Cell Biology Award Symposium

Chair(s)

• CS

  Christopher Smith, Ph.D., C.M.I.

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Anthropology
  American Museum of Natural History
  New York, New York, United States

R.R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology Lecture featuring 2025 Early-Career Investigator Award Recipient Katheryn Rothenberg

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM US PDT

  Dissecting the Roles and Regulators of Cell Adhesions during Collective Epithelial Migration
  

  Speaker: Katheryn E. Rothenberg, PhD – University of Iowa
• 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM US PDT

  Investigating the Role of Mechanical Forces on Left-right Organizer Morphogenesis
  

  Presenting Author: Emma M. Retzlaff – SUNY Upstate Medical University - Syracuse, NY
• 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM US PDT

  Evaluating BMX-001 Efficacy: A SOD2 Mimetic Approach to Mitigate Myocardial Ischemia-reperfusion Damage
  

  Presenting Author: Varsha Manikandan – Kirksville Senior High School
• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM US PDT

  The negative regulation of PR55α-controlled PP2A by the p53 tumor suppressor
  

  Presenting Author: Alison Camero, MHS – University of Nebraska Medical Center
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM US PDT

  Proteomic Profiling of Wild-type and specc1l Mutant Palatal Shelves Reveal Novel Defects in Vesicle Transport, Mitochondrial Function, and Metabolism
  

  Presenting Author: Brittany M. Hufft-Martinez, PhD – University of Kansas Medical Center