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MGHfC Digestive Disease Summer Research Symposium

The MIBRC Digestive Disease Summer Research Program culminates in the annual research symposium, at which the students present their work.

Agenda for the 2022 Summer Research Symposium
Friday, August 12th 2022

Time	Presenter	Title
8:30 – 8:35 am	Bryan P. Hurley, PhD Director - MGHfC Digestive Disease Summer Research Program	Introduction & Opening Remarks
8:35 – 8:50 am	Victoria Chen Northeastern University Mentor: Guillermo J. Tearney MD, PhD	“Imaging the Intracellular Dynamics of Colorectal Cancer with Dynamic Micro-Optical Coherence Tomography”
8:50 – 9:05 am	Michael Li University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mentor: Daniel Irimia MD PhD	“Neutrophil Swarming is More Effective Against ΔExoU Pseudomonas Aeruginosa than Wildtype Pseudomonas Aeruginosa”
9:05 – 9:20 am	Julia Caldropoli Cornell University Mentor: Bobby Cherayil MD	“Zinc in Mouse Macrophages Infected with Salmonella”
9:20 – 9:35 am	Sydney Edwards University of Florida Mentor: Christina Faherty PhD	“Use of a Graph Theoretic Approach to Identify and Study a Novel Transcriptional Regulator in Shigella”
9:35 – 9:50 am	Shiv Patel College of the Holy Cross Mentor: Xingbin Ai PhD	“Age-specific impact of RSV infection on airway contractility”
9:50 – 10:05 am	Saeina Charles Bryn Mawr College Mentor: Nitya Jain PhD	“Assessing memory T cell responses in COVID-19 vaccinated Children”
10:05 – 10:25 am	Coffee Break
10:25 – 10:40 am	Katelin Sherman MCPHS University Mentor: Marcy Kingsbury PhD	“Examining the Role of Zonulin in Gut-Brain Axis Signaling Using Intestinal Organoids and Humanized Mouse Models”
10:40 – 10:55 am	Benjamin Glickman Larner College of Medicine, Vermont Mentor: Braden Kuo MD	“Changes in Prevalence of Esophageal Motility Disorders Following Updates to the Chicago Classification Scheme For Diagnosis Using High Resolution Esophageal Manometry + Future Directions”
10:55 – 12:00 pm	2022 Keynote Lecture “The Brain in the Gut: A Central Regulator of Digestive Health and Disease” Meenakshi Rao, M.D. Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Division of Gastroenterology Boston Children's Hospital	2022 Keynote Lecture
12:00 – 12:05 pm	Bryan P. Hurley, PhD	Concluding Remarks & Acknowledgements
Presented on 8/9	Madeleine Klein Albert Einstein College of Medicine Mentor: Maureen Leonard MD
Presented on 8/9	Liora Bentolila Brandeis University Mentor: Alessio Fasano MD	“Using Zonulin Protein to Assess Intestinal Permeability Prior to Onset of Celiac Disease in Predisposed Children”

Past Research Symposiums: