Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Strategies for Cellular Metallocofactor Trafficking
Discussion Leader: Debolina Hati (University of South Carolina, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Ruma Banerjee (University of Michigan, USA)
"Trafficking B12 "
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Sensing, Acquisition and Homeostasis of Critical Metals for Life
Discussion Leader: Harsha Gouda (University of Michigan, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Radhika Mehta (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Fluorescent Probes to Explore Metalation and Evolution Characteristics of Zinc Metalloproteins"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Jiansong Xu (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
"The NiCo Riboswitch as an Iron-Responsive Riboswitch: A New Mechanism of Bacterial Iron Regulation"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Jennifer Gamarra (Columbia University, USA)
"The Manganese Transporter SLC30A10 Is Regulated by Bile Acid Composition in Intestine"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Anindita Sarkar (University of Michigan, USA)
"Elucidating the Heme Chapter of Rev-Erbß"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Evan Talib (University of South Carolina, USA)
"Characterization of the Interaction Between GRx4-Bol2 and the Iron-Responsive Transcription Factor Aft1 in Candida glabrata "
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Adelita Mendoza (Washington University, USA)
"Lysosomes Mediate Zinc Trafficking via Morphological Restructuring and Zinc Transporters"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Metals in Health, Physiology and Diseases
Discussion Leader: Caitlin Murdoch (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Tyree Wilson (University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA)
"The Heme Binding Protein PhuS Regulates the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Tandem sRNA PrrF1, F2 Locus"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Chuchu Guo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"A Heavy-Metal Trojan Horse: Enterobactin-Based Delivery of Platinum(IV) Prodrugs to Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Helen Liu (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"The Chlamydomonas Fe-Ome"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Matthew Jordan (Indiana University, USA)
"The Impact of Zn Limitation on Translation in Acinetobacter baumannii"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Milan Prajapati (Brown University, USA)
"Liver Mn Excess Causes Erythropoietin Excess and Polycythemia in a Mouse Model of Inherited Manganese Excess"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Natalie Garza (Texas A&M University, USA)
"A Genome-Wide Copper-Sensitized Screen Identifies Novel Regulators of Mitochondrial Cytochrome C Oxidase Activity"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Development Panel Discussion
Discussion Leaders: Anindita Sarkar (University of Michigan, USA) and Jonathan Barra (Albany Medical College, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Effective Professional Networking: Skills and Platforms
Mishtu Dey (Cell Chemical Biology, Cell Press, USA)
Suman Nag (Bristol Myers Squibb, USA)
Angela Wilks (University of Maryland, USA)
Angela Fleischhacker (University of Michigan, USA)
Vivek Sharma (MassBiologics, UMass Chan Medical School, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
