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35th Annual Genetics Day

Monday, May 13, 2024
Class of '62 Auditorium and Sarah Flaum Atrium

Event Program 2024 Event Flyer 2024

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