Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 on Zoom
https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/97466127228?pwd=x1M9abmOKzRFMkdhEBbT9CvuP090Wi.1
Meeting ID: 974 6612 7228
Passcode: 775003
Morning
10:30 – 11:10 am
Matthew King, PhD (Harvard Medical School and Washington University in St. Louis)
Organize to Optimize: How intrinsically disordered proteins and condensates
coordinate biochemical reactions in a partitionless nucleus
11:15 – 11:55 am
Ankita Jha, PhD (National Institutes of Health)
Blebology: Decoding bleb driven signaling in cancer disease progression
12:00 – 12:40 pm
Jingchuan Luo, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The What, Where, and When of Protein Synthesis: Decoding the Logic of
Subcellular Translation
Afternoon
1:30 – 2:10 pm
Mabel Lam, PhD (Stanford University)
From membranes to memories: Myelin membrane trafficking in development and
neuroplasticity
2:15 – 2:55 pm
Mike Lange, PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Lipid Droplet Quality Control: A New Frontier in Cell Biology
3:05 – 3:45 pm
Shanshan Liu, PhD (Rockefeller University)
Decoding the Principles of Metabolic Homeostasis in the Secretory Pathway
3:50 – 4:30 pm
Andrew Moore, PhD (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)
Cables, Clouds, and Comet Tails: How the Actin Cytoskeleton Orchestrates
Mitochondrial Inheritance
