Gabriela Villalpando Torres University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA Exploring the role of desmin and microtubules in cardiomyocyte remodeling: Insights from an hiPSC-CM model Gabriella Villalpando Torres, Marissa Gionet-Gonzales, Sam Feinstein The heart is a dynamic organ that undergoes remodeling during health and disease. Cardiomyocytes, the cells responsible for heart contraction, are composed […]

Fatemeh Cheraghi University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI Using Caenorhabditis elegans to test the impact of 14-3-3 on Raf protein levels and localization Fatemeh Cheraghi Noonan Syndrome (NS) is a developmental disorder associated with increased Ras signaling. Gain-of-function mutations in RAF1, a member of Raf family kinases, are found in ~5% of NS patients. Raf kinases […]

Blanca Rodriguez University of Kansas Lawrence, KS Elucidating how quorum sensing reprogramming alters cooperativity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Blanca Rodriguez, Tom Chao, Nicole Smalley, Maxim Kostylev, Ajai Dandekar The gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses quorum sensing (QS) to sense and respond to population density-dependent changes. One type of P. aeruginosa QS involves LasR, which activates cooperative […]