2014 Program of Events

Russek-2014-posterCoffee and pastries available at 8:30 a.m. Please pick up badges and abstract booklet at the front of the Heibert lounge from our student hosts. Please put up your poster before 9:00 a.m.

9:00-9:30 a.m.

Welcoming addresses by Dr. Shelley J. Russek (Vice-President, Russek Foundation, BU Professor of Pharmacology), Dr. Linda Hyman (Associate Provost, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, Professor of Microbiology), and current President of the Graduate Medical Sciences Student Organization.

9:30-10:45 a.m.

Henry I. Russek Keynote Lecture “The Sensory Neurons of Touch” by Dr. David Ginty, Professor of Neurobiology, HHMI Investigator, Harvard Medical School.

10:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Viewing of posters presented by graduate students enrolled in the Division of Graduate
Medical Sciences (Buffet luncheon available at 11:30 a.m.)
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Award winners (First, Second, and Third) please get your lunch
and bring to the student lounge (14th floor L-Bldg). You will be having lunch with our
Keynote Speaker & Visiting Professor Dr. David Ginty.

1:00-3:45 p.m.

Slide presentations by the 2014 Henry I. Russek Student Achievement First Prize
Recipients. (Each presentation is 10 min. with an additional 5 min. for questions.
Student moderators will host the event.)

  • 1:00-1:15 p.m.  Caitlin Leibowitz: ACTIVATED PROTEIN C RELIEVES ER STRESS BUT NOT MORTALITY IN MOUSE KIDNEY INJURY. (Department of Pathology, Advisor: D. Stearns-Kurosawa)
  • 1:15-1:30 p.m.  Hila Milo Rasouly: LOSS OF ZEB2 CAUSES GLOMERULOCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN MICE.  (Program in Genetics & Genomics, Advisor: W. Lu)
  • 1:30-1:45 p.m.  Kristie Hilliard: THE LUNG-LIVER AXIS FACILITATES INNATE IMMUNITY AND SURVIVAL DURING PNEUMONIA. (Department of Microbiology, Advisor: L. Quinton)
  • 1:45-2:00 p.m.  Kathleen Tumelty: MECHANISMS OF AORTIC CARBOXYPEPTIDASE-LIKE PROTEIN REGULATION OF THE FIBROBLAST TO MYOFIBROBLAST TRANSITION. (Department of Biochemistry, Advisor: M. Layne)
  • 2:00-2:15 p.m.  Tara Vanderweyde: Regulated protein aggregation of TIA1 increases tau aggregation and neurotoxicity in vitro. (Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Advisor: B. Wolozin)
  • 2:15-2:30 p.m.   Anna Eisenstein: AN ADENOSINE RECEPTOR-KRUPPEL-LIKE FACTOR 4 AXIS INHIBITS ADIPOGENESIS. (Program in Molecular Medicine, K. Ravid)
  • 2:30-2:45 p.m.    Samantha Michalka: DYNAMIC RECRUITMENT OF HUMAN FRONTAL LOBE NETWORKS FOR TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PROCESSING.  (Graduate Program for Neuroscience, Advisor: D. Somers)
  • 2:45-3:00 p.m. Lev Vaisman: DIFFERENTIAL BLINKING RATES AS A FUNCTION OF HANDEDNESS: SERENDIPITOUS FINDINGS FROM A STUDY OF THE EVOKED P300 POTENTIALS RECORDINGS. (Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Advisor:  P. Bergethon & M. Moss)
  • 3:00-3:15 p.m.  Stacy Andersen: EPISODIC MEMORY AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION IN FAMILIAL LONGEVITY.  (Department of Biochemistry, Advisor: T. Perls)
  • 3:15-3:30 p.m.   Anastasia Karabina: THE EFFECT OF MYOSIN REGULATORY LIGHT CHAIN PHOSPHORYLATION ON B-MYOSIN MECHANICS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. (Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Advisor: J. Moore)
  • 3:30-3:45 p.m.   Debora Heller: THE EFFECT OF SERUM ON IN VIVO EARLY MICROBIAL COLONIZATION OF TOOTH ENAMEL.  (Progran in Oral Biology, Advisor: F. Oppenheim)

4:00 p.m

Award presentations by Shelley J. Russek, Russek Foundation. Photo shoot of
our wonderful award winners!