2024 VICB Student Research Symposium

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Sponsor

Sponsored By Ancora Innovation

(Deerfield Management)

Organizing Committee

About

When: Friday, August 2, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Where: Student Life Center

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Guest Speaker:

Dan Nomura, Professor of Chemical Biology, University of Califorina, Berkeley:
“Reimagining Druggability Using Chemoproteomic Platforms”

Awards

Richard Armstrong Prize
Xiaoyu “Lily” Yu (winner)
Katherine Closes Moster (runner-up)

Chemistry-focused Poster Awards
Katie Penton – “Bioactive Exploration of Commercially Unavailable Oxazolomycins and Identification of Oxazolomycin D Biosynthetic Gene Cluster”
Sydney Bates – “Leveraging Oxazolomycin Biosynthesis to Investigate the Biological Impact of the Spirocycle Moiety and Taking Steps to Elucidate Mechanism of Action”

Biology-focused Poster Awards
Jenny Tran – “Dissecting the functional role of an active site gate in the initiation of eukaryotic heme biosynthesis”
Emilee Patterson – “Investigating Elicitor/Regulator Pairs For Induction of Secondary Metabolism in Streptomyces”

Overall Poster Award
Katherine Stefanski – “Small-molecule modulators of protein raft affinity and raft stability”

Flash Talks
Jenny Tran (VU)
Brynn Roman (VU)
Sourav Roy (St. Jude)
Hannah Thirman (VU)
Sarah Comer (VU)
Greg Phelps (St. Jude)
Matt Munneke (VU)

Oral Presentations
Abigail Rose (VU)
Maowei Hu (St. Jude)

Agenda

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Contact

If you have questions, please email Tia Patton.