Events

8Jul

Speaker: Aparna Anand – “Unraveling the Role of Transposable Elements in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma”

11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Connor Auditorium
9Jul

Speaker: Jessica Harrison – “Characterizing the Epigenomic and Transposable Element Landscapes of Human Cytotrophoblasts and Syncytiotrophoblasts during gestation and pathology: Severe Preeclampsia”

1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Connor Auditorium
13Jul

Speaker: Kyoung Mi Park”- “Rapid Induction of Blastoid-Competent Naïve Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and Their Application to Investigate BAF Complex Function During Early Lineage Specification”

2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Connor Auditorium
14Jul

Speaker: Nahyun Kong – “Atypical Genetic Mechanisms: Uniparental Disomy, Somatic Mosaicism, and Mitochondrial Variation”

3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Connor Auditorium
15Jul

2026 National Institutes of Health Graduate & Professional School Fair

9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
15Jul

Speaker: Vincent Brazelton – The Invisible Crop: Harnessing Root System Architecture in Heirloom Collards for Climate-Resilient Urban Agriculture

11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
JJK FAN Innovation Center
15Jul

Speaker: Emily Eul – “Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Reprogramming During Breast Cancer Progression Promotes Myeloid-Biased Hematopoiesis”

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
BJC-Institute of Health, 5th floor, Allison Conference Room
21Jul

Speaker: Benjamin Olson – “The Gut-Bladder Axis: How Symbiont Microbes Alter Urinary Tract Infections”

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Holden Auditorium
24Jul

Speaker: Sofia Smith – “Elucidating the Distinct Roles of EZH2 Gain-of-Function Events in Germinal Center B Cells”

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Moore Auditorium
29Oct

2026 NDiSTEM (SACNAS) Conference

12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.