Speakers

Keynote Address (read more…)
		Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Brigham Young University Social connection and health: Past, present, and future

Breakthrough Discovery Symposium I (read more…)
		Askar Akimzhanov, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dynamic protein S-acylation in T cell signaling
		Tatiana Barichello, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Impact of infection and inflammation on neuropsychiatric disorders
		Rachel Miller, Ph.D. Department of Pediatrics Insights into kidney development and congenital anomalies: “Ribbeting” perspectives from the frog model

Postdoctoral Presentations (read more…)
		Abhijnan Chattopadhyay, Ph.D. Department of Internal Medicine Division of Medical Genetics A novel pathway drives atherosclerosis by augmenting phenotypic modulation of smooth muscle cells in the absence of traditional risk factors
		Kyrylo Pyrshev, Ph.D. Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology Life under pressure: regulation of Piezo1 activity in renal collecting duct
		Sarah Surrain, Ph.D. Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Learning Institute Identifying caregiver behaviors that promote optimal outcomes for emergent bilinguals with language difficulties

Breakthrough Discovery Symposium II (read more…)
		Matthew DeBerge, Ph.D. Department of Anesthesiology Inflammatory links between cardiovascular disease and neurodegeneration
		Junchen Liu, Ph.D. Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology KRAS spatiotemporal dynamics: Sphingolipid as a novel therapeutic target
		Zhenfu Wen, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Neural representation of threat and safety in the human brain
		Xiaotian Zhang, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Transcription hijacking in acute myeloid leukemia – The interplay of biological condensate and developmental genes