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| ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE |
| Guoqiang Gu, Ph.D. (PI Organizer) |
| Andrea Page-McCaw, Ph.D. (PI Organizer) |
| Rockann Mosser, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Rep) |
| Jessica Sweatt (Graduate Student Rep) |
| Marc Wozniak |
| Michael Ray |
| Kimberly Kane |
| RETREAT 16 '9 TO 9' VIDEO |
Each year, St. Jude's, UAB, and Vanderbilt attendees pair off in a no-holds barred volleyball game. Bragging rights, and ostentatious trophy, go to the winner. Vanderbilt won the inaugural match up in 2010, with UAB taking the trophy home in '11, and again this year. |
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Our 16th Annual Program in Developmental Biology Scientific Retreat, coined 'Retreat 16', was held on Thursday and Friday, September 20th and 21st, at Joe Wheeler Stare Park (Rogersville, AL).
Research and support personnel from Vanderbilt, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham participated in two days of presentations, a late-night poster session, and a very special keynote talk from Scott Gilbert, Ph.D.
Attendees had an opportunity to hear 18 oral presentations and 40 poster presentations from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from all three participating institutions. The following participants were recognized for their outstanding presentations:
| Session I - Graduate Student Talks | ||
| Mahesh Rao (Jim Patton Lab, Vanderbilt) | ||
Retina Regeneration Following Targeted Rod Photoreceptor Destruction |
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| Session II - Graduate Student Talks | ||
| Jing Liu (Guoqiang Gu, Vanderbilt University Medical Center) | ||
Exploring miRNA-mediated Ngn3 self-regulation in pancreatic islet development |
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| Session III - Graduate Student Talks | ||
| Neil Dani (Kendal Broadie Lab, Vanderbilt) | ||
The sweet side of synaptic development: heparan sulfate proteoglycan regulation of WNT and BMP trans-synaptic signaling |
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| Session IV - Graduate Student Talks | ||
| Dawn Landis (Brad Yoder Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham) | ||
Using a novel genetic tag compatible with electron microscopy to determine ultrastructural localization of ciliopathy associated proteins |
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| Session V - Postdoctoral Fellows Talks | ||
| Robert Taylor, Ph.D. (Larry Zwiebel Lab, Vanderbilt) | ||
Manipulation of insect odorant receptors with small molecules. |
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| Graduate Student Posters (TIE) | ||
| Benjamin Dean (Josh Gamse Lab, Vanderbilt) | ||
| FGF8 regulates multiple levels of neurogenesis in the zebrafish, from neural progenitor maintenance to differentiation | ||
| Graduate Student Poster (TIE) | ||
| Ray Pasek (Brad Yoder Lab, University of Alabama Birmingham) | ||
| Exploring the roles of two ciliary genes, Cluap1 and Ccdc42, in mammalian development and reproduction | ||
| Postdoctoral Fellows Poster | ||
| Noelia Escobedo, Ph.D. (Guillermo Oliver Lab, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) | ||
| Syndecan-4 interacts with Vangl2 to regulate neural tube closure and Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) | ||
| Research Assistant Poster (TIE) | ||
| Kimi LaFever (Andrea Page-McCaw Lab, Vanderbilt University Medical Center) | ||
| Purification of full length MMPs in Drosophila for identification and analysis of substrates | ||
| Research Assistant Poster (TIE) | ||
| Kirill Zavalin (Ela Knapik Lab, Vanderbilt University Medical Center) | ||
| Paralog specific function of Sec23a and Sec23b in cartilage morphogenesis | ||
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