Physiology Faculty Candidate Symposium

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