2024 Agenda

Each year, the CHOP Research Institute celebrates the groundbreaking basic, clinical, behavioral, and translational research taking place at CHOP during our annual Poster Day and Scientific Symposium. The theme of this year’s symposium talks is "Neuroscience 2024: Mechanisms and Emerging Therapies for Brain Disorders of Childhood."

The 2024 Poster Day and Symposium will take place on Tuesday, April 30th and Wednesday, May 1st. Symposium talks will take place in the 1st floor auditorium in the Hub for Clinical Collaboration. Poster sessions will be held in the Colket Translational Research Building (CTRB) lobby. A reception and awards ceremony will be held on May 1st in the Hub Lobby.

During this in-person celebration of research, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the exciting work of our faculty and trainees and network with others across campus. All members of the CHOP and Penn community are welcome to attend regardless of research focus or clinical specialty!

Please Note: Photographs for the purpose of publicity and marketing will take place at this event.

Time
Speaker
Event / Talk Title
Location
9:00 am to 9:30 am

Welcome

Light breakfast available

Hub Lobby

9:30 am to 9:50 am

Environmental contributions to perinatal outcomes

Hub Auditorium

9:50 am to 10:10 am

Developmental isoform diversity in the human neocortex informs NDD risk mechanisms

Hub Auditorium

10:10 am to 10:30 am

Imaging fetal, perinatal and infant brain development

Hub Auditorium

10:30 am to 10:50 am

Infant vocalizing as an early biobehavioral marker of autism

Hub Auditorium

10:50 am to 11:00 am

BREAK

11:00 am to 12:00 pm

Keynote Speaker:
Joseph Gleeson, MD

Rady Professor of Neuroscience
University of California San Diego

Chief Medical Officer
n-Lorem Foundation

Genetic basis of pediatric brain disease: Gene environment interactions, mosaicism, and novel therapeutics

Hub Auditorium

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Lunch Available

Session II
1:00 pm to 1:20 pm

Structural and epigenetic variation by long-read sequencing

Hub Auditorium

1:20 pm to 1:40 pm

Mitochondrial dysfunction: A common denominator in neurodevelopmental disorders

Hub Auditorium

1:40 pm to 2:00 pm

Disruptions of the epigenetic landscape from prenatal hypoxic brain injury

Hub Auditorium

2:00 pm to 2:20 pm

Optimizing outcomes in neurometabolic disorders with gene therapy

Hub Auditorium

2:20 pm to 2:30 pm

BREAK

2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

Lab-Based Track Lead:
Yuanquan Song, PhD

Patient-Oriented Track Lead:
Allison E. Curry, PhD, MPH

Poster Session A

CTRB Lobby

4:15 pm to 5:00 pm

Flash Talks by Research Institute Internal Grant Awardees

Hub Auditorium

5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Networking Reception

Hub Lobby

Time
Speaker
Event / Talk Title
Location
8:00 am to 9:00 am

Damien Fair, PhD

Professor
Institute of Child Development
University of Minnesota

Director
Institute for the Developing Brain
University of Minnesota

Liftoff: Neuropsychiatry with functional MRI comes of age

Pediatric Grand Rounds

Hub Auditorium

9:00 am to 9:50 am

Caela Long
Evan Rosenberg
Gennadiy Fonar
Margaret Mary Burke
Oindrila Paul
Veronica Bochenek

Science Slam Flash Talks

Hub Auditorium

9:50 am to 10:00 am

BREAK

10:00 am to 11:30 am

Lab-Based Track Lead:
Yuanquan Song, PhD

Patient-Oriented Track Lead:
Allison E. Curry, PhD, MPH

Poster Session B

CTRB Lobby

11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Featured Speaker:
Hongkui Zeng, PhD

Executive Vice President and Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science

Understanding brain cell type diversity

Sponsored by CHOP Omics & Big Data Initiative

Hub Auditorium

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Networking Lunch

Hub Auditorium

Session III
1:30 pm to 1:50 pm

Learning from mice: parsing the neural circuitry underlying the memory of similar events

Hub Auditorium

1:50 pm to 2:10 pm

Dravet syndrome: Cellular/circuit mechanisms of a severe neurodevelopmental disorder

Hub Auditorium

2:10 pm to 2:30 pm

From mechanism to medicine: bringing the microbiome to pediatrics

Hub Auditorium

2:30 pm to 2:50 pm

Optical imaging of functional connectivity networks as a biomarker of neurologic injury

Hub Auditorium

3:00 pm to 3:20 pm

Improving AAVs inside and out for CNS gene therapies

Hub Auditorium

3:20 pm to 3:40 pm

In utero base editing for a metabolic liver disease in mice and nonhuman primates

Hub Auditorium

3:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Emerging therapies and clinical trial readiness in TUBB4A leukodystrophy

Hub Auditorium

4:00 pm to 4:20 pm

What do microglia do? Realizing Microglia as Neurotherapeutics

Hub Auditorium

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Reception and Poster Awards Ceremony

Hub Lobby