Agenda

*Times are presented in Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT)

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Time (EDT)	Event
10:00 am – 10:15 am	Day One Welcome Address Conference Organizers: Michele Battle (Medical College of Wisconsin), Nicholas Zachos (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), Maria Abreu (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine)
10:15 am – 11:00 am	Keynote Address: Takanori Takebe (University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital) “Using Stem Cell and Organoid Biology to Model Complex Human Development and Identify New Therapies” Moderator: Michele Battle (Medical College of Wisconsin)
11:00 am – 1:00 pm	Session 1: Building the Gut Co-Chairs: Mark Frey (Children's Hospital Los Angeles) and Heather McCauley (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
11:00 am – 11:30 am	Christine Moissl-Eichigner (Medical University of Graz) “The Archaeome of the Gastrointestinal Tract”
11:30 am – 12:00 pm	Rachel Stine (Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania) “Metabolism in Intestinal Stem Cells”
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm	Amy Hung (Cornell University) “Regulatory Dynamics in the Human Intestinal Organoid Differentiation Model”
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm	Q&A / Panel Discussion (all speakers in Session 1)
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm	Break
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm	Career Development Session Chair: Nicholas Zachos (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Melinda Engevik (Medical College of South Carolina) “How to Use Social Media to Promote Your Research”
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm	Steven Cohen (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School) “Tips to an Effective Presentation in 3-5 Minutes (Elevator Talk)”
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm	Talks Selected from Abstracts Session Co-Chairs: James Casanova (University of Virginia) and Izumi Kaji (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
2:30 pm – 2:40 pm	Yotam Harnik (Weizmann institute of science) Spatial Discordances between mRNAs and Proteins in the Intestinal Epithelium
2:40 pm – 2:50 pm	Kathleen DelGiorno (Vanderbilt University) Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals a Conserved Metaplasia Program in Pancreatic Injury
2:50 pm – 3:00 pm	Luo Jia (Rutgers New Jersey Medical School) A Transmissible γδ Intraepithelial Lymphocyte Hyperproliferative Phenotype Is Associated with the Intestinal Microbiota and Confers Protection Against Acute Infection
3:00 pm – 3:10 pm	Michael Schumacher (Children's Hospital Los Angeles) Regulatory Mechanisms of Deep Crypt Secretory Cells at Homeostasis and in Colitis
3:10 pm – 3:30 pm	Q&A / Panel Discussion (all speakers in this session)
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Poster Session / Networking / Informal Chat Opportunities

 

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Time (EDT)	Event
10:00 am – 10:15 am	Day Two Welcome Address and Summary of Day One
10:15 am – 12:15 pm	Session 2: Fine Tuning the Gut Co-Chairs: Jean Wilson (University of Arizona) and  Ian Cartwright (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus)
10:15 am – 10:40 am	Adam Gracz (Emory University) “Genetic Regulation of Stem and Progenitor Cells in the Intestine and Liver”
10:40 am – 11:05 am	Amy Engevik (Medical University of South Carolina) “Myosin Vb in the Pathogenesis of Gastrointestinal Disorders and Liver Cholestasis”
11:05 am – 11:30 am	Faranak Fattahi (University of California, San Francisco) “Human Pluripotent Stem Cells for the Study of Gastrointestinal Dysmotility”
11:30 am – 11:55 am	Q&A / Panel Discussion (all speakers in Session 2)
11:55 am – 12:30 pm	Break
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm	Career Development Session Chair: Maria Abreu (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine)
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm	Jerrold Turner (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) “How to Get Funded”
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm	Don Rockey (Medical College of South Carolina) “How to Negotiate Your First Faculty Job”
1:30 pm – 3:20 pm	Session 3: The Gut Goes Rogue Co-Chairs: Arthur Beyder (Mayo Clinic) and Anisa Shaker (Keck School of Medicine of USC)
1:30 pm – 1:50 pm	Connie Ha (University of California, San Francisco) “Physiological and Immunological Responses to Microbial Translocation in Crohn's Disease”
1:50 pm – 2:10 pm	Alejandro Caicedo (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine) “Harnessing Innervation to Promote Pancreatic Islet Function”
2:10 pm – 2:30 pm	Subhash Kulkarni (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) “Regeneration and Rejuvenation of the Adult Enteric Nervous System”
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm	Anisa Shaker (University of Southern California) “The Role of Human Esophageal Myofibroblasts in Regulating the Epithelial Response in GERD”
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm	Q&A / Panel Discussion (all speakers in Session 3)
3:20 pm – 3:30 pm	Wrap-up by Conference Organizer Michele Battle (Medical College of Wisconsin), Nicholas Zachos (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), Maria Abreu (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine)
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Poster Session / Networking / Informal Chat Opportunities