The St. Louis Mechanobiology Symposium & Party will feature three keynote lectures and a poster session party.

Thursday, December 5, 2024
Talks at 2:00, 2:30 & 3:00 pm | Brauer Hall, 3^rd Floor, Room 3015
Poster Session & Party at 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Green Hall, 2^nd Floor Collaboration Space

**Please register here by November 27**
Abstract Deadline: November 27

SCHEDULE

Keynote Talks

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Location: Danforth Campus, Brauer Hall, 3^rd Floor, Room 3015
 

Speaker: Michael Greenberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, WashU
 

Title: Targeting Sarcomeric Contractility in Heart Failure

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2:30 – 3:00 pm
Location: Danforth Campus, Brauer Hall, 3^rd Floor, Room 3015

Speaker: Kevin Cox, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, WashU and Assistant Member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center  

Title: Employing Spatial Biology in Duckweed to Decode Stress Responses at a Cellular Resolution

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3:00 – 3:30 pm
Location: Danforth Campus, Brauer Hall, 3^rd Floor, Room 3015

Speaker: Haguy Wolfenson, PhD, Associate Professor, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Title: Enzymatic regulation of fibronectin fibrillogenesis: a novel route for fibrosis inhibition

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Poster Session & Holiday Party

3:30 – 5:00 pm
Location: Danforth Campus, Preston M. Green Hall, 2^nd Floor Collaboration Space
An award will be given for Best Poster and prizes for runners up!

Bring your trainees, and ask them to consider submitting a poster.

**Please register here by November 27**