
pharmacological sciences
2021 Research retreat
KEYNOTE: DR. DIRK TRAUNER
Janice Cutler Professor of Chemistry, New York University
“Controlling Protein Degradation and Cytoskeletal Dynamics with Light”

This year’s keynote speaker is Dirk Trauner, the Janice Cutler Professor of Chemistry at New York University. Dirk Trauner was born and raised in Linz, Austria, studied biology and chemistry at the University of Vienna, and received his Master’s degree in chemistry from the Free University, Berlin. He then pursued a Ph.D. in chemistry under the direction of Prof. Johann Mulzer, with whom he moved to the University of Frankfurt and then back to Vienna. Subsequently, he became a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Samuel J. Danishefsky at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. After two years in New York City, Dr. Trauner joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he rose through the ranks to become an Associate Professor of chemistry and a member of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In the summer of 2008, he moved to the University of Munich, where he served as a Professor of Chemical Biology and Chemical Genetics. In March of 2017 he returned to the U.S. to become the Janice Cutler Chair of Chemistry at New York University. He also holds a position as an Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience at the NYU Langone Medical School. He is a member of the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Academia of Sciences, and a recipient of the Otto Bayer Award, the Emil Fischer Medal, an ACS Cope Scholar Award, and a Sloan Fellowship. The broad objective of Prof. Trauner’s research is to demonstrate the awesome power of chemical synthesis and to use it toward the precision control of biological pathways.
AGENDA
9:00AM – 9:30AM | Welcome Remarks - Ming-Ming Zhou, PhD |
CoDES Report - Maria Sosa, PhD | |
Trainee Outcomes - Drs. Avner Schlessinger and Eric Sobie | |
9:30AM – 9:45AM | Data Blitz |
9:50AM – 10:20AM | Pilot Projects - Drs. Michael Lazarus, Maria Sosa and Daniel Wacker |
10:30AM – 11:55AM | Lab Presentations |
12:00 PM – 12:45PM | Lunch Break |
12:45PM – 1:30PM | SPA Communications Panel w| Drs. Florian Krammer and Denise Cai |
1:35PM – 2:35PM | Keynote Address - Dirk Trauner, PhD |
2:35PM - 2:40PM | Closing Ceremony |
2:45PM - 4:30PM | Poster Viewing Session |
POSTERS
Instructions: You can view the poster and listen to the corresponding introduction by opening the poster you want to view in a separate tab while you play the intro.
1. Achla Gupta (N/A Data Blitz)
2. Agata Kurowski
3. Alcina Rodrigues
4. Alexander Lachmann
5. Anna Cantalupo
6. Arthur Chow
7. Brandon Dale
8. Carole Morel
9. Carolina Rodriguez Tirado
10. Daniel Clarke
11. David Stein
12. Emily Teichman
13. Eryk Kropiwnicki
14. John Erol Evangelista
15. Keiichi Asano
16. Kseniia Levleva
17. Maxim Kuleshov
18. Megan Wojciechowicz
19. Minji Jeon
20. Nicole Zatorski
21. Sari Miyashita
22. TanChun Kuo
23. William Cheung
24. William Marsiglia
25. Yifei Sun
26. Zaigham Khan
27. Zhuorui (Sherry) Xie
28. Bharath Kumar Gajjela
29. Leslie Salas Estrada
30. Laurian S. (N/A Data Blitz)
31. Sarah Montgomery
32. Sherod Haynes
33. Anbalagan Jagnathan
- 2. Agata Kurowski 1:02
- 3. Alcina Rodrigues 2:02
- 4. Alexander Lachmann 1:08
- 6. Arthur Chow 0:52
- 7. Brandon Dale 1:12
- 8. Carole Morel 1:01
- 9. Carolina Rodriguez Tirado 1:08
- 10. Daniel Clarke 1:22
- 11. David Stein 1:01
- 12. Emily Teichman 1:14
- 13. Eryk Kropiwnicki 1:09
- 14. John Erol Evangelista 1:21
- 16. Kseniia Levleva 1:07
- 17. Maxim Kuleshov 0:58
- 18. Megan Wojciechowicz 1:16
- 19. Minji Jeon 1:12
- 20. Nicole Zatorski 1:13
- 21. Sari Miyashita 0:58
- 22. TanChun Kuo 0:56
- 24. William Marsiglia 1:03
- 25. Yifei Sun 1:03
- 26. Zaigham Khan 1:26
- 27. Zhuorui (Sherry) Xie 0:54
- 28. Bharath Kumar Gajjela 1:20
- 29. Leslie Salas Estrada 1:03
- 31. Sarah Montgomery 1:13
- 33. Anbalagan Jagnathan 1:03