DBIO Early Career Prize

FOCUS · MAR-A57 · ID: MAR-A57

Presentations

  • Oral-In-person

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    Publication: Reddy, V., Arya, A., & Shekhar, S. (2025). Twinfilin is a nonprocessive depolymerase which synergizes with formin to dramatically accelerate actin filament uncapping by 300-fold. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(18), e2501078122.

    Nandi, M., Shekhar, S., & Choubey, S. (2025). A generalized theoretical framework to investigate multicomponent actin dynamics. PLOS Computational Biology, 21(9), e1013434.

    Nguyen, P. D. N., Abe, H., Ono, S., & Kodera, N. (2025). Actin monomers influence the interaction between Xenopus cyclase-associated protein 1 and actin filaments. bioRxiv, 2025-08.

    Actin Filament Barbed End Synergistic De-polymerization via C-CAP1 (preprint)

    Presenters

    • Ekramuddin Towsif

      • Emory University

    Authors

    • Ekramuddin Towsif

      • Emory University

    • Shashank Shekhar

      • Emory university

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  • Oral-In-person

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    Publication: Torsional Mechanics of Circular DNA
    Gundeep Singh, Yifeng Hong, James T. Inman, James P. Sethna, Michelle D. Wang
    bioRxiv 2024.10.08.617281; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.08.617281

    Presenters

    • Gundeep Singh

      • Cornell University

    Authors

    • Gundeep Singh

      • Cornell University

    • Yifeng Hong

    • James Inman

    • James Sethna

      • Cornell University

    • Michelle Wang

      • Cornell University

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  • Oral-In-person

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    Publication: 1. S. Yu, & S. Granick, Electric spiking activity in epithelial cells, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (12) e2427123122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2427123122 (2025).

    Presenters

    • Sun-Min Yu

      • University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Authors

    • Sun-Min Yu

      • University of Massachusetts Amherst

    • Steve Granick

      • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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  • Invited-In-person · Invited

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    Publication: Achar, Bourassa, Rademaker et al., "Universal antigen encoding of T cell activation from high-dimensional cytokine dynamics", Science, May 2022.
    Gaud, Achar, Bourassa, Davies et al., "CD3zeta ITAMs enable ligand discrimination and antagonism by inhibiting TCR signaling in response to low-affinity peptides", Nature Immunology, December 2023
    Kondo, Bourassa, Achar et al., "Engineering TCR-controlled fuzzy logic into CAR T cells enhances therapeutic specificity", Cell, May 2025.
    Bourassa, "Low-dimensional models of immune sensing and signaling" [doctoral thesis], June 2024.

    Presenters

    • François Bourassa

      • Princeton University

    Authors

    • François Bourassa

      • Princeton University

    • Sooraj Achar

    • Taisuke Kondo

    • Thomas Rademaker

      • McGill Univ

    • Naomi Taylor

    • Gregoire Altan-Bonnet

      • NIH

    • Paul Francois

      • Universite de Montreal

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  • Oral-In-person

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    Publication: O. Ukogu, Z. Montague, G. Altan-Bonnet, A. Nourmohammad, "Design principles of the cytotoxic CD8+ T-cell response," arXiv [physics.bio-ph] (2025). http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22997.

    Presenters

    • Obinna Ukogu

      • University of Washington

    Authors

    • Obinna Ukogu

      • University of Washington

    • Zachary Montague

      • University of Washington

    • Gregoire Altan-Bonnet

      • NIH

    • Armita Nourmohammad

      • University of Washington

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  • Oral-In-person

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    Publication: Sean A Ridout Priyathama Vellanki Ilya Nemenman (2025) A mathematical model for ketosis-prone diabetes suggests the existence of multiple pancreatic β-cell inactivation mechanisms
    eLife 13:RP100193.
    Manuscript on clinical results in preparation, not yet submitted.

    Presenters

    • Sean Ridout

      • Emory University

    Authors

    • Sean Ridout

      • Emory University

    • Priyathama Vellanki

    • Ilya Nemenman

      • Emory University

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  • Oral-In-person

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    Publication: Weaver, N.J., Faskowitz, J.I., Betzel, R.F., Lynn. C.W. Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain. (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16327

    Presenters

    • Nicholas Weaver

      • Yale University

    Authors

    • Nicholas Weaver

      • Yale University

    • Joshua Faskowitz

    • Richard Betzel

    • Christopher Lynn

      • Yale University

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