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April 23, 2021

Organizing Committee

Jovanka Gencel-Augusto, Co-Chair

Melissa Frasca, Co-Chair

Celine Kong

Ahmed Emam

Dr. Timothy McDonnell

Dr. Ambro van Hoof

Elisabeth Lindheim

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Academia Panel, Continued

Michelle Steiger, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of St. Thomas • steigerm@stthom.edu Dr. Steiger teaches undergraduate lectures and lab classes in organic chemistry, biochemistry and a non-majors food chemistry. Her interests include protein-protein interactions, protein - RNA interactions and enzyme kinetics. In addition to teaching, she is also an academic advisor, a research mentor, serves on various committees at the university and is a Visiting Scientist with the van Hoof lab. She received her PhD from the University of Rochester.

Joy McDaniel, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lozano Lab, Genetics Department MD Anderson Cancer Center • JMAgee@mdanderson.org Dr. McDaniel is a recipient of the NIH’s Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32). Her research focuses on using a TP53 driven genetically engineered mouse model of breast cancer to investigate the role of mutant p53 on driving tumorigenesis and metastatic progression. Dr. McDaniel’s scientific expertise includes genomics and molecular biology. She received her doctorate from The University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2016. She completed her dissertation work in the lab of Dr. Richard Myers, where she discovered a regulatory role of invasion for STAT3 in Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Her long-term career goal is to become a faculty at a research-intensive institution and have a lab focused on understanding breast cancer metastasis.

Panels: Industry

(Dr. Sellers is also part of this panel)

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Panels: Scientific Management, Scientific Writing and Law

Jillian Losh, PhD. Program Project Manager Houston Methodist Research Institute • jslosh@houstonmethodist.org Dr. Losh provides project management support to clinical and laboratory teams at the Houston Methodist Research Institute, helping to ensure that future drug, device, and biologic therapies will be available to a variety of future patient populations. In the past year, she was proud to be part of a team that oversaw the development of the first FDA-approved convalescent plasma therapy for COVID-19 and assisted in the therapy’s transition to clinical trials. Dr. Losh earned her PhD from MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences where she was in the lab of Dr. Ambro van Hoof. She is an alum of the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Program.

Susan Evans, PhD Staff Scientist, Department of Genetics MD Anderson Cancer Center • scevans1@mdanderson.org Dr. Evans received her PhD from MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 1994, and then trained under Dr. Lozano as a post-doctoral fellow. Later, she became a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio University with a joint appointment at the Edison Biotechnology Institute. More recently, she started her own company in Ohio as a grant writer. She is now back at MD Anderson as a Staff Scientist working directly for the Chair of Genetics (Gigi Lozano) in an administrative position where she oversees the grant administration component of the department.

Jane Wu, PhD, JD Assistant Director, Resource Management City of Houston Information Tech Department • jajjdd@hotmail.com Dr. Wu’s group is responsible for contract administration and compliance, asset management, and facilitating information technology contracts through the City Council approval process. Prior to this position, she was an attorney in the City of Houston's Legal Department with a focus on intellectual property (IP) and technology negotiations and transactions. Previously, she was Senior Licensing Associate at UTHealth in their Office of Technology Management doing IP protection and IP licensing. She earned her PhD at MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the lab of Dr. Michael Galko and her JD from South Texas College of Law. She is an alum of the Genes & Development program (now Genetics & Epigenetics).

Real Colors

®

Personality Assessment

(for G&E students only)

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Getting Ready for a Faculty Search Panel

Ambro van Hoof, PhD Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics McGovern Medical School, UTHealth • Ambro.Van.Hoof@uth.tmc.edu Dr. van Hoof has been a professor at UTHealth for the last 19 years and has served on several faculty search committees there. He is interested in RNA biology and the molecular mechanisms of gene expression. Before joining UTHealth, he worked at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Arizona. Dr. van Hoof received his PhD in Genetics from Michigan State University.

Yejing Ge, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology MD Anderson Cancer Center • YGe1@mdanderson.org Dr. Ge obtained her PhD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and did her postdoc training at the Rockefeller University. The Ge lab recently celebrated its two-year anniversary at MD Anderson. Her lab is interested in dissecting stem cell lineage plasticity and function in the skin.

CV & Internships and Fellowships Workshops

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SCHEDULE

Genetics & Epigenetics Career Symposium

April 23, 2021

10:00a Welcome

Symposium organizers and Jichao Chen PhD, Genetics & Epigenetics Program Director

10:10 – 11:00a Keynote Lecture #1

“The discovery of context specific paralog dependence in cancer through combinatorial CRISPR screens”

William Sellers MD, Director, Cancer Program & Core Member, Broad Institute; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

11:00 – 11:30a Networking with Keynote Speaker

11:30 – 11:45a Break, Speaker Fun Facts | Optional networking breakout rooms

11:45 – 12:30p Career Path Panels (in simultaneous breakout rooms)

#1: Academia Panel § Joy McDaniel PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lozano Lab, Genetics Department, MD Anderson § Kevin Morano PhD, Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Department, and VP-Faculty Affairs & Development, UTHealth § Michelle Steiger PhD, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department, University of St. Thomas § Margot Williams PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, Center for Precision Environmental Health, Baylor College of Medicine #2: Industry Panel § Aundrietta Duncan PhD, Associate Director, Non-clinical Development, Salarius Pharmaceuticals § Elizabeth Jaworski PhD, CEO of ClickSeq Technologies and BioDesign Fellow, TMC Innovation § William Sellers MD, Keynote Speaker (see above) #3: Scientific Management, Grant Writing & Law Panel § Susan Evans PhD, Staff Scientist, Genetics Department, MD Anderson. Previous Founder of “Next Step” grant writing start-up § Jillian Losh PhD, Program Project Manager, Houston Methodist Research Institute § Jane Wu PhD, JD, Assistant Director, Resource Management, City of Houston Information Tech. Dept. 12:30 – 1:15p Lunch Break

1:15 – 1:55p Roundtable Discussions with Panelists (in self-selected breakout rooms)

2:00 – 3:00p Real Colors® and Faculty Search Workshops (in simultaneous breakout rooms)

#1: Real Colors® Personality Assessment (only for G&E students pre-registered for session) § Dustin Bennett, BA, Training Specialist, Leadership Institute, MD Anderson #2: Getting Ready for a Faculty Search § Yejing Ge PhD, Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology Department, MD Anderson § Ambro van Hoof PhD, Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Department, UTHealth 3:00 – 3:15p Break, Speaker Fun Facts

3:15 – 4:45p CV, Internship & Fellowship Workshops (two consecutive workshops)

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