Beal & David Lab Reunion
Save the date - June 28 & 29, 2024 in Davis, California!
Reunion Agenda
June 28 (UC Davis Student Community Center 2nd Floor)
9:00 AM: Welcome, coffee, pastries
9:30-12:00 PM: Talks and presentations (with breaks)
Speaker Session #1 (Session Chair: Steven Merrill)
9:30AM: Justin Thomas, Senior Scientist, Beam Therapeutics "Base Resolution Sequencing of N4-Acetylcytidine in RNA: Turning up the heat on the epitranscriptome"
9:55AM: Megan Brinkmeyer, Criminalist, California Department of Justice, Sacramento Crime Laboratory “Forensic Firearms Analysis”
10:20AM: Tiannan Hu, Senior Manager in BD & Strategy, BioRay Pharmaceutical, “RNA, siRNA, imsRNA: My Journey from the Beal lab to Industry and Back"
10:45-10:55 AM: Coffee Break Speaker Session #2 (Session Chair: Natalie Dugan)
10:55AM: Nicole Nunez, Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs and Patient Engagement, Eureka Therapeutics, Inc. “The Importance of Science Communication in Biotech”
11:20AM: Erin Doherty, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley/Doudna lab, "Minimal CRISPR Polymerase is a toxin-antitoxin system that safeguards bacterial defense" 11:45AM: Nik Chmiel, Associate Director, Life Sciences Group, BioRad Lab "How to Build an Imaging System"
12:15 PM- 2 PM: Lunch (Dos Coyotes)
Speaker Session #3 (Session Chair: Ellen Chu)
2:10 PM: Rachel Valenzuela, Director of Discovery, UPSIDE Foods, “Applications of Nucleic Acid Research in Cellular Agriculture”
2:35 PM: Paige McKibbin, CSU Campus Fire Marshal. “A Career in Curiosity”
3 PM: Yuru Wang, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah “Development of technology for functional investigation of RNA modifications”
3:30-3:45 PM: Coffee Break
Speaker Session #4 (Session Chair: Sydney Figueroa)
3:50 PM: Merve Demir, Postdoctoral AssociateScientist/SBP Medical Discovery Institute “Structure-based Drug Design for Drug Targets MtCK and GCDH”
4:15 PM: Doug Banda, Sr. Scientist, Gene Editing Process Development, Bristol Myers Squibb “Third Year Seminar Re-Do: Lessons from grad school applied to gene editing PD”
4:40 PM: Rena Mizrahi, Vice President, Process Development, GigaGen, A Grifols Company, “ThousandsDiverse Recombinant Polyclonal Antibodies for Treatment of Infectious Disease”
5:15 PM: Mingling/Extended Break/Evening Welcome
6-8:00 PM: Dinner (Paesano's)
June 29 (UC Davis Putah Creek Lodge)
1 PM: Meet at the Putah Creek Lodge!
1:30-4:00 PM: Talks/Presentations
Speaker Session #5 (Session Chair: Melody Malek )
1:35PM: Cody Palumbo, Associate Director, Gene Editing Process Development, Sana Biotechnology "Bridging the Gap: Leveraging Graduate School Skills for Industry Success"
2PM: Holly Vickery, Scientist I, Discovery Sciences, Revolution Medicines “Discovery and characterization of protein-protein interaction stabilizers”
2:25 PM: Leanna Monteleone, Scientist II, Megagenomi “Genome editing using novel reverse transcriptases discovered from metagenomics”
2:50PM: Ryan Woods, Director, PR&D Engineering, AMPAC Fine Chemicals “Adopting New Technology in GMP Operations”
3:15 PM: Chandrima Majumdar, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley, “Structure Activity Relationships and Structural Biology”
4-5:30 PM: Poster Session & Happy Hour
5:30 PM: Dinner, dancing, games, catching up and fun! 9 PM: Putah Creek Lodge event ends... but the night may young for some :)!
This event will be held at the UC Davis Student Community Center (parking map link) & Putah Creek Lodge (parking map link)