Event Date
MCB Research Day 2026
8:30am-9:00am—Light Breakfast and Coffee
9:00am-9:10am—Welcome Introduction with Sean Burgess
9:10am-9:40am—Keynote Speaker: Angelica Guercio: “Belonging Through Practice: What Does Authentic Scientific Practice Look Like in the Courses We Teach?”
9:45am-10:35am—Keynote Speaker: John Albeck: “Can a Single Cell Pass MCB 123? Lessons in Enzyme Kinetics from Metabolite Biosensors”
10:35am-10:50am: Break
Session 1: Moderator—Hemang Patel
10:50 am-11:10am—Jisoo Han (Teaching Lab): “From Lab Exercises to Research: What Changes When an Undergraduate Laboratory Becomes a CURE?”
11:15am-11:35am—Devin Romines (Ellefson Lab): “A Tale of Two Classes: Student Performance, Engagement Patterns, and Preferences in an Online Versus In-Person Large Enrollment Genetics Course”
11:40am-12:00pm—Yale Goldman (Goldman Lab): “Mechanism-Based Approach in Designing Combination Therapies for Nonsense Mutation Diseases”
12:05pm-1:05pm: Lunch Break
Session 2: Moderator—TBD
1:05pm-1:25pm—Alex Stockinger (Juliano Lab): “Gatekeepers of Regeneration: Wnt, Metabolism and the Injury Response in Hydra”
1:30pm-1:50pm—Matthew Laurence (Starr and Luxton Lab): “A Mechanical Basis for Selective Neuronal Vulnerability in Giant KASH Protein-Linked Neurodegeneration”
1:55pm-2:15pm—Matt Braga (Cash Lab): “TBD”
2:20pm-2:40pm—Catrin Law (Fisher Lab): “Lessons from Nature: Cryo-EM Insights from Duck ADAR Shedding Light on Human RNA Editing”
2:45pm-3:00pm: Break
Session 3: Moderator—TBD
3:00pm-3:20pm—Meghan Frederick (Chedin Lab): “Depletion of the Splicing Factor AQR Causes Downregulation of DNA Damage Response Factors”
3:25pm-3:45pm—Anabella Di Pietro (Therrien Lab): “APOE Genotype Shapes Microglial Responses to Peripheral Inflammation”
3:50pm-4:10pm—Annika Patel (Accorsi Lab): "Characterizing Photoreceptor Subtypes in the Regenerative Apple Snail Pomacea canaliculata"