2021 Symposium Agenda

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Schedule for Friday, October 8, 2021

Start Time	End Time	Session	Speaker
Morning Session I - Student Talks Simons Auditorium Session Chairs: Hayley Blockinger and Matthew Zupan
9:20 am	9:25 am	Opening Remarks	Tim Jackson
9:25 am	9:50 am	"Insulin variants to selectively target insulin-specific B cells: Enabling antigen-specific immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes”	Kyle Apley
9:50 am	10:15 am	"Modeling Early Tau Aggregation and Neurodegeneration Using Caenorhabditis elegans"	Wendy Aquino Nunez
10:15 am	10:30 am	Coffee Break
Morning Session II - Student Talks Simons Auditorium Session Chairs: Ian McBride and Matthew Zupan
10:30 am	10:55 am	“Method Development for Analysis of Bacteria by Capillary Electrophoresis for Life Detection on Ocean Worlds”	Emily Kurfman
10:55 am	11:20 am	“Targeting Viral RNA: Developing a Novel Packaging Inhibitor for HIV-1”	Jacob Immel
Poster Sessions Pharmacy Atrium
11:20 am	11:30 am	Walk to Poster Sessions
11:30 am	12:30 pm	Poster Session I
12:30 pm	2:00 pm	Lunch Break
2:00 pm	3:00 pm	Poster Session II
Afternoon Session Simons Auditorium Session Chairs: Kyle Apley and Hayley Blockinger
3:00 pm	3:10 pm	Walk to Simons
3:10 pm	3:30 pm	Lightning Talks	Ayotunde Ikujuni Siddharth Subham Jing Tian
3:30 pm	4:30 pm	"Marmosets as a Model for Human Infections of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses”	Dr. Jean Patterson
4:30 pm	5:00 pm	Certificates, Awards, and Symposium Close	Tim Jackson