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Kamran M Mirza, MBBS, PhD
Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology Education, Medical School

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Graduate Medical School Medical School Rackham Graduate School

10th Annual Protein Folding Diseases Initiative Symposium

Aug 17, 2023

September 21, 2023

If you have any questions related to this event, please contact Cathy Niemiec at cniemiec@umich.edu.

Symposium Program

Morning
8:25am	Opening Remarks by Andy Lieberman, M.D., Ph.D., Gerald D. Abrams Collegiate Professor, Director of Neuropathology, and Co-Director of the Protein Folding Diseases Initiative
8:30am	Shu-ou Shan, PhD Altair Professor of Chemistry; Executive Officer for Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology, “Molecular Machines in Protein Biogenesis: On the Ribosome and Beyond”
9:15am	Ming Li, PhD Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology “ER-Associated Degradation in Cystinosis Pathogenesis and the Prospects of Precision Medicine”
9:35am	Bing Ye, PhD Professor, Life Sciences Institute, Cellular and Developmental Biology, “Elevated Levels of Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule Cause Presynaptic Overgrowth in Animal Models of Down Syndrome”
9:55am	Yanzhuang Wang, PhD Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, “GRASP55 Regulates Unconventional Secretion and Aggregation of Neurodegenerative Proteins”
10:15am	Peter Arvan, MD, PhD William K. and Delores S. Brehm Professor of Diabetes Research and Co-Director of the Protein Folding Diseases Initiative, "Proinsulin biosynthesis"
10:35am	BREAK
10:45am	Stephanie Moon, PhD Assistant Professor, Human Genetics, “Regulation of RNA in Stress and Disease”
11:05am	Ryan Baldridge, PhD Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry, “Targeted Protein Degradation from the ER”
11:25am	Sethu Pitchiaya, PhD Assistant Professor, Urology and Pathology, “Biomolecular Condensates Modulate Transcriptional Responses to Proteotoxic Stress”
11:45am	Lisa Sharkey, PhD Assistant Professor, Neurology, “Retrotransposon Regulation of Ubiquilin-2 Biology; Implications for ALS Research”

Afternoon
12:05pm	Lunch & Poster Review Seminar Rooms A, B, C, and Upper Atrium
Young Investigator Session
2:30pm	Erin Kropp, MD House Officer VI, “Identifying Small Molecule Modulators of Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation in Multiple Myeloma”
2:50pm	Shannon Lacy, PhD Candidate Cellular & Molecular Biology, “Impact of FICD-Mediated Protein AMPylation on Cardiac Function”
3:10pm	Maroof Alam, PhD Research Fellow, Metabolism, Endo & Diabetes, “Alternate-Day Fasting in Animals Predisposed to Proinsulin Misfolding Reverses Diet-Induced Diabetes”
3:30pm	Ryan Neff “DSCAM’s Role in Dendritic Phenotypes Associated with Down Syndrome”
3:50pm	Randy Hampton, PhD Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego “Mallostery: Employing Protein Quality Control for Metabolic Regulation”
4:30pm	Closing Remarks & Awards by Peter Arvan, M.D., Ph.D., William K. and Delores S. Brehm Professor of Diabetes Research and Co-Director of the Protein Folding Diseases Initiative

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