UVA School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Symposium 2017

2017 POSTDOC SYMPOSIUM

11:00 – 12:00

Lunch from Mona Lisa in the BMG Green Room

12:15 – 12:45

Redouane Aherrahrou (Civelek Lab)

“ Integrative Genetics of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotypes” 

12:45 – 1:15

Canan Kuscu ( Dutta Lab)

“Global Gene Repression by Dicer-independent tRNA Fragments “

 1:15 – 1:45

Katherine Pfister (Stukenberg Lab)

“Mining the TCGA to identify three Transcription Factors that are sufficient to generate Chromosomal Instability”

1:45 – 2:15

Karol Szlachta (Wang Lab)

“Alternative DNA Secondary Structure Formation Affects RNA Polymerase II Promoter-Proximal Pausing”

 2:15 – 2:45

Fuhun Qin (Li Lab)

“Cis-Spliced Fusion RNAs between Adjacent Genes in Prostate Cancer “

 2:45 – 3:30

Tea/Coffee Break

3:30 – 4:00

Ninad Walavalkar (Guertin Lab)

“Identifying Transcription Factors that dictate Drug Sensitivity in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemi”

 4:00 – 4:30

Fengbin Wang (Egelman Lab)

“Cryo-EM Reconstructions of Several Helical Object”

4:30 – 5:00

Xiaolong Wei (Adli Lab)

“The Role of Lamins in Establishing 3D Genome Organization”

 **Special Thank You to Manjari Kiran and Canan Kuscu

 for arranging this year’s PostDoc Symposium”