All times are CST
October 29, 2020
3-5 pm
Career Symposium of 30th Annual Keck Research Conference
Career Symposium for predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, featuring a keynote address on biomedical science careers of the future and break-out discussion groups with former Keck Center trainees.
Oct. 30, 2020
Keck Center 2020 and Beyond, a Science Odyssey
8:45 Welcome: Keck Center – Beginning of the Odyssey
Co-Founders of the Keck Center:
Kathleen Matthews, PhD, Professor, Biosciences, Rice University
Monte Pettitt, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
9:00 Keynote Talk
Cryo-EM of Macromolecular Assemblies and Cells
Wah Chiu, PhD, Professor, Bioengineering, and Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University
Keck Center Co-founder
10:00 Keck Center Alum Research Talk
Physics- and Data-driven Studies of Macromolecules
Amarda Shehu, PhD, Professor, Computer Science
George Mason University
10:35 Keck Center Alum Research Talk
Guided Missiles: Antibody-Drug Conjugates for Targeting Colorectal Cancer Cell Plasticity
Kendra Carmon, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Center for Translational Cancer Research
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
11:15 Poster Session 1
12:00 Lunch Break
12:30 The Keck Center: A Look Back and Forward
Kathleen Matthews, Rice University
Current Trainee Research Talks
1:00 Predicting Local Brain Tumor Pathology to Inform Prognosis and Improve Surgery
Evan Gates, PhD Student, Imaging Physics
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
1:15 Loss of miR-290 Modifies the risk of Embryonic Neural Tube Defects in Maternal Diabetes
Samantha Decker, PhD Student, Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Training in Precision Environmental Health Sciences
1:30 Contribution of a Mobile Genetic Element to Adherence, Invasion and Pathogenesis of Emergent Antimicrobial Resistant Group A Streptococcus
Luis Vega, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Training Program in Antimicrobial Resistance
1:45 Keck Center Alum Research Talk
Transforming Medicine with Materials
Upma Sharma, PhD, President and CEO
Arsenal Medical
2:20 Poster Session 2
Current Trainee Research Talks
3:05 Turning Down the Heat: How microRNA-147 Limits Lung Inflammation
Nathan Berg, MD/PhD Student
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Training Interdisciplinary Pharmacology Scientists
3:20 TRPV2 Ion Channel Interactions with Inhibitors and Phosphoinositides
Joshua Rosario Sepulveda, MD/PhD Student
Baylor College of Medicine
Molecular Biophysics Training Program
3:35 Predicting Off-target Toxicity in Cancer Immunotherapy
Dinler Antunes, DSc, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Rice University
Computational Cancer Biology Program
3:50 Keynote Talk
The Innovation Economy and the Future of Biotech and Healthcare
Carlos Bustamante, Professor, Biomedical Data Science, Genetics
Stanford University
4:50 Close