Previous Genetics Day Symposiums
Previous Genetics Day Symposiums
35th Annual Genetics Day
Monday, May 13, 2024
Class of '62 Auditorium and Sarah Flaum Atrium
21st Annual Fred Sherman Lecture
Featuring Keynote Speaker: Cassandra G. Extavour, Ph.D.
Timken Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard. College Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
Visit Dr. Extavour's Lab Webpage
Poster Prizes
Cash prizes will be awarded to a select group of Genetics Day Poster presenters. Winners of the poster competition will receive a $200 cash prize, awards will be given for graduate student and postdoctoral trainees
Poster Registration Links Will Soon Be Available
GRADUATE STUDENTS | |
| 1. | ELUCIDATION OF GLUTATHIONE RELATED DIPEPTIDE METABOLISM IN CANCER ALIMOHAMMADI F, Hecht F, Zocchi M, Tuttle E, Asantewaa G, Scales T, Ward N, DeNicola G, Harris IS Pharmacology and Physiology. |
| 2. | METHIONINE OXIDATION IN PROTEIN TRANSLATION PHILIP BELLOMIO, Sina Ghaemmaghami Biology |
| 3. | COMPUTATIONAL IDENTIFICATION OF BIOMARKERS OF MOLECULAR CIRCADIAN CLOCK DISRUPTION IN LUNG CANCER JAMISON B BURCHETT, JULIANA CAZARIN DE MENEZES, BRIAN J ALTMAN Biomedical Genetics & Genomics |
| 4. | THE ROLE OF H2A.Z AND ANP32E IN THE REGULATION OF MERVL ELEMENT EXPRESSION DURING 2C-REPROGRAMMING KARLI CASLER, Shan Hua, Micheal Ayers, Kristin Murphy, Fanju Meng, Patrick Murphy Biology |
| 5. | GENOMIC ANALYSIS REVEALS HETEROCHROMATIN-INDEPENDENT LOCALIZATION OF CELL STATE REGULATOR SUV420H2 AT GENE PROMOTERS. ERIC CEFALONI, Christina Davidson, Ching-Hua Shih, Paula Vertino Biology |
| 6. | STARVATION-INDUCED LIPID DROPLETS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER OOGENESIS MINHAO CHEN, Michael Welte Biology |
| 7. | SUV420H2-MEDIATED H4K20ME3 ROLE IN REGULATING EMT PLASTICITY IN BREAST CANCER BACHELARD ELEODOR DIEUJUSTE [1,2], LAURA Mclane [2,3], CHING-HUA SHIH [2,3], CHRISTINA DAVIDSON [2,3], PAULA VERTINO [1,2,3] [1] Biomedical, Genetics, and Genomics PhD program, [2] Department of Biomedical Genetics, [3] Wilmot Cancer Institute | University of Rochester |
| 8. | SATELLITE DNA REGULATION & THE MECHANISM OF SEGREGATION DISTORTER Xiaolu Wei, LOGAN EDVALSON, Amanda Larracuente Biology |
| 9. | PARASPECKLES PROMOTE FEATURES OF CLASSICAL PDAC AND SUGGEST LINK BETWEEN DETAINED INTRON PROCESSING AND DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS DAKARAI ESGDAILLE, Zamira Guerra Soares, Christina Wang, Paul L. Boutz, Stephano S. Mello Biomedical Genetics |
| 10. | SEQUENCE DEPENDENT TRANSIENT IMPEDENCE OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION VIA R-LOOP FORMATION UPON GENE ACTIVATION MCKAYLA FORD, Paula Vertino Biomedical Genetics |
| 11. | A ROLE FOR FERROPTOSIS IN ERYTHROID DIFFERENTIATION SALOME GHVINEPHADZE, Shannon Freyer, Patric R. Hodgson, Leonard I. Zon, Marlies P. Rossmann TBS; Biomedical Genetics |
| 12. | EXACERBATION OF DM1 MYOPATHY IN MICE BY FORCED ABERRANT SPLICING OF THE SKELETAL MUSCLE VOLTAGE-GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL SAKURA HAMAZAKI, Lily Cisco, Matthew Sipple, Katherine Edwards, Jennasea Licata, Charles Thornton, John Lueck Cellular, Developmental, and Molecular Biology |
| 13. | IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS ASSOCIATING WITH THE INTEGRATOR COMPLEX MARYCLAIRE HASELEY, Kai-Lieh Huang, Eric J. Wagner Biochemistry |
| 14. | H2A.Z REGULATION OF CTCF BINDING AND HIGHER-ORDER CHROMATIN STRUCTURE SHAN HUA, KRISTIN MURPHY, FANJU MENG, PATRICK MURPHY Biology |
| 15. | CASPASE-3 DEPENDENT TAU PATHOLOGY AND MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION AS REGULATED BY BAG3 JOSEPH IRVIN, Peter Girardi, Gail Johnson Biology |
| 16. | THE ROLE OF TAURINE IN BONE REMODELING IN YOUNG ADULTS CHRISTINA M. KASZUBA, Benjamin J. Rodems, Sonali Sharma, Emily R. Quarato, Kyle P. Jerreld, Roman Eliseev, Hani A. Awad, Laura M. Calvi, and Jeevisha Bajaj Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Genetics, James P. Wilmont Cancer Institute, Center for Musculoskeletal Research |
| 17. | RIBOZYME-ACTIVATED RNA TRANS-LIGATION ENABLES EFFECTIVE GENE THERAPIES FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES SEAN LINDLEY, Kadiam Subbaiah, Fnu Priyanka, Pornthida Poolasa, William Richardson, Tamlyn Thomas, Douglas Anderson Biology |
| 18. | PROTEOME BIRTHDATING REVEALS AGE-SELECTIVITY OF PROTEIN UBIQUITINATION MICHAEL E MEADOW1,2, Sarah Broas1, Margaret Hoare1 , Fatemeh Alimohammadi3, Kevin A. Welle4, Kyle Swovick4 , Jennifer R. Hryhorenko4, John C. Martinez1, Seyed Ali Biashad1, Andrei Seluanov1,5 , Vera Gorbunova1,5 , Abigail Buchwalter6, and Sina Ghaemmaghami1,4* Biology/MSTP |
| 19. | TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT METHYLATION STATE PREDICTS AGE AND DISEASE FRANCESCO MORANDINI, Jinlong Lu, Cheyenne Rechsteiner, Aladdin Shadyab, Ramon Casanova, Beverly Snively, Andrei Seluanov, Vera Gorbunova Biology |
| 20. | CUT&Tag IDENTIFIES H3K9me3 MARKED INTERGENIC REGIONS THAT ARE UNDETECTABLE BY ChIP-Seq BRANDON PARK, Dr. Mitchell O'Connell, Dr. Patrick Murphy Biomedical Genetics |
| 21. | CARDINAL IS A NUCLEAR LNCRNA THAT REPRESSES TCF-SRF-MEDIATED GENE TRANSCRIPTION BY CO-OCCUPYING SRF-BOUND GENE PROMOTERS IN THE HEART JESSICA PERCIACCANTE, Fnu Priyanka, Pornthida Poosala, Xiaorong Xu Parks, Tamlyn Thomas, and Douglas M. Anderson Genetics |
| 22. | THE HISTONE H2A.Z CONTROLS THE TIMING OF DROSOPHILA EMBRYOGENESIS PAKINEE PHROMSIRI 1, Fanju Meng 2, Claire Makowski 2, Noah Reger 1, Patrick Murphy 2, Michael Welte 1 1 DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, ROCHESTER, USA 2 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL GENETICS, WILMOT CANCER CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, ROCHESTER, UNITED STATES |
| 23. | RNA MODIFICATIONS CORRELATE WITH MAXIMUM LIFESPAN IN RODENTS CHEYENNE RECHSTEINER, Francesco Morandini, Eric Hillpot, Keija Zhang, Dragony Fu, Andrei Seluanov, Vera Gorbunova Biology |
| 24. | HISTONE BUFFERING IN EARLY DROSOPHILA EMBRYOS BY MAPMODULIN NOAH REGER and Michael Welte Biology |
| 25. | EXPLORING DIVERSE NUCLEOSOME BINDING MODES OF H1 SUBTYPES NICHOLAS R. RUGELIS and Jeffrey J. Hayes Biochemistry & Biophysics |
| 26. | THE ROLE OF IMPORTIN ALPHA 2 IN HISTONE EXCHANGE AND ORGANIZATION OF ACTIN-RICH STRUCTURES ALICIA SHIPLEY, Asmita Dutta, Roger White, Pakinee Phromsiri, Michael Welte Biology |
| 27. | REGULATION OF ENHANCERS BY THE KDM5 DEMETHYLASES IN BREAST CANCER ZACHARY SMITH, CHRISTINA DAVIDSON, MCKAYLA FORD, CHING HUA SHIH, PAULA VERTINO Biochemistry |
| 28. | HYBRID GENETIC ANALYSIS REVEALS LARGE CHROMOSOMAL EFFECTS ON THERMAL DIVERGENCE IN THE SACCHAROMYCESS SPECIES NILIMA WALUNJKAR, Lydia Levesque, Justin Fay Biology |
| 29. | Comparative Analysis of Single-Cell Pathway Scoring Methods and a Novel Approach RUOQIAO WANG and Juilee Thakar Biology |
| 30. | Genetic Sex Modulates Control of ascr#8 Attraction through Chemoreceptor srd-58/59 Expression ZACHARY WARD Biomedical Genetics |
| 31. | Monitoring fatty acid trafficking in follicles reveals a critical role for the triglyceride synthase DGAT1 in protecting mitochondrial integrity Roger White and Michael Welte Biology |
| 32. | THE GENETIC TIMER REGULATING SEXUAL MATURATION IN THE C. ELEGANS NERVOUS SYSTEM JIARUI (RYAN) ZHANG, Carlos A. Diaz-Balzac, Maria I. Lazaro-Pena, Douglas S. Portman Biology |
POSTDOCS | |
| 33. | SEX DIFFERENCES IN CONTEXT-DEPENDENT PERSISTENT BEHAVIORAL STATES IN C. ELEGANS CHANCE BAINBRIDGE, Gregory Reilly, Jinxin Wang, Douglas Portman Biomedical Genetics |
| 34. | THE ONCOGENE MYC AS A DRIVER OF CIRCADIAN CLOCK DISRUPTION AND DEDIFFERENTIATION IN THE LUNG: IMPLICATIONS IN EARLY LUNG CARCINOGENESIS. JULIANA CAZARIN, Jamison Burchett, Siti Noor Ain Binti Ahmad Shahidan, Rachel E. Derollo, Brian J. Altman Biomedical Genetics |
| 35 | eIF4G2-DEPENDENT TRANSLATION OF PRO-FIBROTIC mRNAS IS ESSENTIAL FOR CARDIAC FIBROBLAST ACTIVATION DEBOJYOTI DAS,#, Eng-Soon Khor,#, Feng Jiang, Omar M. Hedaya, Jiangbin Wu, Waihong Wilson Tang, Peng Yao* 1Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Medicine |
| 36. | EXTRACELLULAR GLUTATHIONE CATABOLISM SUPPORTS TUMOR GROWTH FABIO HECHT, Marco Zocchi, Emily Tuttle, Gloria Asantewaa, Tashjae Scales, Fatemeh Alimohammadi, Nathan Ward, Gina Denicola, And Isaac Harris Biomedical Genetics |
| 37. | THE MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR SPECIATION: NEO-SEX CHROMOSOMES AND HYBRIDIZATION IN PACIFIC ISLAND BIRDS ELSIE H. SHOGREN, Jason M. Sardell, Christina A. Muirhead, Emiliano Marti, Robert G. Moyle, Daven C. Presgraves, J. Albert C. Uy Biology |
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS | |
| 38. | DECIPHERING SMOKE AND MIRRORS IN PANCREATITIS: IMPACT OF PRENATAL NICOTINE EXPOSURE XUKE WANG, Zamira Guerra Soares, Jennifer Twardowski, Fanju Meng, Emily Berry, Dakarai Esgdaille, Patrick Murphy, Stephano Mello Department of Biology, University of Rochester |
STAFF | |
| 39. | THE CONDENSIN II COMPLEX SUBUNIT NCAPH2 REGULATES PATTERNS OF H4K20ME1 OCCUPANCY AND ERYTHROID GENE EXPRESSION DEANNA ABID, Kristin Murphy, Zachary C. Murphy, Michael Getman, Laurie A. Steiner Department of Biomedical Genetics |
| 40. | A PIPELINE FOR UNTARGETED METABOLOMICS OF ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS PATRICK R. HODGSON, Carl A. Berggren, Salome Ghvinephadze, Xiaolu Wei, Paul S. Brookes, Marlies P. Rossmann Biomedical Genetics |
FACULTY | |
| 41. | LINKING GENETIC VARIANTS HUMAN DISEASE VIA THE EPIGENOME HONGBO LIU and Katalin Susztak Department of Biomedical Genetics |
ORGANIZATIONS | |
| 42. | WILCATS: WILMOT CANCER TRAINEES EMILY WHITT, Jamison Burchett, Bachelard Dieujuste, Zachary Smith Wilmot Cancer Center |