Digestive Disease Research Center retreat set for May 2
A Digestive Diseases Research Center (DDRC) retreat will be held 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2, in the Student Life Center, Ballroom AB.
The keynote speaker will be Scott T. Magness, PhD. associate professor of Medicine, Cell Biology, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina. His topic will be "Evolution of Gut Organoid Cultures: Biomemetic platforms to study single-cell biology, niche interactions, and the microbiome."
A list of the day's speakers:
Welcome:Richard Peek Jr., MD, Mina Cobb Wallace Professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology director, Vanderbilt Digestive Diseases Research Center
Teasing apart lineage segregation in the ENS with inducible Sox10 alleles: E. Michelle Southard-Smith, PhD, associate professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology
Utilizing molecular imaging to study precancerous pancreatic lesions, Jacob Houghton, PhD, assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Science
Deciphering the cellular biology of congenital pediatric diarrheal diseases: James R. Goldenring, M.D., Ph.D.,
Professor of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology. Paul W. Sanger Chair in Experimental Surgery
Helicobacter pylori cag+ strains induce expansion and functional activation of Lrig1+ gastric progenitor cells in a strain-specific manner: Lydia Wroblewski, Ph.D., Research Instructor in Medicine
To Be Determined, Chris Williams, Ph.D., M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Development of targeted therapies against metastatic pancreatic cancer, Oliver McDonald, Ph.D., M.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Progression and regression of gastric preneoplasia through MEK inhibition: Eunyoung Choi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery
Trajectory analysis of single-cell data to map differentiation pathways in the gut: Ken Lau, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Keynote Speaker: Evolution of Gut Organoid Cultures: Biomemetic Platforms to Study Single-cell Biology, Niche interactions, and the Microbiome: Scott Magness, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology, and Biomedical Engineering �
For more information, contact nikki.hirsch@vumc.org.

