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Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Research Day 2024
February 12, 2024
Please join us for this year's Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Day! Faculty, staff and trainees will come together to showcase the exciting research being conducted at Penn.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 • 8:00am to 4:30pm
Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III) - Glen Gaulton Auditorium & Lobby
421 Curie Boulevard • Philadelphia, PA 19104
Agenda
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| 8:00am - 8:45am | Breakfast & Sign-In |
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| 8:45am - 9:00am |
Opening Remarks |
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| 9:00am - 10:40am | Speaker Session 1 | ||
| 9:00am | Yanxiang Deng, PhD "Spatial Multi-Omics Profiling of Mammalian Tissues" |
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| 9:25am | Derek Alan Oldridge, MD, PhD "Spatialomics and AI-Driven Image Analysis in Translational Pathology Research" |
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| 9:50am | Giulia Pavani, PhD "Modeling Hematopoiesis with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells" |
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| 10:15am | Alessandra Chesi, PhD "Variant-to-Gene Mapping for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Brain-Related Traits" |
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| 10:40am - 11:00am | Break |
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| 11:00am - 12:40pm | Speaker Session 2 | ||
| 11:00am | Tristan J. Hayeck, PhD "Evolutionary and Machine Learning Approaches for Variant Interpretation" |
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| 11:25am | Wanding Zhou, PhD "Sparse DNA Methylome-Based Interference of Cell State and Malignancy" |
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| 11:50am | Wan-Ping Lee, PhD "Discovery of Variants Associated with Neurodegenerative Disease Susceptibility Through Large-Scale Whole Genome Sequencing" |
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| 12:15pm | Shefali Setia Verma, PhD "Bridging Women's Health and Genomics in EHR Biobanks" |
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| 12:40pm - 1:45pm | Poster Presentations & Lunch |
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| 1:45pm - 4:15pm | Speaker Session 3 | ||
| 1:45pm | Guilherme Nader, PhD "Compromised Nuclear Envelope Integrity Drives Tumor Cell Invasion" |
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| 2:10pm | Manolis Roulis, PhD "The Mesenchymal Microenvironment: A Determinant of Colon Cancer Initiation" |
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| 2:35pm | Hong Xu, PhD "Modulating Tau Spreading as a Potential Therapeutic Strategy for Tauopathy" |
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| 3:00pm | Michael S. Haney, PhD "Functional Genomics of Neuroimmune Interactions in Alzheimer's Disease and Aging" |
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| 3:25pm | Saba Ghassemi, PhD "Engineering Next Generation CAR T Cells with Enhanced Potency" |
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| 3:50pm | Leyuan Ma, PhD "Immune System Engineering for the Treatment of Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases" |
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| 4:15pm - 4:30pm | Awards & Closing Remarks | ||
Poster Presentations
Residents, fellows, postdocs, graduate students, and other trainees in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine are invited to present a poster at Research Day. Two awards of $250.00 each will be provided for the overall winners in Clinical-Translational Research and Basic Science & Computational Research. The winner must be on-site during the poster session to be eligible to claim the award and may not be an oral presenter on Research Day. The submission window for presenting posters at Research Day closed on April 24th.
Registration for this year's Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Day has closed.
For questions or additional information, please contact Bridget Callaghan (bridgemc@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) or Samirah Lawson (samirah.lawson@pennmedicine.upenn.edu).
