2024 Suddath Symposium
"The Evolution of Multicellularity and Cellular Differentiation"
Georgia Tech
Petit Biotech Building
315 Ferst Drive N.W.
Suddath Seminar Room 1128, Nerem Atrium
Atlanta, GA 30332
Agenda
March 14, 2024
| 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. | 2024 Suddath Award Winner Presentation “Targeted DNA Diversification and Directed Evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Using a CRISPR Base Editor” | Andrew Cazier, Ph.D. Candidate (Blazeck lab), Georgia Tech |
| 11:45 - 12:00 p.m. | Presentation of 2024 Suddath Award to Andrew Cazier | Suddath Family Member |
Official Opening of the 2024 Suddath Symposium | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | Opening Remarks | William Ratcliff, Ph.D., Raphael "Frank" Rosenzweig, Ph.D. - Symposium Co-Chairs |
| Session I - Through the Lens of Time (Geology and Evolutionary Dynamics) Session Chair - Frank Rosenzweig | ||
| 1:05 p.m. | "The Evolution of Complex Multicellularity: An Earth System Framework" | Andrew Knoll., Ph.D., Harvard University |
| 1:50 p.m. | "A Thousand Days of Change: Snowflake Yeast's Path to Multicellularity" | Ozan Bozdag, Ph.D., Georgia Tech |
| 2:35 p.m. | Break | |
| Session II - Through the Lens of Gene (Comparative Approach) Session Chair - William Ratcliff | ||
| 2:55 p.m | “Mating and Multicellularity in the Closest Living Relatives of Animals" | Nicole King, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
| 3:45 p.m. | "Ichthyosporeans and the Evolution of Animal Embryogenesis" | Omaya Dudin, Ph.D., École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (ÉPFL), Switzerland |
| 4:30 p.m | Adjourn | |
March 15, 2024
| 8:00 a.m. | Trainee Breakfast, Nerem Atrium | |
| Session III - Origin and Evolution of Multicellular Development Session Chair - Rozenn Pineau | ||
| 9:15 a.m. | "Tissue Patterning from a Single Cell Perspective" | Magdalena Bezanilla, Ph.D., Dartmouth College |
| 10:00 a.m. | "Developmental Transitions and Reconfigurations in a Multicellular Life Cycle" | Alberto Stolfi, Ph.D., Georgia Tech |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:15 a.m. | "Dynamic Regulation of Cell Adhesion Molecules During Collective Migration of Neural Crest Cells" | Shuyi Nie, Ph.D., Georgia Tech |
| 12:05 p.m. | Poster Session and Lunch, Nerem Atrium | |
| Session IV - Engineering Systems to Study Multicellular and Differentiation Session Chair - Ross Lindsey | ||
| 2:00 p.m | "Multicellular is Different: Emergent Physical Properties and the Evolution of Multicellularity" | Peter Yunker, Ph.D., Georgia Tech |
| 2:45 p.m. | "Discovery of Organizational Principles from Multicellular Agent-based Modeling" | Melissa Kemp, Ph.D., Georgia Tech |
| 3:15 p.m. | "Synthetic Matrices for Human Organoids" | Andrés García, Ph.D., Georgia Tech |
| 4:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks | |
| 4:10 p.m. | Adjourn | |
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