June 1
Keynote Speaker: Tobias Meyer, PhD
Joseph Hinsey Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Weill Cornell Medicine

“Competition and Commitment in Proliferation Control”

June 8
Speaker 1: Barbara Szynal (Graduate Student, Karginov Lab, University of Illinois, Chicago)
“Role of Shp2 in angiogenic matrix degradation”

Speaker 2: Andreas Hilfinger, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto)
“Can we infer gene regulation dynamics from static snapshots of gene expression variability?”

June 15
Speaker 1: Jia-Yun Chen, Ph.D (Research Scientist, Sorger Lab, Harvard Medical School)
“Multi-range ERK responses shape the proliferative trajectory of single cells following oncogene induction”

Speaker 2: Hao Yuan Kueh, PhD (Associate Professor, University of Washington)
“Antigen encoding in T cell signaling”

June 22
Speaker 1: Jeremy Copperman, Ph.D (Associate Scientist, Zuckerman Lab, Oregon Health & Science University)
“Recovering hidden information from live-cell trajectories to predict the biological pathway activity underlying cell state change decisions”

Speaker 2: Alex Davies, PhD (Senior Scientist, Oregon Health & Science University)
TBD

June 29
Speaker 1: Samantha Stam, Ph.D (Postdoc, Mendoza Lab, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah)
“A molecular link between mitochondria and cell polarity is tuned by protein expression level and cell metabolism”

Speaker 2: Assaf Zaritsky, PhD (Principle Investigator, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
“Measuring continuous cellular state transitions across scales”

July 6
Speaker 1: Hannah Katrina Co (Graduate Student, Sheng-hong Chen’s Lab, Academia Sinica)
“Emergence of large-scale cell death via trigger waves of ferroptosis”

Speaker 2: Savas Tay, PhD (Professor, University of Chicago)
“Understanding and modeling signaling dynamics by microfluidic live-cell analysis and single-cell proteomics”

July 13
Speaker 1: Kirstin Meyer, PhD (Postdoc, Weiner Lab, University of California, San Francisco)
“Optogenetic control of YAP reveals a dynamic communication code for stem cell fate and proliferation”

Speaker 2: Ali Shariati, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Network During G0 to G1 Transition”

July 20
Speaker 1: Sanjeev Sharma, PhD (Postdoc, Teruel Lab, Weil Cornell Medicine)
“Activation and delayed inactivation of ERK and CDK kinases drives a coupled proliferation and differentiation program”

Speaker 2: Greg Reeves, PhD (Associate Professor, Texas A&M University)
“Towards a Quantitative Understanding of Cellular Decision-Making in Tissue-Level Processes”

July 27
Speaker 1: Ivy Xiong, PhD (Postdoc, McMahon and MacLean Labs, University of Southern California)
“Sex differences in renal physiology and diseases”

Speaker 2: Jason Haugh, PhD (Professor, North Carolina State University)
“Signaling and Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Mesenchymal Cell Migration”

August 3
Speaker 1: Shuyuan Zhang, PhD (Postdoc, Skotheim Lab, Stanford University)
“Cell cycle dependent accumulation of RB protein is regulated through degradation”

Speaker 2: Catera Wilder, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco)
“Dynamic control of signaling networks: uncovering specificity in interferon-mediated gene expression responses”

August 10
Speaker 1: Madison Spratt (Graduate Student, Lane Lab, Northwestern University)
“Temporally-tunable phenotypic heterogeneity in Salmonella virulence gene expression”

Speaker 2: Koushik Roy, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of Utah)
“NFkB signaling in humoral immunity”

August 17
Speaker 1: Sohum Mehta, PhD (Associate Project Scientist, Zhang Lab, University of California, San Diego)
“High-performance sensor design for greater insight into endogenous signaling microdomains”

Speaker 2: Andreas Milias-Argeitis, PhD (Associate Professor, University of Groningen)
“Cell cycle-dependent activity of TORC1 and PKA towards ribosome biogenesis”

August 24
Speaker 1: Minjun Son, PhD (Postdoc, Tay Lab, University of Chicago)
“Spatiotemporal information processing by NF-kB network”

Speaker 2: Mustafa Aydogan, PhD (Sandler Fellow, University of California, San Francisco)
“Cytoplasmic division cycles without nuclei and mitotic CDK/Cyclin complexes”

August 31
Speaker 1: Seth Teague (Graduate Student, Heemskerk Lab, University of Michigan)
“The time integral of BMP signaling determines fate in a stem cell model of early human development”

Speaker 2: Stephen Tait, PhD (Professor, University of Glasgow)
Title TBD