The 2023 Mary K. and Randolph T. Wedding Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Symposium will take place, in-person, on Tuesday, September 19th at the Genomics Auditorium, starting at 9:00 AM (PST). Below is the tentative schedule of events that includes various speaker presentations, including a talk by our keynote speaker, Dr. Andrej Luptak, UC Irvine. The day will conclude with a poster session to be conducted in the Genomics Lobby and the presentation of awards.
| 9:00 - 9:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:30 - 9:45 am | Introductory Remarks: Gregor Blaha |
| Session Chair: Jernej Murn | |
| 9:45 - 10:05 am | Marco Bravo |
| 10:10 - 10:30 am | Disha Dutta |
| 10:35 - 10:45 am | BREAK |
| Session Chair: Russ Hille | |
| 10:45 - 11:05 am | Jessica Tran |
| 11:10 - 11:30 am | Timothy Tam |
| 11:35 - 11:55 am | HeaJin Hong |
| 12:00 - 12:30 pm | Lunch Break |
| 12:30 - 12:50 pm | Wedding Prize Award Ceremony |
| Session Chair: Li Fan | |
| 1:00 - 1:20 pm | Kevin Frausto |
| 1:30 - 1:50 pm | Jeffrey Pino |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm |
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Andrej Luptak, UC Irvine Talk Title: "Human self-cleaving ribosomes: from discovery to biological roles" Introduction by Jessica Tran |
| 3:05 - 3:15 pm | BREAK |
| 3:15 - 4:15 pm | Poster Session |
| 4:20 - 4:35 pm | Awards Ceremony |