Symposium Schedule and Program Overview

Below is an overview of the CSLS Symposium schedule.

Scroll down to explore detailed information about each talk and the distinguished scholars who will be joining us. The conference will be held in the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB), Rooms 101 and 102.

Program Overview:

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.	Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.	Welcoming Remarks
9:35 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Talk 1 – Judith Kribelbauer
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Talk 2 – Ling Jin
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Talk 3 – Ivan Lechuga Jimenez
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:45 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.	Talk 4 – Peter Foster
11:10 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.	Talk 5- Beth Moore
11:40 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Talk 6 – Catcher Salazar
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Outreach Event – Howard Xu
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.	Outreach Event – Chris Vaca
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.	Coffee Break
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	Talk 7 – Cara Hull
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.	Talk 8 – Fengjie Zhao
2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.	Poster Session & Reception
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Poster Award Announcements/Conclusion of Symposium

Program Details

9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Breakfast – MCB 102

9:30 – 9:35 a.m. Welcoming Remarks – MCB 101

Note: All talks will take place in MCB 101.

Morning Talks

9:35 – 10:00 a.m.

A Bottom-Up Approach to Create Synthetic Regulatory Landscapes
Judith Kribelbauer, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

A Polarity-Reversed Microtubule Aster Organizes De Novo Assembly of Cell-like Compartments in Xenopus Egg Extracts
Ling Jin, Graduate Student, Molecular and Computational Biology

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Quorum Sensing Regulates Bacterial Community Composition in a Lotka-Volterra Model
Ivan Lechuga Jimenez, Graduate Student, Physics & Astronomy

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break – MCB 102

10:45 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.

Physical Bioenergetics
Peter Foster, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

11:10 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.

Yeast Expressed Bacteriophages for Mitochondrial Engineering
Beth Moore, Graduate Student, Molecular and Computational Biology

11:25 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.

Investigating the Role of Snai1 in Gastrulation Using a Synthetic Developmental Biology Approach to Organoid Modeling
Catcher Salazar, Undergraduate Student, Biological Sciences

11:45 a.m – 12:45 p.m.
Lunch – MCB 102

1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Outreach Event

H. Howard Xu, Ph.D. Director, LA BioSpace
Professor of Microbiology, Department of Biological Sciences
California State University, Los Angeles

1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

TRAINS: A 15-Month REU Model for Advancing Equity in STEM via Community College Transfer Pathways.

Christian Vaca, Rio Hondo Community College

2:00 p.m. – 2:15 pm. Coffee Break – MCB 102

Afternoon Talks

2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Accelerated Assembly of Synthetic Yeast Chromosomes In Vivo Using DNA Fragments with Extensive Synonymous Recoding
Cara Hull, Graduate Student, Molecular Biology

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.