Physiology Faculty Candidate Symposium
January 23, 2025
9:00am – 4:00pm
Leveraging GWAS Signals to Identify Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular
Disease Mechanisms
Yaw Asare, PhD
Principal Investigator & Team Leader, Ludwig Maximilian University Hospital
Myelination a Gateway for Brain Plasticity
Wendy Xin, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco
Enhancer-Based Genomic Medicine for Immune Dysfunction Diseases
Di Buay Mahat, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
Compartmentalization as a Regulator of Cellular Metabolism
Keunwoo Rye, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
(Don’t) Take My Breath Away: How Epithelial-Neural Interactions
Protect the Airway
Laura Seeholzer, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco – and –
Plasma Membrane Abundance as a Biophysical Regulator of Myeloid
Cell Migration, Phagocytosis, and Its Role in Demyelination
Benjamin Winer, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco
Contact – Nikki Lee – nikkilee@mednet.ucla.edu
Luskin Conference Center, The Laureate Room