The Center's 27^th Annual Symposium was successfully held on April 29^th. Five talks were presented by renowned scientists and students and postdoctoral fellows presented posters. Four of those posters were selected for awards of $100. The winners were Jaila Lewis, Mariia Rybak, Savannah Seely, and Justin Van Riper.

Picture from Left to Right: Mariia Rybak (UTMB, Postdoc), Jaila Lewis (U of H, student), Justin Van Riper (BCM, student), Savannah Seely (UTMB, student), Professors Matthieu Gagnon and Werner Braun (Chair and co-Chair)

2023 Abstract Book (PDF)

Speakers

• Ruben L. Gonzalez Jr., Ph.D. , Professor, Department of Chemistry , Columbia University, New York, NY
  Title: "The Structural Dynamics of mRNA Activation During Eukaryotic Translation Initiation"
• Krishna Rajarathnam, Ph.D. , Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
  University of Texas Medical Branch
  Galveston, TX
  Title: "Targeting Chemokine Interactions for Inflammatory Diseases – What Structures Can Tell Us"
• John A. Tainer, Ph.D. , Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology , University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  Title: "Defining and Hitting Moving Targets for Cancer Biology"
• David W. Taylor, Ph.D. , Associate Professor , Molecular Biosciences , University of Texas, Austin, TX
  Title: "Reengineering CRISPR-Cas Effector Complexes"
• Junjie Zhang, Ph.D. , Associate Professor , Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics , Texas A&M University
  College Station, TX, Title: "Single-stranded RNA Phages: From Bacterial Lysis to Virulence Reduction"

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