The Program

This Year’s Conference will Focus on Systems Biology Approaches to the Following:

  • Diabetes
  • Cancer
  • Aging-related Diseases
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Inflammation and Vaccines

Featured speakers this year include:
Steven Altschuler, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Alan Attie, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Anne Calof, University of California, Irvine, USA
Marco Binder, German Cancer Research Center, Germany
Yuval Dor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (Tentative)
Nan Hao, University of California, San Diego, USA
Arthur Lander, University of California, Irvine, USA
Andre Levchekno, Yale University, USA
Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv, Harvard Medical School, USA
Maik Pietzner, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Maike Sander, University of California, San Diego, USA
Greg Szeto, Allen Institute for Immunology, USA
Curtis Thorne, University of Arizona, USA
Lani Wu, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Ioannis Zervantonakis, University of Pittsburgh, USA


Poster and Oral Abstract Presentations

In addition to talks given by invited speakers, the SBHD program includes ~20 short talks from submitted poster abstracts and two poster sessions. To be considered for oral and poster presentations, please submit an abstract by May 27th. You will be notified by June 2nd.

Conference attendees

SBHD 2022 Program

SUNDAY, JUNE 19Activity
5:00pmOpening reception at Commodore Bar and Grille:
MONDAY, JUNE 20
8:30amLight Breakfast and Welcome Coffee
Registration
9:00amOpening remarks from Vito Quaranta
Symposium A
9:10amSpeakers
Andre Levchekno, Yale University,
“Phenotypic mapping: a systems approach to rational disease treatments”
Ioannis Zervantonakis, University of Pittsburgh
“Modeling cancer-fibroblast crosstalk and resistance to HER2-targeted therapy”
Lani Wu, University of California, San Francisco
“Cancer Cell Fate Decisions”
11:20amJunior Speakers
Raphaëlle Lesage, KU Leuven
Amy Pomeroy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Capria Rinaldi, University of California, San Francisco
Rishabh Kapoor, Harvard University
12:20pmLunch Break
1:30 – 2:30pmPoster Session A
Symposium B
2:30pmSpeakers
Nan Hao, University of California, San Diego
“Reprogramming single-cell aging in yeast”
Curtis Thorne, University of Arizona,
“Coordinating Across Distance: Erk Waves Control Homeostasis of Colonic Epithelium”
Marco Binder, German Cancer Research Center
“The Winner Takes it All, and COVID19 Likes to Win – Dynamics of Viral Replication vs. Cell-Intrinsic Immunity”
5:00pmCoffee break
5:15pmJunior Speakers
Kiran Vinaja, Yale University
Tomasz Bednarski, Vanderbilt University
Olivia Debnath, Berlin Institute of Health & Charité Universitätsmedizin
Matthew Leventhal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mohammad Aminul Islam, University of Buffalo, The State University of New York
6:00pmAdjourn
TUESDAY, JUNE 21
8:30amBreakfast
Symposium C
9:10amSpeakers
Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv, Harvard Medical School
“TNF Controls a Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff in the Cell Death Decision to Restrict Viral Spread”
Maik Pietzner, Berlin Institute of Health
“From Association to Function in Population-based Cohorts”
Alan Attie, University of Wisconsin-Madison
System Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes
11:20amJunior Speakers
Leonard Harris, University of Arizona
Stefan Kallenberger, Heidelberg University Hospital
Cody Heiser, Vanderbilt University
Jens Hansen, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Adam Palmer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
11:45amLunch Break
1:30 – 2:30pmPoster Session B
Symposium D
2:30pmSpeakers
Steven Altschuler, University of California, San Francisco
“Dual authentication in mitophagy decision making”
Maike Sander, University of California, San Diego
“Insights into diabetes from single-cell genomics and genetics”
3:50pmCoffee Break
4:05pm Junior Speakers
Sophie Bekisz, University of Liége
Danny Ben-Zvi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Robert Lorenz Chua, Berlin Institute of Health & Charité Universitätsmedizin
Gregor Neuert, Vanderbilt University
Elisa Domínguez-Hüttinger, Instuto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM
Nikita Tysba, Vanderbilt University
Daria Doncevic, Medical Faculty Heidelberg & BioQuant
5:45pmAdjourn
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
8:30amBreakfast
Symposium E
9:00amYuval Dor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Anne Calof, University of California, Irvine
“Transcriptomopathies: A Window on the Earliest Developmental Origins of Birth Defects”
Arthur Lander, University of California, Irvine
The Unexpected Fragility of Controlled Growth
11:20amJunior Speakers
Austin Oleskie, Vanderbilt University
Dora Odobo, Vanderbilt University
Julius Upmeier zu Belzen, Berlin Institute of Health – Charité University Medicine
12:00pmArtem Sokolov, Harvard University
Anne-Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research
1:05 pmClosing remarks
1:20 pmLunch/Adjourn