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Register for the 2024 Center for Lung Biology Symposium here!

Download the Full Symposium Program here. 

Join us on May 17th, 2024 at UC San Diego, Leichtag 107 from 9am-6pm for the Inaugural UCSD Center for Lung Biology Symposium

Featuring keynote speakers Dr. Gabriel Haddad (UCSD) and Dr. Gustavo Matute-Bello (NHLBI). Additionally, there will be trainee flash talks and a poster session, with awards for the top trainee presentations. Continental breakfast, boxed lunch, coffee, and refreshments will be served. The UCSD Center for Lung Biology, directed by Dr. Xin Sun, serves as a collaborative platform for pulmonary researchers throughout the university. 

 

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Dr. Gabriel Haddad

Chair of Pediatrics, UCSD Physician-in-Chief and CSO Rady Children’s Hospital 

 
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Dr. Gustavo Matute-Bello

Deputy Director Lung Division NHLBI

 

 

CENTER FOR LUNG BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM FULL PROGRAM SCHEDULE

ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast

SESSION I

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Opening Remarks by Dr. Xin Sun, UCSD
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Welcoming Remarks from Dr. Steven Garfin, UCSD

 

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

 

Keynote: Progress and opportunities in Pulmonary and Sleep Research: an NHLBI Perspective. Dr. Gustavo Matute-Bello, NHLBI Deputy Director
11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

 

Keynote: From Fly experiments to a human experiment-in-nature at high altitude: Insights into normal and abnormal erythropoiesis. Dr. Gabriel Haddad, UCSD
12:05 PM - 12:25 PM

 

The pleiotropic roles of p16INK4a expressing fibroblasts during lung regeneration. Dr. Nabora Reyes de Barboza, UCSD

LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION

12:20 PM - 1:10 PM Lunch

1:10 PM - 2:15 PM		 Poster Session

SESSION II

2:20 PM - 3:00 PM Trainee Flash Talks (10min each, 4 talks)
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM

 

Claudin 18: key regulator of alveolar epithelial cell plasticity. Dr. Zea Borok, UCSD
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM

Determinants of functional alveolar repair. Dr. Timothy Blackwell, Michigan
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM

 

Small RNA’s in Asthma: Prognostic Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets. Dr. Kelan Tantisira, UCSD
4:40 PM - 5:10 PM

 

Linking Loss of BMPR2 in Myeloid Cells and a Chronic Innate Immune Response in Pulmonary Hypertension. Dr. Marlene Rabinovitch, Stanford
5:10 PM - 5:20 PM

 

Closing Remarks and Trainee Awards

 
5:20 PM - 6:00 PM

Social & Small Bites

 

LOCATION

PARKING INFORMATION:
All visitors to the UC San Diego campus are required to display a valid parking pass. The closest parking
to the Leichtag Biomedical Research Building is the South Parking Structure or the Gilman Parking
Structure. More information about parking on campus. Follow these guidelines for accessible parking.

 

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