The 29th SCSB Annual Symposium will be on April 5, 2025

Each Year, the SCSB hosts a symposium to highlight current research. The invited speakers are world renowned leaders in their fields of research.

Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025

Location: Health Education Center (HEC) Room 1.200
Chair: Prof. Guy Nir
Co-Chair: Prof. Yunfeng Chen

Scientific Program Schedule 

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Invited Speakers

Kerry Bloom, Ph.D.
Professor
Biology Department
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
E-mail: kerry_bloom@unc.edu
Title: "Building springs with DNA"

Yifan Cheng, Ph.D.
Professor, HHMI Investigator
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
E-mail: yifan.cheng@ucsf.eduv
Title: "Cryo-EM studies of integrin αvβ8 mediated L-TGF-β activation"

Li-av Segev-Zarko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
E-mail: lisegevz@utmb.edu
Title: "Elucidating apicomplexan invasion: from macromolecular structures to biological function"

Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Ph.D.
Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Rice University, Houston, TX
E-mail: anna-karin.gustavsson@rice.edu
Title: "Mapping cellular function using 3D single-molecule tracking and super-resolution microscopy"

Jane Skok, Ph.D.
Sandra and Edward H. Meyer Professor of Radiation Oncology
Department of Pathology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY
E-mail: Jane.Skok@nyulangone.org
Title: "A genome wide code to define cell-type specific CTCF binding and chromatin organization"