Our inaugural trafficking symposium will include talks from students, postdocs, and PIs; a poster session; and a plenary lecture from new faculty member, QJ Zhou.

Please register here by Monday, March 2nd (less than 1 minute to complete).

Schedule (March 5, 2020)

9:00am             Coffee & socializing (sponsored by the Jackson lab)
 
9:30-11am         Session I (15 minute talks)
                           ​Chaired by Natalie Wallace
                           Bhawik Jain (Graham lab): "Exploring the role of P4-ATPases in polarized growth & fungal pathogenicity"
                           Madison Wright (Plate lab): "Investigations into Protein Quality Control Dynamics Dictating Thryoglobulin Secretion"
                           Baris Alten (Kavalali lab): "De novo mutations of SNAP25 cause neurodevelopmental delay disorders with epilepsy                                          through differentially affecting spontaneous and evoked neurotransmission"
                           Heidi Hamm, Ph.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, Aileen M. Lange and Annie Mary Lyle Chair, Cardiovascular Research)
                          
11-11:15am        Break
 
11:15-12:30pm   Session II (15 min talks)
                           Chaired by Betty Xie
                           Hui Huang (Sanders lab): "Stabilization of the KCNQ1 Potassium Channel Causes Disease"
                           Lee Cantrell (Schey lab): "Enhanced Profiling of the Ocular Lens with Data Independent Acquisition Mass Spec"
                           Susan Histed (MacGurn lab)
                           Kathryn Trogden (Kaverina lab): "Microtubule stability regulates the fraction of secretion competent pancreatic beta-                                         cells"
 
12:30-1:30pm    Group lunch with posters—Common area, 5th floor MRBIII
                            (Pizza sponsored by Graham lab; microwaves also available as needed)

1:30-2:30pm       Session III (15 min talks)
                             ​Chaired by John Gadbery, Ph.D.
                             Bong Hwan Sung (Weaver lab): "A Live Cell Reporter of Exosome Secretion and Uptake"
                             Ela Knapik. M.D. (Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology)
                             Andrea Cuentas (Miller lab): "A bulk endocytosis-like mechanism is hijacked to remove presynaptic terminals in                                                remodeling neurons"     

2:30-3:15pm       Plenary lecture: Visualizing membrane trafficking in situ at nanometer scale
                            QJ Zhou, Ph.D. 
                            Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology; Vanderbilt Brain Institute; Center for Structural Biology
 
3:30-5pm           Extended BYO happy hour: each lab contributes growlers, beer, wine, etc!
                            5th floor MRBIII common area