- Dates
- May 16–17, 2024
- Where
- Florida International University, MMC Campus
- Rooms / address
- WC 130 (talks) and PVH 100 (posters), Miami, FL
Program & abstracts
The full schedule, every talk and poster, and all abstracts are in the program book.
20talks, including the keynote
35posters
R. Grace Zhai, PhD
Jack Miller Professor of Neurology and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago
“Modeling, Mechanisms & Mitigation: the m³ approach to combat neurological disorders”
Friday, May 17, 4:30–5:30 PM · FIU MMC, WC 130
Two days at a glance
Day 1 · Thursday, May 16FIU MMC Campus, WC 130 (talks) and PVH 100 (posters)
- 9:00–9:30 AMGiri Narasimhan Welcome, followed by: PIsToN: evaluating protein binding interfaces with explainable AI techniques
- 9:30–9:50 AMFei Qu Unscheduled m⁶A in RNA is induced by a translesion DNA polymerase
- 9:50–10:10 AMDaniel Morales Domestication of long-terminal repeat retrotransposons in mosquitoes and the emergence of a novel heritable adaptive immune pathway
- 10:10–10:30 AMShomita Ferdous Mechanistic insights on flexible hinge region driven conformational changes and enzymatic activity of bacterial topoisomerase IA
- 10:30–10:50 AMBreak, light refreshments
- 10:50–11:10 AMZhe Wang Probing pore formation dynamics induced by electroporation and antimicrobial peptides in nanoscale lipid membrane
- 11:10–11:30 AMKaylee Mackenzie Marrero Why mosquitoes bite me more than you: how differences in human skin bacteria influences mosquito host-seeking behavior
- 11:30–11:50 AMZichao Liu A hidden Markov model for describing fruit fly sleep-wake cycles
- 12:00–1:30 PMLunch
- 1:30–2:00 PMPoster setup (PVH 100)
- 2:00–5:00 PMPoster session (PVH 100), light refreshments
Day 2 · Friday, May 17FIU MMC Campus, WC 130
- 9:00–9:30 AMFenfei Leng Targeting bacterial DNA gyrase for new antibiotics
- 9:30–9:50 AMSamuel Jacob Aguero Vanadium imido NHC alkylidenes for olefin metathesis
- 9:50–10:10 AMVasilisa Krivovicheva Vanadium alkylidenes for carbon isotope exchange
- 10:10–10:30 AMMehri Aziz Humanizing first-year of college in STEM: examination of self-reflection utilizing mixed methods
- 10:30–11:00 AMBreak, light refreshments
- 11:00–11:20 AMJorge David Tovar Castro Novel nanodrug platform for pharmacologically inducing therapeutic hypothermia (TH) after traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- 11:20–11:40 AMSherwin Notorio Reyes An intact cell bioluminescence-based assay for the simple and rapid diagnosis of urinary tract infection and antimicrobial resistance
- 11:40 AM–12:00 PMJanna Lynn Fierst Regulatory logic can stabilize transposon dynamics in nematode worm genomes
- 12:00–1:30 PMLunch
- 1:30–2:00 PMJason Pienaar Armored terrestrial tardigrades use host-cues of pending environmental deterioration to initiate cryptobiosis
- 2:00–2:30 PMMatthew DeGennaro Manipulating where mosquitoes lay their eggs
- 2:30–3:00 PMSayran Salim Saber Direct inference of the distribution of fitness effects of spontaneous mutations from recombinant inbred C. elegans mutation accumulation lines
- 3:00–3:15 PMBreak, light refreshments
- 3:15–3:45 PMFrancisco Fernandez Lima Application of native TIMS-MS to structural biology
- 3:45–4:15 PMKevin Collins Modulation of reproductive behaviors by mechanosensory feedback
- 4:15–4:30 PMBreak, light refreshments
- 4:30–5:30 PMKeynote: R. Grace Zhai, PhD Modeling, Mechanisms & Mitigation: the m³ approach to combat neurological disorders
- 5:30–6:00 PMStudent awards
Questions? Email bsi@fiu.edu
11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199