| Presentation Title | Presenter(s) | Location | |
| 8:30-9:00AM | Sign-in, Poster pin-ups | LSI Atrium | |
| 9:00-9:15AM | Opening Remarks | LSI 2 | |
| 9:15-10:00AM | Keynote Talk | Dr. Jim Sun | LSI 2 |
| Immunology and Virology | |||
| 10:05-10:25AM | FLT3-ligand alone enables the maintenance in vitro of human fetal liver hematopoietic stem cells | Keheng Wang | LSI 2 |
| 10:05-10:25AM | Endogenous retroviruses reduce neutrophil infiltration during HSV-2 infection | Grace Bodykevich | LSI 1410 |
| 10:25-10:45AM | Characterisation of the antiviral response against herpes simplex virus 2 in primary mouse vaginal organoids | Imogen Porter | LSI 2 |
| 10:25-10:45AM | Validating in vivo mouse models for investigating the role of dopamine in glioblastoma growth | Luiza Lopes Pontual | LSI 1410 |
| 10:45-11:05AM | Endogenous retrovirus modulation of macrophage activation | Phoebe McNair-Luxon | LSI 2 |
| 10:45-11:05AM | STAT1 restricts viral replication and directs appropriate macrophage activation to prevent liver pathology in a model of intestinal viral infection | Madilyn Portas | LSI 1410 |
| 11:05-11:25AM | Using dried blood spots to measure spike-specific SARS-CoV-2 IgG concentration and avidity | Nicholas Viegas | LSI 2 |
| Environmental Microbiology | |||
| 11:25-11:45AM | Expression of photosynthetic genes from hot spring thermophiles in the mesophile Rhodobacter sphaeroides | Michelle Tong
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LSI 2 |
| 11:25-11:45AM | No title: Opioid use disorder (OUD) | Jamie Corbett | LSI 1410 |
| 11:45-12:05PM | Engineering Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 to funnel aromatic compound metabolism through cis,cis-muconate | Lucie Lippuner | LSI 2 |
| 11:45-12:05PM | No title: yeast growth | Burak Ozkan, Maya Tharp, Aeron Selac, Raj Dhillon | LSI 1410 |
| 12:05-1:05PM | Lunch Break and Poster Session | LSI Atrium | |
| Microbiome | |||
| 1:05-1:25PM | Dogs are a poor taxonomic model for human inflammatory bowel disease, but are potentially functionally relevant for human ulcerative colitis | Sharisse Chan, Brian Deng, Renz Po, Nicholas Viegas, Max Yang | LSI 2 |
| 1:05-1:25PM | The role of the microbiome in the disparity in the prevalence among racial and ethnic groups | Tia Murdoch | LSI 1410 |
| 1:25-1:45PM | The diet of the Hadza tribe is higher in gut microbial diversity, but lower in functional diversity when compared to a westernized diet | Adam Abdirahman Hassan, Farbod Nematifar, Timothy Bernas, Trushaan Bundhoo, Young Ha Jin | LSI 2 |
| Molecular Microbiology | |||
| 1:45-2:05PM | Investigating the role of chaperone protein in E. coli membrane stability and autotransporter expression | Fares Burwag, Jamie Corbett, Imogen Porter, Kaila Villarey | LSI 2 |
| 1:45-2:05PM | Investigating in vitro protein folding of Acetonema longum beta-barrel outer membrane proteins BamA and SonA | Gregory Nikas | LSI 1410 |
| 2:05-2:25PM | Mapping the brkA promoter region on pDO6935 in Escherichia coli using pLISA, a novel promoterless GFP reporter plasmid | Emilie Haniak, Annie Tsoromocos, and Hari Arneja | LSI 2 |
| 2:05-2:25PM | Engineering the Bordetella Pertussis BrkA autotransporter for chitin-binding domain surface expression: Exploring its potential for whole-cell immobilization | Alisa Li, Tiffany Wu, Karen Yeung, Alicia Zhang | LSI 1410 |
| 2:25-2:45PM | Engineering an OmpT cleavage site in the BrkA passenger domain to explore the role of the conserved autochaperone region | John Go, David Tan, Cayden Yu, Ali Zaidi | LSI 2 |
| 2:25-2:45PM | No title: BrkA project | Rui Xu, Jason Bie, Ives Chau, Jordan Si | LSI 1410 |
| 2:45-3:05PM | Escherichia coli secretion of a variant in the Bordetella pertussis autotransporter protein BrkA containing a dual polyhistidine-tagged 112 amino acid insert between Asp-57 and Ala-58 of its passenger domain | Nicole Cormack, Hayley Emery, Aiden Simard | LSI 2 |
| 2:45-3:05PM | Chaperone DegP is not necessary for the polyhistidine tag-detected secretion of autotransporter BrkA in Escherichia coli BW25113 | Loujain Bilal, Ayesha Lalani, Màiri MacAulay, and Parvin Malhi | LSI 1410 |
| Everyone move to LSI 2 for rapid fire talks | |||
| 3:10- 3:40PM | 3×1 Presentations (See order below) | LSI 2 | |
| 3:40-4:00PM | Final remarks and prizes | LSI 2 | |
3×1 Presentations
| 1 | No title
Jamie Corbett |
| 2 | MCT-1 inhibition synergizes with glutamine metabolic inhibition to suppress the growth of SMARCA4/2-deficient ovarian cancer cells
Ran Tao |
| 3 | Pan-ꞵ-coronavirus and pan-flavivirus host factor TMEM41B as a potential broad-spectrum host-directed antiviral to suppress virally induced ER membrane Remodelling
Gregory Nikas |
| 4 | The DsbA chaperone protein may be necessary for outer membrane secretion of BrkA
Dima Lim, Luiza Lopes Pontual, Max Yang |
| 5 | A 6xHistidine tag insertion at the N-terminal signal peptide A42 and G43 may interfere with BrkA secretion and expression in Escherichia coli DH5α
Shini Chen, Haohua Li, Zhuohui Lin |
| 6 | It’s pretty gut-wrenching: evaluating the impact of the human IBD microbiome on microglia morphology and systemic steroid hormone levels
Shreya Gandhi |
| 7 | Development of a flow cytometry method for high throughput analysis of synaptic protein signalling in isolated synaptosomes
Brian Deng |
| 8 | Breastmilk mitigates microbial differences caused by varying modes of infant delivery despite the resistant to change nature of C-section microbiome
Arshia Tavangar |
9 A phase II/III clinical trial investigating the efficacy of ustekinumab as a treatment for recent-onset type 1 diabetes
Monica Leca