of Various Cell Systems using “LADI-MS”

3:45 – 3:55 Break

3:55 – 4:35 Keynote: Joachim Frank (Columbia U) - Looking at Molecules in Motion with Cryo-EM.

4:40 – 5:00 Closing Remarks and Awards by Dr. Jeanette Altarriba (Dean of CAS)