MUSC Digestive Disease Research Center 5th Annual Research Symposium & Retreat - April 12th, 2024

Join us on Friday, April 12th 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 Jacquelyn Maher, M.D., Professor and Director of the UCSF Liver Center, and Chief of Gastroenterology at the San Francisco General Hospital.

Meeting Agenda and Schedule

Friday, April 12, 2024

 

Poster Session and Refreshments: BSB 6th floor Lobby

8:00 am: Registration, Poster set-up, coffee

8:20 am: Welcome and Introduction

  Don Rockey, M.D.

  Steve Duncan, D.Phil.

 

SESSION I

 

8:30 am: Mindy Engevik, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology

  "Altered expression of MUC5AC in the colon: insights from inflammatory bowel disease and Clostridioides difficile infection."

8:50 am: Yuan Zhai, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Surgery

  "Group 1 innate lymphoid cells are cytoprotective in liver ischemia and reperfusion injury.”

9:10 am: Jorge Munera, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology

  “SATB2 regulates prostaglandin E2 levels and barrier integrity in human colorectal epithelial cells.”

9:30 am: Alexander Alekseyenko, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences

  “Multivariate Drift-Diffusion Framework (MD3F) captures the gut microbiome in the process of health associated critical change.”

 

9:45 am: BREAK & POSTER SESSION

 

SESSION II

 

10:45 AM: Aaron Hobbs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology

  “Not all KRAS mutants are created equal: mutant-specific biophysical properties dictate cellular signaling.”

11:05 am: Silvia Guglietta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology

  “Exploring unconventional pathways: the intriguing role of the complement system in the intestine.”

11:25 am: Caroline Kittrell, B.S. (Drake Laboratory) Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology

  “Establishing the N-glycome and immune cell landscape of chronic and acute pancreatitis.”

 

KEYNOTE

 

11:45 AM: JACQUELYN MAHER, M.D., PH.D., UCSF Liver Center

  “Bringing coals to Newcastle: Population-based investigation of MASLD using iPSC-derived hepatocytes.”

12:30 PM: CLOSING REMARKS

 

Download the Meeting Agenda

 

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