MUSC Digestive Disease Research Center 6th Annual Research Symposium & Retreat - April 11th, 2025

Join us on Friday, April 11th for the 5th Annual Digestive Disease Research Center Symposium to celebrate our research efforts across the MUSC Digestive Disease Research Core Center (DDRCC) and the MUSC Center for Biomedical Research Excellence in Digestive and Liver Disease (CDLD). This event will bring together Gastrointestinal and Liver disease researchers from across the campus and provide an opportunity to share new research findings, facilitate scientific exchange, identify potential new collaborations, and promote our associated research core facilities.

The event is open to all interested members of the MUSC Digestive Disease Research community and will include both oral and poster presentations as well as a keynote address from Richard M. Peek, Jr., M.D., Professor and Director of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine DDRCC and Director, Division of Gastroenterology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

This year, we will also be hosting guest speaker and DDRCC Eastern Alliance Exchange faculty,  Ian Williamson, Ph.D., from the North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and disease.

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ABSTRACT FORMAT: 

Abstracts must contain the following sections: Background, Methods, Results and Conclusions. 300 word limit, not including Author and Affiliation information.

Meeting Agenda and Schedule

Friday, April 11, 2025

Poster Session and Refreshments: Hollings Cancer Center Auditorium Lobby

7:30 am: Registration, Poster set-up, coffee

8:30 am: Welcome and Introduction

  Don Rockey, M.D.

  Steve Duncan, D.Phil.

 

Eastern Alliance Exchange Seminar

8:45 am: IAN WILLIAMSON, Ph.D. NC State University

"Measuring enterocyte metabolism in health and disease."

 

SESSION I

9:30 am: Lu Han, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department, MUSC

 "Persistence of the fetal splanchnic program in pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts."

 

9:50 am: Toros Dincman, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Heme Onc), MUSC

“Deciphering the role of GDF15 and PCBP1 interaction in colorectal cancer.”

 

10:10 am: Kylie Driggers (Hartman Lab), Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department, MUSC

 “The impact of CYP2E1 deletion on regeneration after partial hepatectomy.”

 

10:30 am: BREAK & POSTER SESSION

10:30 am - 11:15 am: Odd numbered abstracts

11:15 am - 12:00 pm: Even numbered abstracts

12:00 pm: LUNCH (provided)

 

SESSION II

1:00 pm:Judit Jimenez-Sainz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department, MUSC

  "BRCA2 and RAD51 cellular localization in cancer."

 

1:20 pm: Daniel Sprague, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department, MUSC

  "Target-based Discovery of a Broad Spectrum Flukicide."

 

1:40 pm: Piper McKee (Amy Engevik Lab) Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology Department, MUSC

  “Loss of Myosin 5b disrupts liver function.”

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

2:00 PM: RICHARD M. PEEK, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  "Helicobacter pylori as a microbial driver of gastric carcinogenesis."

 

3:00 PM: CLOSING REMARKS

   

If you have questions, please contact the DDRCC Center Manager, Kyu-Ho Lee.