2024 SoCal Genome Stability Symposium

We are excited to announce the eighth annual SoCal Genome Stability Symposium. The Symposium is coordinated in partnership by Scripps Research, City of Hope, University of Southern California and University of California, Irvine.

The SoCal Genome Stability Symposium offers postdoctoral associates and graduate students the opportunity to present their current research and to connect with their peers from other laboratories.

The symposium comprises morning and afternoon talks by postdoctoral associates and graduate students, primarily on unpublished work. A poster session will culminate in the awarding of cash prizes and a vendor show will offer attendees the opportunity to discuss recent innovations with representatives from leading biotech companies.

Please find more information in the Event Details listed below.

Please find more informatoin in the Event Details listed below.

If you are interested in sponsoring the event please, contact Xiaohua Wu at xiaohwu@scripps.edu.

EVENT ORGANIZERS

Xiaohua Wu, PhD, Scripps Research
Jeremy Stark, PhD, City of Hope
Irene Chiolo, PhD, University of Southern California
Rémi Buisson, PhD, University of California, Irvine

Date:
Friday, December 13, 2024

Time:
9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Location:
The Scripps Research Institute
Scripps Research Auditorium
10620 John Jay Hopkins Dr, San Diego, CA 92121

Schedule

9:00 - 9:10 a.m.	Welcome Remarks
9:10 - 10:25 a.m.	Talk Session 1: DNA Repair and Maintenance of Genome Stability
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.	Poster "Lightning Talks"
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Poster Session
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch (Meet Professors: Career Development 1)
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.	Talk Session 2: Mutagenesis and Chromosomal Rearrangement
2:45 - 3:15 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:45 p.m.	Talk Session 3: Cancer Etiology and Cancer Treatment
4:45 - 5:00 p.m.	Poster Awards Announcement/Closing Remarks
5:15 - 6:30 p.m.	Dinner (Meet Professors: Career Development 2)
6:30 p.m.	End of the Symposium

Photo Credit: Taylor Loe, Graduate Student

Photo Credit: Martina Oravcova, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate

Meeting Program

9:00 - 9:10 am	Welcome Remarks (Xiaohua Wu, Scripps Research)
9:10 - 10:25 am	Talk Session 1: DNA Repair and Maintenance of Genome Stability
10:30 - 11:00 am	Poster “Lightning Talks”
11:10 - 12:30 pm	Poster Session
12:30 - 1:30 pm	Lunch (Meet Professors: Career Development 1)
1:30 - 2:45 pm	Talk Session 2: Mutagenesis and Chromosomal Rearrangement
2:45 - 3:15 pm	Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:45 pm	Talk Session 3: Cancer Etiology and Cancer Treatment
4:45 - 5:00 pm	Poster Awards Announcement/Closing Remarks
5:15 - 6:30 pm	Dinner (Meet Professors: Career Development 2)
6:30 pm	End of the Symposium

Confirmed speakers:

Xiaoyu (Lydia) Chen (Audrone Lapinaite’s lab, UCI)
From Structure to Function: How Deaminase Domain Dimerization and Cas9 Interactions Drive Base Editing Efficiency in ABE8e

Ya Allen Cui, Ph.D. (Wei Li’s lab, UCI)
Tandem Repeat Variation in Human Health and Diseases

Seanmory Sothy (Linlin Zhao’s lab, UCR)
Mass Spectrometry-Based Quantification of Base Excision Repair Intermediates

Pedro Ortega, Ph.D. (Rémi Buisson’s lab, UCI)
Mechanism Of Fork Breakage During Replication Catastrophe

Mallory Evanoff, Ph.D. (Alexis Komor’s lab, UCSD)
Directed Evolution Reversion Analysis Produces Minimally Mutated Adenine Base Editor Variants with Improved Efficiency and Precision.

Shuvro P. Nandi, Ph.D. (Ludmil B. Alexandrov’s lab, UCSD)
UDSeq: A Universal Duplex Sequencing for Precise Genome-Wide Identification Somatic Mutation.

Sameer Shah, Ph.D. (Xiaohua Wu’s lab, Scripps Research)
53BP1deficiency Leads to Hyperrecombination Using Break-Induced Replication (BIR)

Megha Raghunathan (Svasti Haricharan’s lab, SDSU)
Mismatch Repair Gene-Specific Effects on Breast Tumor Formation, Progression and Genomic Instability

Kaela Makins (Jeremy Stark’s lab, City of Hope)
Defining The Interplay Between DNA-Pkcs and RIF1-53BP1 During Chromosomal Break Repair

Ting Zhao (Yinsheng Wang’s lab, UCR)
Identification and Functional Characterizations of N2-Alkyl-Dg-Binding Proteins

Shuangshuang Xie, Ph.D. (Dan Semlow’s lab, Caltech)
The Microbiome-Derived Colibactin Genotoxin Activates Cgas-STING-Dependent Pro-Inflammatory Signaling

Poster Session Instruction, 8^th SoCal Genome stability symposium

10:30 - 11:00 am

Poster “Lightning Talks

Each presenter will give a one-minute presentation.

11:10 - 12:30 pm

Poster Session

Poster Awards:

First Prize: One $150
Second Prize: Two $100
Third Prize: Three $50

Meet Professors

12:30 - 1:30 pm - Lunch (Meet Professors: Career Development 1)

5:15 - 6:30 pm - Dinner (Meet Professors: Career Development 2)

We thank the following sponsors for supporting the SoCal Genome Stability Symposium

For more information or sponsorship opportunities, please contact Xiaohua Wu at xiaowu@scripps.edu or (858) 784-7910.

Postdoctoral positions are currently available in the labs listed below. Click the position Ad link to see job details. If you have questions, please directly contact the PIs of the labs you are interested.

Event Location

Scripps Research Auditorium
10620 John Jay Hopkins Drive
San Diego, CA 92121

Campus map

Conference room map

Karen Hughes, Administrative Manager
(858) 784-7917 | khughes@scripps.edu