Symposium In Honor Of Judy Lieberman
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Armenise Auditorium
Harvard Medical School
210 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
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Program
09:00-09:10 Opening remarks
Fred Alt, Senior Investigator, Boston Children's Hospital
Session I (Chair: Carl Novina)
09:10-09:35 Genetic pathways for developmental robustness in C. elegans
Victor Ambros, Professor, UMass Medical School
09:35-10:00 BMP signaling pathway and fragile X syndrome
Akiko Hata, Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF
10:00-10:25 Lnc’ing Non-coding RNA Function to Melanoma Formation
Carl Novina, Associate Professor, DFCI, Harvard Medical School
10:25-10:45 Coffee Break
Session II (Chair: Nan Yan)
10:45-11:10 Innate immune response to infection and autoimmune disease
Nan Yan, Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center
11:10-11:35 Immunotherapeutics against Clostridium difficile Infection
Hanping Feng, Professor, Univ of Maryland School of Medicine
11:35-12:00 Immune control of malaria blood-stage by CD8+ Killer T cells
Ricardo Gazzinelli, Professor, UMass Medical School
12:00-01:15 Lunch Break
Session III (Chair: Paul Greer)
01:15-01:40 The MS4A proteins reveal a new mode of vertebrate olfaction
Paul Greer, Assistant Professor, UMass Medical School
01:40-02:05 Towards a Mechanism of Heritable Epigenetics
Eric Greer, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
02:05-02:30 AIDS Vaccine Development: Defending the Frontline
Ruth Ruprecht, Director, Texas Biomed AIDS Research Institute
02:30-02:50 Coffee Break
Session IV (Chair: Ashish Lal)
02:50-03:15 High resolution imaging of endosomal damage and siRNA delivery
Anders Wittrup, Physician, Lund University, Sweden
03:15-03:40 “Personalized” RNAi screen using pro-siRNA technology
Linfeng Huang, Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
03:40-04:05 Basal-like TNBC cells selectively depend on RNA splicing
Fabio Petrocca, Assistant Professor, BU School of Medicine
04:05-04:30 Regulating the regulator: Long noncoding RNAs in the p53 network
Ashish Lal, Head, Regulatory RNAs and Cancer, NCI, NIH
04:30-05:10 RNA becomes relevant to medicine (Keynote)
Phil Sharp, Professor, MIT
05:10-05:30 Closing remarks
Ashish Lal, Nan Yan, Judy Lieberman