Thursdays from 2-3 EDT
Students/Trainees, Fellows, and Postdocs Only. Talks are 10-15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions.
Thursday 3/26
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2:00-2:20 Dafna Groeneveld Postdoctoral Research Associate/ Michigan State University https://cvm.msu.edu/research/faculty-research/comparative-gastro-intestinal-research/the-luyendyk-lab Role of fibrinogen and platelets in liver regeneration groene12@msu.edu @dafnagroeneveld
2:20-2:40 Sally Thomas NIHR Clinical Lecturer, Haematology Drug repositioning in myeloproliferative neoplasms sally.j.thomas@sheffield.ac.uk @SallyThomasHaem
2:40-3:00 Steven Grzegorski Graduate Student, University of Michigan https://shavitlab.org Genome duplication in zebrafish reveals subfunctionalization of tissue factor sgrzegor@umich.edu
Thursday 4/2
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2:00-2:20 Harriet Allan Postdoctoral Researcher https://www.timwarnerlab.org Platelet ageing is associated with changes in composition and function h.e.allan@qmul.ac.uk @harri_allan
2:20-2:40 Thomas Bessy Postdoctoral Researcher https://www.institutcochin.fr/departments/drc/team-d-passaro Bioengineered bone marrow niches highlight hematopoietic stem cell interactions thomas.bessy@inserm.fr @ThomasXBessy
2:40-3:00 Sven Olson Chief Fellow, Hematology & Oncology, Oregon Health & Science University www.anticoag.net Preventing device thrombosis: new approaches olsosv@ohsu.edu @Svematologist
Thursday 4/9
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2:00-2:20 Laura Haynes Research Fellow High-throughput Kinetic Profiling of PAI-1 hayneslm@umich.edu @LMHaynesPhD
2:20-2:40 Massiel Stolla Postdoctoral Fellow / University of Washington New tools for the investigation of autophagy during human hematopoietic differentiation mcstolla@uw.edu
2:40-3:00 Tim Chlon Research Associate The inherited MDS gene DDX41 is required for ribosome biogenesis and hematopoietic cell function timothy.chlon@cchmc.org @tchlon
Thursday 4/16
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2:00-2:20 Marilena Crescente Postdoctoral Researcher https://www.timwarnerlab.org Profiling the eicosanoid networks that underlie the anti- and pro-thrombotic effects of aspirin m.crescente@qmul.ac.uk @marilenacresce1
2:20-2:40 Isabelle Becker PhD Student (Nieswandt Lab) https://www.platelets.eu The role of Twinfilin1 and Cofilin1 during proplatelet formation in mice becker_i1@ukw.de @isabellecarlota
2:40-3:00 Samantha Montague Postdoctoral Researcher (ANU) https://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/research/groups/gardiner-group-mechanisms-thrombosis-and-cancer Fibrin exposure increases platelet ADAM10 activity and GPVI shedding in a charge-dependent manner smonty310@gmail.com @sam_310
Thursday 4/23
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2:00-2:20 Fabienne Birkle PhD Candidate, Univ Michigan Medical School (Jim Morrissey Lab) http://tf7.org/ Substrate recognition by the tissue factor – factor VIIa complex fbirkle@umich.edu @TF_Birkle
2:20-2:40 Lauren Poole Postdoctoral fellow (Luyendyk Lab) https://cvm.msu.edu/research/faculty-research/comparative-gastro-intestinal-research/the-luyendyk-lab/the-luyendyk-lab-team Protease-activated receptor-1 expressed by hepatic stellate cells drives coagulation activation and fibrosis in experimental chronic liver injury hardylau@msu.edu @PoolePardy
2:40-3:00 Shailaja Hegde Research Associate University of cincinnati/Cincinnati Children's Hospital medical center Rho A targeting supresses cold-induced platelet lesion shailaja.hegde@cchmc.org
Thursday 4/30
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2:00-2:20 Bianca Ulloa Graduate Student/Albert Einstein College of Medicine https://sites.google.com/site/thebowmanlaboratoryeinstein/home Origins of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) self renewal and differentiation bulloa@mail.einstein.yu.edu @UlloaBianca, @Bowmaniacs_Lab
2:20-2:40 Joanne Dunster Postdoctoral fellow https://www.cardiomaths.net TBD j.l.dunster@reading.ac.uk @cardiomaths
2:40-3:00 Kristina Ames Posdoctoral Fellow/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Deletion of Class IA PI3K promotes Myelodysplasia via Dysregulation of Autophagy Kristina.Ames@einsteinmed.org @K_Ames_
Thursday 5/7
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2:00-2:20 Christian Di Buduo Assistant Professor, University of Pavia http://alessandrabalduini.com/ Megakaryocyte calcium signaling via store-operated channels in health and disease christian.dibuduo@unipv.it @silkfusionEU
2:20-2:40 Jacob Ranjbar PhD Student, Keele University https://www.keele.ac.uk/pharmacy-bioengineering/ourpeople/alanharper/ Tissue engineering the arterial wall to improve in vitro thrombosis models: An alternative to current in vivo thrombosis studies? j.a.ranjbar@keele.ac.uk
2:40-3:00 Frederik Denorme Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah http://rondina.u2m2.utah.edu Procoagulant Platelets in Stroke u6017844@umail.utah.edu @FrederikDenorme
Thursday 5/14
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2:00-2:20 Sergio Martinez-Høyer Postdoctoral Fellow, Erasmus Medical Centre Loss of lenalidomide-induced megakaryocytic differentiation leads to therapy resistance in del(5q) myelodysplastic syndrome raskayu@gmail.com @Sermarho
2:20-2:40 Prerna Malaney Postdoctoral Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center Targeting the RNA-binding functions of hnRNP K in lymphoma pmalaney@mdanderson.org @pre_RNA7
2:40-3:00 Daphne Pariser PhD Candidate, University of Rochester https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/cardiovascular-research-institute/research/morrell-lab.aspx Lung Megakaryocytes are a Novel Immune Modulatory Cell and Present Antigen to CD4+ T cells
Thursday 5/21
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2:00-2:20 Kathryn G. Link PhD Candidate, Univeristy of Utah http://www.math.utah.edu/~link/ Mathematical modeling of flow-mediated platelet aggregation in an extravascular injury. link@math.utah.edu @KathrynLink12
2:20-2:40 Marisa Aitken MD/PhD Candidate, MD Anderson Cancer Center Role of hnRNP K--an RNA binding protein--in AML mjhornbaker@mdanderson.org @maitkencancerhx
2:40-3:00 Andy Stone PhD Student, University of York, Genever Lab www.geneverlab.info TBD - But more MSC than blood as1362@york.ac.uk @andystone93
Thursday 5/28
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2:00-2:20 Nathan Eaton PhD Candidate, Medical College of Wisconsin https://www.faletlab.com/ Dynamin 2 Is Required For GPVI Signaling And Platelet Hemostatic Function In Mice neaton@mcw.edu
2:20-2:40 María N. Barrachina PhD Student, Univeristy of Santiago Phosphoproteomic fingerprint of platelets in obesity: insights into platelet reactivity maria.nunez@usc.es @nubama
2:40-3:00 Mateusz Antoszewski PhD Student, EPFL, Switzerland https://www.epfl.ch/labs/radtke-lab/ Tcf-1 regulates epigenetic landscape in Notch1-driven T-ALL mateusz.antoszewski@epfl.ch
Thursday 6/4
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2:00-2:20 Shelley Herbrich PhD Candidate, MD Anderson Cancer Center Leukemia stem cell crosstalk with T cells through CD200 smherbrich@mdanderson.org @smherbrich
2:20-2:40 Elisabeth Kugler PhD student, The University of Sheffield, UK The cerebral endothelial cell membrane behaviour kugeln ekugler1@sheffield.ac.uk @KuglerElisabeth
2:40-3:00 Seema Bhatlekar Research Associate, University of Utah, USA miR-125a-5p regulates proplatelet formation via targeting actin bundling protein L-plastin seemab@u2m2.utah.edu @saseems
Thursday 6/11
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2:00-2:20 Julianne Smith Senior Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University https://case.edu/cancer/members/member-directory/amar-desai Therapeutic targeting of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells through 15-PGDH jns10@case.edu @JulianneNPSmith
2:20-2:40 Vittorio Abbonante Research Associate, University of Pavia alessandrabalduini.com Extracellular matrix components and megakaryocyte function regulation in health and disease vittorio.abbonante@gmail.com
2:40-3:00 Imane Boukhatem PhD Candidate, Montreal Heart Institute BDNF signaling in human platelets imane.boukhatem@umontreal.ca @ImaneBoukhatem
Thursday 6/18
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2:00-2:20 Maaike Sybil Jongen Post doctoral researcher, OHSU Portand, OR Investigating single platelet function using droplet microfluidics sybil.jongen@gmail.com @maaikejongen
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Thursday 6/25
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2:00-2:20 Ashton Trotman-Grant PhD Candidate, Sunnybrook Research Institute Generation of human progenitor and mature T cells from multiple sources of hematopoietic stem progenitor cells ash.trotmangrant@gmail.com @ATrotmanGrant
2:20-2:40 Laura Mincarelli Post doctoral Researcher, Earlham Institute https://www.earlham.ac.uk/laura-mincarelli Integrated short and long read single cell RNA-sequencing reveals alternative splicing events in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells laura.mincarelli@earlham.ac.uk @MincLaura
2:40-3:00 Lo